The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1886-10-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK

A. S. Gage & Co., dealers in millinery
Chicago, have assigned, with liabilities
Of $75O,OO0.
Theodore Roosevelt of New York re.
Gently killed three wild goats near Me
dora, rare specimen.
A plot to blow up train on which the
czal was travelling has been discovered Al
st. Petersburg, Russia.
A niece Of Henry Willard is acting on
the stage Of the Star street threatre ir
New York. Her stage name is Tyndale
Monday night fight occurred among
the cowboys Of Buffalo Bills Wild West
show at New York, in which one of them
was killed.
The Dakota territorial democratic com
mittee has formulated request to Presi.
dent Cleveland to remove Jud dge Francis
from the Bismarck judicial district.
Frank Mead, the newspaper man who
shot and killed Farnsworth in the Mer,
chants hotel at st. Paul few days ago,
has been indicted by the grand jury for
murder.
An explosion in the Ditmer Powder
works at Bay Prester, N. Y, resulted in
Tho l<.o<1, ,f
Dralen, John Rusch, Max Shaftbolt and
Mr.. Reinhart.
Orders have been issued to DR.. Coe of
Mandan to at once kill and cremate all
cattle in Morton and Oliver counties, Da-
kota, having pleuro pneumonia, and also
to keep all suspected animals in quaran-
tine
A dispatch from Melbourne of the 5th
says an earthquake destroyed every village
on the island Of Niapu. The inhabitants
escaped. The island is covered twenty
feet deep with volcanic dust and new
hill two hundred feet high has been
formed.
The statement is authorized that Henry
Willard will soon come to America as the
representative of combination of con-
tinental banks which propose to engage
largely in financial business in the United
States IN conjunction with leading Ameri-
can firms.
Counterfeit $40 bills, raised from $40
by changing the figures on the corners,
are in circulation. A new counterfeit IS
gold piece is also in circulation. It is
dated 1921. and may be detected bv the
fact that the s'n'' in the word "United" is
upside down.
Joe Robinson, an old settler between
Bismarck and Fort Yates, was shot
on Tuesday last by Swede. The two
men were returning home together from
Bismarck and quarrel ensued which re-
suited as above stated. The Swede made
good his escape.
A new explosive has been discovered
by Frenchman which is more powerful
than gunpowder. The compound is ad-
mitted to have all the powers of gun
powder, with none of its defects, and is
said in addition to be easily transportable
and to be free from liability to spontane-
Gus ignition.
Since the surrender of Chief Geronimo
the Associated Press report has been
crowded with various assertions that Gen.
Miles ignored official orders and accepted
conditional surrender of the Apaches.
This the general denies and says he had
absolutely discretionary powers and no
specific instructions.
At the knights of Labor convention
held at Richmond, Va, this week, Mr..
Powderly was presented with gavel
made from the wood of an orange tree
that grew on the spot where General Pack
enham was killed at the battle of New
Orleans. The presentation was made in
behalf Of the New Orleans knights.
The Canadian Pacific train went
through trestle bridge IT'S miles east of
Winnipeg last Sunday morning; five cars,
mail car and four passenger coaches were
badly wrecked and afterwards conn pletely
burned. Engineer F. Bigger, of Rat
Portage, was fatally scalded and several
others fatally injured; six bags of mail
we're destroyed, and five bags saved.
The official census Of Sioux Indians at
Standing Rock agency. taken Sept. 30th,
shows there are 1887 men, 1857 women,
937 boys and 848 girls; total of 5000.
There is net gain Of eight since
July 1st. One old squaw, most likely
thinking her family was not large enough,
seized poodle, put it in her blanket on
her back and endeavored to palm it off
for papoose, but was caught in the act.
A curious phenomena has occurred at
Chimaplea, IN the state of Mexico. With
in few days past tremendous subterranean
reports were heard, though at the time
the meteorological conditions were per-
feet, there being no unusual aspect of the
sky nor the slightest rain. The peOplc OF