The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1888-02-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

hreuZgraDen coal mines at AalSerSta
term, Bavaria, on the 18th, killed fort
persons.
A Shanghai dispatch of the 10Th state
that an earthquake has occurred in ii
province of Yunnan, and two thousan
lives lost.
| The Central City, Dakota, bank ha
suspended. It is stated that deposition
will lose nothing, as the assets will full
cover Liabilities.
The national democratic committee, il
session at Washington this week, declde'
to hold the national convention at 81
Louis, July 5th.
A bill has passed the house providing
for the sale of the Black Bob Indial
reservation in Kansas. The land is to b'
sold at So per acre.
Charles Wingard and Anna Fox, uacl,
and niece, in Jail at Alliance, o., for elop
ing from Monroe, Michigan, suicided b,
shooting Wednesday morning.
German bankers at New York have re-
ceived private advices informing then
that there is no hope for the recovery o
the Crown Prince of Germany.
In an interview with the Washington
agent of the associated press, Gen. Phil
Sheridan unequivocally declines to be.
come candidate for the presidency.
SiIas Barrett was convicted of murder
in the first degree at Minneapolis, on the
18th. Both the Barrett brothers are now
under conviction for the murder of the
car drivor Tollaffson, in that city.
BY the explosion Of dynamite at Du-
luth, Minn., Wednesday, eighteen men
were injured. Eight of the injured men
were taken to the hospital, where one
died and the others art not expected to
live.
The announcement is made that Nina
Van Zandt is TO 60 upon the stage. A
play is being prepared for the proxy wife
of the arch-anarclist calculated to portray
the anarchist doctrines in the most favor
able light.
The president has issued an order con-
solidating the Quinafelt Indian agency at
Washington territory with the Nisqually
and Skohomish agency in the same terri
tory, to be known as the "Puyallup
agency, (consolidated).' The salary Of
the agent is fixed at s., 600 per annum.
The Chicago police have discovered
the murderer Of Millionaire Smell, in the
person of VIM. B. Tascott, the son of a
prominent and wealthy citizen Of that
city. Two thousand dollars reward has
been offered for his apprehension, but so
far all efforts to capture him have been
futile.
Fred Anchslag murdered Charles
Hitchcock and his wife Jan. "a, near
Santa Anna, Cal. He was tried, and the
jury, after Is minutes deliberation, found
him guilty of murder IN the first degree.
A mob had lynched the supposed MUIR
derer at the time the deed was done, but
the real murderer has confessed that the
man lynched was innocent.
Albert Writ, of Burlington, Iowa, aged
70 years, attacked his daughter with a
corn knife and cut her dangerously. She
escaped to the field where her husband
was at work, and the old man then set
fire to the house in which were two little
The house was entirely
consumed and the children burned to
DEATH Writ then hanged himself.
BY a strict party vote the house COM
mittee on territories Thursday agreed to
report favorably Chairman Springer's
bill, to enable the people of
Utah, Montana, Washington territory and
New Mexico to form constitutions and
state governments, and to be admitted to
the union on an equal footing with the
original states. The republicans will
present a minority report in opposition.
Kittatas Localizer: Dan Conroy may
not be very moral man; but late devel-
opments prove that he is not as black
hearted william as he has been painted.
The girl he has said to have raped had
been with Dan in the same car many
times before, and at the time of the al
legged beastly act was there Of hcr own
free will, and no others had anything
whatever to do with the girl. An inves-
tigation has brought out this statement Of
the facts in the case.
The efforts to form close combination
Of the twenty-five nail manufacturers,
about 1900 mechanics, in
New England, New York, New Jersey,
Eastern Pennsylvania, Maryland and Vir-
ginia, have been successful. Alta private
meeting held in New York on Thursday
thirteen of the manufacturers signed an
agreement to cut down the production
about 40 per cent, and the remaining
twelve are expected to sign by Saturday.
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