The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1886-02-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.
+ The Fitz John Porter bill has passe
T the house by vote of III to 113.
, Floods throughout the New Englan
! States the past week have resulted in in
| mense damage to property.
A pretty female spy Is said to have bee
the real procuring cause of the rece1
opium seizures on the Idaho at Tacoma
It is estimated that five thousand pei
sons have been thrown temporarily out (
employment by the freshet at Lowell
Mass.
The Alabama Great Southern expires
was thrown from the track on the 13t
inst. at Coaling, Alabama, and thirtee
persons injured, none fatally.
The British steamer Douglas, tradin!
locally in the China seas, has been wreck
ed at Swatow. One European and seven
teen Chinese were drowned.
BY the burning of the residence 0
James Ehle at Greenbush, Wisconsin, OF
Tuesday last, Ehle, his wife, father ane
three children perished in the flames.
James Ross, 26 years Of age, has beer
arrested at Andulusia, Illinois, charged
with rape and incest. His mother, 6(
years Of age, is the alleged victim Of hi
crime.
The entire business portion of Flagstaff
Arizona, was destroyed by fire on Sunday
last. About eighteen buildings and con
tents were burned. Loss 100000; insur
ance $4,000.
An insane young man at Peru, Florida
cut off the top Of his mothers head with
an axe, and was acquitted by the coroner's
jury. He became rational the instant the
crime was committed
The earthquakes at Amitiquillan con
'tinuc and the few houses that escaped ruin
by the first heavy shocks are now quite
shattered and uninhabitable. The distress
among the people is heartrending.
A steel casket, similar to that recently
made to receive the remains Of President
Garfield, has been ordered from metallic
burial casket company, of Winfield, L. l.,
by friends Of the late Gen. Hancock.
Senator Plumb, from the committee on
public lands, has reported favorably his
bill making it unlawful for aliens to ac-
quire, hold or own real estate in any of the
territories or in the District of Columbia.
The London Missionary society has re-
ceived advices from Zanzibar to the effect
that two men who returned to that place
from Uzegena report that they saw Bishop
Harrington with fifty men Of his expedi-
tion taken out for execution
John B. Cough, the noted temperance
lecturer, is dead. He was stricken with
appoplexy on Monday evening last at
Philadelphia, and fingered in an uncon-
scious condition until the afternoon of
February 18th, when he died.
Owing to the threatened strike among
employees, the Mccormick reaper works
of Chicago closed down on the morning
Of the 10th inst, throwing 1,400 men out
The lockout will be main
tanned for an indefinite period.
John B. Mannix, lawyer and until re
Gently assignee Of the estate Of Archbishop
Purcell, deceased, has been arrested on
charge Of embezzllng $35O,OOO Of the es
tate and perjury in making false state
ments in the probate court in connection
with his reports.
Geo. @. Cannon, prominent leader Of
the polygamous Mormons Of Utah, who
has been hiding for nearly year and for
whose capture reward Of $500 was offer
ed by the United States Marshal at Salt
Lake, was captured on the 18th INST at
Humboldt. Nevada.
A passenger train on the Ohio Central
was wrecked near Mt. Pleasant, W. Va,
on the 10th inst One coach jumped the
track and ran into the Kanawha river.
Seven persons are reported killed and
eight or ten others injured, some of whom
Ire dangerously wounded.
Hetzul, Bates, Gooding and Frazier, ar
ested as leaders Of the riot at Olympia,
". T., last week, have been taken to the |
,enitentlary at McNeill's Island to re-
main till the district court meets in June. |
The Knights Of Labor deny participation
n the recent riots in that city.
Joe Meyers was arrested at Mandan last |
Friday for horse stealing. He attempted
0 escape and deputy sheriff fired Win
hester rifle at him. Two shots took effect, |
me in the left side and one in the thigh. |
70 danger is apprehended from either
wound. Myers will be taken to Dickinson.
The night express on the Ontario &
Western railroad ran into washout mile |