The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1886-05-08
NEWS OF THE WEEK

Ihe public debt was decreased las
month $40, ,965, 1897.
A fire at Baltimore destroyed propert,
valued at 100000.
Another village and two towns have
been burned in Galacia.
The president has vetoed the bill tt
make Omaha port Of entry.
Two colored men were hanged below
Friar's Point, Miss, for cutting the levee
Sam Jones and Sam Small. the evangel
lists, this week opened their crusade
against sin in Baltimore.
Keystone, Iowa, was visited by terri
ble fire. The postoffice and ten othc,
buildings were destroyed.
The First Congregational church Of
Minneapolis, valued at 100000, was dc.
stroyed by fire on Sunday.
On May 1st five thousand employees in
Pierre Lorillard's tobacco works at Jersey
City went out on strike.
Natural gas has been discovered near
Fargo, and company has been formed to
sink wells and bring it into that town.
Mary Lightbourn was shot and instantly
killed at st. Paul by her brother Charles,
who didn't know the revolver was loaded.
Six head Of horses and car of emf
grant movables were burned in the rail-
road yards at Winona Minnesota, on the
2nd.
The Athenaum building, corner Ex-
change and Sherman streets, In St. Paul
was destroyed by fire Monday. Loss
$4,000.
A fire at Ogden, Utah, destroyed the
drug store of L. C. PEBBLES and two adj
joining buildings. Loss $4,000; insur-
ance $1,000.
Sylvester B. Chase, we'll known bust
ness man of Minneapolis, was drowned in
Lake Calhoun on Sunday last by the up
setting Of boat.
Chinch bugs have appeared in enormous
numbers in the southern part of Illinois,
and the entire crop of wheat is threatened
with destruction.
In conflict between strikers and en-
ployes of Fuller & Ricc's mill at Grand
Rapids, Mich, on Saturday last two men
were seriously injured.
The Omaha paint and carpenter shops
at Hudson, Wisconsin, were destroyed by
fire on the 4th and one man, Alexander
Mcdonald, burned to death.
Hultgrew, former register of deeds of
Kondiyohi county. serving sentence at
Saltwater, Mimi, for the embezzlement
Of $4,000, has made full confession.
Col. W. H. Shelly Of St. Paul dropped
dead on the streets of Washington last
week, where he was stopping for the pur-
pose of securing an appointment as Indian
agent.
Mr.. Van Eaton, from Mississippi, from
the committee on public lands, reported a
bill to grant the right of way through the
public lands to any canal Or ditch COM
pany formed for the purpose Of irrigation.
A Winnipeg dispatch says an Indian
who has arrived at Woody mountain from
Poplar Point, says the Yankton Sioux and
other American Indians are threatening
trouble and have invited Sitting Bull to
join them.
The application Of the postmaster at
Atlanta, Georgia, for leave to close his
office May /, on account of the dedication
of the monument in honor of the late
Senator Hill, was refused by the postmas-
ter-general.
Suit has been brought by the United
States against J. Ordway, G. W. Weidler
and NJ. Weidler for the sum of $4,000
for cutting timber in Washington terri
tory since 1888, and cutting il into lum-
Der at Portland.
Ir order to assist the authorities in the
the maintenance of quarantine against the
introduction of infectious diseases, the
president has determined to establish, by
means of the vessels Of the revenue ma
rine, a national patrol of the coast of the
United States.
A fire at San Francisco destroyed the
large fve-story publishing house Of A. L.
Bancroft & Co., and several surrounding
buildings, on the 3Oth ult. Total loss
$75O,OOO; insurance $225,000. Patrick
Beatty was killed by the falling walls of
Bancroft's building.
A freight train on the Chicago & Alton
railroad broke in two near Delavan, Illi-
nois, on Tuesday, the rear section running
into the forward section and knocking