The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1884-11-29
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

at Rock Creek, Oregon.
Two severe shocks of earthquakes were
felt in Connecticut on last Sunday.
A cyclone in louisiana last Saturday
night caused considerable loss of life.
The Grand opera house in st. Louis was
burned on the 23d, entailing loss of
$15O,00O.
In conhagration at Lisbon. Dakota, on
the 23d, Samuel Mccormack and twenty
horses were burned to death.
The cattle men IN convention at St.
Louis contributed 81 200 for the sufferers
in Virginia and West Virginia.
In collision at Perdido. Ala, an engi-
neer was burned to death six passengers
killed and many persons wounded.
The sanitary commission of Paris have
ceased to hold daily sittings and the
cholera epidemic is considered ended.
Blaine has rented the house of Secre-
tary Window, in Washington, and is cx-
pcctcd to occupy it in about two weeks.
The democrats of Richmond, Va cele-
brated the election of Cleveland by =
thank offering for the benefit of the poor.
A destructive wind storm prevailed
throughout the east Monday causing con-
siderable damage to property and loss of
life.
The North Chicago rolling mills were
shut down last Saturday, owing to dull
trade, throwing 800 men out of employ
ment.
The st. James Hotel at jamestown, Da-
kota, was burned on the 22d. This is the
third hotel destroyed by fire in that place
within year.
Acute typhoid dyscntcry is the medical
name given to the fatal scourage which
has recently broken out in the western
portions of Virginia.
Total number Of stamps, stamped envel-
opcs and postal cards used during the
year in the United States was 2,167,130,-
396, valued at $41,515,877.
Mayor Brooks, of Denver, has issued an
order to the chief Of police directing that
all gambling houses in that city be closed.
Several arrests have been made.
NJ. H. DeYoung, the San Francisco
editor whom young Sprcckles tried to
murder last week, continues to improve in
health, and is now probably out of danger.
The counsel for Miss Finney, better
known by her stage name, Miss Fortescue.
has accepted an offer of $780, 900, made by
Lord Garmoyle, to settle a breach Of
promise suit.
John A. Kasson, American Minister to
Berlin, has announced that Henry NJ.
Stanley, the African explorer, has been
appointed technical delegate to the Congo
conference for America.
E. E. Johnson. Northern Pacific express
agent at Ainsworth, w. T., charged with
the embezzlement of $4,000 sent by
Todd & Fulton, Portland, tr his care for
N. Bennett, has been acquitted.
Capt. Hiram D. Bodine, clerk in the
psstoffice department at Washington, COM
mitted suicide, owing to dependency
over the prospect of losing his position
under a democratic administration.
Charles Lane, business manager of the
Western Reserve Democrat of Warren,
Ohio, was painted black by masked men,
who entered the Office, daubed him with
ink and pied all tho type in the establish
mcnt.
On the 25th the president appointed Geo.
B. Anderson of New York, Indian Inspec-
tor, vice Barr resigned, and Charles F.
Ashley, Of New York, agent Of the Colora-
do River Agency, Arizona, vice Clark re-
signed.
At Edinboro, Pa. Charles c. Williams
shot his wife dead, shot her step.father
and then committed suicide. The act
was caused by jealousy Of the step-father
who was the divorced husband Of Will
liams' wife
Policemen Grant and Devine Of New
York were committed for trial on charge
Of highway robbery and attempted shoot.
ing. Two other policemen who failed te
arrest the guilty officers were suspended
by the mayor.
A large crowd of the anti-liquor element
Of Bladcnsburg, Ohio, made an attach
Saturday ON Chapin's saloon. The prop
erictor vas struck on the head by stone
and his skull fractured. All the liquor
was thrown into the street and when a
! physician arrived Chopin was deed.