The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1888-06-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Snowfall was reported at Ellsworth,
Wisconsin, Tuesday morning.

N6WS VI ld6 LIN.
Snowfall was reported at Ellsworth
Wisconsin, Tuesday morning.
Eleven cases of heat prostration wer
reported from New York on Saturda
last.
j A large five-story building, occupied b.
several large cigar manufactures, wa
destroyed at New York Sunday, involvin!
a loss of $50O,0O0.
BY the capsizing Of the steam yach
Owlette with party of excursionists iron
Newark, New Jersey, on the gath inst.
six persons lost their lives.
| Charles A. Pitcher, teller of the Uniol
band at Providence, Rhode Island, ha
abscondcd with half a million in bonds
and all the cash in the vault.
The French copper syndicate has
bought for three years the output OF the
leading copper mines Of Japan, amount
ing to scven-eighths of the total japanese
output. .z...
BY collision on the Pennsylvania &
Schuylkill Valley railroad at Cable City
on Tuesday six men wcro killed and slS
badly injured. 1t is not believed the
wounded men can live.
A gale that caused great loss Of life and
property occurred at Grand River, Que
bee, Wednesday. Boats fishipg on the
bank were swept away and as far as can
be asccrtained six men were drowned.
The official canvass ;of the vote Of tile
state of Oregon has been completed. The
result on the congressional election is as
follows: Herman, 32,82O; John NJ. Gear
in (democrat), 25,413; George NJ. Miller
(prohibitionist), 1874; Herman's plural
lty, 7,407.
At a meeting of the democratic national
committee at Washington on Tuesday
William H. Barnum of Connecticut was
elected chairman, S. p. Sherin Of Indiana
and E. b. Dickinson of New York secre-
tary and assistant secretary and Charles ].
Canda treasurer.
At Minneapolis, Minnesota, on Tuesday
Silas Robinson fatally shot his wife and
Nick Weiss, with whom she was out
walking, and afterwards put three bullets
into his own body and will probably die.
Robinson was drunken fellow and his
wife had left him.
A fire in the Belmont mine in northern
California on Monday burned the hoisting
works. Three men, A. James, William
Reardon and Joshua Watkins, were i'm
prisoned in the mine and died from suffo-
cation and another, Andrew Larson, lost
his life IN attempting to rescue them.
The Duke of York, chief of the Clea-
lum tribe of Indians, who died at his
home at the mouth of Scow Bay, was
buried Monday at Port Townsend, Wash
ington, in the Masonic cemetery. He
was noted parsonage and an historic
figure and was we'll known to all old resi-
dents Of the sound.
BY the burning Of small frame house
on Edwards street, St. Paul, occupied by
Mr.. Burnester and family, ON Tuesday,
Burneister's 15-year old daughter Maud
and Mrs. Maggie Ross, an artist from
Chippewa, Wis, were suffocated to death.
DuTIlClSlCI NutCV NOuuSSA
had narrow escape.
The town Of Sundsval, Sweden, has
been burned. The town of Umea, on the
gulf of Bothnia, also partially burned.
The damage at Sundsval and Umea will
reach $5,OOO,OO0. Immense tracts of
forest land have been burned over.
Drought has prevailed for long time,
rendering the wood very dry.
Defaulter Pitcher Of the Union bank of
Providence, r. l.. arrived in Montreal on
Tuesday, where he was arrested. The
prisoner had bought ticket by the Allan
line and intended to leave the following
morning for England. He was taken to
his room and searched. Securities and
cash amounting to 100000 were found
upon his person.
In the senate Wednesday Davis, from
the pension committee, reported back
eight vetoed pension bills with the recon-.
mcndation that they be passed notwith.
standing the presidents objections. The
eight bills were placed on the calendar
A motion to have the committees report
on them printed in the Record, and mo-
ton to print 5000 was agreed to.
AT Midway park, st. Paul, Wednesday
some 400 representative horsemen from
Tennessee, Illinois, Iowa and Dakota at
tended the auction sale of the late Com
modore Kittson's trotting stock. Captain
Phil c. Kidd was the auctioneer. Forty
two horses were sold and brought $54 900
The famous mare $50 So'' was bought by
I'D. Stout Of Dubuque, Iowa, for S., 500
the highest price ever paid for brooe
mare in America.
At a meeting of French students a
Paris it was decided to challenge ten stu
dents of the Hossobarussia society Il
measure swords with ten French student
on neutral grounds in Switzerland, in con
sequence of the insult which the Freyburs
college students offered to the Frencl
tourists in Baden. The leader of th'
Freyburg students was sentenced to three
weeks imprisonment and his accomplicc
to lesser terms for the insult referred t
and all we're heavily fined.
A telegram from Pulaski county, Mis-
souri,, says bold outrage was committed
there Saturday night by an organized
band similar to the White Caps Of Indi
ana. About midnight party of maske'
, riders rode up to the house Of Charlie
Gross, a wealthy farmer, and dragget
him from the house, carried him mil
away and then whipped him to death
. The alleged cause was the divulging q
, secrets of the Agricultural Wheel, a SC
! crct organization. Gross was f1ayed alive
I Al,out 900 dealers. renresenting two