The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1885-05-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Brigadier- General Mcdowell is dead.

, uneasy and threatening mischief.
Three men who were trying to navigat
the upper Columbia were drowned.
James R. Osgood 4 Co., we'll know
book publishers of Boston, have failed.
Commissioner of Agriculture Coleman
has called convention Of representative
Of agricultural colleges.
The Lyndale hotel, at Lake Calhoun
Minnesota, noted summer resort, wa
totally destroyed by fire.
At Galveston, Texas, a boiler in til,
fremont hotel exploded, killing four ser
wants and injuring five others.
DR.. Fordyce Barker says Gen. Grant ha
a cancer of the tongue that will prove fata
after few months if not earlier.
Victoria, B. c., has been making grea
preparations for local defense in case of /,
war between Russia and England.
Captain John R. Labarge, we'll known
Missouri river pilot, dropped dead at the
wheel of the steamer Helena, at Bismarck
s. Corning Judd has been appointed
postmaster of Chicago vice Frank Palmer
suspended because of offensive partisan.
ship.
The Canadian government is going to
lend the Canadian Pacific railway another
large sum So, 900, O,OOO-to complete its
road.
c. H. Brown, member Of the printers
union Of Minneapolis, was killed near Me-
dina, Dakota, while stealing ride on a
freight train.
A trunk received from q train at the
Union depot, Pittsburg, contained the
body of an unknown man in an advanced
stage of decomposition.
A tenement house in the New York
burned on Saturday night last and eight
persons were burned to death while four
teen others were injured.
Maxwell, the supposed murderer of
Preller in the Southern Hotel, St. Louis,
has been arrested in Auckland, New Zea-
land, and will he extradited.
The count of all the cash and securities
in the United States treasury resulted in
finding discrepancy Of two cents miss
ing from a five dollar package of pennies.
Officers in charge Of all United States
Mints and assay Offices have been directed
by the secretary of the treasury to reduce
their expenses to the lowest possible limit.
Gus. Lerz was found murdered in his
shack ten miles south of Bismarck last
week The motive was robbery but there
was no clue to the perpetrator of the MUIR
der.
Jamaicans employed on the Panama
canal and national troops Of Panama got
into a collision in which 25 Jamaicans
were barbarously slaughtered and many
others wounded.
1t is reported that the United States
authorities and the government of Colon
bia have entered into treaty to jointly
guard and protect railway or canal COM
merce over the Isthmus of Panama.
A mass meeting was held in Victoria,
B. c. lately at which resolutions were
passed intimating that if Chinese immi-
grafton was not stopped by law the citi-
zens would be forced to take the law into
their own hands.
Richard Short was tried in New York
this week for stabbing Capt. Phelan in
O'Donovan Rossa's office: The evidence
was conclusive against him but the jury
brought in a verdict Of "Not Guilty"
The judge was indignant, expressed his
astonishment and struck the names of
those jurors from the panel.
A five-story factory in Brooklyn, occu-
pied by 500 men and women engaged in
various employments, was being raised at
one side when the jackscrews broke and
let 1t down with crash. Fire immedi-
ately caught and the building was soon a
mass of flames. The occupants poured
out upon the streets and upon adjoining
roofs but nine are missing and are believ-
ed to have perished.
The Grand Army of the Potomac held
a meeting in Washington the other day.
R. F. Lee Cam.p Of Confederate Veterans
were holding meeting in the immediate
vicinity and were invited to join with the
Potomac boys after business was disposed
Of. They accepted and upon their arrival
Major Martin Maginnis of Montana well
coined them in an impromptu address
which was duly responded to-
At nopito, New Mexico, Martin Nelson,
while robbing W. L. Mayhury's house,
killed Or. Flynn guest, Maybury, his
wife, two soas. a little daughter and a
peiehhor who became aroused by the noise.
Nelson was then supposed to have escaped
but shortly afterward he fired into a