The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1886-03-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Miss Ada Sweet, formerly of the Chi
cago pension agency, is now travelling j
the interest of heating apparatus firm.
About $4,000 persons attended til
memorial services at Worcester, Mass, O
Saturday last in honor of the late John +
Cough.
Alex Mcdonald, wife and child, Will
crossing Lake Bros, Cape Breton, Satur
day night, broke through the ice ant
were drowned.
The Mccormick reaper works of Chi
cago, have resumed operations, three
hundred and fifty men having reported
for duty on the 1st
Michael McCabc, Patrick Condor ant
an unknown man were found frozen t.
death in the streets of New Yolk City OF
Tuesday morning last.
Abe Thompson, a negro who outraged
Mrs. Lancaster near Glenn Springs, S. c.,
last Friday, was lynched by mob Tues
day. He confessed the crime.
The dry house of the Miami Powde,
company pear Xenla, Ohio, blew up on
the morning of the 1st, killing three men
and blowing the building to atoms.
The municipal authorities Of Paris
have ordered that the name of the Deity
shall be expunged from the children's
books issued by the metropolitan school
committee.
A serious accident occurred on the
Northern railroad at Thsrnhill, Canada,
on the 9th, by which twenty persons
were more or less injured and the news
agent killed outright.
The recent cold snap has closed the
Hudson river again and all local steam
boats which had started to run from Peeks-
kill down have had to stop. Some OF them
are frozen fast to their docks.
The contract for carrying the mail be-
tween La Beau and Pierre, Dakota, has
been awarded to an individual named l.
c. Beedy for $287 per year. The service is
tri.weekly and the distance between the
two points S. miles.
Filc burned the Commercial hotel at
Mandan last Saturday. Damage, $4,000;
insurance, 81 500, equally divided among
the City Of London, Hamburg Bremen
and German-American. The fire depart
ment saved the adiei,ing hn;lding
A fire broke out at an early hour Tues
day in the Canadian Pacific railway depot
at Winnepeg, and the structure was to-
tally consumed. The origin of the fire is
mystery. The building and contents
were valued at 100000, and was only
insured for $4,000.
Theodore P. Rich, of York state, ar
rived in St. Paul last Saturday and learned
that his wife was living with one H. T.
Geer. He sought an interview at the
Astoria house. The result of the inter-
view was that Rich shot his wife dead and
then committed suicide by shooting.
William Price, neighbor Of the Aid
ridge family at Windsor, Illinois, has been
arrested charged with being the fend
who tortured Miss Georgia Aldrdge and
hung her to tree until she was nearly
dead Suspicion has been directed against
Price from the first. It IS alleged the
evidence against him is strong.
A. L. & G. E. Carter, publishers of the
Canton Oak. Advocate, have been indict-
ed by the grand jury on the charge of
criminal libel. Nash, publisher of an op-
position paper, is the complaining witness.
The indictment is the result of long and
bitter newspaper war. The defendants
pleaded not guilty. The case will be tried
next week.
A dispatch from Niagara Falls on the
1st inst, says: A man IS or 40 years old
came here from Buffalo this afternoon.
He took carriage to the rapids and
thence to the falls, where he went on the
ice bound base of the American fall. He
fell or jumped over and was lost. He was
of medium size, with sandy whiskers, and
wore silk hat and terock coat. He look
ed like German.
A wrecking train drawn by two engines
was derailed by ice on the Maine Central
track at Cobb's crossing. The leading
engine and three box cars carrying 90 men
were rolled down an embankment. En-
gineers Charles Hamilton and John
Nichols and Fireman Emery were thrown
twenty feet and seriously injured. Three
Of the workmen were painfully hurt and
many were bruised.
L. P. Mallory, wild youth, who for
the past year has been the ward Of w. NJ.
Mills, of Springer, New Mexico, lately
started east. On his way he stopped off
at Ration, Lajunta and Las Animas, where
he forged and cashed drafts on the Springer
Mercantile and Banking company to the
amount Of $4,000. His parents live in