Weston weekly leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 1878-189?, 1885-09-25

The president has appoiatrl !
Anthony j. Zeberger to be collector /
Of customs Of Chicago. /
Ex-First Assistant Postmaster |
General Hay Is lying at lis homo /
IN PROSTATE condition.
Thousands OF glasses Of pure
spring water are sold daily at one
cent glass on the street corners OF
Boston.
Gen. Miles says the troops under
his command are new in a condition
to protect settlers and control the
hostiles.
There is talk of another transcon-
tinental line into San Francisco, to
be controlled by the Burlington and
the Northwestern roads.
Texas boasts Of a cattle ranch with
5000, 900 acres. Itwould he some
thing worth hoasting Of if it were
cut up into $4,000 ranches.
Representative Warner has COM
pleted the draft of the compromise
silver bill that he intends to present
to congress when it assemblies.
An electric railway, new being
laid in Philadelphia, is to be opened
for travel October lst. Its cost is
at the rate of SIS, 900 per mile.
The money market in Canada is
glutted. 1t is believed that the
Bank Of Montreal alone holds from
$S,00O,000 to Sl0,O0O,00O of idle
| funds.
The civil service reform associa-
tion of New York, George W,
Curtis, chairman, has censured
Collector Hedden for certain recent
appointments.
More than one hundred Rhode
Island manufacturers have adopted
a remonstrance against any reopen.
ing Of the tariff question at the ap'
preaching session.
James 7. Mcintosh, a young man
living near Pittsburg, shot at a cat
the other day and killed his mother
after which he made an unsucress
full attempt at suicide.
A French paper denies that thi:
county has invented one single thing
of national benefit, and the New
York Herald gives it list of 1886
different articles to chew on.
Since the adjournment of the sen
ate there have been 537 changes il
the 2,332 presidential pestotlices
and over $500 fourth-class post
masters have been appointed.
The II easury department thi
week purch assd 100000 ounces o
silver for delivery at the New
Orleans and Philadelphia Mint
for coinage into standard dollars.
Our English cousins attribute thu
failure CT the British yacht to he
new boom Of Georgia pine whicl
was substituted fer the Oregon tir
Poor excuse, but it is better tha,
none.
The PaU Nall Gazette states tha
it has reason to believe that Chin
will protest against the action O
, France in dethroning the King Q
Aman as violating the Tientsin
, Treaty.
, In the building year ending tn
18th day of September, 2,46l per
mits were granted in Chicago, 8!
, against 1900 for the similar yea
: of 1884. The financial squeeze ha
eeen severe in every locality.
, The enormous cathedral of Mos
cow, built to hold 10000 person
and at cost of 92,OO0,O00, is jus
. completed. 1t has taken fifty year
to build, and was intended to com
memorate the defeat of Napoleon.
+, The Toronto Globe tell of a youn
| man who went to sleep the othe
i night without removing his cellar
e which was very high. In th
J, morning he was found dead. IL
f had been checked to death by tn
l. collar.
u We are using in the arts and 10.
u ing by abrasion of coin, as nuc
d gold every year as all the mines {
u the world produce, and the denaan
= for gold coin under the monometalli
% system Is increasing with the growt
70 of population and commerce.
James Nolan, miner in the ne,
. Granite creek mines, British Colun
bia, was murdered by a cowbo
, Wednesday. Four armed men al
in pursuit of the murderer, who hs
% fed for the American side. This
,s the first murder in the mines.
is The Queen of England is arran
IS ing to preserve her Empire by pla
J, ing one of her boys at the head
u the army and the other in commar
W of the navy. The Duke Of Co
W nausht is to be commander Of tt
"a former and the Duke of Edinbur2
Y; will have charge of the latter.
y Itisnow believed that DR.. Power
', whose body was recently four
n n hanging near Hollister, Cal, W
!, !, murdered by his enemies, inste'
10 Of being lynchel by the neishbo
'e hood. DR. Powers was native
* * Vermont, 70 years of age, and W
ho a widower hut his daurnter NJ,