The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1886-12-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK

at Black River Falls, on the 9th inst.
A 13-year old wife gave birth to girl
baby at Grand Forks, Dakota, recently.
Another bad outbreak of pleuro-pneu-
monia is reported from Lancaster county,
Pa.
Joseph W. Harper, United States con-
sui at Munich, died at the consulate on
the 9Th inst.
The loss by fire in the United States
and Canada during November is estimated
at $10,0oo,oOO
Sixty sacks of delayed mail were re-
ceived at Deadwood by the first stage
after the storm.
Charles Broas s. Co., wholesale dealers
In boots and shoes, Detroit, have failed.
Liabilities, 100000.
James A. Wales, cartoon artist OF Puck,
Judge and other publications, died In
New York on the 9Th
In the case Of the National Soldiers
Home against General Butler, the jury
found verdict for $16,527 against Gen
eral Butler.
Secretary Lamar recommends congress
to enact law that shall specifically au-
thorize Indians to herd and care for cattle
on their reservations.
A. P. Martin & Co., wholesale and
commission boot and shoe dealers, Bos-
ton, have failed, with liabilities of $780,
900, and assets considerably less.
The lifeless body of John Larson, a
farmer and postmaster at Blindsmond,
was found near Flandreau, Dakota. He
had been drinking and froze to death.
Lieutenant A. W. Greeley has been
placed in charge of the signal office during
the temporary absence of the chief signal
officer, General Hazen, who is in poor
health.
Oliver Allen attempted to push cutter,
occupied by two children, across Lake
Champla:n, from Dresden to Maple Bend,
on the 4th, when the ice gave way and all
three we're drowned.
Theodore S. Mise, confidential book
keeper and cashier of Miner T. Ames, the
millionaire coal merchant Of Chicago, is a
defaulter to the extent Of 100000.
Wine and women did it.
EB. L;naen, tho postal clerk who was
SO seriously injured in the Muskoda accl-
dent, and was taken to the hospital at
Brainerd, has since died from his injuries.
making the second victim.
The Minneapolis millers are discussing
scheme to consolidate all the mills OF
that city under one management. Ii the
combination is formed the company will
have capital of about $10,0OO,O00.
Arnold's Touring mill and elevator, at
st. Cloud, Minnesota, was burned on the
3rd. The night miller, Gus. Krise, was
so badly burned that he died of his in
iuries. Loss on mill and wheat, $55, 900.
A cave occurred at the Paramount col
liery, near Pittston, Pa, on the 4th inst.
Three dwelling houses went down with a
crash, and were completely demolished,
the inmates barely escaping with their
| lives.
President Spalding, of the Chicago base
ball club, has challenged the st. Louis
Browns, through their president, Vonaer-
abe, to play series of seven Or nine
games for the worlds championship, in
April next.
The 'Patriots' League" has been Or
ganized in Chicago, for the purpose of
counteracting the work of the anarchists
and socialists by disseminating whole
some literature on political and economic
questions.
Citizens of Chicago have subscribed
81, 100000 to build an opera house greatly
exceeding the usual size. The idea is to
provide an auditorium more suitable for
national gatherings than that often used
in the exposition building.
The coroner's investigation of the
death Of G. M. Tennis, the agent who
was burned in the mail car at Muskoda,
resulted in verdict that the accident
was caused by the negligence and un-
skillfulness of the employees Of the com.
pany, but that extenuating circumstances
make it unnecessary to hold Train Dis.
patcher Cole, of Brainerd, criminally re-
sponsible.
A special to the Record from Jersey
Shore, Pennsylvania, says: A Beech
Creek railroad engine, which had just left
the shops and came to stand still neal
the station here, exploded this afternoon
killing Phil H. Knight and James Wearne
engineers: Allen Ramsay, fireman: and
J. c. Field and J. H. Stapleton, machin
lists, we're seriously injured. The body o1
Engineer Knight was gathered up il
small fragments.
i Henry Schwartz, a brakeman on the
Rock Island road, has been arrested ii