Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1885-07-03
GENERAL SEUA

The membership Of the Grand
Army Of the RepubIio is 800, 600.
The Erst edition of Ger. Gordon's
diary, comprising 10000 copies has
been sold.
The importation of fruit at the
port of New York is nearly $50.
600, 600 annually.
Thirty-six out of the 1872 appli-
cants for admission to West Point |
have bsen found deficient. :,
Hon. Samuel 8. Burdett has been
chosen commarder-in-chief Of the |
Grand Army Of the Republic.
Prof. Huxley will retire from
his Government position in Octe-
her on yearly pension Of GI, 200. |
The Austrian press still objects
to the appointment Of Mr.. Kelley
as Minister fro.a the United States.
Oliver Pain, the French Lieuten-
ant of the Mahdi, is reported to
have died Of fever in the Soudan.
A violent earthquake was felt in
the department of Nord, France,
Monday. The damage was slight.
The cholera in. SPAN has created
panic and people are fleeing in all
directions to escape the terrible epi
demic..
Thirteen business houses. in Gin.
cinnati, belonging to the estate of
Reuben R. Springer,s sold at auction
for $4,000.
News has been received at Gal
weston, Texas, of the hanging of if
teen horse thieves In Indian Terri
tory by citizens.
Nearly six hundred Mermons ar
rived in New York last Tuesday.
They are mostly Scandinavians, and
are imported slaves.
| David Quinn, who killed Ons Ah
Mon, Cinnamon, in New York,
about three weeks ago, has been
sentenced to Sing Sing for life.
Governor Martin of Kansas has
called the Administrations notice to
the defenceless condition of the Kan
sas Dor der in case Of an Indian raid.
! The Secretary of the Treasury
has been informed that recent in
vestigation of the sub treasury at
New Orleans shows a defalcation of
$4,000.
At Sherbrook, Dakota, this week
a cyclone blew down every house in
the town except the court house
and it was moved six feet off it,
foundation.
Warren Weleher, a notoriou,
outlaw, murdered his wife near
. Gibson, Glascock county, Ga. Thi
t is the second person Welcher ha
g killed within a month.
Three colored men were kiile,
and another dangerously wounded
Monday by the explosion of boile
= e in the distillery of Mattingly 4
= Moore at Bardstown, Ky.
Il 1t is rumored in Washington tia
e, another, call will soon be made fe
: the interference of this gevernmen
70 to protect the property of It's cit
ID zeIts upon the Isthmus of Panama
y Nj. James Russell Lowell wi
" reside with his daughter, Mrs Bol
le nett, in Seuthboro, Mass, his hom'
of EImwood, in Cambridge, being u,
n der lease to Mrs. Ole Bull for al
'e other year.
,e Minneapolis, according to I'll
q. Tribune, will erect 5000 new bull
" ings this year. The place is gro,
1t ing beyond the needs of the su
1e rounding country, and collarse
,e sure to follow.
Francis Murphy the other d'
told volume in a sentence to Il
l,o Pittsburgr strikers. He said: &C
20 you must)strike, strike against VIII
h. key end bad company" Such
81 strike as that is always in order.
lct Miss Cleveland has received fro
ne her publishers at New York the 9
la nouncement that the first edition
Ct her book, now in press, has prov
ed insufficient to meet the advanc
T., orders for the trade, and seco
or, edition has been ordered.
r. ~,
n The Controller of the Curren
m has extended the corporate exister
Low of the following nau,ed banks fo,
70 period of twenty years: First \
ha tional Bank of Portland, Or; n
10 tional Branch Bank of Madiso
net Ind; Peoples National Bank
m "a jackson, Mich.
~; The Commissioner of the Gene
10; Land Office has directed the Reg
50. ters and Receivers at district la
nd offices not to furnish blank for
as for homestead applications exec
upon personal application by th'
actually proposing to pre- EN-
lands. >
he
20 The safest 8 per cent. bond
uc the world appears to be that of
Id United States, which sells for 10;
,or Then come those of the State
we Connecticut. which sell at 1925 a
!, or next those of Great Britain, VIII
40 sell for 100. The per cents
orc France are only worth S2.
"a Tin, in which a successful corr