The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1884-12-27


Klttanning, Pa, shattering the building
and severely injuring eleven men, four o1
them. it is thought, fatally.
VIM. Flctos, incarcerated in the Madi.
son Jail, New Orleans, for robbery, having
threatened the lives of all who aided in
his arrest, party of fifteen took posses
sion of the Jail and shot the prisoner to
death.
After an idleness of several months the
steel works of Hussey, Howe & Co.,
Pittslurg, Pa, started up Monday. The
Spaulding Iron Works of Brilliant, Ohio,
also resumed work in all departments on
Monday.
DR.. Newell, of Long Pine, Neb., was
found half mile from his house Saturday
morning frozen to- death. He was a
somnambulist, and had risen from his bed
and walked out with nothing on but his
night robe.
The Ottawa postoffice department has
been notified Of Il mail robber; committed
between Kamloops and Victoria, B. c. 1t
IS said that $4,000 was stolen--two regis
tered letters containing $4,000 each and
ST. 900 in checks r.@
The Scottish chamber of agriculture
has issued an address to landlords and
people. demanding an immediate reduc-
ton OF rents on the ground that the de-
preston in the agricultural Industry ar,-
pears permanent.
! Dunk rves. prosperous rmrr IL
Failno til. REED county, H., ,.nn.n;
suicide by hanging, in his barn. Ever Sin
the election Groves has imagined that til,
country will go to ruin under Cleveland
and he would lose all his property.
Thursday OF last week the first ship
ment of Columbia River fresh salmon Was
| made from Portland, Or, to London, Eng
land The shipment Was made by the
Pacific express via the Oregon Short In F:
time to London estimated at Is days.
The senate has confirmed James E. Put
nam, Of Idaho, register lanl office al
C9ur d'Alene, Idaho; James II. Thomas,
of Missouri, register land office at Yaki-
ma, W. T.; and James F. Legate, of Kan
sas, receiver OF public moneys at Ceui
d'Alene. Idaho.
The boiler of freight engine on the
Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern rail-
road blew out just inside the furnace door
at Iowa Junction, blowing fireman Sudd
out over the tender ON the ground. an.
scalding him SO that ne can not possibly
recover. The engineer, standing at the
side of the boiler, less than yard away
es ;aped uninjured.
The British steamship Victoria, from
Galveston with cotton and oil cake for
Brennan, at New Orleans to complete he,
cargo, was in collision with the Steamboat
Fred A.: Blanks, making IN excursion
trip to the Exposition. The Blanks sank
IN few minutes. She had mum
Der IF passengers on board, but they were
saved as we'll as the crew.
W. W. Brooks, lifelong democrat.
died at Geneva, Pa, the other day. His
will was found to contain the provision
that when democratic president was
elected, if ever, hickory pole should I've
erected over his grave, and that United
States flag should be fastened on top OF
the pole, and that the pole should remain
standing over his grave until it fell of its
own accord.
Secret service officers have found a
number of plates for printing counterfeit
currency buried in the woods near Sayles-
vile, Waukasha county, Wis. Three
counterfeiters were arrested in Chicago
some time ago and on them wa found
a map showing where the plates were
buried. After weeks of searching the
plates were located. When the counter
feiters were arrested they had about
$40, 900 of spurious notes in their posses
siOn.,
The investigation undertaken by Brad
streets shows that, so far as reported,
three hundred and sixteen thousand fewer
employees are at work In manufacturing
in twenty-one states. con-
tanning 80 per cent of the manufacturing
than have hitherto been requir-
ed. 1t is fair to presume that more de-
tailed inquiry would reveal nearer three
hundred and fifty thousand as the total;
in part due, of course. to customary stop
ages at this season. The enforced idleness
among lumbermen in the Northwest and
the North is not included in the total
presented, nor are the reductions among
clerks and other employees in mercantile
houses in the larger cities.
The Little Rockies.
Mineral Argus: Day after day reports
from the Little Rocky placer diggipgs
grow more Ell -couraging, and it is now !.
,ettled fact that claim holders will real