The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1886-10-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK

SoA
Evanston, Wyoming, was fatally shot by
the sheriff and deputy.
Texas fever has appeared in several
herds of cattle IN Saline county, Missouri,
supposed to have been brought there by
young calves shipped from Texas.
An east-bound cattle train was thrown
from the track five miles west of Brain
erd, Monday night, by running over some
cattle. Six cars were derailed and a
number of the cattle killed.
Six persons. including three Glasgow
were suffocated to death
Saturday while viewing monster blast
at the Lockbyne side quarries. Seven
tons Of gunpowder were used in the
blast.
A Berlin dispatch of the Gath announces
that an explosion of fire damp occurred in
a coal pit near schaIke, and that forty-ive
persons were killed and sixteen injured,
eight Of the latter being in precarious
condition.
Consul Tanner, of Chemnitz, reports to
the Secretary Of State that the beer pro
duction Of Germany in 1885 was 1,100,-
100000 gallons, enough to form lake
more than one mile square and six and a
half feet deep.
George La Blance, ''The Marine," has
accepted the challenge of Dan DAILY, the
western middle-weight champion, to fight
eight rounds, Marquis of Queensbury
rules, with six-ounce gloves. The battle
will occur early in October.
A disaster occurred in the bay of St
John on the Gath inst, in which the British
schooner Summerset collided with the
schooner Mary Ann, cutting her IN two.
There were thirty seven persons aboard,
four of whom were drowned.
c. R. Maynard, locomotive engineer,
while sitting in a fourth story window of
a hotel at Saltwater, Mimi, last Friday,
his stockings, lost his balance
and fell out to the ground, breaking his
left leg. Golly, how they must have
stuck.
Mr.. Richard Butler, secretary of the
American committee on the Bartholdi
Statue of Liberty, announces that the
28th Of October has been decided upon
by the government and the American
for the inaugural ceremonies
Of the statue.
The chief of the bureau of statistics re-
ports that 1896 immigrants arrived in
this country during August last, against
1904 during the same month of 1885,
and that for the eight months ended Aug.
81 they numbered 254, ,679, against 24O,
917 in the same portion of last year.
Edward Hanlon has challenged Will
liam Beach to row race on the Thames
for any sum up to $4,000, and has offer
ed to row him in America or Australia,
Hanlon to give Beach $4,000 in the
former and Beach to give Hanlon SO 200
in the latter. Beach declines all challenges
Joseph Neal, maternal uncle of Pres
ident Cleveland, died in Baltimore on the
9th, aged 81 years. His death was
caused by exhaustion of the vital forces.
Mr.. Neal has been resident of Baltimore
all his life and was for many years in the
second hand book business. He was in
comfortable circumstances.
Geo. M. Fablock, city marshal of Long
view, Texas, was killed at the Capital ho-
tel on the oath, while in difficulty with
L. L. and L. w. league, father and son,
citizens of Gregg county. The difficulty
grew out of the fact that Fablock, while
attempting to arrest jeff league at Long
view three months ago shot him dead.
The government engineers sent to
Charleston to inspect damage done to
buildings by the late earthquake reported
on Saturday night last to have inspected
600 buildings out of 1000 in the city,
and estimate the damage to those inspect
ed $2,OOO,O00. Their inspection, how
ever, covers most of the costllest buildings.
Mcleod and John Stewart of Winni-
peg, have lately formed company in
connection with the st. Paul parties to
develop the anthracite coal mines in the
Rocky Mountains. Experienced engi-
neers and 1000 miners will he sent into
the mountains at once. Large contracts
have been secured from the Canadian
Pacific
Four negroes and two white convicts
were whipped at New Castle, Delaware,
on last Saturday. Three negroes were
given ten lashes each and one five for
petit larceny; the whites, Harry Smith
and Frank Hall, received twenty lashes
each and were stood one hour in the
plllory, for horse stealing. The whip
ping was light and some 1000 persons
were present.
The British schooner, Lady Agnes,
strnck an iceberg on Monday last, south