The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1886-02-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

rendered to Lieut. Maus, who succeede
the late Capt. Crawford.
The national encampment of the Gran
Army Of the Republic will be held in Sal
Francisco, August 3rd, 1886.
The publishers of "Gen. Grants Life
paid Mrs. L. S. Grant, last week, a checl
of $3.50, 900, the first payment on accoun
of sales.
St. Paul had a $225,OO fire on Frida,
night of last week. The Ryan Drug Co.
Schultz & Co., and Dennis Ryan wer,
burned out.
Rltzinger Bros bank at indianapolis
Indiana, closed its doors on the 1st inst.
with liabilities of $45O,OOO. Creditors
will realize 25 per cent.
A fire in the Grand Haven & Milwaukee
freight house at Grand Haven, Michigan
on the 2nd inst, caused loss of over a
quarter of million dollars.
The boiler in saw mill at Brecken.
ridge, Missouri, exploded on the 3Oth,
killing Spencer Ried, the engineer, and
Samuel Adams, the fireman.
Geo. P Tangel and Joseph Clark, who
were bitten by St. Bernard dog atJcrsey
City, N. j., on the End, have been sent to
Paris for treatment by Pasteur.
The suspension of the Nova Scotia Su-
gar company is announced, with liabilities
of half million. of which $25O,OOO is
due to the Merchants bank of Halifax.
Denver has been decided upon as head
quarters for the national rangemen's asso-
citation, and conventions will meet there
the second Tuesday of every February.
By the giving way of two levces on
Roberts island near Stockton, California,
last week $4,000 acres (partly grain fields)
were inundated. The loss is about $780,
900.
Lawrence Poier, of Toledo, Ohio, has
asked the court to grant him divorce SO
that his wife may marry her step son, with
whom she has fallen in love since she
came into the family.
The public debt statement shows de-
crease for January Of $S,672.55 Ac-
cording to the statement issued the prin-
cipal and interest on the public debt
to 81 1869, 9,O63,342.
Psymaster General J. A. Smith of the
navy has been dismissed from the service
Tor ''scandalous conduct tending to the des-
truction of good morals" and for ''culpa-
bic inefficiency in the performance of
duty"
General James B. Weaver of Iowa and
Hon. Sidney Clark, ex-member Of con-
yress from Kansas, addressed the senate
committee on territories yesterday in be-
lalf of the organization Of the Territory
If Oklahoma.
The Freeport (Ill.) National bank, which
collected six postoffice orders for 800 at
he Freeport office for Hibbs, the default
ng postmaster of Lewiston, Idaho, on
Thursday of last week paid over the mon
y to the Freeport postmaster.
Negotiations, are in progress in st. Louis
ooking to the consolidation of the loco
motive fremen's association with the
Knights of Labor. The consolidation will
'e the most important of its character
yer known in this or any other country.
A fire at Mandan, Dakota, on Monday
destroyed the buildings and stocks of
1cegaard s. Hoke, hardware, and Roby|
3ros., wholesale liquors, and an unoccu-
lied building belonging to the Northern
Pacific. Loss $17,7O0; insurance, $12, GOO.
Fully 5000 people, headed by brass
lands, marched to the depot at Hastings,
Nebraska, to witness the arrival of delay
d trains. Twenty-nine passenger trains
'ulled into the depot inside of thirty |
minutes. The blockade had lasted ten
lays.
The Illinois supreme court has declared
ull Israc Foreman's bequest of $4,000
} the American Bible and Methodist
publication societies. Foreman was crazy
n religion. His daughter, Mrs. Price Of
t. Louis, wife Of an expressman, gets the
loney.
Mrs. Bayard, wife Of the secretary Of
+ate, died at her residence in Washington
n the morning Of January 30th, just two
'eeks and one day after the death Of her
aughter. The immediate cause of Mrs.
ayard's death was congestion of the brain,
rought on by the shock of her daughters
ldden death.
A special dispatch Of the 2Sth asserts
lat fully fifteen thousand head of cattle
re dead on the prairles within radius of
,venty-iv miles Of Fort Elliott, Texas,
aving been killed by starvation and ex-
osure during the recent cold snap. Not
lore than one per cent of them, it is said,
ere native cattle.