The daily enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1884, 1884-02-29
THE LATEST NEWS.

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under consideration in congress.
Capt. Kinzie Bates of the First in.
fantry, stationed at Detroit. Mich. is
dead.
Report comes from Auckland that
the island of Nareauti, in the Pacific
ocean. was the scene of a battle in
which about 20 natives were lost.
A false alarm of fire in the Royal
theatre at Montreal, at a matinee.
caused a panic. Women tainted and
were trampled on and several badly
bruised.
The people of Eau Claire. V'iscon-
sin, are trying to collect 81 1000 as a
gift to John Sverdrup, the untiring
leader of the liberal party in Norway.
One man has subscribed $3.50.
The explosion at the London rail-
way station was caused by dynamite,
and the accepted theory was that 1T
exploded accidentally having been left
in the cloak room.
At Sun Prairie, Wis, Lena Spaight,
a girl of Is years, was raped by tive
young men. Last reports indicated
the probability Of a lynching party.
The Northern Pacific has issued a
new rate sheet giving reduced rates
of fare to ali points on it's own line,
and lines of western connections.
According to the Railroad Gazette.
155 miles of new road track have been
laid during the present year. During
the same time last year 158 miles were
laid. and during 1882, 419 miles.
Near Elizabethtown, KY, negro
named Miles Petty outraged respec-
table young lady named Cora Van
mort. He was saved from lynching
only by being hurried away to Louis
Vile Jail.
Great excitement prevails at the vii
lage of Eagle, in Waukesha county,
Wis, over the alleged discovery of a
valuable diamond find. A woman
found stone a few days ago and sold
it to Boynton, the Milwaukee jeweler,
for ST.. 1t turns out to be an $500, l6
karat pure water diamond. Land is
being sold at fabulous pri ces.
Nelson Hinman, of New Haven,
Conn. aged 62. a farmer of penurious
habits and man very unpopular with
his neigh bors, died few days ago,
and by his death the family skeleton
WAS revealed. Ju st before the coffin
lid was nailed down Mrs. Hinman was
released from room in the upper
part of the house and permitted to
gaze on her husband s face. It was
the first time she had been permitted
to leave the room for more than thirty
years. In 1854 she became slightly
insane, and her husband built a prison.
up stairs into which he pnt the unhap-
py woman, and in which she lived,
looking at life only through iron bars
until his death released her. A great
was caused when these facts
became known to-day.
The Utah papers record a remarka-
BILE illustrate on of Mormon /. nergy
and perseverance. Being about to es
tablish an important manufacturing
b business at Iron City. they wanted a
railroad to connect the furnaces and
the coal and iron mines. So they went
to Nevada. and finding the Phoebe
and Bullionville railroad for sale
cheap, they bought it. But a rail
road is all awkward thing to move.
The rails and sleepers might be torn
mp and hauled in wagons, but cars
locomotives cannot be so we'll trans
ported in that way. Accordingly the
Mormons have decided that q reil-
road must. move itself. They will
tear up the rails at the further end of
the track and relay them OH the end
nearest Iron City. BY continuing
this process they expect in time to
walk the road out of Nevada into
Utah, where they want it.
Booming Montana.
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