The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1888-01-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


The right to vote has been given the
women of Washington territory, Governor
Semple having signed the bill on Thurs
day.
"Grandma' Garfield, mother of the late
President Garfield, died at the home of
Garfield, in Mentor, on Saturday last, aged
SO years.
VIM. O'Brien, the Irish editor and pa
triot, was released from the Tullamore Jail
on the goth, where he had been confined
since October 81.
Frederick Gustav Schwatka, father of
Lieut.. Schwatka OF Arctic fame, and pi-
oneer of Oregon, died at Salem, that state,
on the 18th inst.
By the explosion of boiler in the grain
elevator Of George Raster s. Co., at james
vile, Wis, three men were ssllled. The
building took fire and was destroyed.
The charge of arson made against Lam
bert & Bishop, wire manufacturers at Jol-
let, ILL.,, has fallen through, the grand jury
having failed to return an indictment.
Another blizzard swept over eastern
Dakota Tuesday. At Neche the mercury
is reported to have gone down to go be-
low, the wind reaching velocity of forty
miles an hour.
The First National bank of Auburn,
New York, closed its doors on the 23d, by
reason of heavy dcfalcations on the part
of its cashier. Chas O'Bricn, who has gone
to Canada. The deficiency will be about
100000.
The secretary of the interior has re-
quested congress to make an appropriation
of $22, to enable him to pay the Red
Cloud and Red Leaf bands of Sioux Indl-
ans for ponies taken from them by the
military in 1876.
A Shanghai dispatch of the 10Th states
that while 1000 Chinese workmen under
command of several mandarins were max
ing breakwater to stem the Hoanghoa
floods they were engulfed by sudden
rush of water and only few escaped.
BY the burning of boarding house at
Tower, Mimi, on the goth. ten persons
were burned to death. The extreme cold,
40 below zero, added to the difficulty Of
rescuing the victims, and caused extreme
suffering to those who escaped the flames.
On the 23d the United States supreme
court rendered decision In the Maxwell
Preller murder case, dismissing the case
| for want of jurisdiction. The effect of the
decision is to affirm the sentence of death,
pronounced by the Missouri state court.
A railway accident occurred Monday
afternoon on the Salem branch of the Del
aware g. Hudson railroad from the result
of which four men will probably die.
Many others were seriously, but not fatal
ly injured. The accident occurred near
Baskerville, New York.
Fourteen Cinnamon left Victoria, B. c.,
on the morning of the 10th in small boat
for the San Juan islands, thus to smuggle
themselves on to the main land of Wash
ingtoD territory. The boat upset when
near the islands. All hands were drowned
and their bodies were washed upon shore
Very Rev. Charles Vissani, O. S. F., OF
the Commissariat of the Holy Land, is pre-.
pairing great pilgrimage of American
Catholics to Palestine for the spring OF
1889. The pilgrimage will go by the
way of Paris and Rome, and will probably
receive special audience from His Holi
ness Pope Leo XIII.
David Mason, professor of rhetoric anC
English literature in the university of Ed
inburg, Scotland, delivered lecture in
that city Tuesday, in the couse of which
he characterized Ignatius Donnelly''
Shakesperian cryptogram as miserable
dliyel and tissue of arithmetical puzzles
which would he hissed even in bedlam.
1t is estimated that fully 10000 sheer
perished during the recent blizzards il
the counties of Lampassas, Brown, Hamil
ton, Caryell aud Sansalia, all the large
wool producing counties of Texas. Nearl..
every flock along the Rio Grande suffered
depletion, the loss being generally confne'
to lambs and old sheep. 1t is thought tn
loss Of sheep will result in short woo
crop.
:, The Barb Wire Manufacturers associa
ton in session at Chicago on the 10Th ad
. vanced the price of wire to $3.4O per hun
dred. The association decided not to tax
advantage Of the recent decision of Judg
! Shires, Of Dubuque, declaring the Wash
!. burn Moen putent void. The member
will keep on paying license fees until tn
r matter is passed on by the United State
: supreme court.
The Horn Silver Mining company E
:, the 21st, filed in the United States circu
court at st. Paul, complaint again;
. Dennis Ryan, praying that he pay tn
!. plaintiff $500, 900, the amount of loans III
+ lawfully made to themselves b? Frank I
! Brown and Charles B. Francklyn, Will
> directors of the company with Ryan, fro'
2 1880 to 1884. It is stated that Brow
0 and Francklyn are now insolvent.
:, Bank officials along the Canadian DO
3 der Of Maine are considerably excited ov'
: the enforcement of an old internal revenr
It law which has been dead letter for yea
d and which provides that tax OF 10 p'
cent shall be levied upon any bank circ
h lating notes of foreign institution. o.
i bank at Callas is called on to pay 800, ,O(
}. for having evaded the law, and numb
95 of others are on the anxious seat.
10 Frank Fuller, who murdered Archbis
;; op Seghers, in Alaska, last fall, was four
j guilty of manslaughter and sentenced
Of Of ten years Imprisonment and to pay iii
es of 1000. He shot the archbishop viii
ae 1e he was In bed, simply for the reason
in has been stated. that Seghers insisted
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