The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1885-12-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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Bismarck. Dakota, was visited by :
$4,000 fire on Monday last.
Hugh O'Brien, democrat, was elected
mayor of Boston on Tuesday.
Eplzootic has made its appearance
among street car horses in Chicago.
Prince Bismarck was severely injured
on Tuesday by the stumbling of his horse
euro-pneumonia has appeared among
a large heard of cattle near Lancaster, Pa
Minneapolis has erected $500 buildings
the past year at a cost of eight and one
half million dollars.
John w. Daniels has been elected by
the Virginia legislature to succeed Malone
in the United States senate.
A Washington paper states that Public
Printer Reunds has placed his resignation
in the hands of the president.
BY fire in residence at WOODWORK
Michigan, Frank Knox and wife and two
children were burned to death.
John Hutchinson the champion sky
scraper of Washington territory stands
seven feet four inches in his stocking feet
Forty Servians were lately executed by
order Of King Milan for blowing their
trigger fingers off to escape military ser.
vice.
At Long Prairie, W. T., on the 18th, an
insane woman named Mineer set fire to her
building, burning herself and four child.
rem to death.
One man was fatally and thirteen seri-
ously injured on Tuesday by the falling Of
cage in the Sangamon coal shaft al
Springfield, Illinois.
The fourr children who were bitten by a
mad dog at Newark, NJ last week have
been sent to PARIS to be treated by Pasteur,
a hydrophobia specialist.
A frightful gas explosion occurred in
the Mill Creek mine at Wilkesbarre, Pa,
en- the 14th inst, causing the death of
three persons and lnjuring several others.
Henry Mckee, president of the Globe
Printing company of st. Louis, and COM
mercial editor of the Globc-Democrat,
died in that city Of dropsy on the 10th,
aged 81 years.
Henry Beiderbeck, one of the survivors
of the Greeley expedition, has received an
as messenger in the agriclll-
tural department At Washington 1t salary
Of 5000 year.
The German government has approved
the bill for the construction Of the long
spoken Of ship canal between the Baltic
and North Sea-. The estimated cost of
the canal is 156, 100000 marks.
IL four-hour type-setting contest in
New York between Joseph Nc Cam Of the
Herald and w. C. Barnes of the World
for S., 1000. the former was declared the
winner, having set 5000 II ems to Barnes
1881 ems.
Sitting Bull, although among the sixties,
is yet very nlmble. Last week he defeat
ed Sport Whitesell in 100 yard foot race
at Fort Yates, Sport losing his racer which
he bet against Sitting Bulls Kentucky
thoroughbred.
Richelieu Robinson, ex-member of con-
gress from Brooklyn, is candidate for
the pension agency in New York, but will
not be appointed because the president
has decided that pension agents must in
all cases be ex-soldiers.
The president on Wednesday sent the
following nominations to the senate: John
Bigelow of New York to he assistant
treasurer of the United States at New
York; Frank Sigel of New York to be
pension agent at New York City.
A Washington special says: Gen. Mel
son A. Miles has purchased from Senator
Sherman portion Of the Stone estate on
Columbia Heights, north of the city near
the residence of Gen. Logan for $4,000,
and decided back one-halt interest to Sen.
ator Sherman.
Advices from Mandalay state that the
sacred white elephant is dead. The Gus
tomary ceremony of keeping the body
lying in state for three days was prevented
by the British officials, owing to sanitary
reasons. The funeral was attended by an
enormous crown.
A solemn requiem mass was held in st.
Matthew's Catholic church at Washington,
D. G., on the 10th, for the repose of the
soul of the late King Alfonso of Spain.
Six hundred invitations were issued, in
cluding the president and cabinet, diplo-
matte corps and others.
The body of Louis Riel has been re-
moved from Regina to St. Boniface where
it was inferred by the side Of his father in
the Catholic cemetery Saturday last. On
the arrival OF Riel's remains the grief OF
his aged mother, his wife and brother
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