The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1888-02-18
any Chinese person not laborer the night
Of entry into the United States, the in
quiry admits of no other than a negative
answer

quiry admits OF no other than negative
answer.
At Brooklyn shortly before noon Tues
day, as Reed avenue street car filleo
with people was passing under large
derrick used in erecting an elevated rail
road structure on Broadway near Sumner
avenue, Brooklyn, the ropes sustaining
the derrick gave way and it fell on the
car crushing it like an egg shell. Seventeen
Of the passengers on the car were injured
and seven people were killed.
By an explosion IN Dupont's powder
works at Wapwallopin, Pa, on the 11th,
four men were instantly killed. The
shock was felt at Wilkesharre, twenty
miles distant. In Wapwallopin nearly
every building was damaged or wrecked.
Besides the killed, over forty persons were
injured, fourteen Of whom it is SAID will
die. The names of the killed are: Peter
Klspbaugh, George Stout, Olean Teets
and John Rossman. They were blown to
pieces and only small portions of their
bodies have been found.
St. Paul Globe Washington special, 9th:
Delegates Toole and VOORHEES,, who made
an argument to-day before the house COM
mittee on territories, both express them
selyes as pleased with the manner in
which they we're received and listened to
by the entire committee Mr.. Voorhees,
is especially enthusiastic in his belief that
Montana shall have statehood, or he will
fight for admission of any
other territory. The matter Of the admis-
sion of Dakota will be considered by the
committee on territories again next Mon
day.
A party Of eight persons (all colored)
consisting of Horace Carter and his eldest
daughter, Eliza, and younger daughter,
Hannah, Pierre and Frisco Allen, Priscilla
Smith, Cecilia Lewis and a boy named
Ike Canter, crossed the river from the La
Reusito plantation in Louisiana, to Dy-
mons Fairview place, Saturday afternoon,
in a skiff The boat was old. The
swells of passing steamer caused the
skiff to 60 to pieces and seven of the oc-
cupants were drowned. Ike Canter, the
boy, saved himself by clinging to pieces
Of the boat.
Sunday night, during drunken spree
at Silver Brook, Penn, six Hungarians
were roasted to death. There had been at
q Polish church dedication and returned
home drunk. A fight occurred and lamp
was overturned and exploded. The
names of those roasted alive were John
Elias, John Seddo, John Hobinko, w.
Michael Jenkovitich, Mary Mauleck and
Paul Siskowitz. John Mauleck and wife
and Peter Menksi we're burned so badly
that they will die, and their baby, thrown
out of the window, will die. Six others
we're terribly burned.
Colfax, W. T., special: Dan Conroy,
the infamous wretch who committed an
outrage in Palouse City on Miss Mary
Hughes, made his escape while en- route
between Spokane and Palouse. Conroy
was in charge Of deputy sheriff Collisan.
It is reported that when the train left
Marshal station the prisoner jumped from
his seat and off tile train. The sheriff en-
deavored to stop the train, but instead the
trainmen increased it to their utmost speed
until the train reached Spangle. It is
stated that the scoundrel was afterwards
captured by the vigilantes and hanged.
Sarah j. Robinson, the alleged whole
sale poisoner, at Boston, has been found
guilty Of murder in the first degree. In
the trial she was charged with the mur-
der of Prince Arthur Freeman, her neph-
ew. Mrs. Robinson had previously been
tried on the charge Of killing her son
and daughter, but the jury disagreed. The
seven supposed victims Of her poisoning
were Moses, her husband; Lizzie J., her
daughter; Willie j., her son; Prince Ar
thur Freeman, her nephew; Mrs. p. A.
Freeman, her sister; and Oliver Sleeper,
who boarded IN her house and is supposed
to have been distant relative. She kill
ed them to get their life insurance. Since
her conviction she has expressed deter
mination to starve herself and refuses to
eat.
An official statement showing the losse
Of life in Dakota by the recent blizzard
to have been greatly exaggerated has been
published. Governor Church writes say
ing there is no want Of food in the terri
tory and the loss of life in Yankton
county was only three. ExGov. Pierce
'corroborates Gov Church, and is joined in
the statement by bankers and prominent
citizens of north Dakota. As to the live
stock, the exaggeratlon is still worse. OF
5000 horses, 1000 sheep, 10000
cattle and $4,000 hogs In Yankton
county not over fifty in all were lost.
Railroad Commissioner n. T. Smith of
Huron. writes. 6 As far as learned. the