The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1885-03-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The river and harbor appropriation bill
passed this year amounted to $1,000, 900
There is strong probability that Eng
land will accept Canadian offers of troops
for the Soudan war.
Wilson and Willy president and cashier
of the insolvent Savings bank at Tacoma
are under arrest for embczzlement.
The Bell VS.. Gray telephone patent
cases have been decided in favor of
Bell as having been the prior inventor.
The Blackfcet Indians in the British
northwest are said to be raiding upon
cattle in the vicinity of their reservation.
j. c. H. Johnston county treasurer of
Clay county, Minnesota: is under arrest
for cmbczzling $2,SOO which he confesses.
Kassala, in the Soudan, is being closely
invested by the Arabs and its Egyptian
garrison is likely to be forced to surren-
der.
The Fenlan organization is said to be
about to raise regiment to send to the
assistance of FL Mahdi in his fight against
England.
A Protestant church in Glcnfnen, re-
mote mountain district near StranOlar,
Donegal county, Ireland, was destroyed
10y dynamite.
Richard Short, who stabbed Phelan in
O'Donovan Rossa's office, and Mrs. Dud-
ley, who shot Rosa, are each in Jail in
default of $4,000 bail.
Before retiring from Office President
Arthur appointed his brother-in-law H. w.
Haynesworth to a fat office-captain and
quartermastcr in the army.
James Kccnc the multi millionaire of a
few years ago and the bankrupt of last
year is again on his feet with his debts
paid and fortune IN prospect.
The dynamiters who have their head
quarters in Paris threaten early operations
in England, which will throw all previous
events of the kind into the shade.
The sculling match at Sidney, Australia,
between Beach and Clifford for the cham
pionship of the world was won by the
former. Beach defeated Hanlan last year.
Medical Director P. S. Wales Of the
army is to be court martialed for neglect
If duty in allowing fraudulent vouchers
o pass through his bureau when he was
general.
1t is decided that the marriage Of the
Princess Beatrice to Prince Henry Of Bat
tenberg shall take place in Whippingham
church, Isle Of Wight, in July, while the
Queen is at Osborne.
A terrific explosion occurred on the 3rd
in the Usworth colllery, at Sunderland,
England. The explosion was caused by
ire damp. Thirty-six dead bodies have
oeen recovered. Search still continues.
Leading men Of California want Gen.
Grant and his family to remove to that
state for his residence. They will present
lin with a vineyard and fruit farm if he
will come, and pay all the expenses of the
removal.
The secretary of the interior revoked
circular of October 23d last, issued by the
of the land office, refusing
to allow the amendments of preemption
filings and homestead and timber culture
applications.
Brigadier- General w. B. Hazen, chief
signal officer of the army, is to be court
martialed on the charge of conduct pre-
judicial to good order and discipline in
having criticised the the secretary of war
by saying that he was responsible for the
loss of so many members of the Greedy |
Arctic expedition. Gen. Hazen has also
been suspcnped from duty and ardered to
consider himself under arrest.
Negotiations between Russia and Eng
land respecting Russia and the Afghan
frontiers is said to have reached very
delicate stage. LcLessar, Russian COM
has urged such sweeping de-
mands that England cannot except any
thing approaching them, and complete
collapse of the delimitation project and
early advance of the Russian troops to-
ward Herat is expected.
The Roll of Honor.
On the motion to adopt the report of
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