The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1886-05-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK

Indiana, on Tuesday, doing damage to the
amount of 100000.
A frcshet in the Monongahela river OIL
the 9th sunk twenty-seven coal barees
causing loss Of $4,000.
Edwin Stewart Of New York, paymas-
ter OF the navy, was killed by fall from
horse at Pueblo, Colorado.
The Oregon democratic convention
nominated Sylvester Pennoyer for govern
or, and r. A. Gibbon for secretary of state
A freight train on the Pennsylvania road
on Tue sday was wrecked, demolishing
eight cars and killing three men outright
Fred and Edward Erickson and Harry
Hewitt were drowned in Round Lake,
Iowa, on the 10th, by the upsetting of
their boat while fishing.
The jury in the Oswald trial at Devils
Lake, Oak, for the killing of McWeeney
last winter, returned a verdict of man
slaughter in the first degree.
Francis Hoard, attorney general of In
diana, has been adjudged insane and sent
to all insane asylum. His mania is that
of ungrounded jealousy of his wife.
The farmers alliances of the second
Minnesota congressional district have call
ed convention at Mankato, for June 10,
to nominate candidate for congress.
John Wymer, wife and two children,
were killed on the 9th inst, at Inwood,
Indiana, by being run over by an express
train while they were crossing the track
of the Fort Wayne road.
The straight-out greenbackers of Iowa
have nominated candidates for the state
officers to be chosen this fall, and in their
platform denounce fusion with either the
democrat or republican parties
Four boys in a rowboat on Wissahicken
creek pitched over the dam at Riverside,
Pa. Patrick Broderick, James A. Hearne
and VIM. Rynd were drowned before as
sistancc could be brought to them.
The steamship Arcadia of Baltimore,
with a crew of fifteen. has been given up
as lost. She sailed from Port Antonia,
Jamaica, April 10th, and up to the pres
ent time nothing has been heard from her.
The coroner's jury in the Bracket build
ing disaster at Minneapolis, after three
days investigation, found the building in
spector Walter Pardee, Architect G. w.
Orff and Charles r. Putnam guilty cf
gross neglect.
1t appears from subsequent results that
some OF the socialists broke into saloon
on tie night of the riot at Chicago and by
mistake dosed themselves with acid.
Several have died and others are not ex-
pected to live.
A terrible cyclone swept over the mid
die of Spain on the 18th inst. In Madrid
seventy persons are known to have been
killed and two hundred seriously injured.
Several million dollars worth of property
was destroyed.
A fire at Honolulu on the 18th of April
burned sixty acres of the Chinese quarter
of that place. About eight thousand peo-
pie, mostly Chinese, were rendered home
less. The loss is estimated at a million
and half dollars.
Daniel Dunbar of Pullman. Illinois,
one of the team selected to row at the
spring races of the club, went out in a
shell for training practice on Calumet lake.
A fierce squall blew up, the boat upset
and he was drowned.
A terrible tragedy was enacted near
Oswego, New York, on the 10th instant.
Norman j. Loundsbury, aged 72 years,
shot and killed his wife, aged II years,
Horace Payson, aged about 80. and HIM
self. Jealousy was the motive.
The supreme court of the United States
has dismissed the three Snow polygamy
cases for want of jurisdiction. 1t has also
recalled the mandate in the Cannon polyg-
amy case, set aside the former judgment
and dismissed it for want of jurisdiction.
DR.. Frederick A. Palmer, 70 years of
age and one of the best known physicians
of Boston, while on his way to Portland.
Jumped from the steamer into the ocean
with his four-year-old grandson, and both
were lost. No cause is assigned for the
act.
Harry McFadden and Miss Taylor Of Saw
annah, Illinois, while taking pleasure
ride from Savannah to Bellevue, got the
buggy entangled in brush close to the
river bank and we're tipped over, the horse,
buggy and occupants being thrown into
the river and drowned.
A disastrous confagration occurred at
Hall, Ontario, on the 9th inst. The area
covered by the fire was about ten acres
and one hundred and fifty families were
rendered homeless. The new postofice,
handsome structure costing $250,000,
was among the nropertY DESTROYED.