The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1884-11-22
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Marquis DeCaux, the husband of Patti,
was recently granted divorce at Paris.
The Continental Hotel at Fargo was
burned ON Monday last. Loss $4,000.
A fire at Milbank, Dakota, on the 18th
destroyed $15o,ooo worth of property.
kilograms have been received at Shang
hal of the capture of Tamsin by the
French.
The steamer Elder, which arrived from
Europe on Saturday last, brought $500, 900
in gold.
The President has appointed Otis Clark
Commissioner of Pensions, vice Dudley
resigned.
The English government has sent 900
tons of torpedoes to protect the coaling
stations in China.
Barney Gallagher, who was clerk of the
last Nevada state senate, has gone crazy
from cigarette smoking
The Texas express company's office at
Galveston was entered on the night of the
10th and the safe robbed Of $1O,85O.
The handsome monument erected in
honor of the battle of Monmouth, at Free
hold, N. j.. was unveiled on the 18th.
Joe Cook, murderer, was taken from
the Jail by mob at Blue Hill, Mo-, on
the 18th inst, and hanged to derrick.
1t Is estimated the payments from the
Treasury for the present month, on account
of pensions, will amount to 100000.
Mr.. I. Martin, editor of the St. Louis
Globe Democrat, has just been left $685.
900 by the death of an uncle in Scotland.
Daniel Manning, editor of the Albany
IN. ~ Argus, was married to Miss Mary
Livingston Foyer Of that city on Wednes-
day.
The mayor of New York has issued an
order to the superintendent of police to
hereafter prohibit glove contests in that
city.
The failures in the United States during
last week were 1877, against 166 in the
preceding week, and eos in the cores
ponding week of 1888.
Isaac Henderson, associated with Viii
liam Cullen Bryant in the ownership Of
the New York Evening Post, died Nov.
18th, at the age of II.
A destructive fire occurred ut Colds
boro, N. c., Oh the 18th. Twenty five
business houses were destroyed and the
loss is estimated at 100000.
Sam McMasters has resigned the posi-
tion he has SO long filled as superintend-
ent of the Homestake Mining ccmpany's
great interest in the Black Hills.
A train on the Wabash road was stopped
at Quitmap, in northwest Missouri, on the
10Th, by 20 masked men, who killed the
messenger and robbed the safe of $1,000.
The wedding of Marshall Orme Wilson
and Caroline Schermcrhorn Astor, young
est aud only unmarried daughter of Will
liam B. Astor, took place at New York
on the 18th.
A. D. January, deputy state treasurer of
California, was arrested on the 18th FOR
appropriatlng $50, 500 deposited for safe
keeping with the state treasurer. The
money was lost in gambling.
The St. Louis cattle convention conven-
ed on last Monday with over 1000 dele
gates in attendance, representing nearly
all ranches and cattle mems associations
west of the Mississippi river.
The sugar refneries OF E. G. Knight &
Co., and Mexican, Berie s. Co., of Phila-
delphia, have shut down, throwing 500
men out Of employ yment. The depressed
condition of the sugar trade is the cause.
Robert MoPheen, alias Bryce, who was
arrested charged with forgery IN Calcutta,
is in Jail at Louisville, Ky. He admits a
forgery to the amount of 100000 on the
Calcutta Tea Co., of which he was a d.
rector.
A terrible railroad accident occurred at
Hampstead on the Houston & Texas rail-
road on the 14th. An express train was
precipitated into the Brazos river. Ten
passengers are reported killed and fifteen
wounded.
While on a voyage from Calito Buena
to Hamburg the ship Andrew johnson
collided with the British ship, Thirlmere,
on the 18th inst, and sunk with seventeen
of her crew. The latter made port with
the survivors of the johnson crew.
The Department of State has directed
United States Consuls General at London
and Paris to appoint medical examiners to
inspect all vessels leaving English and
French ports for this country, with view
Of preventing the introduction of cholera.
An amusing feature of the cattle con-
vention now in session at St. Louis is a