Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1885-07-17
GENERAL NEWS.

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Strikes ars common in the East
I'm States.
It is stated in the Soudan that El
Mahdi is dead.
Destination exists among small
'armers in Coffee county, Missouri,
IN account of fooes. ~-:t
It is said Minister Foster has |
failed to regulate a second CONNER
,ial treaty with Spain. |
Subscriptions to the New Yord
Worlds Bartholdi pedestal fund
amounted to S90,647 up to Thurs
day.
AT a meeting Of ladies in Rich
mond, Va. resolutions were adopted
favoring the whipping post for wife
beaters.
James ID. Fish hal $40 in his
pockets when he entered the Auburn
prison, New York. He had stolen
millions.
Alleged cases of sporadic cholera
at Toledo, among Poles in the city
prison, turn out to have been only
cholera morhus. H.
Sixty persons were taken serious
ly i'll from eating dried beef, presunas
ed to be made from diseased.cattle,
at Momence, Illinois. ~
-Four members Of the Salyatie n
Army were arrested at Plymouth,
Pena., and fined So each and costs
for disturbing the peace.
The postmaster general has ap-
proved the design for the ten cent
special delivery stamp authorized
by Congress at its last session. T
The weekly bank statement p1
New York city shows a reserve in
crease of 50, ,293,0OO. Banks hold
now SCI, 100000 in excess of legal
requirements.
Maxwell, the alleged murdere,
of Preller in st Louis last April, il
still held in New Zsland on proceed
ings attacking the regularity Of th4
| IS
A very severe thunder storm
passed over Philadelphia. Seyera
dwellings were struck by lightning
At Gloucester, N. j., child was
killed by thunderbolt. !"
James Hart. Of skeaklcyville
Mercer county, Pa has eloped will
his sixteen-year old niece, Jenni.
Case, of the same place. Har
leaves a wife and tive children.
tits semi-officially announced tha
the appointment of Jonas as United
Statescensul at Prague was objected
to on account Of that gentleman
known animosity toward Austria.
P. B. Delany, of New York City
has just patented lightning rod 0
copper wire for the human body
The wire runs down the back an,
legs, conducting vicious force to tn
ground. -.
| Mrs. James III. McMullen,s o
Portland, Maine, was robbedaofi
satchel containing diamonds value,
at $50, 600 while on her way to or
Orchard, on the B.ston & Main
railway. 8
Secretary of war has ordere,
1000 men from the departments o
Texas and the Platte to report t.
Fort Reno, Indian territory, to b
ready in case Of trouble with ih
| Cheyennes.
Advices from San Francisco stat
that Superior Judge Frank M
Clough is raving maniac. H
was examined by the insanity com
missioner and sent to the Stockton
insane asylum. -
Secretary Endicott has gone t.
New York to attend Meeting o
the board appointed to examin
means Of defense for this countr,
and to report recommendations 70
additional Notifications.
Secretary Whitney took the presi
dent, the secretary of the treasury
secretary of the interior and th
postmaster general on pleasur
trip to Woodmount, near Harper
Ferry, Saturday afternoon.
| At the Rock Island arsenal tn,
Government is making the nev
steel targets to be used at the COZ,
ing rifle contests. They are mad,
in the shape of men, and 400 O
them are under construction.
The secretary Of the navy ha,
sent an order to the chief of tn,
New York navy yard providing fol
the appointment Of a beard to ex
anime Persons applying for the
various foremanships in the yard.
Count Esterbazy, q Hungarian
nobleman, banished in the rexolu
tien Of 1884, proposes to settle 20,
900 Hungsrians in the Canadian
Pacific railway belt. He is encour
aged by the dominion government.
The London sensation continues
The Pail Mall Gazette is being boy
cotted by the clubs and aristocracy