The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1885-04-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The Hennepin county (Minneapolis)
Mimi. court house was burned last week.
John 5. eMcCalmont of Pennsylvania
has been appointed commissioner Of Gus
TOMS
John r. Garrison of Virginia has been
appointed deputy first comptroller Of the
treasury.
Peter Daily, a saloon keeper of May
vile, Dakota, shot and killed M. Plummer
on Saturday last.
A fire at Toxic Japan, March 10, des-
troyed 1900 buildings and over thou
sand families were rendered homeless.
Edward Nash, an insane youth Of about
twenty years, shot and killed his mother
and sister near Monmouth, ILL.,, ON the 4th
inst.
| The students of the Manitoba college,
at Winnipeg, have decided to form a COM
pany to assist in putting down the Reil
rebellion. ...-
Over 1900 employees OF the McC Cormick
reaper works in Chicago are out on strike
because the company has in its employ
several "scabs."
Over 260 sewing girls employed in the
extensive overall factory of H. B. Glover
6 Co., Dubuque, Iowa, are on strike for
an advance of wages.
The ice in the Missouri at Bismarck,
broke up on Saturday and began moving
down stream. No ice gorge is reported
and there is no danger of food in that
vicinity at present.
The New York Daily Bulletin reports
the estimated loss Of 100000 by fire
during March in the United States and
Canada. This is in excess Of any pre-
vious figure for the corresponding month
of which any record exists.
The pigeon shooting match between
DR.. Carver and A. H. Penrose, the "san
Angelo cowboy" for $500, 100 birds,
thirty yards rise, came off Wednesday at
San Antonio. Penrose won; score, 90 to
81. Every bird of the 200 was hit.
A skiff with a hunting party Of four
young men, in Columbia river, twenty
miles from Portland, capsized and three of
the occupants, Anton Forbes, Geo. King
and N. Rado, were drowned. The fourth
man chung to the skif and was recovered
at Portland
\ suit has been brought in the Supreme
Judicial Court for Suffolk county by the
National Soldiers Home for disabled vol
untcer soldiers against Renj. F. Butler to
recover $4,000 alleged to be due for
failure to account while acting as treas
urcr Of the Home
The Philadelphia Times learns from
New York that jefferson Davis has writ
tel. letter to General Grant in which he
expressed deep sympathy with his suffer
ing and says that if the prayers and good
wishes of all in the South could avail he
would conquer his dread antagonist.
Alex. Fisher, who is mentioned as Rcil's
chief commissioner, is not British sub
ject, but an American half-brecd. He
first came to Canada in 1876 and went
with Mr.. Sclwyn, Dominion land-survcyor,
on an expedition. He was afterwards
employed as guide to the mounted police.
An internal machine was found in the
new court house at Joliet, Ill.,, Saturday
morning. The fuse had burned to the
edge of the box where it stopped. The
machine was composed of box contain
ing giant powder and nitroglyccrine suffi-
cient to have done great havoc had it ex-
plOded.
The Mexican government believes in
Ead's ship railway scheme sufficiently to
guarantee per cent. for fifteen years on
$25, 1000 900 Of stock and the free impor-
tation of coal for the use of the railway
and the ships. The railway will cost $780,
OO0, 900, and the distance across Tchuan-
tepcc is 132 miles.
Mrs. Lavina Stratton, better known as
Mrs. Tom Thumb, and the Count Primo
Magri Of Bologna, Italy, were married at
the church Of the Holy Trinity in Madi-
son avenue, New York, at 3 O'Clock Sun
day afternoon The church was filed to
its utmost by many Of the most fashiona-
BILE people of the city.
The Crow Creek Indian reservation in
Dakota which was thrown open by pro-
clamation of president Arthur, has been
again closed, it clearly appearing that to
open it was violation of treaty with
the Indians. The many who rushed in
and filed on land cn the reservation will
have their labor for their pains.
The president of Salvador is not yet
certain of victory, in spite of the death Of
Barrios, and wants the active aid of Mexl-
CO, in order to terminate the war quickly
and with little loss of life us possible It'll
is common talk now that President Diaz
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