The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1886-11-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK
The public debt was decreased $13
100000 during the month of October.

The Chamber of Commerce of Man
chester, England. has rejected resolu
ton opposing free trade by only one vote
A fire on East Madison street, Chicago
on Sunday destroyed a quarter million
dollars worth Of property, and caused the
loss of several lives.
Sir Edward Walkin, the we'll known
railway magnate, proposes the establish
ment of a line of trans Atlantic steamers
in connection with the Canadian Pacific
railway
The steamer Borderer. from Boston
collided with the Minerva on the Thames.
| The latter vessel sunk and seven persons
were drowned The Bordcrcr sustained
no damage.
AT Paris Green, Mo-, colored woman
locked her three children and two Others
in her house and went to church. The
house took fire and four of the children
burned to death. The fifth will probably
die.
The schooner Mary Brown has been lost
off Barcalicn and three of her crew and a
lady passenger, Miss c. H. Ivcr. have been
drowned. The vessel broke in two soon
after striking and only the captain and
three men succeeded in reaching the shore.
On Wednesday morning the Ackerman
hotel at Loogoon, Ind, burned and three
men perishcd in the flames. Two Of
them were John c. Gates and Michael
Tracey, who the day before were electe
treasurer and auditor respectively OF Mar
tin county.
The Canadian Pacific has just complet-
ed their snow sheds in the Sclkirk range
Of the Rockies. In building these sheds
the contractors used 22,OOO.0O0 feet of
lumber and employed about 5000 men
constantly for the last eight months CON
structing them.
Consul Bingham says the rumor set
afloat few days ago that large filibus-
tering party would be organized to go to
Mexico with Cutting at its head is pos
ltively untrue. The report can have
no effect except to unfavorably influence
Cuttings prospect for indemnity.
Robert Evan Sproule, citizen of the
United States, was hanged at Victoria,
Friday morning at $40 o'clock, for the
murder of Thomas Hamil in June, 1885,
in the Kootenay mines. The condemned
man ascended the scaffold without tre-
NOR and made speech protesting his in
nOcence.
A dispatch from Tonquin says that a
force of Chinese armed with repeating
rifles attacked from ambush body OF
Tonquinese rifemen at Phuso, in the
Province Of Nambulph, killing thirty of
them. At the same time 1900 Chinese
attacked the posts at Dong Song, but were
repulsed after desperate fighting.
Under the new oleomargarine law which
went into effect Monday, many seizures
Of bogus butter were made by the internal
revenue officers at St. Louis. The latter
began their work carly in the day, and
went from house to house testing butter,
and confscating all but the genuine arti-
Gle. Before the day had closed seizures
had been made at twelve different places.
The St. Louis sugar refinery, the largest
in the west, shut down Monday night and
discharged 1875 of their employees. The
cause of the closing is said to be the
same as recently compelled the shutting
down of several eastern refneries, inability
to compete with Sandwich island raw
sugar which is admitted into the country
free of import duty.
The discovery of silver in the vicinity
of Caldwell, Kansas, has caused much
excitement. Samples of ore were sent
to the state assayer at Denver, Colorado,
and the assayer of mint at Philadelphia.
They report an assay of three hundred
and forty ounces, each with a trace of
gold. The ore crops out in many locali
ties. Caldwell now presents the appear
ancc of mining town.
Geo. Lucius Fairchild, grand com
mandcr of the Grand Army of the Re-
public, announces the appointment of the
following staff: AdJutant general, e. B.
Gray, of Madison, Wis; quartermaster
general, John Taylor, Philadelphia, Pa:
Judge advocate general, Henry E. Taintor,
Hartford, Conn.,; assistant adjutant gener-
al, F. w. Oakley, Madison, Wis; senior
aide de camp, Phil. Specke, jr., Baraboo,
Wis.
The surveyor of the Port of New York,
Bcattie, was shot about noon Monday in
his Office at the custom house by dis
charged inspector who fired five or SIX
shots. Surveyor Beattie was wounded in
two places, one of the bullets, it is said,
entered the lOin. The custom house at
PENDANTS state that his condition is not
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