The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1885-05-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


J. @. Chenoweth, of Texas has been al
pointed first auditor Of the treasury.
At Victoria, B. c., there is said to be
secret society organized to exterminate th
Chinese.
The Mexican custum house at Paso dt
Norte was robbed of $500 in unslgne
bank notes.
Great destruction Of property has re
suited from floods in the country surround
ing Galveston, Texas.
The Armstrong gun works of Englan'
received an order for war material iron
Russia but refused to fill it.
1t is reported that the italian troops a
Massowah on the Red Sea in the SCUBA,
we're defeated by the Arabs.
Business failures in the United States
and Canada last week numbered 24O a
against 222 the week previous.
Great tracts Of country along the Mis-
sissippi in Arkansas are inundated and
great damage has been done to crops.
The suburbs of Montreal and outlying
country have been flooded of late and
much damage to property has resulted.
The military reserves Of Denmark are
being modified in expectation of the nee.
essity of preserving Danish neutrality by
force.
The President has appointed Cornelius
Schenck of Oregon, to be Appraiser OF
Merchandise in the district of Willamette,
Oregon.
Among many other noted Mormons
lately arrested for polygamy is Bishop
Hiram Clawson. He pleaded guilty to
the charge.
The Prince and Princess of Wales have
got through with their visit to Ireland
and, doubtless with feeling of extreme
relief, are again in England.
The successor of John Russell Young,
minister to China, will be appointed from
California. 1t will probably be Frank
Nc Coppin of San Francisco.
California reports largely decreased
grain crop tor this year, less having been
sown than before. What is lost in grain
is made up in fruit and wine.
Lieut.. Jouett, 10th cavalry, in charge Of
the post at San Antonio, has been dismis-
'ed for Irregularities in his accounts. He
S a son of Rear Admiral Jouett.
Sunset Cox's constituents in New York
1ave drafted resolutions asking him to de-
Zine the Turkish Ministry as they and
he nation want him in Congress.
The Apaches in the Sierra Madre noun
aims along the border Of Mexico are again
m the warpath. They have stolen many
;attle and have killed some Mexicans.
The consuls at Bradford, gland
Geneva, Switzerland, and Fayal, Azores,
lave been retained in place because of
,ood records and efficient service in the |
,ast.
There is more trouble with insurgents
a Panama. On the 25th they started to
'arricade the town of that name but
american marines drove them off with
ut bloodshed.
John August and Abe Taylor of
'argetown, Kentucky, both wanted to
harry Miss Jane Greathouse. To settle
heir conflicting claims duel was fought.
august is dead and Taylor is in Jail.
The commissioner Of pensions has al
eady discovered that pensions were being
aid to 1O2 dead men, some of whom had
cen dead since II, and widows who
re remarked. All these cases belong to
he Philadelphia agency.
Eleven miners working in the Home
take mine at Eagle River near Leadville,
'ol., were buried by snow slide and all
erished. The slide occurred about the
4th or 25th of February but was not
iscovered until last Saturday. The men
ere all IN one cabin and most of them
erished by suffocation. i
Mrs. Amelia Evans and Caspar Wegner.
grocery clerk, were found dead side by
de in bed in New Orleans each shot
trough the head. It is believed they
ere shot by the woman's husband who|
as night watchman and probably came
ONE early and discovered the situation.
[e denies the crime however.
A Russian who visited Victoria, B. c.,
I'd vicinity about month ago, under the
retense of buying furs, is now known to ,
I'VE been Russian who took drawing .
the Notifications and harbOrs. He went ,
ON there to San Francisco. The author ,
les there are constantly receiving offers
service from British subjects resident
Washington territory, Oregon and Cali !
rnia in case of war with Russia. |,
On the 23rd instant terrific explosion q
Cured in the Admiralty building, Lon