The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1888-06-02


secretary Of the Sunday School Cnio
I and Tract society. DR.. Mendenhall wa
5 elected editor of the Methodist Review
j. NJ. Buckley editor OF the Christian Ad
+ vocate, J. L. Bayles editor of the Wester
5 Christian Advocate and Arthur Edward
i editor of the Northwestern Christian Ad
vocate; J. NJ. Phillips, agent Of the New
York Methodist Book Concern. Ear
, Cranston. of the Western Book Concern
was unanimously elected treasurer of th'
missionary society.
An atrocious murder occurred neal
Kickapoo, Vernon county, Wisconsin, OF
the night of the gath ult., by which Reu
ben Drake, an aged and well.to-do farmer
his wife and two grandchildren met thell
death. It is supposed the murderers
sought to rob Mr.. Drake of some pension
money which he had secured about a
month ago, and it is not yet known
whether they succeeded or not. The
locality is an out the way place, sparse
ly settled and many miles from railroad.
It is thought that the fiendish deed was
committed by some one living near who
knew of the pension money, as it is Sec
tion seldom visited by tramps or stran-
gers.
An almost unprecedented water fall oc-
Cured throughout illinois and Iowa Sun
day. At Quincy, ILL.,, two and one-eighth
inches fell in less than four hours, dis.
couraglng people in flooded districts.
Great daanage was done by hail, wind and
lightning in the territory extending from
Indiana to Nebraska. Many streams are
over their banks. A water spout which
broke in the northwestern part of Davies
county, Nebraska, submerged five miles
of track on the Fremont, Elkhorn g. Mis-
souri, Valley railway and washed away
numerous bridges. Damage along the
White and Loan Tree rivers is very great.
The White river rose sixteen feet IN forty
minutes and farmers had to abandon their
homes, which were washed away.
A collision occurred on the Cheyenne
& Northern branch of the Union Pacific
near Bordeaux, Wednesday, between the
work train apd passenger engine, which
resulted In the death Of the passenger
conductor, Harder, Fireman Fam and
Fireman Mayfeld, and probably fatal in
jury to Engineers Brooks and Marsdeu
and serious injury to four other employees.
A washout 0ccasioned the sending out of
the work train. On arrival of the south
bound passenger at Bordeaux the conduc-
tor ran with the empty engine to the
scene of the washout to learn the situa-
ti"n. While making the run the collision
occurred with the work train, which was
running to Bordeaux at full speed.
An Augusta, Me-, special says that
during conversation with one of Mr..
Blaine's personal friends last Saturday he
gave a reporter piece of news which
has never been made public. s'Did you
know" said he, ''tlat Mr. Blaine's house
was broken into some time ago while he
and his family were absent, aud all his
political and business correspondence and
private papers involving financial opera
tons, which were in his library, were
overhauled and a portion of them ab-
stractcd? l don't think that anybody IN
particular was ever suspected of being
the thief. The supposition is that the
robbery was perpetrated in the expecta-
ton Of obtaining something among Mr..
Blaine's private papers which might be
used to his political injury if ever want
ed. | never learned the character of the
papers stolen"