The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1885-11-14

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One hundred persons and great num-
Der of wagons were lately captured in the
Oklahoma country, Indian Territory, and
moved out. They were new detach-
ment of boomers.
The Cattle and Wool Growers Ex-
change, of St. Louis, has arranged for a
national sheep-shearing contest to take
place in that city April 7th and 9Th next.
The prize list amounts to $500.
It is stated that Sir Hector Langevin,
minister of public works in Canada, and
Hon. Mr.. Chaplin, secretary of state,
will resign in the event Of Riel being
hanged. Both are French Canadians.
Two young men, Adam Kengestein, a
butcher, and August, baker, went over
Niagara Falls in boat few days ago.
Nothing has since been seen of them ex-
cept some rags of their clothing.
At Tanning, Clay county, Texas, VAL
entine Sanford, IA years old, shot his
mother dead and planned to kill his father.
His scheme was to kill the old folks, sell
the property and become brigand.
President Cleveland was waited upon
by Mayor Edmond Mallet of Washing
ton and importuned to interfere on behalf
of Louis Riel. He decided that it was a
case in which this government could not
meddle.
Near Demlng, New Mexico, Indians
sacked and burned the ranch buildings OF
the Missouri & Florida Cattle company
and killed Mrs. and Miss Spy, wife and
daughter of the principal owner in the
company.
At Deadwood, on the 9Th, City Marshall
w. A. Wilson attempted to disarm some
boisterous cowboys. They opened fire on
him which he returned. Wilson was
killed and cowboy, Jesse Bolan, badly
wounded.
The body of G. W. Stripe of the Ma
tional hotel, Sprague, W. T., was found
on the railroad, cut in two and crushed
almost beyond recognition. The body
had been robbed but whether before or
after death is unknown.
Mrs. Minnie Walkup, accused Of poison
ing her husband and tried at Emporia,
Kansas, was acquitted by the jury. The
social and political prominence Of the
husband and the youth and beauty of the
wife gave this case great celebrity. 4-----
Mr.. Strangahan, the new surveyor-gen-
eral o. Idaho, is son-in-law of John G.
Shoemaker, proprietor of the Indianapolis
Sentinel which paper first published the
scandal on Blaine in the late campaighn.
Strangahan was also business manager of
the paper.
Near Eau Claire, Wis, James Dana,
brother of Dana of the New York Sun,
was out hunting with E. Van Trot, "a
prominent merchant of Durand. The
hunters separated for time, and Dana
mistook Van Trot for deer and shot HIM
in the back, the ball coming out in front.
He will recover.
A number of men from Blackfoot,
Idaho, went over to the Teton Basin,
Wyoming, to look for the horses stolen
from High g. Strout. They came upon
Thompson's band of horse thieves and
after battle were driven off by the thieves.
Five head of horses for which they were
looking were recovered.
A conspiracy has been discovered for
the assassination of King Milan, of Servia,
and six of the conspirators have been ar
rested. 1t is believed to be part of a
revolutionary programme arranged by the
Pan-Slavists or Russian sympathizers that
would have swept all the. Balkan countries
into one country under one ruler, Peter
Karageorgevic, Russian creature.
War has finally broken out between
the Burmese government and British In.
dia. A large British land force as well
as fleet is now on the way to Burmah
The Burmese government refuses to per-
nit the departure of vessel sent tt
Mandalay to bring away foreigners. The
trouble grows out of commercial disa
greements- the fruitful source of British
wars.
On Friday night of last week one of th,
most terrific cyclones in the history of thu
country passed over southern Alabama
Its track was half mile vide and fo
forty miles it levelled everything befor'
it. Thirteen persons have already beer
found dead, forty or fifty wounded and I
number are missing. Hundreds who es
caped the furious storm are destitute ant
the negroes are frightened almost to death
On Sunday afternoon last John McCul
Tough, the great tragedian, died at hi
residence in Philadelphia. 1t will b
remembered that over year ago he begar
to be considered insane and left the stage
Last summer he was placed in Blooming
dale asylum and few weeks ago remov'