The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1885-01-31

UOV. squire VI washington IN lls
report says that the territory has {
poulation of l47 900 and should be i'm
medlately admitted as a state.
The Mexican mutineers who raised
such a rumpus along the border have
been encountered by troops, several Of
their number killed and more captur-
ed.
The jury in the case of Jas. D. Cum
mings indicted for presenting fraudu
lent vouchers to heBureau of Medicine
and Navy Department, brought in &
verdict of guilty.
An internal machine was found in
the possession of one Otto Funk OF
Chicago. Funk claims to be student
and that the machine was for expert
mental purposes.
A bill presented by Edmuuds is
pending in the senate making the man
ufacture aud handling of explosives
meant for the destruction of public OF
private property felony.
The Turkish government notified
Italy that if she attempts to carry out
her reported intention of occupying
Triopoli she will be opposed by the
Turkish army-2O,OO mon.
A member of a jury confined in the
jury-room of Philadelphia court be.
came crazy and when the door was
opened purusd the officer in charge
and tried to injure him with pair of
scissors.
The President has been directed by
congressional resolution to endeavor
to purchase the Indian right to the
Oklahoma lands. throw them open to
settlement and thus end the trouble
with the "boomers.
Germany is said to be making rapid
strides in seizing upon and colonizlng
the west African coast. This is said
to be done in pursuance Of an agree.
ment with France and in open con-
tempt of England.
Judges Of the late Chicago election
to the number of 255 have been indlct.
ed for carelessness and frauds in allow.
ing 100000 appropriation to appear
carried by majority of $4,000 when
it was really defeated.
The Piute Indians are said to be
starving on their reservation in Neva.
da. Not cent of the congressional
appropriation of seventeen thousand
dollars, secured by Senator Dawes, Of
Massachusetts,, has reached them.
Clinton G.. Wells president of the
Galveston Cotton Exchange and of
the Island City Savings bank suicided
by morphine on account Of financial
troubles. A cotton firm in which he
was partner and tho bank are wrecks.
The snow fall on the Italian Alps is
the heavist within the memory of man.
Terrible accounts have arrived from
villages destroyed. So far as is known
300 lives have been lost. The troops
displayed much heroism in effecting
rescues.
Ferdinand Dittman, a wealthy farm.
er of Saylesville, Ills, was sent to
prison one year for allowing counter.
felt silver certificates to be made at
his farm. Albert Schmidt and VIM.
Lodon who did the counterfeiting got
two years each.
A man named Bartan, at Lime Lake,
Ont, while drunk, struck his sick
daughter with 2 chair, killing her.
The girls mother ran to neighbor's
house. The night was bitterly cold,
and the mother died from the expos
ure and excitement.
The Secretary of the Interior has
affirmed the decision of the Commis~
sioner of the land Office respecting the
claims of the state of Oregon to $4,000
acres of swamp land, and ordered a
rs.examinat!on of the land in contro-
versy with a view to determining its
Dature beyond question.
Abraham Sellgman Of Frankfort
resident partner of the great New
York;banking firm Of J.& w. Seligman
died few days ago. Seligman spent
the greater part Of his life in this
He was California pioneer
and was prominent in organizing the
Vigilance Committee in San Francisco.
He left California in 1871 to join the
irm of Seligmans in Frankfort.
Rev. DR.. Patton president of How.
ard university preached a sermon in
Washington on Sunday in which he
opposed woman's rights movements as
laving a clear tendency toward skep-
;icism and immortality in woman.
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth G.
Stanton were in the audience and at