The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1886-10-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK

a loss of 100000.
The final resignation Of 8. S. Cox,
minister to Turkey, has been received at
the department Of state.
A 13 year old girl named Lena Fair
banks was sent to the reform school at
Adrian, Mich, few days ago for horse
stealing.
| The NatlOral Brotherhood of Locomo-
tive Engineers in convention at New York,
reelected P. Macarthur as grand chief
engineer for three ye rs.
Henry Willard has again become the
owner Of the magnificent palace he erect
ed IN his palmy days. He is said to be
now worth several millions.
Governor Pierce of Dakota in his re-
port says two and one-half million bush
els of flax were raised in that territory
this year and twenty-six million bushels
of wheat
Samuel J. Mccall, accountant for the
Grange Trust insurance company of Owen
Sound, Ont, has absconded to the United
States with several thousand dollars of
that company's money.
Mrs. Cornelia NJ. Stewart, wife of the
late millionaire dry goods merchant, A.
T. Stewart, died Of congestion of the lungs
and heart trouble, at her residence in New
York city last Monday morning.
A special from Ell Paso, Texas, says
Cutting is there concocting scheme to
enlist 10000 men to invade Mexico for
the purpose of conquering the three states
Of Chihuahua, Sonora and Durango, and
erecting republic.
James Haynes, colorcd, who murdered
Mary Jackson, also colored. last Friday in
Bolivar county, Miss, and afterwards mu-
tilated her remains, was taken from the
iail at Brownsville, that state, last Satur-
day night by mob of colored men and
hanged.
The chief of the bureau of statistics
reports that 4O,O41 immigrants arrived in
the United States during September last,
as against 27,71O during September, 1885,
and that for the nine months Of the re-
cent year the number is 294,024 against
268, ,688 for the corresponding period of
last year.
It is reported up from Buenos Ayers,
that during the recent drouthi in that Sec
ton over twenty million head Of sheep
have died, and while the immediate
loss is estimated at nearly f5,0OO,0 900, it
will in reality aggregate much more.
They died principally from lung and
throat disease formerly unknown in the
Lanes.
The steamship British King arrived at
Philadelphia from Liverpool, Wednesday
and brought 3O7 Mormon converts.
They will proceed to Salt Lake. 1t Is
understood that Mormon emigrants will
hereafter be landed there instead of at
New York, it being complained that the
law is construed harshly in regard to them
at the latter port.
Because Of heavy orders received from
European powers for the manufacture OF
fire arms the Winchester and Marlin re-
peating fire arms companies have issued
notice that they will not be able to manu-
facture repeating rifles for the American
trade until after the first Of April next,
and the consequence is that those arms
are now selling at a premium and are not
obtainable In large quantities.
The Women's Christian Temperance
Union IN session at Minneapolis, Monday
| afternoon, reelected old officers for the
present year as follows: President,
Francis E. Willard, Evanston, ILL.,; cor
responding secretary, Mrs. Caroline B.
Buell., Connecticut; recording secretary,
Mrs. Mary A. Woodbridge, o.; treasurer,
| Miss Esther Pugh Mrs. Woodbridge re-
appointed as assistant secretary, Mrs. L.
NJ. N. Stevens, of Maine.
Alexander Heard and John Paxton,
school boys and rivals in love, stood in a
store at New Frankfort, Ind, few days
ago. Their sweetheart, Miss Inez HOWE,
passed by, going to school. Hoard threw
kiss to her, and Paxton, enraged, knock
ed him in the head with stick, fracturing
his skull, and then stamped his face to a
jelly. Both are sons of prominent farm
ers. The young lady remains by the bed
side Of her dying lover.
The great switchmen's strike In Mime
apolis came to an end last Monday and
freight traffic has since been moving as
rapidly as before the strike. Nearly all
the strikers are back at their posts and
are accepting the situation with the bes
grace possible. Managers Of the differ
ent companies anticipate no further
trouble. The excellent behavior Of tht
men during the last week of the strike il
the subject of many Communications.