The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1886-05-29
NEWS OF THE WEEK

William Kcrron, general merchandise
at Portland, Or, has failed with liabili
ties at $4,000.
Owing to unfavorable weather the frui
crop of Oregon will be much less thar
that of last year.
DR.. Dio Lewis. author and reformer
died at his home at Ycnkcrs, New York
on the 21st inst
Tuberculosis has broken out among the
cattle in Maine. and many animals have
been ordered shot.
San Francisco was visited by $75. 5.0O(
fire Sunday night Fifty families were
rendered homeless.
Twenty five Mormons were sentenced
at Blackfoot, Idaho, Monday, to peniteD-
tiary for polygamy.
The dynamite factory at Valencia,
Spain, was destroyed by fire on the goth,
killing twelve men.
The fund for the benefit of Chicago po
lice injured by the anarchist massacre has
reached nearly 100000.
The Adams block, a fine six-story
brick and stone structure in Chicago,
burned Wednesday. Loss, $1,000,0OO.
Thunderstorms have been raging in
Germany the past week, and many per-
sons and hundreds of cattle have been
killed.
The house committee on judiciary has
instructed a favorable report on an amend
ment to the constitution, declaring polyg-
amy unlawful.
The superintendent Of police at Chicago
notifies the sports that hereafter no Ii
censes will be granted for slugging or
wrestling matches.
The grand jury at Chicago has returned
twenty two indictments, thirteen Of which
are known to be against the anarchists -
seven charging murder.
BY the explosion Of 100 kegs of power
at Sodday coal mine, in Tennessee, To-
comotiye and several fiat cars were wreck
ed and three men killed.
John r. Smith, treasurer of the board
of domestic missions of the Reformed
church in America, with headquarters in
New York, is short IN his accounts $780,
900.
The anniversary Of the death Of Gen.
LAFAYETTE, was observed in Paris by re-
ligious services in the Picpus chapel. On
the altar was a magnificent wreath Of
natural flowers sent by Americans.
The house Of representatives passed a
bill removing the charge of desertion
from the record of Franklin Thompson, a
woman who for two years served in a
Michigan regiment as soldier and kept
her secret.
Mrs. Riel, widow of the dead rebel,
died at her home in St. Vitas Monday,
after an illness Of two months. The re-
mains were inferred beside those Of her
husband in the cathedral cemetery of St.
Boniface.
A bill has been introduced in the SEN
ate to restore to officers of the army and
their widows and minor children the rate
of pensions they received prior to July
25, 1866, at which date certain classes Of
pensions were reduced.
An accident on the Alton & st. Louis
railroad near Slater, Mo-, on Sunday
wrecked the engine and ten cars. The
fireman, Pres. Monday, was instantly kill
ed, and Engineer Love and Brakeman
Kughter seriously injured.
A fire started in the hosting works Of
the Grand Central mine at Tombstone,
Arizona, Wednesday night. It destroyed
all the hosting and pumping machinery
and entered the shaft of the mine. Loss
$3.50, 900; insurance $65,O00.
P.L. Cable, one Of the first directors of
the Rock Island railroad, president of the
Canada Southern railroad and a director
of several other railroads, died suddenly
of consumption at his ranch near San An
tonic, Texas, on the 22d, aged 68 years.
United States Marshal Dubois, with
four deputies, left Blackfoot, Idaho, on
Wednesday with eleven Mormon convicts,
and two Cinnamon, for the Detroit, Mich
igan, penitcntiary. This is the first batch
of polygamists sent oat Of the territory.
AS the advance advertising car Of a
circus was leaving Attleboro, Mass, for
Taunton, Saturday evening, the coupling
parted and the car crashed through the
passenger coach, injuring the thirteen oc-
cupants; one man, named Snedecker,
very seriously.
The warehouse and depot Of the Mil
waukee, Lake Shore s Western, at Was
sean, Wisconsin, were destroyed by fire
Monday. The Plumer company lost about
5000, 900 feet of lumber, with no insur-
ance, while the Stuart company lost
about 1000, 900 feet with $4,000 insur-