The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1885-11-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

| NEWS OF THE WEEk.
Jaw Gould contributed $4,000 to the
Galveston fire sufferers fund.
The National Stockgrower's convention
has been in session at Chicago this week.
Lieut.. Schwatka of Berlin will set out
on an expedition to the north pole next
spring.
There were 235 deaths from smallpox
in Montreal for the week ending the 18th
and 3O4 for the previous week.
N. Webster, in the employ of the Pull
man Car company at Chicago, has been
arrested for defalcation of over $26, 900.
Henry Ward Beecher has Cancelled his
lecture engagements throughout the coun-
trv on account Of the death of Horace B.
Claflin.
William Norris, highly connected
young man of Rock Island, is under arrest
for making and passing counterfeit silver
dollars.
The German Colonization society has
decided to raise a capital of 100000
marks with which to found colonies in
South America.
The wife of Wilhelm Freund, a Ger
man farmer near Holgate, Ohio, recently
gave birth to five children, all boys, and
all well-formed infants and alive.
Monday last James Prescott, conduct
| or, fell from freight car while switching
in the yard at Mansfield, Dakota, and was
instantly killed by breaking his neck.
A committee of an anti Chinese club
has visited all mill proprietors about
Boulder and Lorenzo, CAL, and notified
them to discharge all Chinese in their
employ.
Volunteers who gave up their positions
to fight rebels in the Northwest territory
are now in very destitute circumstances,
having been unable to find employment
on their return home.
At Silver Cliff, Colorado, on the 18th
ten men lost their lives in the Bull Do
mingo mine by the burning of the engine
house and subsequent explosion Of powder
stored in the boiler room.
Horace B. Clafin, the millionaire head
of the well-known dry goods house of II.
B. ClaAin & Co., of Brooklyn, died at his
country home at Fordham, N. j., on the
| 18th, of apoplexy, aged Is years.
A band of Indians rowing near the town
of Lake Valley, N. NJ, killed three Chi
namcn who conducted vegetable farm on
Mimbres creek, five miles from loren.
| The bodies were horribly mutilated.
| Azzaro, sylvestri and Gilardo, the three
Italians who strangled their countryman,
Caruso, last April and shipped his body in
trunk to New York, we're hanged in the
county Jail in Chicago Saturday last.
The supreme court of Illinois has affirm
ed the conviction of Joseph Mackin who
was sentenced to five years imprisonment
for perjury, growing out of his connection
with the election frauds in Chicago last
year.
John S. Prince of Chicago beat the
worlds bicycle record for fifty miles at
St. Louis on the 14th, making the distance
| in hours, SO minutes and 81 seconds:
shortening the time minutes and 5 sec
onds.
Bull Eagle, Sioux Indian, has just
been released from the Dakota peniten-
tiary, after serving out sentence of 10
years for horse stealing. He returned to
the Standing Rock agency to be good
Indian henceforth.
Owing to the protest Of Pendleton, the
American minister, the five German-Amer-
leans whose expulsion from the island OF
Fohr was ordered by the German govern
ment will be allowed to remain on the
island until further notice.
Judge Hoffman of the United States
district court at San Francisco has SEN
fenced Chi All Jow, found guilty of i'm
personating another Chinaman in certif
cate issued under the Chinese restriction
act, to pay fine of $4,000 and be I'M
prisoned at San Quentin for five years.
The jury in the case of Rev. DR.. Hicks
spiritual adviser of the assassin Guiteau
against the Evening Star company o.
Washington, D. c., for $4,000 damages
for alleged libel in the publication of I
statement that Hicks had negotiated fo
the transfer of Guiteau's body to medica
museum for $1,000, rendered verdic
for the plaintiff Of one cent damages.
The public committee appointed to in
vestigate the expulsion Of the Chimes
from Tacoma on November 3rd have sub
mitted their report. 1t demonstrates th'
fact that not single Chinaman suffered