The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1885-08-15

crops, destroyed other property and tool
several lives from lightning strokes.
James W. Marshall, the discover O
gold in California, died on the 18th inst
at his home in Kilsey, "a years old. HI
died a poverty stricken and disappointed
man.
Capt. Couch has instructed his Okla
, homa boomers to disband so that President
Cleveland may not be embarrassed in tht
work Of ridding Indian Territory of the
cattlemen.
i Hubert B. Brooks was arrested in New
York while trying to sell $17,5OO worth
of railroad bonds which he had stolen
from his aunt, Mrs. Sarah n. Cogswell Of
Plainfeld, N. J.
! The business failures throughout the
country during last week were, for the
United States 1852; Canada, IS. The re-
turns show dimunition in business casu
alties in every section of the country.
| Advices from Tonquin say that Bishop
Quinbon reports that over 10000 Christ
ians have been massacred in the provinces
of Biendih and Phyyen. Murders and in
cendiary fires are of daily occurrence.
The New York World announces the
completion of its collection for the
Bartholdi statute pedestal, 100000. 1t
says it will now enter upon the collection
of contributions for Grant monument.
At Ennis, Texas, two young ladies with
lighted candle went into the garrct to
draw some liquor from barrel for their
father. The light caused an explosion
that killed the girls and burned the house.
President Cleveland has issued procla-
nation calling upon all proper officers to
look to the enforcement of the law pro-
hibiting the fencing of public lands and
the obstruction of entry or settlement up
on such lands.
The Russian newspapers profess to have
no confidence in the peaceful expressions
of Lord Salisbury's government made in
the face of continued military preparations.
Herat is being fortified by the Afghans
presumably with British gold).
Cholera Is still doing its frightful work
in Spain. The cities are being depopu-
lated by the fleeing inhabitants. At
Granada the dead lie unburied in the
streets and there are no doctors. The dis
ease is also spreading in France.
The government has stopped printing
one and two dollar bills and very large
demand for silver dollars is the result.
Had this been done before there would
not have been such an outcry about the
accumulation of silver dollars in the trca-
sury.
At Dallas, Texas, during the Grant
memorial services the American flag was
torn down from building by one johnson,
a foreigner who arrived in the country
after the war. Federal and Confederate
veterans replaced it and could with diff
Guilty be restrained from doing injury to
j Johnson.
Donald Crawford. wealthy barrister
and politician of London, has instituted
divorce proceedings against his wife be-
cause of the scandal in which she was in
volved with SIR Charles Dixie, the great
liberal member of parliament. She is
only twenty years of age while her hus-
band is much older.
Secretary Endicott has promulgated a
regulation of the war department provid-
ing that no army officer shall be detached
from regimental service until he has SER
we'd three years with his regiment or corps
and no officer shall perform staff or other
duties for more than four years. All Off
GERS that have been on detached duty for
more than four years shall Immediately
report to their regiments. This regula
lion is designed to provide for rotation in
the s'soft snaps" that some officers have
enjoyed for long terms while their fellows
we're with their regiments.
The China overland mail Of July says
! calamltious flood, which began It's work
Of destruction June 10, devastated part
Of the province of Canton, causing the
death of 10000 people engulphing whole
villages. and nearly running the rice and
the silk crops, destroying an immense
amount Of property and reducing vast
number of people to poverty and starvation.
The flood was caused by the bursting of
IN embankment at Tam Kong, fourteen
niles from Canton City, which was rapid
y followed by breaks in other places
within eighty miles Of Canton, putting a
arge area of country under water, includ-
ng Canton The inundations in the neigh
,orhood of of Osaka, Japan, in the early
art of July caused loss of many lives
nd damage to property amounting to
early 100000.
Teacher Institute.
The teachers institute for Gallatin coun
Y will be held at Bozeman on the 18th,