The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1885-10-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

appointed minister to Colombia.
Shocks Of an earthquake we're felt j
Lynchburg, Va, on Saturday last.
Five Cinnamon were burned to dcat
in laundry in Oakland, California.
w. A. Vincent, Chief Justice of Ne,
Mexico, has been suspended by the Presi
dent
Frank James, the Missouri desperate
has been employed as clerk in Nevad
store.
President Cleveland and Daniel Man
ming will both 60 to New York to vote il
November.
Twenty five convicts in the New Mexico
prison made break for liberty but wer
all re-captured.
Col. Clark w. Thompson Of Wells
MINI, a prominent and wealthy citizen o
that state is dead.
Bartlett Tripp of Deadwood will prob
ably succeed Judge Edgerton as Chic
Justice of Dakota.
Fraudulent bonds of the District O
Columbia were lately traded for $4,000
worth Of Kansas land.
Several deaths from cholera occurred
this summer on the American man-of wal
Osslppee Of the Asiatic squadron.
Indians from New Mexico are raidin1
over into Texas, stealing horses and cattle
and in one instance killed four men.
A fire at Fredericton, N. B., destroyed
Morrison's saw mill, twelve tenement
houses and 100000 feet of lumber.
Riel's reprleve will be extended beyond
Oct. is in order that his case may be
heard before the Privy Council of England
An elephant, Empress, In Forepaugh's
circus killed one Of the employees by :
blow of her trunk She had killed one
man before.
The republican federal officials of Ari
zona have mostly resigned. They are un-
der indictment for contributing to election
bribery funds.
Fred Hopt, found guilty of murder al
Salt Lake City for the fourth time, has
ch osen to be shot and sentence will be ex-
ecuted Nov. Gath.
Tammany and Irving Halls will com
bine in New York against the county
democracy in local politics but all will
support the state tickot.
Many Cubans. Spaniards and Americans
met at Saratoga, N. Y, and drew up plan
for the annexation of Cuba to the United
States and will present it to congress.
A special session of tho Oregon legis-
lature has been called to elect U. S.
senator, the regular session having failed
to elect the successor to Senator Slater.
At Big Stone City, Oak, H. L. Barnett,
Chicago lawyer, shot and killed W. W.
Morgan, a photographer. Morgan had
been improperly intimate with Barnett's
wife.
H. S. Crocker & Co.'s mammoth print
ing establishment in San Francisco has
been destroyed by fire involving loss Of
$15O,OOO. Two fremen perished in the
ruins.
Rev. Mr.. Mangasarian, an able Prsby-
terian preacher in Philadelphia, has pub
licly retired from his church because he
cannot longer believe the orthodox doc
trines.
The last weekly statement Of the asso-
ciated banks Of New York shows reserve
decrease of $1,346,OOO. The banks now
hold $40, So 900 in excess of the 25 per
cent rule.
Miss Annie Longfellow, youngest
daughter of the late poet, was lately mar
ried in the Longfellow mansion, Cam
bridge, Mass, to James Gilbert Thorpe,
of Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
Butler Malone, son of Senator Malone,
has been bound over for trial on the charge
of assault with intent to kill. While
drunk he took a shot at colored waiter
in Wizards hotel, Washington.
Hungarian graders on the New York
Short Line seized one of the American
superintendents and held him as security
for overdue pay. They say they will kill
him if not paid before the 2oth.
1t is faid that France is about to aban-
don all that she expended so much blood
and treasure to seize in Tonquin. It is a
constant struggle and expense to maintain
her foothold and there is no compensating
return.
Prairie fires have been raging very ex-
tensively in Nebraska this fall, particular
ly in the northwestern portion. Thous-
ands of dollars worth of property have
been destroyed, one man alone losing $780,
900 worth.
King John of Abyssinia who, in the in
terest'of England and Egypt is chasing the
rebels in the Soudan, lately defeated Osman
Digma's army and killed 5000 Arab der
wishes. He is now advancing to the relief
of Kassala
Prince Henry of Battenberg who mar
ried the Princess Beatrice was Kissed in
the streets of Perth, Scotland, when he
appeared there. His royal mother-in-law
advised him to remain secluded in the
Highlands of Scotland.
George H. Smith of Pittsburg and H.
NJ. johnson of Cincinnati, ran race of
$50 yards at the first-named city for the
championship. Smith won in 144
seconds, the fastest time on record. The
best time before had been Is seconds.
The postmaster general has decided that
where railroad companies deliver mails At
the postoffices along their route the mes
sengers who carry the mails between the
train and the Office must be over Is years
old and of suitable age and character.
H. E. Hayden, who was recently rec