The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1886-04-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK

bill to increase the pension for total dis
ability to $72 per month.
joaquin Miller, who is now in Texas
writes that he is going back to Mexico t.
make that his country home.
Nine persons were killed and number
injured by the collapse of building al
Abaccio, the capital of Corsica, on the
Goth inst.
The total value of property destroyed
by the cyclone at Sauk Rapids, not includ-
ing fences, horses, COWS, etc., foots up
nearly 100000.
The City National bank of Williams
port has closed its doors. The cause as
signed is defalcation of $25, 900, coupled
with recent heavy losses.
The governor of Tennessee has appoint
ed Ex- Congressman w. C. Whitthorne
senator of the United States to succeed
Senator Jackson, resigned.
On application of the Star Iron Tower
company Albert Baldwin and j. H. Ogles-
| by have been appointed receivers of the
North, Central and South American ex-
position at New Orleans.
w. C. N. Carr died Saturday, at Ash.
land, Wis, from stroke Of paralysis,
aged 81 years. He was minister to Con-
stantinople during the administrations Of
Presidents Polk and Tyler.
An Ottawa, Canada, dispatch of the
Goth says: The Canadian Pacific railroad
is impeded by floods in the neighborbood
of Lake Nipising. Since Sunday no trains
have reached here from Winnipeg.
The knights of Labor now have a
scheme to boycott the Gould system by
ordering eastern manufacturers to cease
shipping over those roads. If manufac-
turers refuse, there will be more strikes.
The Bishop of Madrid was shot on Sun
day last, while entering the cathedral in
that city, by priest whom he had sus-
pended and denied reinstatement. His
wounds will probably prove fatal.
The First National bank of Angelica,
New York, has suspended, owing to the
wheat spcculations of its cashier. J. E.
Robinson. Robinson is short in his ac-
counts $50, 900, and has fled to Canada.
A prairie fire at Lynn, Dakota, destroy
ed the dwelling of Mrs. Dollinger, who
lost her life trying to save the stock from
the barn. Her daughter was also SO badly
burned that her recovery is impossible.
Col. Thomas H. Ruger, Eighteenth in
fantry, whose nomination to brigadier
general is pending before the senate, has
been placed in command of the depart
mcnt of the Missouri, relieving Brig. Gen.
Miles
Abe johnson was arrested at Waco,
Texas, charged with having destroyed
with dynamite house at Gainesville, Ca,
belonging to Sam Jones, the evangelist,
and Judge Collins large stables at the
same place.
The floods at Montreal the past week
have done immense damage. Seven thou
sand four hundred and twenty-five fam
lilies we're flooded out, and the total popu-
lation in the district affected by the flood
is about 10000.
The pupils in one of the public school
buildings at Cleveland, Ohio, struck for
less time in the school room, and the po-
lice we're called upon to enforce the Or
ders of the teachers. Thirteen boys we're
suspended and the strike is over.
The house of John Douthett, farmer
living near Xenia, Ohio, was burned on
18th, and he and his wife perished in the
flames. Charles Morris, employed on the
farm, was arrested on suspicion of mur-
dering the couple and firing the house.
Speaker Carlisle appointed the follow
ing committee to investigate the labor
troubles in the west: Messrs. Curtin, of
Pennsylvania, Grain, Of Texas, Cultivate,
of Ohio, Stewart, of Virginia, Parker. OF
New York, and Buchanan, of New Jer-
seY.
The Coke syndicate Of the Connellsville
coke regions of Pennsylvania has volun-
tarily given notice that 1t will advance the
wages of miners and coke drawers from 5
to 16 per cent after May 1st. The in
crease affects all of 1000 men who took
part in the recent successful strike.
A fearful cyclone passed over Monroe
township, Nodaway county, Missouri. on
the 18th, destroying dwellings, barns and
and killing thousands of dol
lars worth of stock. Three persons were
killed and many injured, and many Of the
wounded were not expected to live.
Six thousand employees of the sugar
refneries of the eastern district of Brook
lyn struck because of noncompliance
with the demands for an advance in
wages presented yesterday. It is esti-
mated that the loss to one firm will be
CSC, 900 to 100000 on sugar now ready