Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1885-05-22
GESERxE NEWS.

Hon. George H. Pendleten, the
lew United States niinis;er to Ger
many, has arrived at Berlin.
A movement is under way to pay :
oa' the floating debt ef tho Union
Pacific Railway Company by July
lst.
In Mexico railroad conductors
and engineers are arrested and
lodged in Jail wsen they run ever a
man.
General Grant was not 80 well
on Wednesday. The swelling in
his throat and the pain have in
creased.
The next international conven-
ton of Young Mems Christian Asso-
ciatisr will he held IN San Francisco
in 1887.
Ex-Secretary of State, Frelins-
huysen, is reported by his physi-
clan, Or. o. German, as gradually
but surely dying.
Mr. Frost of Portland, is one of
the Vice Presidents of the Y. nj.
G. A. convention now in session at
Atlanta, Georgia.
The consolidated fund bill (the
$50, ,00o,00o) passed the third read
ing in the House Of Commens
Wednesday afternoon.
The constituency Of s. S. Cox
urged the President to advise him to
decline the mission to Turkey but
the President refused to do SO.
A delegation Of army officers have
urged the President to retain Miss
Sumner, daughter Of Gen. Sumner,
postmistress of Charlottesville, Va.
About 100 persons were poisoned
at a picnic at Tullatah Falls, Ga,
) through a chemical change made in
Ice cream freezers. ALI are recover
ing.
There was quite a riot in London
, on Wednesday by way of demon
stration against the governments
proposition to increase the duty on
spirits and beer.
The appointment of Dufais as con.
, sui to Havre, is said to be very dis
tasteful to the French On account Of
his German pareatage. His name
S is certainly French enough.
The Mormon church organ bewails
v the hardness of heart Of P1 1esiden
4 Cleveland in not promising to s.o,
l. enforcement Of the law, and send .
q commission for investigation.
David Wilson, colored prisone
n in Ohio peniten:iary, attempted sui
o eide by thrusting his head into
. ladIe Ct molten iron, burning hin
4 so badly that he can not live.
10 Forty carpenters were hired i
TO New York Wednesday, at four dc
T. lars per day to so to work at Aspir
wall. Great numbers of dock Ii
at borers will also be employed.
in Dispatches from New York co,
n, firm the rumor of the purchase
le, the @. & G.. railroad by the Cel
a trail Pacific. The O. G. bonds al
70. to be taken up by the issue Of ne
er bonds by the Central Pacific.
Sawyer and Mann have beat'
en- Edison in the courts on the priori
,p- of electric light patents. The cou
his held that the Sawyer Invention W
an perfected in March, 1878. and t
nv Edison not till October, 1879.
my A special from Philadelphia sa
ian In New York, Walter Lem
ofe Maxwell, who was arrested in N
IRA Zealand for the murder Of Prell
in St ouis, made the statem'
the that he was the brother of Ii
an III erries, and several times spoke
9 his aristocraoic connections
srd- During the month of April
son. the Patent Office recieyed 8,
and new applications for patents,
and fees upon which aggregated Slt
coy $40. This is the largest sum in
'ery yet received by the Patent Of
the nearest approach to it belns
the month of March. 1888, wi
=. ~ -; the fees fosted up S99,5l5.
,a;n The following rates on woe
y;ne sacks nave been put into effect
talIs the Oregon Short Line and Tn
,sa Pacific railway from all local POI
,on on the O. r. q N. Co.'S lines:
arlv Omaha, $2.75 per 100 pou,
avsl New York, $352; PLiladelp
,r5s So So; Boston, $500, taking Ell
onsl May 18th.
;. The Yakima Republican, no
the discharge of the graders on
ex- Cascade divisi On, said: 'Reergar
hlne sion of the force on that end Of
w H. division on less extensive SC
h OF will take place about the Is
cav June, and the work of grsdin
'ene the canyon be resumed"
!, 'ean 80 The New York Times says:
~ dispatch boat Dolphin, which
o. far the Government has decline
nos take off Roaoh's hands, made
VI "'' other failure Thursday, in her
ond attempt to demonstrate
Ore she can do what the contract
,tion her construction calls for.
have Cephas Brsinert, chairman of
front international convention Of tn,
Rail NJ. C.. A. now in session at Alta
with Georgia, reports $50 associat
that with il2, 900 members; II 900