The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1885-01-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Rear Admiral Powell is dead.

Rear Admiral Powell is dead. /.
The Office Of territorial attorney
general has been created in idaho.
DR.. Carver won his famous wager
to shoot 10000 glass balls in 6 days.
Sister Theresa a niece of James G.
Blaine lately died at her convent,
Wilkesbarre, Pa.
Spain is still being visited by earth.
quake shocks and the suffering of the
people daily increases.
The town hall Of Westminster, Eng.
land, was destroyed by dynamite on
the l4th. No arrests.
The Bay State Sugar Refinery and
the Standard Dye Wood works at Bos-
ton burned on Sunday.
Louisiana on Saturday reported the
coolest weather of the season accom-
panied by heavy snowstorm.
The Tennessee legislature has passed
very stringent laws prohibiting polyg-
amOuS Mormon teachings in that State.
Chadwick, cashier Of the Pacific
National Bank Of Nantucket, is de.
faulter to a considerable amount. He
lived too high.
The Hanauer smelter seven miles
from Salt Lake City was burned last
Friday night. Loss about $25, 900; in
surance $4,000.
The band of 40 mutineering Mexi-
can soldiers have turned bandits and
several robberies and other outrages
are reported.
Machinery has been shipped to Cal.
gary on the Canadian Pacific with
which to begin drilling for petroleum
which is believed to exist there.
Oliver Bros. & Phillips, the great
iron firm of Pittsburg, have suspend
ed. Liabilities $3, 100000 to SIS, 900, 900
which they are reported able to pay if
given time. ......
The old New York banking firm of
John J. Cisco & Co. has failed. The
firm held railroad securities, the shrink
age in values of which caused their
insolvency.
A civil war is in progress in many
of the provinces of Panama republic
and there has been much fighting.
The trouble arises out of opposition
to the government.
Arrangements have just been made
for building the Northern Railroad Of
Guatemala. which is to run from Port
Barrios. on the Atlantic, to Guatema-
la City, 23O miles.
Gen. Hazen, chief Of the Signal
Service Bureau. is likely to be court
martialed on charges of lying, slande1
and other conduct unbecoming an Off
Ger and gentleman.
Five Kiowa Indians were found
frozen to death near Camp Angas, In.
dian territory. From indications they
had been out on hunting expedition
and were all drunk.
The Portland & Willamette Valley
railroad has been incorporated to ex.
tend the narrow gauge road from its
present terminus at Dundee to Port.
land, Oregon, distance Of 30 miles.
Tramps on train near Overton,
Texas, refused to pay fare and when
the train hands attempted to put them
off opened fire and mortally wounded
the conductor. The tramps then es.
capped.
The steamer Admiral Morrison and
the ship Santa Clara collided at sea
and the former sank. Fourteen per-
sons were taken from the sunken
steamer but it is feared about 10 men
were lost.
An attempt was made to blow up
Crofut & Knapp's hat store at South
NOrwalk, Conn.,, with dynamite. One
end of the building was blown away.
It is supposed to have been the work
of dissatisfied strikers or their friends.
At Albion, Idaho, last weak, Perry
Pleasant, a desperado, and deputy
sheriff Butterfeld shot and killed
each other. Butterfield was trying to
capture Pleasant and the shots which
did the killing were fired simultane
ously.
Two hundred and thirty men en-
ployed at the Union Pacific coal mines
at Carbon, Wyoming, struck on ac
count of the unpopularity of Queally
their superintendent. The 500 miners
at Rock Springs threaten to do the
same for the same reason.
The snowstorm of the latter part o1
last week was very severe all over the
east and northeast and was accompani
ed or followed by very cold weather
Railroad traffic was much impeded by
the storm, many trains being block
AIDED.