Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1885-02-20
FACTS AND NEWS.

FACTS AND NEWS.
The winter is so severe in the Kansas
ranges that cattle are dying at fearful
rate.
A cremation society has been formed
at Buffalo, N. Y, with capital stock
of $4,000.
The Massachusetts Legislature las re-
fused to allow a woman preacher to per.
form the marriage ceremony.
A forty thousand dollar hotel which
in 1864 adorned the now deserted oil
town Of Pithole, in Pennsylvania, has
just been sold for kindling wood.
A schoolmistress in Barry county,
Michigan, was dismissed because she
declined to eat fat pork, the people be-
licving that she was attempting to put
on "too much STYLE"
The latest style of engagement ring
represents square lump of sugar of
chased gold, with a heart beside it.
Most girls would rather have sweetheart
spelt with a solitaire diamond.
The run on the New Haven Savings
Bank brought out several persons with
bank books who have been drawing aid
from the city for years. Their supplies
from that quarter will be stopped.
The Canada Pacific Company, it is
reported, wants the Dominion Govern
nent to buy back all their unsold land
at two dollars an acre, and there are in
dications that the Government intends
doing SO.
A man got up recently at church
meeting in Augusta. Me-, and after ex-
planning that he had bsen reduced from
affiuence to poverty, requested the
church to return him the sum of $1,000
which he had given to it when he was
wealthy. He didn't get it.
Bismarck is again i'll, and has been
ordered to leave Berlin for repose.
England built the past year lS4 YES.
sells, of 1900 tons burden, for foreign
account.
The effect of the news from Khar
toum on the trade and amusement world
in, Lon don has been paralyzing.
Frank Abner, aged fifteen years
Drained his grandmother with an ak be
cause she reprinanded him at Metropo
lis, ILL.,, last week.
A marriage has been arranged between
the Princess Clementine, daughter o
King Leopold of Belgium, aud Prince
Albert Victor, elder sou Of the Prince o
Wales.
The fund for gift to Bismarck ol
his seventieth birthday is growing t.
enormous proportions. The Englisl
Consul. General at Berlin has subscrib
ed $50, 600 marks.
The trouble in the Hooking Valley
continue. Rumors of an attack by tn,
strikers in the neighborhood of Nelson
vile and Bucktell, Saturday. create
great alarm.
President Diaz gave banquet in til
city of Mexico Saturday night in homo
of Charles Crocker and Con. Mcdowell
of California. The Diplomatic Corp
attended.
There is marked change in Rosa
paper, the United IriShman, this weel
No reference is made to dynamite, an
the usual call for subscriptions for dyns
: mite is omitted.
, The Prince of Wales is at Canue
, Rumor is current in Paris that an Al
archist desperate has left there fe
Cannes for the purpose of making a
: attempt on the Princes life.
DIR. Taimage last week scored Inge
e soil and inidelity in general witho.
Y mercy. Talmage thinks Ingerso
r should have been stopped from lectu
!, ing in New York and imprisoned.
Vice e-President-elect Hendricks Al
rived at New Orleans by a special trail
. He stated that the purpose of his tr
. South is to visit the Exposition and,
+ possible, contribute somewhat to i
a success.
e Yellow fever Is reported to ha'
" broken out in the Lackawauna, whil
carried to Nicaragua the party for Il
new survey of the Nicaragua Cana
% The steamer has been ordered to Ac
1t pulco.
IL The recommendations from the CT
le onies in favor of the acceptance of Il
= proposals Of the United States Cover
:, ment looking to n reciprocity arrane
ment with the British West Indi,
have been practically rejected by t
British Cabinet.
ad Peach trees are blossoming in San