The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1885-05-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


solvent.
The Hcssian fly is devastating wheat
fields of the Pacific coast.
Albert c. Snyder has been appointed
postmastnr of Cheyenne, Wyoming.
Maris Taylor, of Deadwood, has been
appointed surveyor-general of Dakata.
President Cleveland will participate in
the Decoration Day exercises at New York.
Herman Bros furniture factory in New
York burned involving a loss Of $3.50, 900,
covered by insurance.
In feud between the Jones family and
another faction in Knell county, Kentucky,
four persons were killed.
Col. Snowdon, superintendent of the
Philadelphia Mint, has resigned, his rcsig-
nation to take effect June 3Oth,
England and China are about conclud-
ing treaty which permits the free dis.
tribution of opium throughout China.
A virulcnt disease which the physicians
call black-tsngued diptheria has broken
out in Paris; Pa, and numbers are dying.
Secretary of State Bayard will deliver
an Oration on sThOmas jefferson" before
the State University of Missouri next week.
Senator Edmunds has been summoned
to testify on points in American law before
the British House of Lords. He will start
on Saturday.
A cyclone visited Nortonville, Goffs and
Frankfort in Kansas, did great damage to
property and fatally injured Mrs. Mayer
and Miss Calville.
Near Neosho, Missouri, James Masters
was shot by James Martin because he
would not comply with the latter's request
to join gang Of robbers.
]. N. Day, confidential clerk for Mar
tin & Runyon, New York bankers, is
short $4,000 in his accounts. He lost
the money in Wall street. ........
Workingmen at a meeting in Quebec
passed resolution requesting the govern
mcnt to prohibit the importation of Chi
nese labor into the Dominion.
The Marine Hospital bureau at Wash
ington is informed that during the two
weeks ended April 4th there were 1S8
deaths from cholera in Calcutta.
A revolution is in progress in the prov
ince of Santiago, Cuba, and force of
government troops under the captain-gen-
eral has been sent to suppress it.
The people of British Columbia threaten
and open rebellion if any attempt
is made to enforce the recent timber and
land orders of the Canadian government.
Five Mormon polygamists were lately
sentenced to fine and imprisonment at
Blackfoot, Idaho,-the first convictions
for the peculiar Mormon crime in Idaho.
The residence OF the Misses Carpenter
in Philadelphia was robbed of $4,000,
mostly in negotiable paper, in broad day
light during the temporary absence Of a
servant. ..-...
John L. Sullivan, the pugilist, has en-
tered counter suit to bis wife's suit for
divorce. He charges her with cruel and
abusive treatment and gross habits of in
tOxication.
A stage loaded with tourists on their
way to Yosemite was held upby highway
men and robbed of everything in the way
of money and valuables, including Wells,
Fargo & Co.'s treasure box.
Tommy Warren, champion lightweight
pugilist Of Wyoming, lately had a mill
with Chris Somers in Chicago in which the
latter was badly beaten. Warren weighs
12O pounds and Somers 1856.
G.. E. Hutchinson of Cleveland and J.
w. Pence of Minneapolis have gone to
Spokane Falls as representatives of a
company that seeks to buy the entire
water power at that point.
A monument to Kit Carson, the cele-
brated western pioneer and Indian fighter
will be dedicated to-day at Santa Fe, New
Mexico. Carson is buried at an insignifi.
cant Pueblo town not far from there.
In view of the alleged prevalence Of
yellow fever in the Northern Mexican
States, the Secretary Of the Treasury has
been requested to appoint sanitary inspect
ors on the border line of Arizona, and viii
probably comply with the request.
John E. Garland, of Bismarck, has beer
appointed United States district attorney
of Dakota vice Campbell, removed. Tht
new appointee is brother Of W. W. Car
land, formerly treasurer of Custer county
and frequent visitor in Livingston.
Edward Campbell Jr. was finally com
missioned Marshal of the southern distric
of Iowa instead of L. C. Williams wht
was first appointed but whose commission
was withheld to allow of fuller consider
alton Of democratic endorsements.