The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1888-02-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

legislature granting women the right te
vote at municipal elections.
A fire in TIE stable at Fort Leavenwortf
Tuesday, sdffocated thirty-s,x horses be.
longing to "Co. H. first cavalry.
David Whitmer, the last surviving wit
ness of the book of Mormon, died al
Richmond, Missouri, ON the Goth.
A fire in the wholesale portion of New
York City, Monday, destroyed million
and half dollars worth of property
Prof. Asa Gray, the eminent botanist
and professor of botany at Harvard college,
died Of paralysis at Cambridge, Mass, on
the 3Oth.
A ten-round glove contest at Jersey
City, Tuesday, between Jack Dempsey
and Donlnick McCahrey, was won by
the former.
Monday afternoon two cowboys named
Arthur and Potts attempted to run the
town of Buffalo Gap, Dakota. The citizens
turned out in full force and killed both of
them
Three negro prisoners confined in the
Plymouth, N. c., Jail ON charge of mur-
der, were taken out and hanged on Satur-
day by masked men, who riddled their
bodies with bullets.
The latest reports say that seventy-two
miners lost their lives in the Wellington,
B. c., mine explosion. The Canadian
government will grant relief to the desti-
tute families of the victims
The fire in the Calumet g. Hecla mine
at Calumet, Michigan, is still burning. On
Tuesday Professor Agassiz decided to send
twenty five tons of concentrated ammonia
down the burning shafts to put the fire
out
At Snowden Village, Pa, Christian
Fetch, recently discharged pit boss of
the Snowden mines shot and killed him.
self and wife in the presence of six chill
dren. The poverty Of the family was the
cause.
A cable car on the Shelby avenue line
at St. Paul got away from the gripman on
Friday last, ran off the track and was
smashed Merrill L. Saunders was fatally
injured and number of others more or
less seriously wounded.
Crude petroleum was discovered near
Carmi, Illinois, on the 26th by party of
prospecting miners. The oil is reported
to have gushed from the earth at the rate
Of eighty barrels an hour. 1t is pro-
nounced by experts to be equal to the best
Pennsylvania article.
George Clark, president of Topographic
cal Union No. s of St. Louis, died on the
9th after brief illness. He was twice
president Of the International Typograph-
ical Union, and was a prominent candi
date for the position of public printer prior
to the appointment Of Mr. Benedict.
A committee representing the striking
operators Of the Philadelphia, Reading and
the Lehigh Valley railroad companies, and
the Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron
company, arrived in Washington Monday,
for the purpose of urging congress to take
troubles.
The secretary of the interior has in
dorsed the request Of the acting commits
sloner of the land office asking an addi-
tional appropriation Of 100000 for sur
veys, 100000 to be devoted especially to
surveying lands within the grant and ln-
demnity limits of land grant railroads,
$50, 900 for clerical service IN the offices
Of surveyors general, and 100000 for in
creased surveys.
It is stated that the wife Of Joe Mackin,
now in Joliet for fine work in Chicago
cleo lions, has been in the vicinity of Ga
lena, Illinois, of late on business connect
ed with her efforts to secure the pardon OF
her husband. The lady was at Savanna
Thursday under the name of Mrs Neigle-
son, of Chicago, and secured the name to
her petition of E. H. Wclch, now of that
place, one of the jury that convicted her
husband.
At Washington, on Tuesday, the police
arrested and locked up Abraham 1saacs,
Russian Jew of New York, who was there
to collect money which he imagined
President Cleveland defrauded him out of.
Isaacs, who is evidently crank, said
$4,000 was due him from the government
and the president had retained it for his
own use. He intended going to the White
House with big bull dog and demanding
Of the president that he settle up accounts.
The vendetta between the McCoys of
Pike county, Kentucky, apd the Hatfields,
Of Logan county, West Virginia, has grown
to such great proportions that it has been
found necessary for the officials Of Logan
county to call upon Governor Wilson, Of
that state, for aid to suppress the parties
engaged in the local warfare. Hostilities
were lately resumed, at which number
Of persons OF each party were killed, and
there does not seem to be any prospect of
peace.
The cold wave which swept over the
eastern states on Saturday and Sunday was
the worst known for many years. Trains
were blockaded on the railroads, and great
suffering among passengers reported. AS
an instance Of the fury of the blizzard it is
stated that on the New York Central, be-
tween Buffalo and Syracuse, nearly fifteen
carloads Of cattle and hogs, destined for
Boston and New York, were frozen to
death near Palmyra, and several carloads at
other points.
John Arensdorf and Paul Leadock, two
Of the defendants in the Haddock murder
trial, have been appointed western agents
for the Milwaukee Brewing company, and
will at once erect bottling works at Gov
ington, Nebraska, on the opposite side of
the river from Sioux City. This takes all