The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1886-09-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK

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Iowa Knights of Labor are boycotting
the state fair.
A national electric convention is in ses-
sion at Detroit
About 800 Mormons are detained at
Castle Garden as test case.
The Deadwood National bank, capital
100000, is authorized to begin business.
The Mikado has ordered the English
language taught in the public schools Of
Japan.
The Eagle roller Touring mill at Quin-
cy, ILL.,, was burned. Loss $4,000, fully
insured.
A Pennsylvania citizen named Cutting
has applied to the legislature for change
of name.
| The wealthiest colored man in the Unit
e5 States is Tonic Luton, of New Orleans,
| worth 81, lUO,OOO.
The president left Washington earlier
than he intended because of his wife suf-
fering with malaria.
In an address at Carlisle, ILL.,, Mr.. Sparks
said great many settlers nowadays were
dishonest land grabbers.
A pigeon owned in Brooklyn, N. Y,
flew from Montgomery, Ala, 875 miles,
in 10 hours, beating all records.
The mayor of Princeton, Ind, has sent
to New Orleans for bloodhounds to be
used IN Kidding that city of burglars.
Fifty cents, with costs reaching to near
" five dollars, was decided to be the pen
atty for mild swearing in Keyport, N. j.
The United States reduced her national
debt hundred millions last year, while
Great Britain increased her debt ten mil
lions.
A Canadian meteorologist says that
Pittsburg, Pa, will be destroyed by a
meteoric shower IN the latter part of Sep
tember.
Lawrence Donovan, pressman on New
York paper, jumped from the Brooklyn
bridge on a wager of $500 successfully.
He was arrested afterward.
Maud Dollars, handsome Chicago girl,
accompanied by her hacker, Jerry Costel-
10, has gone to New York, where she will
make an attempt to jump from the Brook
lyn bridge for purse of $1,000.
The news from the whaling fleet in the
Arctic ocean is discouraging, the catch
at latest reports being very small. This
has had the effect to advance the price of
whalebone from 25 cents pound to So.
Two hundred members of the order of
St. George met at New York on Monday
and resolved to attempt monster parade
on June 2s, 1887, to celebrate the fiftieth
anniversary Of the ascension Of Queen
Victoria to the throne of Great Britain.
A dispatch states that Geronimo was
captured and that during conflict be-
tween Mexican and American soldiers
over who should take charge Of him, in
which five Mexicans were killed and two
Americans wounded, Geronimo escaped.
A Winnipeg dispatch says that the bag
gage Of Sir Charles Dixie and Lord King
ston, who recently passed through Wlnni-
peg on their way to the Pacific coast, was
seized by the northwest mounted police
on entering their territories for containing
liquor. Sir Charles is travelling under the
name of Tetlow. ...........
Many months have passed since the
memorable robbery of the express on the
Rock Island railroad near Joliet, and
which eliminated IN the death of Messen-
ger Nichols, but it is among the proba
bilities that the perpetrators of the deed
will soon be brought to justice. The
men are known, their names being "Cleve-
land" Charley, "Capt." Ebbs, "Brick"
Henry and Jack Williams, alias "Eat- 'em-
up Jack" There if another man as yet
unknown.
At 9:15 o'clock on Monday morning in
the middle of heavy thunder shower the
powder magazine belonging to the Latin
& Rand powder company, Chicago, was
struck by lightning. An explosion fol-
lowed, which destroyed property valued
at 5000, besides killing one person al
most instantly, fatally injuring four and
contributing painful injuries to nearly
twenty-five others. Where the magazine
stood is an immense excavation nearly
fifty feet IN depth.
i The dry goods men Of New York and
the trunk lines between that city and Chi
cago have long had standing disagree
ment in regard to the tariff of seventy. five
cents per 100 pounds charged on cotton
piece goods in which there is large com
merce and comparatively small profit
Tie matter has just been adjusted by the
reduction OF the tariff to fifty cents pei
100 pounds, notice of which is now out