Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1885-06-26
GENERAL NEWS.

GENERAL NEWS.
The City Of Mexico press excur
sion has started for Ell Paso and
other cities of the United States.
Upwards Of hundred and sixty
miners were killed by the Pendie-
bury colliery explosion at Manches-
ter, England.
Frederick Douglass mas been in
vited to take editorial charge OF the |
Globe, the eolored mems organ in
New York city.
A Boston man, claiming to be
scientist, says if the earth is not
bored full of holes it will burst.
AS that scientist is at the Hub of
the Universe he ought to know.
G. P. Huntington says that the
railroad wars waged among lines
east Ct Chicago can all be stopped
by merging all the companies I.orth
Of the Potomac and south Of st.
Lawrence in enc.
George A. Pyers, convicted of
wife beating at Baltimore, Nd, re-
cei sed fifteen lashes at the hands
Of the Sheriff this week. He is the
arst white man whipped in Mary
| land for that offanse
BY the last assessment roll of
San Francisco it appears that
the estate of Charles Mclaughlin
pays taxes on $4,000 Of personal
property, Leland Stanford on S2s7,-
$40, and Charles Crecker on Sl4S,-
900.
Although the State Of New York
will take charge of the grounds
about Niagara Falls next month,
the 100 Bashi-bazouk hackmen of
the village will not be under State
control, and will run things as
usual.
The steamer Isere, which bears
the Bartholdi statue, is named after
the French river Isere. She was
; once a famous frigate, and was
: transformed into transport during
= the Crimean wer, and has since
F., been used as a supply ship.
Winnepeg Pioneer Lodge
Knights of Labor, has issued ar
earnest appeal to workingmen ir
the United States not to be beeuile,
by the advertisements for worl.n
put out by the Canadian PaciG
and other contractors, because la
e Dor is abundant in Winnepeg ant
!, the Northwest.
|. The San Francisco Bulletin CON
10 plains that the Chinese are pourin
1t into California in almost as erea
'r numbers as ever, notwithstandin
D the restrictive legislation. TIL
1t great majority come on Castor
l. House certificates believed to hav
a. been purchased in Hong Kong frol
Sc returning coolies.
:. The Sacramento Tsacord- Unio
As painfaliy exclains: will not Il
o. Associated Press agents at the Ea
80 give a long-sufering public re
y. frg'm.jl lie wearisome ard disgustir
~ accounts III the drunken revels
'l&i that brutal fellow, john L. Sulliva
~ Suppose he. ian crush 3 mans ski
,So ~ With . Low Of his fsl2 What
799 it4 Shall be therefore be thru
789 constantly before the public eyer
5te The new Commissioner of Ag
SOC culture is making reputation
- his ability to stand off the off
''4 seekers. No head Of departme
is SO accessible as Mr. Colems
of He is suavity and good nature p
;ra sonltied. and accepts advice up
,ne the reorganization Of his force w
,,.,s an air of real thanktulness to
,st giver, but if any Congressman
tho succeeded in getting patronage
~ promises out of the Commission
.en he isn't Dragging of it.
and The enormous increase in the /
nay, terial wealth of the United Sta
ex- exceeding hat Of any other natl
par does not seem to result in better
ster the condition Of the masses.
re- 1884 the valuation of property
we're the United States was 55l ,670,0'
&C. 900 in round numbers. Accord
dur to the statistician Mulhall,
lay. United States has increased SIX
ex- IN wealth since 1880, and we
vice daily lding S4,O0O,000 of valu
ndi- the accumulated stock. And
) re- in spite of this statistical pros
vice ity, half million Of PEOPLE in !
nger York City live in 10000 ho.
and hundreds of thousands Of
sons who would willingly work
tlon not obtain employment.
a;na ;nu The following from the
- g York Tribune shows how bust
'.e. g. is transacted in oils: "The P
10y 10y dent of the Oil Exchange in his
atas - nual report, submitted on Tues
ra;I states, as if it were matter
tha congratulation, that the tral
~ ~ tions in crude certificates du
;vo,r the past year at New York
: ny amounted to 2,s59,62l, 600 bar
, a. Reckoning the yearly productic
~ about 100000 barrels, we
dis 'n"' 'he 'i"iis"''ie II. al 1.o"
4ants alone were about ninety FIVE t
:, ,hs the entire annual production.
supposing that there are 800
ness days during the year, thi
r;nia, change succeeded in selling tn
,t tire annual product of oil a