The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1885-04-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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d Jeff Davis is quite ill.
: Russia has extended her telegraph lint
to Merv.
! Small pox is prevalent in Mound City
) Illinois.
: The French met with considerable de.
feat at Dong Dong in Tonquin.
The Dayton woolen mills, Dayton, W
T., burned on Friday of last week.
In Franklin county, Pa, it is estimated
that 100000 sheep died last winter.
The annual Cambridge Oxford college
boat race in England was won by Oxford.
The result of the Gen. Hazen court
martial was mere sentence of reprimand.
The force in the bureau of engraving
and printing has been redu ;ed by 90 men.
Eugene Higgins has been made chief
appointment clerk at the treasury depaat-
ment.
The Italian government is fitting out a
fourth expedition for the Red Sea to assist
England.
Striking shoemakers at Randolph, Mass,
blew up the Windsor hotel with dynamite,
badly damaging it.
Two hundred and twenty five coal min
ers in Mclean county, Ills, have struck
against reduced wages.
Coinage at the Carson City mint has
been suspended until July 1st and the
force reduced accordingly.
Alexander McCue of Brooklyn, N. Y,
has been appointed solicitor of the treasu-
ry vice Henry s. Neal, resigned.
A Mississippi ferry boat, the Mark
Twain, exploded near Memphis killing
seven persons and wounding several others.
twenty-five thousand miners in the coal
districts Of Yorkshire, England, have
struck against against reduction eff 10
per cent in wages.
j. E. Chandler and J. B. Clemings Of |
the First National Bank of Bushnell, Ills. |
have been arrested for embezzling 500 900
or more of the banks funds.
Citizens Of Haley, Idaho, will contest
the validity Of the act of Legislature pro-
vidiug for the issue of $4,000 bonds to
erect capitol buildings at Boise City.
Commissioner of Pensions Black an
nounces that pension claims will hereafter
not be advanced out of regular order unss
less special cause for such action be shown
him.
A strong Central American alliance is
forming to overthrow the power of Gen.
Barrios who has undertaken to force the
confederation of the five Central American
republics.
Armour s. Co., Of Chicago have orders
for 100000 pounds additional of canned
beef for the English army and 225, 900
pounds for the Canadian expedition
against Riel
At caucus of the republican senators,
a decision was reached to resist removals
from offices which have fixed tenure by
law except for cause, until the expiration
Of their term.
Near Vienna, Ga., negro named Geo.
Rouse outraged and murdered the wife of
Jesse Dobbs, young farmer, while the
latter was away from home. When Rouse
was captured he was promptly lynched.
Alice Kirk died at a private lying-in
hospital in Philadelphia kept by Maria
Heopfner. It is claimed that her death
vas the result of criminal practices and
hat the hospital has been the scene Of
many infant murders.
The building occupied by the National
Printing Co., and the Bradner, Smith Pa
Der Co., at Chicago was burned on Sum- I
lay morning. The printing company's
oss will reach 100000; insurance $114,-
700. Bradner, Smith Paper Co.'s loss,
100000, fully insured. |,
Secretary Whitney has notified Mr..
Roach that he doesn't propose to pay the I
asst installment on the cruiser Dolphin I
until she shows the horse power called for +
n the contract. He also proposes to re- Z
lst the payment of the enormous annual t
ent now charged by Roach for taking /
are Of the hulk of the Puritan in his ship &
ards. G
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