The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1888-04-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Grants physicians, died in New York a
2:45 Wednesday afternoon.
The Louisiana election on Tuesd ay re
suited in the election Of Nichols (demo
craD by majority Of 10000.
John A. Logan, son of the late senator
was arrested an Carleton, Pa, for shooting
an Italian laborcr at limestone quarry
where he was acting as superintendent.
At Jeanner, Louisiana, in dispute al
the polls Tuesday, Nicholas Provost was
shot dead, and his brother L. F. Provost
mortally wounded. The trouble is said
to have arisen from family feud.
The house committee on elections by
an unanimous vote decided the contested
election case of Nathan Frank vs.. John
NJ. Glover in the ninth Missouri district
in favor Of Glover, the sitting member.
Two republicans were absent.
A dispatch from Calcutta states that
the recent tornado, which devasted
Docca, India, caused loss of 100000.
One hundred and twelve bodies have been
recovered from the RUNS ana about 1000
persons are in the hospitals injured.
A car containing 100 kegs Of powder
blew up at Montgomery, Ala, Saturday,
shaking the whole town. Windows were
broken half a mile away and plastcring
shaken down at a greater distance. A ne
gro car coupler was blown to pieces.
The British steamer, Bielea, from Ant
werp, had her bow stove and was after
ward seriously damaged in collision in
fog off Deal with the steamer Vena,
from Bilboa for Rotterdam. The Vena
sank, and sixteen Of the persons on board
of her lost their lives.
One Of the walls Of the former convent
of San Fernandino, iii the City Of Mexico,
which was in progress Of demolition, fell
on the 14th, burying the workmen in the
ruins. A number of dead bodies were re-
covered, and many persons were wounded
more or less seriously.
Gen. Grants birthday anniversary, the
9th, has been appointed Arbor Day by
the Iowa superintendent Of schools. He
recommends that every scholar plant a
tree in the generals honor, and has issued
Grant leafet with biography and Sc
lections from speeches.
The president has returned to the sen
ate unsigned acts granting pensions to
Hannah S. Langdon, Betsey Mansfield and
Laura A. Wright. These acts were We
toed on the ground that death did not re-
suit from injuries received during the
war or sickness incident to army service.
A lockout Of the brewers in New York,
Brooklyn, Jersey City, Newark, Patter-
son and Staten Island, was inaugurated
on Monday, throwing fifty thousand en-
ployes out Of work. The lockout is the
result Of demands made by the laborers'
union, which was not acceeded to by their
employers.
A Brownsville, Texas, special says that
one Of the men bitten at the Mucrto
ranch by the mad wolf that bit Chamber
lain, who is now in Paris under Pasteur's
treatment, become wild and fed to the
woods. He appeared near the Isodore
ranch. entered, and siezlng six year-old
chile of Manuel Cannetc, bit and tore it
to pieces.
The visible supply Of grain in the Uni
ted States and Canada compared to the
same time last year. as compiled by the
Board Of Trade, is as follows: Wheat,
100000 bushels; decrease, $4,000, 900;
corn, 100000; decrease, 100000;
oats, 100000; decrease, 100000; rye,
800, 900; decrease, O,000; barley, 1885,
600; increase, 250,000.
The American Exchange in Europe has
suspended, with liabilities OF $40O, 900.
The company was formed in 1880 under
the English liability law, with an author
,zed capital Of s., 900, 900, Of which $780,
900 was paid in, and succeeded to the
business OF H. F. Gillig & Co., which had
been established in 1878, paying $3:O00,-
900 in stock for the purchase. Henry F.
Gillig remained as vice president and
manager, Hon. Joseph P. Hawley being
president.
The trial Of David Walker, chief Of the
Bald Knobbers, at Ozark, Mo-, resulted in
a verdict Of guilty in the first degree.
James Matthews, VIM. Stanley, Amos
Jonen and C. G. Simmons were sentenced
by the court. Stanley and Jones got
twenty five years in the penitentiary,
Simmons fifteen years and Matthews was
released on 81 900 bail.
An incendiary fire in the stables ol
Senator Stanford at Palo Alto Tuesday
night destroyed property valued at $780,
900. The following horses were burned
to death: Clinton Belle, valued at ter
thousand dollars; Rexford, five years old
record 2:24, worth about the same. Nor
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