The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1888-12-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

| Mrs. Gen. M. T. Sherman died in New
York on last Tuesday.
i Tne Office of the Journal newspaper ir
lSidney, N. s. w., has been burned. Il
! was the finest in Australia. The loss was
about $5oo,ooo
! Boulanger's wife is taking steps to OBJ
tain divorce 1t is stated that one oi
the richest widows in France is willing td
marry Boulangcr.
! O'Connor, the Canadian oarsnan, has
defeated Teemer. He has started fol
Australia to compete for the champion.
ship Of the world.
Hertenstein, the president of Switzer-
land, who underwent an amputation OF
his right leg last week because of disease
of the arteries, is dead.
In accordance with his custom, Secre
tary Whitney has presented each of the
four hundred employees Of the navy de-
partment with large turkey for Thanks.
giving dinner.
| A panic in st. Louis school resulting
from unusual noise in the steam heaters
was the cause of two Of the teachers
being severely trampled on and several
scholars badly injured.
Walking matches have evidently not
gone out of fashion yet, as an audience of
5000 people assembled in the Madison
Square Garden in New York to witness
forty one men start on six-day tramp.
The boss ale and porter brewers Of
| New York and New Jersey at meeting
decided to lock out all their union men
and employ non-union men. This is be-
cause of the continued boycott on Steven
sons brewery.
Henry George, in an address in Loudon
said: The grasping for land in America
was rapidly making the country similar
to England. He wanted to utterly abol-
ish landlordism, and to grant every child
share in the land.
One Of the most severe storms Of snow
and wind known for years became
general oyer the province OF Ontario
Sunday evering. The wind at times
blew as hard as 70 mile per hour. The
streets and surrounding country are COW
cred with snow drifts, ten feet in places,
and the most severe cold prevails. Horse
car lines here have stopped running
Forty -four people were picked up in the
streets of Montreal by tho police Sun
day night unable to make their way
through the storm, being benumbed by
cold and bewildered by the. winds.
Charley Mitchell, the English pugilist,
who is now in Philadelphia, when shown
the Bpston dispatch announcing John L.
Sullivan's offer of $500 to Mitchell to
stand up eight rounds in public glove
contest, said: II don't want to take adj
vantage Of the man; he is sick. He must
have bad advisors. My advice to him
would be to lay off for five years instead
Of five months, and by that time he might
regain his old form. However, if be
wants to have go, am willing to meet
him, and what is more, / will give him
81 500 if he will stand up against me for
eight rounds.
General Crook was induced by the d.
rectors of the WAITS Sunday school to adj
dress 1900 street urchins at Thanks
giving dinner in Chicago. The subject
of his address was his experiences with
the Indians, and the result was amusing
to all, the noted Indian fighter, almost be-
fore he knew it, having a bad case of
stage fright. The little street savages re-
ceived him with such paralyzlng yells
and other like demonstrations of deviltry
that the subduer of redskins lost his voice
completely and was obliged to retire to
his seat, looking as fahgued as though he
had just come back from six days fight
with Geronimo Nevertheless the dinner
was the greatest success of the kind that
ever took place in Chicago.
Gov. jackson in an interview said the
situation Of the oyster rebellion, which
confronts the state of Maryland, Is this:
There are 800 oyster vessels, whose crews,
aggrogating 5000 armed men, are ban
ded together to dredge on certain grounds
and to drive off all state forces sent
against them. To oppose them the state
has fourteen vessels, most of them small
sloops, manned by about hundred men.
We have reached the stage where this
force cannot cope with the marauders,
and shall adopt measures for tie en-
forcement Of the law. have reason to
believe the secretary of war at Washing
ton will grant us the use of five or six
eight-pound cannons, which will be
placed on the state steamers and at spots
on the shore to be selected hereafter.
| The interstate commerce commission
by Commissioner Walker has rendered q
decision in the case of Slater vs. North