The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1886-06-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK

Henry Ward Beecher has gone to En-
land on lecturing tour.
The president OH Thursday veto
I, twcnty-nine more pension bills.
Hobart Pasha august Charles Hobar
marshal of the Turkish empire, is dead.
A call for $4,OOO,OOO three per ce1
government bonds was issued on Monda
A fire near Modesto, California, d
stroyed 5000 acres of wheat. Loss, $50
| 900.
Fifty thousand acres of crops and tv
villages were destroyed by floods in HUI,
gary.
In accordance with the law passed la
year, 25,523 slaves have been declared fri
in Cuba.
| An epidemic has struck the jack rabbi
in Nevada, and they are dying off by til
hundreds.
| Jacob Swingley at Creston, ILL.,, cut til
throats of his two small cildren and the
committed suicide.
The Missouri Car and Foundry work
at St. Louis were destroyed by fire on tn
18th. Loss, 100000.
A Hoboken man sold his wife to
neighbor for $50, but was unable to col
lect on the note given.
Thirty persons were injured at Bush
nell, Illinois, by wind storm whicl
overturned circus tent.
Riegel, Scott & Co., wholesale dr.,
goods merchants at Philadelphia, have
failed. Liabilities, $75O,0OO.
Providence, Rhode Island, celebrated
the 25Oth anniversary Of the settlement o.
that city with great ceremony.
Mrs. Storey lawyers have petiticned the
court to remove Mr.. Patterson as busines:
manager of the Chicago Times.
The photographers of the United States
and Canada held their seventh annual
convention in St. Louis this week.
Justice Stanley Matthews was married
at New York City, on Wednesday to Mrs.
Mary K. Theaker of Cleveland, Ohio.
Judge David Davis is so seriously Ill at
his home in Bloomington, Illinois, that
little hope is entertained of his recovery.
A monument in memory Of Col. Shaw,
commander of the first negro regiment IN
the late rebellion, will shortly be erected
at Boston.
The firm of Yallop, De Groot & Co.,
dealers in tailors' trimmings. St. Paul,
has assigned. Liabilities, 100000; assets,
$4,000.
An affray on board the American bark,
Don Justo, at Colon, resulted in the death
of three persons and the wounding of sew
eral others.
A St. John dispatch OF the 10th says
the French brigantine Michael sank on
the Grand Banks, and nine of her crew
we're drowned.
BY the capsizing of a ferry boat on the
Lozawa river at Prague, Bohemia, fifty
persons were thrown into the river and
number drowned.
The English cutter yacht Galatea,
which will contest for the Americas cup
With one of the big American sloops, will
all for New York to-day.
The senate has ratified an extradition
reaty with Japan, and one for the re-sur-
'ey of the boundary line between the
United States and Mexico.
Owing to the labor troubles several |
arge stove manufacturing companies have
losed their works at Troy, New York,
nd will remove to other cities.
Controller Durham, who has been
7idower eight years, was married last
'eek to Mrs. Confer, granddaughter of
he late Gov. Fletcher of Kentucky.
Col. J. w. Strong, editor of the st.
oseph (Mo.) Herald, was assassinated in
is office by DR.. s. A. Richmond, who
Immediately shot himself, although not
italy.
The firm of Swift & Co., importers of
lgars, New York City, have failed. The
abilities are $1,OOO,OOO, which it is
aimed is more than equalled by the as
It's of the firm.
Eli Owens, confined at Hebron, Ne
'aska, on a charge of rape, was taken
ON the Jail by fifteen masked and armed
en- and after being badly beaten was
lnged to tree.
A San Francisco firm has monopoly of
e grain bag trade and has raised prices
10 per cent. The newspapers now urge the
rmers to stack their grain and thresh it :
hen bags are cheaper.
The territorial supreme court of Utah 4
$ affirmed the judgment of the lower
urt in sustaining the right of the ap-
intees of Gov. Murray to the Offices of
'ritorial auditor and treasurer, against 3
e Mormon hold-over incumbents. y
After six weeks attempt to force -
to accede to their demand
: the adoption of the eight-hour rule,
2 furniture makers of St. Louis have
ded their strike and the men, about 500 !,
all, have returned to work on the old
IN.
VIM. Kelaher, alias "Reddy," a gam
,r, killed Officer Convey at Detroit,
nnesota, on Wednesday while resisting y
est. He was taken from Jail the same 9 9
sning by a crowd Of disguised men, ? Z
ng to a tree and his body riddled with : :
llets. ss'
A general strike of all street car drivers
Minneapolis was inaugurated Sunday, -
cause being the prohibition made BY !, !"
company against the drivers sitting - -
wn. The strike was ended Tuesday BY :, !"
esident Lowery acceding to the demands = =
the strikers.
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President Cleveland on Tuesday sent
eck for the full amount of his expenses f.
nnor Dnrl, <n <hn Do1ks~.o.. n.