The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1885-11-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

the Galveston fire sufferers have reache
100000. ....-.
De Lesseps is 80 years old, and is con
fdent that he will yet live to sail throug
the Panama Canal.
VIM. F. Harris has been appointe'
postmaster at Philadelphia, vice H. S
Heidkaper, suspended.
The president on the Gath appointed NJ
P. Mccormick of Grand Forks, Dakota
to be secretary of Dakota.
The Sacramento Bee claims that tn
Chinese take $15,0o0,Ooo year out o
California, sending it home.
A fire in tenement house in New
York on the 23rd resulted in the death o
three persons by suffocation.
The county infrmary near Sandusky
Ohio, was destroyed by fire on tile 2Otf
and five women burned to death.
A heavy snow storm visited Pennsylva
MIA and Maryland on the Gath, the sno"
falling to depth of 6 inches to 2 feet.
The coroner's jury, in investigating thu
Bull Domingo disaster, found Foss, the
superintendent, guilty of criminal negli
gence.
A Winnepeg dispatch states that Riel''
will has been made public. He bequeath
ed nothing but his blessings and good
will to man.
The weekly bank statement shows re-
serve increase of $894,123. The banks
now hold $27, ,3S9, 900 in excess of the %
per cent rule.
By the explosion Of a boiler in gris'
mill at Richland City, Ind, two persons
were killed and five others injured, one
probably fatally.
Isaac N. Hibbs, the defaulting post
master of Lewiston, Idaho, who was re-
Gently brought back from Canada, has
been indicted for forgery.
The partial remains of a mastadon were
recently exhumed near Geneva, N. Y.
One tusk was found nine feet long and
twenty-slx inches around the base.
In the seventy-fve hour pedestrian con-
test in New York, Hartman was declared
the winner, having covered 304 miles and
three laps within the specified time.
The billiard tournament in Chicago
last week resulted in triple tie between
Schaffer, Slosscn and Vignaux. Itwas
generally considered hippadrome.
L. B. Jones, young and prominent
man of Richmond, Va, has been fined one
cent and given an hour in Jail by jury
for sending challenge to fight duel.
Gen. Jovanovitch, who was dismissed
from the command of the Danube divis-
ion of the Servian army for disobeying
orders, committed suicide by shooting.
Director General John w. Glenn of the
North, Central and South American expo
sition has resigned and ex-Director-Gener
al Samuel M. Buck has been appointed to
the position.
1t is proposed to anchor the Great East
ern in mid Atlantic aud have her stored
with such supplies as passing ships might
require. She would also be used as tel
egraph station.
A terrible cyclone swept over the Phil
lippine ISLANDS on the 21st. About 5000
buildings, including numerous school
houses, were destroyed and twenty-five
persons killed.
Elizur Wright, the well-known aboli-
zionist of years ago, died at Medford,
Mass, Monday, aged 81. He had been
connected with many newspapers and was
distinguished author.
The stage bound from Silver King Casa
Grande, Arizona. last week was held up
by single highwayman armed with a
shot gun, who secured for his booty two
bars of silver worth $4,000.
The monument erected to the memory
of Edward Kelly, the Irish leader, senten-
ced to be hanged, drawn and quartered
in 1867, was unvailed at Mount Hope
cemetery, Boston, on the 23rd.
Edward Wander Linde, assistant mana
ger Of the Bismarck roller rink, was ar
rested in that city last week on the charge
Of having murdered Ekke Wander Hook
of Muskegon, Mich, October 18th last.
The result of the English parliamentary
elections has SO far been favorable to the
Tory party, but the exact position Of the
parties will not be known until the draw
ing to close of the elections early next
month.
Four white men and two Indians built
fire in one corner Of the Jail at Spokane
Falls, in which they were confined, to get
warm, and had it not been for the timely
arrival of an officer all would have been
roasted alive.
Three men, John Cannon, James j.