The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1885-05-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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Queen Emma, mother of the king q
the Sandwich Islands, is dead.
A fire at jamestown on Thursday las
destroyed sec, ,Oc0 worth Of property.
An excursion of business men of Oma
ha visited Portland, Oregon, this week.
The bill to aid the tunnel under tn
British channel was defeated in the Eng
lish parliament.
John H. O5erly of Illinois has been ap
pointed Indian school superintendent VIC
j. NJ. Haworth, deceased.
Secretary Manning has dire cted that tn
issue of one and two dollar notes be dis
continued for the present.
Col. Francis Dewenter has been appoint
ed by the International association govern
or Of the new state of Congo in Africa.
Even the two cents that were believed
to be missing in the count of money in thu
United States treasury have been found.
Two thousand sacks of Russian fou1
were lately sold in New York as a sample
1t was equal to the best American paten
extras.
At Reading, Pa, Mrs. Herman Pfout
threw her five children into mill pond
and then jumped in herself. Three of the
children were rescued.
An avalanche from the mountains neal
Lake Vanarmenia, in Turkey, overwhelm.
ed native caravan, and caused the death
of sixty-eight persons.
Brick Pomeroy's new democratic paper
at Washington IS in trouble. A receiver
is to be appointed, owing to quarrel be-
tween Pomeroy and his partners.
Preston, the Colombia insurgent leader
who burned Aspinwall, is now be sieging
Carthagena and Admiral Jouett has gone
there to protect American interests.
George Vest Jr., son of the Senator, has
been selected to inspect the consular ser
vice Of Europe-a fat place for one who
is said to be very worthy young man.
The Bartholdi statue of "Liberty en-.
the world" the present Of
France to America, is expected to reach
New York about the Goth to the 25th inst
Marquis de Mores has discovered vein
of whiteish clay 20 foot thick, above a
stratum of Ignite coal at Little Missouri
and thinks it is ksolin or procelain clay.
The governor Of Eastern Siberia reports
that armed bands of Chinese have crossed
the Russian frontier and surprised many
Cossack villages. The extent of the de-
predatiOns is not stated.
Portugal and Cocobolo, two of the
leaders of the rebel mob that burned
were tried, sentenced and
hanged in the midst of the ruins they
were instrumental in making.
The Egyptian troops at Kassala, in the
Soudan, are compelled to eat donkeys to
relieve their hunger. The governor OF
Kassala rejects all appeal Of the garrison
to attempt to escape from town.
The Atlantic steamship Helvetia of the
White Cross line was wrecked off Scatter
lie Island on the coast of Nova Scotia
All lives on board were saved but the
cargo, valued at $4oo, 900, was lost.
Mrs. Annie Pershing of Pittsburg. q
bride of six weeks and only 18 years old
suicided because of quarrel with he'
husband. She and her husband were both
children of prominent and wealthy parents
Forest fires destroyed the new town Of
Farwell at the Columbia crossing of the
Canadian Pacific just west Of the Rockies
A large quantity of valuable timber ano
an immense number of ties belonging t.
the railroad company were also burned.
Mormon H. Camp, assaye'r in charge O
the Boise City assay Office, was removed
by President Cleveland for cause. ]
now appears that his accounts are shor
$12,470. Mr.. Camp left I,oise April l.
for Washington, but has NOT been there.
E. 0. Graves, assistant: treasurer o
the United States, has bee n promoted t
be chief of the bureau of Engraving ant
Printing vice T. N. Burroughs resigned
by request. Though a rep ublican Grave
voted for Cleveland and is very com
petent man.
On Friday afternoon Of last week
spark from passing locomotive set fir
to- the lumber yard in the southwestern
part of Chicago. Before the condagratio'
ceased it burned over aa area Of $40 b.
1880 feet and destroyed $4,000, 900 fee
of lumber valued at 100000.
Munsell, one of the witnesses in tn
trial of Richard Short for stabbing Capt
Phelan in O'Donovan Rossa's Office, Ina
been indicted for perjury. The distric
attorney of New York has evidence tina
he consulted with Shorts dynamite friend
to falsify his evidence and did SO falsif..