The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1885-10-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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The Howe Sewing Machine company
bankrupt.
Recent floods at Calcutta, India, too
800 human lives. -.
The Charter Oak Insurance company O
Hartford is insolvent.
There are said to be at least 1000 case
of smallpox in Montreal.
The Sandwich Islands are trying to re
strict Chinese immigration.
Gen. Absalom Baird has been appointed
inspector-g general Of the army.
Ludwig II, king of Bavaria, is hopeless
ly insane and is becoming violent.
Brazil has passed law for the gradua
abolition of slavery in that country.
George Wilkes, founder Of Wilkes
Spirit Of the Times, died lately at the ag'
of 6s.
There has been reduction of abou
$12,OOO,O00 in the public debt during
September.
Edward A. Stevenson of Boise City
Idaho, has been appointed governor o.
that territory.
Four uegro murderers were lately
lynched at Pittsboro, Chatham county
North Carolina.
The Pope of Rome will mediate between
Germany and Spain in the matter of the
Caroline islands.
The militia Of Arizona has been called
out to protect the territory from increas
ing Indian disturbances.
The whole male population of Mandar
had to turn out the other day and fight 6
prairie fire to save the town.
The Massachusetts, republicans have re-
nominated Robinson for governor and
Ames for lieuenant governor.
An Abyssinian expedition is advancing
to the relief of Kassala in the Soudan and
is being hotly opposed by Arabs.
A fire at Hilliard, near Evanston, Wyo-
ming, destroyed 1850 cords of wood
and wood fume. Loss, $4,000; par
TALLY insured.
John S. Parrish, Of Chicago, consul to
Chemnitz, saxony, has disappeared and
is in default in his accounts. He was ap
pointed by President Arthur.
AT Chicago last week Commodore Kit
tson's trotting mare, Fanny Withespoon,
beat the best (her own) two-mile record,
lowering it from 4 AS to 4:43.
Jean Close, living near Wallula, killed
two of a band of Indians who came around
his place on a thieving expedition and
then gave himself up to the officers.
Eleven men were drowned at Grand
Manan, coast of New Brunswick, by a
heavy storm that came upon them when
they were breaking up wrecked vessel
The Chicago baseball club has defeated
the New York Club in three games this
week, giving the former an almost undis-
puted claim to the seasons championship.
At Whatcom, w. T., T. G. Maytield, a
merchant, and his son were called out at
night and shot by an unknown man. The
father was instantly killed and the son will
die.
At Hillstown, Pa, Thomas Thompson's
wife killed her husband with an axe and
then cut her own throat. She had been
prostitute and was just recovering from
debauch.
At the Newcastle coal mines near Seat
tie a mob of masked white men visited
the Chinese miners and gave them "a
hours to leave or be riddled with bullets.
The Chinese left.
Moses Marrenelleh, Christian Jew.
lately died in the poorhouse at Pough-
keepsie, N. Y. at the age of 106. In
1849 he walked to California and had
travelled all over the world.
The people of St. Thomas, Canada, are
raising $4,000 to erect monument to the
elephant Jumbo killed there two weeks
ago. Some time the fool killer will visit
St. Thomas and depopulate the town.
Investigation of the affairs of the Fran
ingham (Mass.) Savings bank shows that
C. s. Adams, the cashier who suicided last
spring was in default $22s, 900. No cause
for his suicide was known at the time.
At Austin, Texas, a man and three
women, all colored, were murdered by an
other negro who outraged one of the
women. A negro named Doc. Wood has
been arrested and is believed to be the
butcher.
The treasury department is devoting Its
attention to suppressing the petty corrup-
ton involved in the custom OF "tipping'
custom house officers on the part of pas
sengers arriving from foreign countries
with baggage.
At New Haven invitations were out for
the marriage of Honora Harwood, daughter
of the Episcopal rector, to a young mil
lionane when the young lady eloped with
a rich young New Yorker who had also
been suitor for her hand.
The young wife Of Oliver Hazard Bel
mont, the son Of August Belmont and
brother of Congressman Belmont, has
secured a divorce. She says her husband
deserted her three months after marriage
and has never seen the child born to them.
-Four persons (Americans) were killed,
wounded or captured by Apaches on the
18th ult., in Sonora near the border. A
detachment of U. S. troops on the 26th,
also in Sonora, captured 43 hostile
Apaches and killed and wounded several
more.
At Neenah, Wisconsin, Christine La
grange suicided by taking poison and con-
fessed before her death that she had been
outraged by John Kerwin, prominent
young society man, while they were com
ing home from ball. Kerwin is under