The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1888-03-17
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The senate has passed the dependc
pension bill by vote of A to Is.
So far as reported the death list fro
y the effect of the blizzard in New Yo
numbers 26.
The Rafael Refs, little excursion boz
i, exploded In the harbor of Carthagen
killing forty people.
It is estimated that the loss by til
storm in New York city will be $1,000
! 900, and in the state $2O,OOO,O00.
: Henry Bergh, the founder and presidel
9 Of the society for the prevention of crue
: ty to ANIMALS, died in New York on Nor
day morning last.
The Knights of Labor have declare
the miners strike in the Lehish vale
off, and IN few days every coriery vii
again be at work.
Geo. E. Reed, ex-city treasurer of Bis
marck, has pleaded guilty to charge 0
embezzlement, and March goth has beel
set as the time for passing sentence.
Henry Ward Beecher's own version o
the Tilton. .Beecher dispute, prepared b,
himself some time before his death, is t.
be published, with the sanction of Mrs
Beecfer.
Horace w. Rounds, son of the late ex
public printer, is confined at the detention
hospital for the insane, in Chicago. His
nerves are sadly shattered by worry over
business affairs and sickness has temper
arily unsettled his reason.
All railroads centering in st. Louis
stopped handling Burlington freight on
Monday. This was due to resolution
adopted at meeting of the engineers
firemen and brakemen. Twelve roads
were affected by the order.
The Methodist university at Mitchell,
Dakota, was destroyed by fire on the 9th
inst. The fire started in the second story
and prevented escape by the stairway.
Nine pupils and three of the instructors
were injured, two fatally, in making their
escape by the windows.
The British bark Tasmania, which
sailed from London on the fifth instant
for San Francisco, has returned with her
bowsprit gone and her stern damaged by
collision with the British ship City of
Corinth, from Iquique for Hamburg. The
Tasmania is anchored off Folkestone. The
City Of Corinth sunk. 1t is belieyed 20
lives were lost.
Ton n--o..-- ~v"uIy, nAIoovnII, DaIu
Knobbers who were convicted last Sep
tembcr in the United States court at JEFF
ferson City, of whipping and driving two
homesteaders from government land,
have been sentenced to from two to six
months in the penitentiary with costs.
Three others who attempted to intimidate
government witnesses were each given
sixty days in Jail.
Hong Kong advices received by steam
ship al San Francisco state that frightful
earthquakes have occurred in the depart
ment of Ping Chan, lasting four days.
Fifteen thousand lives were lost, the num-
Der injured being too great for computa-
ton. The city of Yamen was entirely
destroyed and in the city Lam-on the
shocks were scarcely less disastrous. j
The severest storm of the season pre-
vailed throughout New York and other
eastern states as we'll as in Michigan, On
Sunday and Monday. Trains were block
AIDED and in many instances the telegraph
wires were down; preventing communica-
ton with principal points in New York
state. In New York city the elevated
roads were blockaded and travel over
them suspended.
Thomas J. Potter, ice-president and
general manager of the Union Pacific
railway, died at Welcker's hotel in Wash
ington, on the 9th inst, aged 48 years.
He began railroad business as station
agent, and worked his way up to the
position he held at the time of his death,
making remarkably successful career
He became general manager of the Union
Pacific in May last at salary Of $4,000
year,-more than that received by the
president of the United States.
A fight to finish with light gloves be-
tween Jack Dempsey and Jack Hopper,
took place near Pleasant Valley, N. j., on
Wednesday. Hopper's weight wa 1877
pounds, while Dempsey weighed five
pounds more. Sixteen rounds we're fought,
the first part of the fight favoring Hopper.
In the fifth round Hopper broke his night
arm just above the wrist, after which
Dempsey had the best of the battle. Hop
per continued to fight until the fifteenth
round when his left arm was also broken,
and in the sixteenth he was knocke out.
Both men were badly punished.
A condition of affairs is reported at
Coal Hill, Arkansas, one of the towns
where mines are worked with convict