The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1885-09-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

N6W0 VI 1d6 W66A.
Texas fever IS raging among the cattle
in the vicinity of Vandalia, Ill.
Deadwood, Dakota, and vicinity was
visited by snow storm on the 5th.
A son of Admiral Cooper, U. s. n, ha.
been arrested in Brooklyn on charge Of
burglary.
The eighteenth annual reunion of the
army of the Tennessee was held in Chica.
go on the 9th inst
F. Hampee, charged with embezzline
$4,000 at Juneau, Wis, has been arrest.
ed at Chadron, Neb.
Matt Clark, of Saltwater, MINI, has in
st1tuted $4,000 libel suit against the
Minneapolis Tribune.
Prince Napoleon, in October, will start
on a tour of the world. He will spend
three weeks in America.
A destructive hail storm in Charles
county, Nd, on the 18th, greatly damaged
the corn and tobacco crop.
Count Tolstoi, the Russian statesman
and author, has been declared incurably
insane and confined in An asylum.
The freight depot of the Cincinnati,
Hamilton & Dayton road at Cincinnati
burned, causing loss of $225,OO0.
Rev. Chas. w. Price, a Presbyterian
clergyman of Cherokee, Kan, suicided
by hanging himself on the 18th inst.
The Buffalo Telegraph, the sheet that
first printed the Halpin scandal in the
last campaign, has suspended publication.
William Mullen, pickpoeket, has been
arrested at Kansas City suspected Of con-
nection with the Blue Springs train rob-
berry.
A Takio dispatch says the Japanese
government will withdraw its paper cur
rency in 1886 and introduce silver cur
rency.
Jacob Swartz, near Monticello, Ill.,,
was accidentally shot and killed by his
son, who thought his father was a chicken
thief.
Charles Williams, a negro who shot
and killed street Car driver named Polk
Mitchell, was lynched at Chattanooga,
Tenn, on the 9Th.
Chief Engineer H. H. Stewart, United
States navy, president of the board of ex-
aminers at Philadelphia, has been placed
on the retired list.
Capetown advice states that the Congo
cannibals have attacked several stations of
the African association and roasted and
devoured number of whites.
In the three mile single skulling race
at Sheepshead Bay between Hanlan,
Ross and Lee, on the 9TH, Hanlan won by
about length. Time % minutes.
Sixty thousand pounds of bullion was
bought in London Monday for shipment
to the United States. This will be the
first of several shipments to be made.
The Utica Steam Cotton Mills and the
Mohawk Valley Mills, employing about
1000 hands, resumed operations on Mon
day. They have been idle for month.
Major Aaron Stafford, last surviving Of
fcer of the war of 1912, died at his resi-
dence in Waterville, N. Y, on the 9th
inst, in the 92nd year of his age.
Thos. Hughes, postmaster at Albuquer-
que, N. NJ, and assistant postmaster
Clark have been arrested, q shortage of
81, 200 having been discovered in the ac-
counts of the office.
Large labor parades took place in New
York and Chicago on Monday last. These
parades are an outgrowth of desire to
have an annual holiday for the working
classes of the country.
The Elk Rapids, Mich, Iron company
has received an order for 400 tons of char
coal iron, to be shipped to England, prob
ably the first iron of western manufacture
ever shipped from this country.
No evidence can be obtained to convict
Banta, who recently confessed that he
murdered NJ. s. Prichard Of Cherry Valley,
ILL.,, in 1879. His reputation for truth is
so bad that his own testimony cannot be
accepted.
Haylor, the engineer who stuck to his
post in last weeks accident on the Indi.
ana, Bloomington & Western railroad tc
save the lives of the passengers, died al
Springfield, Ohio, on Sunday from the re.
suit of his injuries.
As gang of eighteen miners were
coming out of the Alto colliery at Branch
dale, Pa, Wednesday morning, tremen'
dous explosion occurred. John Lem, aged
II, was instantly killed, and thirteen
others all more or less burned and man
gled, and some fatally.
A letter was received in New York
from Sullivan, addressed to the editors Of
sporting papers, saying that he cannot