The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1885-05-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

anu Is SpTcauluS rapluly.
There IS strike among salmon fisher
men along the lower Columbia.
Gen. Grants health is failing slowly and
this is doubtless his last sickness.
A cyclone in Brooks county. Kansas
killed six persons and injured fifty more.
Russia is about to exercise her troops
and navy in sham manGuvres and battle.
Forest fires have been raging with ter.
rible fury in northern Michigan this week
Fourteen business houses were destroy
ed by fire at Whatcom, W. T., causing q
loss of $4,000.
The Apaches are again on the warpatll
in New Mexico aud Arizona and the troops
are after them.
Jas. Daggart who encouraged Odlum's
fatal leap from Brooklyn bridge is under
arrest on the charge.
at Locust Gap, Penn, Peter Knobauch
shot and killed Julia Kramer because she
would not marry him.
S. N. Dalrymple was killed at CasSel-
ton, Oak, by being thrown upon picket
stake by an unruly colt.
Henry Lewiston's house near Owatonna,
Mimi, burned and five of his seven child
ren perished in the flames.
The Corcan difficulties between China
and Japan have been peacefully settled to
the triumph Of the latter nation.
Frank Williams q brakeman was shot
and killed at Hubbard, Neb, by two
tramps whom he elected from the train.
Gen. Grant will dedicate his forthcom-
ing book to the officials and soldiers of the
Mexican and civil wars to which it re-
lates.
Torpedo experiments and sham naval
battle on an unprecedented scale will
shortly be held by English men-of-war in
Bantry Bay, Ireland.
Three men of Capt. O'Brien's company,
Second Cavalry, were drowned near Fort
Ceur d'Alene while crossing the river.
The ferry cable broke.
The English government has asked the
Egyptian government if it is willing to
purchase the railway material now on
board ships at Suakim.
n B. Harwood, one of the heaviest
merchants Of Minnesota until he became
nsolveDt and retired to Florida, lately
lied in the latter state.
G. A. Whitaker, J. w. Drew and Dan
el Corrigan have been indicted for pre-
;enting false vouchers to the Navy depart
nent amounting to $4,000.
Margaret Felemon, domestic in the
family of man living near St. Paul,
hanged herself with strap because the
hired man would not marry her.
Coal from Birmingham, Ala, is being
shipped to various Pennsylvania points.
The announcement has caused comment
in coal circles as it is unprecedented.
The Colombian rebels have been forced
10 retreat from their siege of Carthagena,
and Barenquilla is the only place on the
Isthmus of Panama now in their possession.
A jury at Duluth sentenced James Far
ley, murderer, to be hanged. If hanged
it will he the first hanging in Minnesota
since the wholesale execution of the rebel
Sioux in 1862.
Eight persons, comprising household
at Whitefeld, Mich, were seized with
trichinosis obtained from diseased pork
which they had eaten. One died, three
are in critical condition and all suffered
Juror Harvey NJ. Munsell, who visited
the Office of O'Donovan Rosa during the
trial of Short for stabbing Captain Phelan,
was adjudged guilty of contempt of court
and sentenced to thirty days in jail and a
fine of $3.50.
At Petersburg, Va, Houston Terry,
craZed with drink, shot T. A. letter dead
on the street. Both were prominent citi
zens and there was no provocation for the
crime. Terry was hanged by mob on
the day of letters funeral.
The conduct of the officers and sentries
on duty when Paul Boyton affixed his
sham torpedo to the prov Of the British
Garnet, is to be investigated
by court martial at Halifax.
Gen. Komarof, the Russian general who
defeated the Afghans at Penjdeh, has been
presented with richly jeweled sword by
the car and with an autograph letter con-
veying that monarch's thanks for Komar
offs measures.
At New Straitsville, Ohio, Albert Guest
while resisting arrest killed Marshal Hen
ry Auer and also boy of II years who
was some distance away. He was arrested
and afterward taken from the Jail and
lynched by masked mob.