The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1886-07-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK

n The President has forbidden the sale Q
his wife's pictures.
n A berrying party of five have been los
\ from Bay City, Mich.
Peaches in California arc selling fo
$50 a ton on the trees.
II Milwaukee expects over 100000 visi
n tors at the Saengerfest.
Mr.. Gladstone has decided to resigl
and fight the opposition.
a Two men making dynamite near Cork
Ireland, were blown up.
The English steamer, St. Andrew, ha
been lost. Loss 100000.
The porhibltionists have an excellen
show Of capturing Missouri.
\ A stock epidemic is feared in Indial
Territory unless rain falls soon.
Twenty-six Mormon converts. from Ice
land have arrived in New York
| The Knights of Pythias at Toronto re-
fuse to establish rank for ladies.
| A 100000 fire in St. Louis burned
Knapp, Stout & Co.'S lumber yards.
Thirteen petrihcd men are said to have
been found in cave near Akron, Ind.
It is said that the President will again
nominate Chase as collector at Portland
Maine.
Six men are in Jail at Kansas City
charged with train wrecking during the
strike.
William Henry Clifford, of Portland,
Maine, is mentioned for the solicitor gen.
eralship.
The senate commit tee on finance is sup
posed to favor the surplus bill by one
majority.
An Orangevllle, O., farmer named Sim
kins has been robbed of $4,000 by two
sharpers.
A bond call for $4,O00,00O 3 per cents
Of 1882 has been issued to mature Sep
tembcr /.
The date of the adjournment of Con-
gress is now partially fixed upon at July
81 or Aug. 2.
Commissioner Sparks is at variance
with the secretary of the interior regarding
timber cutting.
The southern members are said to op-
pose the river and harbor bill because the
south is neglected.
Since 1850 the native population of the
Sandwich Islands has decreased from
81, ,453 to 40,014.
Mrs. John B. Martin, of Walrut Hills,
Ohio, believes she is Christ, and has some
thirty worshippers.
It is estimated that 100000, 900 feet of
pine have been burned in the Menominee
region, Wisconsin.
The statutes of New Jersey now forbid
the killing, wounding Or catching of any
song birds at any time.
A deposit of blood-agate has been dis
covered near Cisco, Utah. It covers a
territory three miles square.
A New York paper has a sensational
story of the finding of the skeleton of A.
I. Stewart. The police deny.
The house discussed the bill repeating
the land laws. Sparks was chief topic |
Of debate. No action was taken.
The senate committee engaged in in
vestigating revenue frauds at the port of |
New York have given up in despair.
The president has appointed Henry P.
Henderson, of Michigan, to be associate
justice of the supreme court of Utah.
It is rumored that if the Morrison sur
plus bill becomes law that gentleman
will be made secretary Of the treasury.
A Nez Perce Indian named Jackson
has been sentenced at Winnipeg to two
years in the penitentiary for horse stealing.
The new law in New York prohibiting
the employment of children in factories
will force 10000 children out of employ
ment
Mrs. Langtry is negotiating for a site
for theater for herself IN Shaftesbury
avenue, new and popular London
Mr.. Strait has discovered that the pen
sion office is in the habit of reducing pen
sions, ignoring the recommendations of
the local boards.
There is trouble between Secretary La
mar and Israel Green, Indian agent at Sis
seton agency, because Green discharged
several subordinates.
The President has power to adjourn con-
gress to such time as he shall think proper
in case Of disagreement between the two
houses as to adjournment.
The prospect is good for the passage of
the Hennepin canal clause in the river
and harbor bill. The house refused to
strike it out, by vote of 100 to 90.
Charles Richards, New York medical
student, went crazy while dissecting
corpse, and only regained his reason after
a nearly successful attempt to hang him.
SELF
The convicts in the Illinois penitentiary
at Joliet are to be leased out to the high
est bidder, but not more than seventy
five men to any one branch of manufac-
ture.
The testimony taken at the trial of the
anarchists at Chicago goes to show that
Spies was the arch fend in the internal
conspiracy to institute reign of terror in
Chicago.
Fifteen years ago man quit Berlin,
Canada, owing ten-dollar board bill.
The other day he returned, found that his
creditor was dead, hunted up his family,
and paid the debt with interest.
Three young men named Potter, Neil
and McMahan have been arrested on