Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1885-09-18
GENERAL NEWS.

India is threatened with another
terrible famine.
Rumored that Blaine will run
for the Maine gevernorsb,p.
The cholera is prevalent in many
of the towns in Southern France.
The resignation of Kelly, min
lister to Russia, has been accepted.
A contagious disease raging in
Clay Co., S. c., has proved fatal in
100 cases.
Washington, D. c., has 60 Chin
ese laundries and there is a great
lccal outcry about it.
Kelley has formally rendered his
resignation ss minister to Austria,
which has been accepted.
The Jennings Co. bank, at North
Vernon, Ind, has failed, on account
of the township bond frauds.
The Genssta.Puritan yacht race
was sailed on monday and resulted
in a victory for the American boat.
Near Livermere, CAL, 14th, L.
G. Gully, farmer, strangled his
wife to death. Insanity supposed.
Beecher favors putting high H.
cense plank in the platform OF the
New York republican state conven-
tion.
The cholera has almost disappear
ed from the provinces of Valencia,
Murcia, Saragossa and Granada, in
Spain.
General John A. Logan's book is
now in the hands of the publishers.
1t is entitled ''The Great Conflict;
Its History and Origin"
The total number of cases Of chol-
erareperted in Madrid since septsu-
Der lst was 1866, and for the
whole of Spain for the same time
1854.
The collector of the port at San
Francisco, has been ordered to re-
ducs his force Of employees. The
order will throw twenty-fsur cut Of
employment.
Gen. Middleton and the Cana
, dian minister of militia will soon
visit British Columbia to take steps
for tortifying Victoria and other
l coast points.
. Emory A. storrs, the well-known
> barrister and political orator, died
at Ottawa, Illinois, Friday night Of
: paralysis of the heart. His death
was unexpected.
In the four-year-old trot at Sac
? ramento, Simpsons Antevol trotted
5 mile in 2:l91. This beats the
, four-year.old stallion record two
and half seconds.
President Cleveland appointed
: Judge John S. Hagen, collector o1
: customs for the port Of San Francis
CO, and John Flanagan as collector
: of the Southern District of Oregon
German naval officers have re
ceived orders to join their vessels
and prepare for any emergency
The orders are specially binding OF
: commanders of squadrons in foreigr
!. waters.
q Judge Bane, Of Salt Lake, i,
u charging the grand jury, characteriz
u ed polygamy as vile componnt
r and outrage on law and civilization
J. He said the law must be vigerousl,
e enforced.
a Leading clearing houses of tn
n Unitsd States report that the to.a
= clearances for the week endin
Il September II were S7lO,927,1ss
O. an increase Of II per cent compare
. . with the corresponding week las
year.
A largo building occupied by tn
70 Chinese laborers at the Coal cree
~ ~ mines, twenty eight miles fror
Il Seattle, was attacked by mob 6
g midnight Saturday. The Chins
AZ men, about fifty in number, fled t
"a the woods.
It Secretary Manning declines t
a make any statement whatever i
ce regard to the alleged silver con
m promise on the ground that he ha
IN not. any time to read the newsp
it pers, consequently he did not kno
10 what had been said on the subject.
ct Immense additional works
rd fertilization are being constructe
e. at Sebastopole. The czar is organi
ing a new fleet to be stationed
Batoum and building military worl
- on large scale connecting those
" the Caucasus with those of centr
t. Russia.
he Mollie Maguiresim is aga
nd rampant in the upper and low
n Luzerne districts of Peansylvani
it. Nine murders have recently occure
ct in the northern coal fields, ar
ss mines are frequently fired.
or general outbreak is expected
an occur in November.
es J. D. Spreckles has received di
ne patch that MIR. Pearee, a memb
re of the Glasgow firm who own tt
steamers Zelandia and Australi
now plying between San Francis
Is and Australia and New Zealan
Ct under charter to the Pacific Ms
nG ,H company, has accepted a contract