The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1886-01-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The Ozone printing Office at Steele
Dakota, burned on Monday last. Los.
$4,000: no insurance.
The Bank of Devils Lake, Dakota, the
pioneer bank of that place, suspended pay
ment on the 10Th inst.
The president on Tuesday approved the
act legallzing the election of the territorial
Legislature of Wyoming.
The legislature of Washington territory
has adopted local option law by an over
whelming majority on joint ballot.
Miss Kate Bayard, eldest daughter Of
the secretary of state, died in Washing
ton ON Saturday last of heart disease.
Between 5000 and 10000 men are
thrown out of employment in New York
by lockout in the cirgar factories OF
that city.
Mail boats on the Mississippi river have
been detained at Natchez during the week
by running ice, the heaviest known in
fifty-three years.
In Columbia county, Arkansas, the
dwelling house of Emanuel Johnson was
destroyed by fire ON the 10th, and six
children, asleep in one room, burned to
death.
Monday morning last an explosion oc-
Cured at Short & Cooley's rendering es-
tablishment at Creston, Iowa. Two men
were killed and four others seriously in
jured. ..
jim Wcstfall, a Chinese contractor on
the Oregon Pacific railroad, was natural
lied last week in Linn county, Or. He
IS the first Chinaman naturalized in that
section.
The Secretary of the Interior has direct
ed that vessel of the Pacific station be
sent to the Samoan Islands, to investigate
the reported occupancy Of tho islands by
Germany.
The half breeds in the Batoche district
are reported on the verge of starvation,
and a call is made tor immediate aid.
The dominion authorities are slowly con-
siderlng the situation.
Mrs. Fanny Willard, wife of Henry Viii
lard, declined recently to play the part of
an English barmaid at fancy fair in Ber-
lin, although requested to do so by the
crown princess Of Germany.
The jury in the trial of Norman H.
Camp for embezzling some $4,000 Of
United States money while he was super
ntendent of the assay Office in Boise City,
Idaho, brought in verdict Of guilty.
The motion for a new trial in the case
If 7. o. Hubbard, the Monmouth, Ill.,,
bank cmbezzler, has been overruled by
Judge Blodgett, in Chicago, who sentenc-
I'd the prisoner to seven years in the peni-
:entiary. .....
The Irish Exchequer Bench at Dublin
has ruled that the National League is not
illegal, as it exists in every county in Ire
and without secrecy, and has been toler-
ated by the government with full knowl-
edge of its objects.
Stead, editor Of the Pail Mall Gazette,
who in November was sentenced to three
months Imprisonment for his connection
with the Eliza Armstrong abduction case,
was released from prison on the 18th, the
expiration of his sentence.
Reports were received at Topeka, Kan
'as, on the 10Th Of the finding Of the dead
bodies of three more men in the south
western portion of the state, victims of the
'ecent storm, making twenty-four bodies
N all that have been found.
A Nihilist resort has been discovered in
st. Petersburg. The police made de-
'cent on the place and arrested persons
found in the house. They seized num-
DER of bombs and other explosives; also a
printing press and number Of reasonable
documents.
Ruby Trusts cabin, on Mount shefle,
Jol., was carried away the 18th inst. by q
now slide, burying six men. A relief
,arty was formed at once, and the victims
oon rescued. Martin Pearson and Andy
Peterson were found dead; the other four
we're badly injured.
Some of the Illinois congressman have
n contemplation an important project in
elation to Indian supplies. 1t is to Sc
ure the removal, if possible, of the In
lians' supply warehouse from New York
o Chicago, with view to purchase all
uture supplies in the Chicago market.
The National Brlcklayers and Masons
association which has been in secret ses-
ion at st. Louis for several days, adopted
nine-hours rule to pinto effect through
'ut the country the first Of next May. On
nd after that date nine hours will consti-
ute days work for all members of the
lssociation.
A sheriffs posse and twenty armed