The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1886-01-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Grevy has been reelected president
the French Republic.
During fire at Georgetown, Mass, thr'
fircmen were killed by falling walls {
the 26th.
One hundred persons were injured
the burning of the Christmas tree in tt
county hospital in Chicago.
Secretary Bayard is in receipt of a COZ
tribution of $500 to aid in the Grant NOR
ument fund, from the Chinese governmen
The bank statement shows a reserve d.
crease of $2,O35,O0O. The banks no,
hold $25, sos, 900 in excess of the legs
rule.
Tim McGarney. discouraged with IL,
battle of life, lately committed suicide a
Fort Fetterman by shooting He was
cowboy.
The clothing of Mrs. Patrick Rooney O
Seneca, ILL.,, took fire from a candle, an,
she and her husband were burned to death
Both were drunk.
John Bigclow, who was recently ap
pointed assistant United States treasurer n
New York and confirmed by the senate
has resigned his Office.
A new volcano, one of the largest anf
most interesting In the world, has recent,
been discovered in the Pacific Ocean, nea,
the island of Honga Tonga.
A political riot at Limerick, Ireland, or
the 9th resulted IN the dangerous wound
ing of twenty or more of the participants
part of whom were women.
There is considerable excitement at AL
tcona, Iowa, over rabies. Afarmer named
Pierce was bitten by dog, which also bi,
two horses, and the horses bit two sows
The horses have died from the rabies
Pierce has gone to Missouri in quest of q
mad stone.
AtGarvestown, Clarke County, Alabama,
Alexander Redd, a negro, who brutally
murdered Miss Carrie Boyer at that place
on the 18th, was chained to tree at the
spot where the crime was committed and
slowly burned to death by crowd of in
dignant whites and blacks.
Silas E. Cheek, a prominent loan agent
of Clinton, Missouri, is defaulter for
over 100000 and fugitive from Justice.
His manner Of obtaining money was to
forge names to bogus deeds Of trust and
imprint the recorders seal upon the docu-
ments, which he could easily do, as he had
access to the recorders Office at all times.
Preparations for national convention
Of third and fourth class postmasters to be
held in Chicago, February Is, 1885. are
almost complete. A claim will be urged
upon congress to pay the rent, light and
fuel fer third and fourth class post Offices.
The circular declares that the press of the
country has generally pronounced in favor
of the movement.
Work on No. stope, where the acci-
dent occurred at Nanticoke, will be aban-
doned. It has been found that as fast as
the debris is removed it flows in again
from the great break in the culm bank
above. The company will recompense
the relatives. The victims are undoubted-
ly buried deep beneath sand, culm and
rock, and can never he found.
Some weeks ago proposals were offered
for the removal of the Golfer dam of the
dry dock at Mare Island, California. The
lowest bid for the work was $39,75O. 1t
was rejected on account of the exorbitant
price and the matter was re-advertised.
The navy department has been informed
by telegraph that the lowest bid under the
new proposals was $4,000.
VIM. E. Page, an Adams express agent
at Golden City, Mo-, was arrested in St.
Louis on the 29th, dressed in women's
clothes, with $1,000 concealed upon his
person which ho had stolen from the ex-
press company. Page says he does not
know why he committed the robbery, ex-
cept that it was drunken freak. He
could have taken much larger sum few
days before.
The Standard Oil company has COM
pleted arrangements for the consolidation
and control of the natural gas fields of
western Pennsylvania and to pipe the new
fuel to Buffalo, Cleveland and New York.
Several prominent iron firms of Cleveland
are said to be in the deal. The work of
making the iron pipes will occupy num-
Der of firms for months and hundreds of
men will be engaged IN lying 1t.
An attempt was made to destroy the
residence of Judge Lambert Tree, minis
ter to Belgium, at Chicago on the 26th
with dynamite bomb. A fuse attached
to the machine had been lighted but went
out before reaching the bomb. 1t was
by the coachman and turned
over TO the police, who afterward explod-