The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-10-22
THE LATEST NEWS.

Sullivan's funeral in New York.
Very heavy rains are reported from
Jamaica and other West India islands.
A fire at Carthage, N. Y, on Monday
destroyed 200 buildings worth 100000.
Ben Butler denies that the republicans
are paying the expenses OF his campaign.
Blaine's libel suit against the Indianap-
oils Sentinel is set for trial Dec. 24-after
election.
Belva A. Lockwood spoke to an audience
of 500 persons in New York on Sunday
evening
At Middleburn, w: Va, the boiler of a
saw mill exploded and killed John Fox
and VIM. Worden.
The cargo of the iron steamer Atachia,
loaded with cotton, took fire in Galveston
harbor and was destroyed.
John Fitzgerald horse thief, while
trying to escape from the Pittsburg Jail,
fell 40 feet and was killed.
Police Commissioner Sydney P. Mich
OILS Of New York, one of John Kelley's
most trusted lieutenants, is dead.
Elijah Kirk was shot by Robert Clark
near Shelbyville, KY. The shooting was
IN sclf-defense and was the result of a
feud.
P. B. Schuatt g. Co., barbed wire man.
ufacturers of Pittsburg, have reduced the
wages of their 800 employees 10 per cent.
R. j. Waddy. of Lcavenworth, Kas.,
fatally shot himself, his wife, and Miss
Logue who was living with them. Do
mestic infelicity was the cause
A W. Bowman, San Francisco capital
lists and real estate broker has failed. He
has misappropriated monies placed in his
hands for investment to the amount of
half million.
The Postmaster General and Mexican
Minister have concluded the postal con-
vention providing for the exchange of
mail matter between the United States and
Mexico at domestic rates Of postage
The Petroleum Exchange in Pittsburg
was strangely excited on Monday. In
view of the new wells lately struck it
was expected that oil would continue to
decline. Instead, it began to advance on
Monday, and before the day closed it
reached I'll, amid the widest excite
ment. Seldom has such a day been seen
in business circles in Pittsburg. Brokers
trampled upon each other and shouted
themselves hoarse in their transactions.
E. B. Thompson and D. K. Foster, two
members of the Exchange who had sold
short, failed. Prices closed at 694.
Jim Courtright, who for many years
was wanted by the officers for killing sew
eral Mexicans and two Americans in New
Mexico, but who had been for several
years citizen and officer of Galveston,
Texas, was arrested at that place on Sun
day. He was known to he quick with a
gun and dead shot, and it was only by
special officers operating under the guise
of friendship and getting the drop on
him that he was arrested. A great crowd
of citizens who sympathized with Court
right prevented him from being removed
from the city that night. On Monday
night they hung two pistols under the ia
ble at the restaurant where, surrounded by
three guards, he ate his supper. One of
the three guards was then enticed outside
and Courtright seized the two pistols.
with them covered the two remainiI g
guards, backed out of the room, mounted
horse in waiting for him. and dashed
away to the music Of the cheers of the
admiring crowd. Jim Mcintyre, part
ner of Courtright in the alleged killing,
has been arrested. s
Some days ago Samuel Boone and wife
visited Gov. Cleveland at Albany to apply
for q pardon for Mrs. Boonc's brother
Fairbanks, in the pcnitentiary for shooting
into . crowd and wounding a boy. The
governor said he would look into the mat