The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1886-06-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK

sion bills on Tuesday.
McGregor, Iowa, had $4,000 fire OF
Saturday last. Twenty buildings wer'
destroyed.
Several cases of CHAMBERS are reported
among horses in the vicinity of Buffalo
| Wyoming.
The drouth still continues in Texas anc
cattle and sheep are dying by thousands
all over the state
The circulation of the silver dollar is
now $50, 100000, the largest amount ever
in use in the United States.
John Kelly died at his home in New
York on Tuesday afternoon. Mr.. Kelly
had been i'll for seven months.
A fire at Brimield, Illinois, on the 1st
inst, destroyed the main business portion
of the town, involving loss of $50, 900.
The shah of Persia is extremely anx-
ious for railroads and other Improvements
and desires bids from American capitalists.
The house on Thursday passed the bill
imposing tax of five cents per pound
upon oleomargarine by vote Of 1T to
1O1.
The Directors Merchant National Bank
Of Peoria, Illinois, has failed, owing to the
cmbezzlement of 100000 by a book
keeper.
Miss Lizzie Harrison, and two young
boys aged Z and 8 years, were drowned
IN the Willamette river near Portland
Wednesday.
The New York Grant monument fund
remains stationary at $121, 100, and the
trustees have decided to make one more
appeal to the public.
S. S. Davis, past grand supreme chan
cellor, Knights of Pythias, died at Nashua,
New Hampshire, on the 2Stl, of excessive
grief at his wife's death.
A dispatch from Australia reports the
loss of the steamship Lycemoon, from
Melbourne for Sydney, off Green Cape.
Seventy persons were drowned.
The acting secretary of the treasury on
Saturday last ordered the release of the
British vessel SISTERS held at Portland,
Maine, for violation of the fishery laws.
The Ute Indians have purchased large
quantities of arms and ammunition, and
it is anticipated they are preparing to
make trouble if their removal scheme
fails.
The adopted citizens of the Cherokee
nation are petitioning the United States
government to prevent the distribution of
the 100000 lease money to Cherokees by
blood only.
Indians attacked Jones Bros ranch
near Hooker's Hot Springs, Arizona, the
9Sth of May. The owners made an ef-
:ective defense, and killed three Indians,
whom they scalped.
1t is reported from Graham county,
that about one hundred White
Mountain Apaches left the reservation on
and started ON a raid through
Graham and Cohcse counties.
Several German cities were visited by
loud bursts on Friday of last week. At
Nittenburg hundreds of sheep were killed
~ lightning, and the vineyards on the
Rhine were totally destroyed.
A cave-in occurred in the Colonel Sell
RS mine in California Gulch, Colorado,
IN the 2nd, which resulted in the death of
our miners named Joseph Prette, Louis
Miller, H. Hitchcock and Louis Prette.
Johan Most, anarchist, was sentenced at
New York on Wednesday to the peDiten-
iary for one year and fined $500. His
ssociate, Braunschweig, got nine months
n the penitentiary and was fined $3.50.
The eruption Of Mt Etna is becoming
nore violent. All the inhabitants of Mic
losi have removed from the town and
ordon of troops have been established to
revent any one from re-entering the
'lace.
Gill and Lew Maloney, railroad con-
FACTORS, were killed near the mouth of
'rying Pan, Colorado, on the 28th, by the
explosion of blast. David
'oley, another contractor, was seriously
ljured.
Andrew Carnegie, the steel manufac-
arer, has given $250,OOO to Allegheny
'ity, Pennsylvania, for the establishment
f free library and music hall. This is
l addition to his gift of $500,000 to
'ittsburg.
Rev. T. e. jerome, pastor of the Con-
regational church of Marlborough, n.
l., with his two sons and daughter and a
IAN named Davis, were all drowned
lille on fishing excursion on the lake
d the goth inst.
The floors of the Valley City mills at
rand Rapids, Michigan, gave way on the
9Th, and, together with their contents,
Ill into the basement and large portion
the contents were swept into the Grand
ver. The damage is estimated at $780,
90.
The executive board of the master
uilders association at St. Louis resolved
, return to the ten hour system June Is.
hey state that they have given the short
our system fair trial and find they can
OF proftably conduct business on that
Ian.
The convention of Knights of Labor at
1eir meeting at Cleveland, Ohio, adopted
resolution petitionlng the president to
xercise clemency on behalf of the i'm
risoned strikers in Texas, sentenced for
of court, growing out of the
outhwestern strike.
A. J. Warren, one of the alleged anar-
hists arrested at San Francisco on the
9th ult., during the socialistic harangue,
nd convicted of obstructing the public
rect. has been sentenced to one hundred