The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1885-10-31
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Pleuro- pneumonia has been discovered
among dairy cows near New York.
F. S. Winston of Chicogo has been Sc
lected for appointment as United States
minister to Persia.
The Pioneer Press has been judicially
ordered to pay $4,000 for libeling W. +.
Thompson of St. Paul.
Judge E. P. Baird, a Minneapolis attor-
ney, suicided by the use of morphine on
the Goth. No cause is known.
The only sister of Postmaster-general
Villas, beautiful young lady Of 20 years,
died few days ago at Madison, Wis.
The Great Eastern, the largest steam
ship in the world, was sold at public auc-
ton in London this week for f26, 200.
The French in Tonquin are again in
volved in active hostilities with the Black
Flags, as the Chinese rebels are called.
The president has appointed Henry F.
Weld, of Massachusetts, 10 be assayer in
charge of the assay Office at Boise City,
Idaho.
General Won Moltke, the great German
general, celebrated his eighty-fifth birth
day lately. He is enjoying excellent
health.
A fight has taken place on the frontier
of Montenegro, between Albanian and
Montenegrin troops. Three Albanians and
six Montenegrins were killed.
B,J. Shay, prominent San Franciscan,
was at supper in restaurant with another
mans wife when the other man arrived on
the scene and fatally shot him.
For the first time IN 20 years there is
scarcity of nails in Pittsburg and prices
are rapidly advancing. The famine is due
to long and repeated strikes of the nail
makers.
John Mccullough. the great actor who
is suffering from insanity, has been re-
moved from Bloomingdale asylum to his
home in Philadelphia and is already better
of the change.
Owen Denny, formerly American consul
general at Shanghai, has been appointed
foreign adviser to the King of Corea, to
replace Herr Molendereff, formerly Ger
man consul at Tientsin.
The deciding baseball game between
the St. Louis 'Browns," champions of the
American Association and the Chicagos,
champions Of the National League, was
won by St, Louis-13 to 4.
Lord Duferin, viceroy of India, has re-
ceived orders from the Home Government
for the immediate dispatch of troops to
Burmah to chastise that country into ac-
ceding to England's wishes.
NJ. De Freycinet, French minister of
foreign affairs, was fired at in his carriage
on street of Paris, but was not hurt.
The man who fired the shot was arrested
but refused to give his name.
Civil Service Commissioner Thoman has
rendered his resignation and it has been
accepted by the president to take effect
November list when the other two men,
bers of the commission also retire.
The public press has been authorized
by Gen. Grants widow TO say that the re-
port that her daughter, Mrs. Nellie
Sartoris, intends to apply for divorce
from her husband is without foundation.
The American government has intimat-
ed to Spain that if the latter's sovereignty
of the Caroline Islands is recognized, the
American Protestant mission must be res
pected and freedom Of religion permitted.
The Postofice Department has rendered
a decision declaring that postal cards
having a special delivery stamp affixed
shall be Immediately delivered the same
as letters having the extra stamp on them.
All Cinnamon employed by the Cedar
Mountain Coal Company, near Seattle,
about forty in number, have been dis
charged. All mines in the Seattle coal
region are now operated without Chinese
labor.
Jas. Kaufman of Denver became sud-
denly insane and, going outside the city,
stripped himself naked and forced him.
self back and forth through wire fence
until he was torn to pieces and died OF
weakness.
The evidence against Stead, the editor
of the Pail Mall Gazette, and the others
charged with abducting the girl Eliza
Armstrong for immoral purposes is very
damaging. Stead's disclosures are operat-
ing as boomerang.
w. H. Lennox Maxwell, the alleged
murderer of Preller in the Southern hotel,
st. Louis, has been identified by his father
as Hugh Brooks, son of Samuel Brooks OF
Hyde, England. The young man ac-
knowledges who he is.
Half million acres of range have been
burned over in the Panhandle of Texas
So fierce were the fires that many cowboys
had to ride into the lakes and streams to
save their lives and the loss of stock and
other property is very large.
The Marquis of Lorne, son-in-law of
Queen Victoria, was rotten-egged while
attempting to make political speech at
Brentford near London; he also had his
hat smashed over his head and only es-
capped rougher usage by working his legs
at lively rate.
The second comptroller Of the treasury
is making a thorough investigation Of the
accounts of Indian agents, which are in
very bad condition, and has already refer
red dozen cases to the secretary Of the
treasury for suit to recover balances found
due the government.
It is bad time for the advisers of roy
atty in Europe. An unsuccessful attempt