The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1886-08-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK
Forest fires are raging In parts of Wis
consin dong considerable damage.


Forest fires are raging In parts of Wis
consin dong considerable damage.
A severe storm passed o'er Bismarck Oh
Sunday last, doing considerable damage.
News has been received from Seattle
w. T., that two saw mills wharves, ma
chine shops, and a million and half o
feet of lumber burned at seabeck Satur
day. Loss 100000; the Insurance is un
known. The property wI owned by J
w. Adams of San Francisco.
In Bryan county, georgia, negro re-
peatedly outraged Miss LIZZIE Bacon, {
white lady, in the absence # her family
A posse captured the negro but after {
desperate struggle in whichhe fred on hi.
captors, he escaped. Anoher posse is II
pursuit, bent on lynchlng lin. The negro
is reported to have taken off a part o1
MISS Bacons tongue.
The general outlay of til opening pro.
gramme of the Minneapolis exposition on
Monday has been settled. Exercises will
begin at $3.50 o'clock iii the afternoon
with an address by the HoI c. K. Davis,
orator Of the day. Gen. W.D. Washburn,
president of the directors, Mayor Ames
and others will speak. Many officials
from abroad are expected tobe present.
At Dungannon, Ireland, on Monday,
bands of nationalists paradd the Protest
ant quarter Of the town Shooting for home
rule and cursing the queen. A riot broke
out and several persons wer injured. The
police had to force their wg between the
Protestants and the Catholics, thus pre-
venting desperate fight. One nationalist
was arrested with knife il his hand. A
renewal Of the rioting is fesred.
The war of rates between he continental
steamship lines is still raging, without any
prospect of an early adjustment. Monday
the Red Star Inc announced
cut to $15 on outward bound business.
Soon after, this was followed by the Rot
.erdam line. Its rates are: Outward, to
Rotterdam, $l3; to LonDn, $12; to Scan
linavian ports, SIS. Pepaid, from Rot
erdam, $12; from Loldon, $12; from
Scandinavian ports, SIS.
A correspondent writes to the Helena
from Spok,ne Falls that the
country thereabouts is hing overrun to an
farming extent by drunken scallawag In
|ians who have no respect for the property
r lives of the white settlers. So far no
ives are known to have been lost in the
requent rows that have occurred through
heir insolence, but the citizens are be-
oming alarmed at the state of affairs. !
1any petty depredations and thefts have
cen perpetrated and no end of annoyance
nd trouble is caused to isolated settlers.
1t is expected that fonnal exchange
the extradition treaty between the
'nited States and Japan will be announc-
from Toxic and that its promulgation
y the two governments will take place
thereafter. This treaty was
titled by the United States senate on the
lst of last June, but the senate made
me minor amendments in its text, which
ndered 1t necessary that the document
'ould be again submitted to the Japan
lthorities. Information has now been
ceived that Japan accepts the amend
ent and is ready for the last step in the
after of formal exchange.
A double tragedy occurred in the town
Magdalena, N. NJ, resulting in the
'ath of John Lynch and Joe VanWinkle.
9TH were cowboys and became involved
personal difficulty while under the
f1uence of liquor. It is stated that Van
inkle, who was comparative stranger,
IS the first to pull his gun. He was at
ce shot down by Lynch, who then pro-
eded to riddle the body with bull
IS. Lynch was about to mount his
rse and escape when he was shot dead
friends of VanWinkle. A man named
own, who is supposed to have killed
'nch, escaped. The tragedy has created
ense excitement in Magdalena and vi.
lity.
p MONTANA NEWS.