The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1888-02-11

assailants Tom Courtney, promlnen
Young man. The latter left Indiana ant
was arrested at Fort Scott, Kansas. Las
Friday night friends of Courtney went t.
Williams house and broke in. Masked
men tied Mrs. Williams to the bedsteat
and her husband to tree. They hoggee
him until he signed statement exonera
ting Courtney from participation in thu
former attacks. Williams will die from
the beating he received.
The Toledo Blade publishes state
ment that syndicate of New York, To
ledo. Chicago and Detroit capitalists, rep
resenting $25, 200, held meeting
Tuesday night at Detroit and organized tt
build pipe line from the northwestern
Ohio oil fields to Toledo and erect refiner
les, so as to compete with the Standard
Oil company. They claim to own patents
on new prcess of refining and can place
the product on the market at cheap
er rate. The capital stock of the com
pany is $10,000,000. The only name thai
has yet been publicly connected with the
enterprise is Geo. F. Clark, of Chicago.
General Secretary Litchman of the
knights of Labor, says that reports rccciv-
ed show that the membership is 1ncrcas-
ing. The work Of organization is being
vigorously pushed forward in France,
Sweden, Denmark and Norway, and pre-
liminary steps have taken towards the
forming of general assembly for Europe.
There are already twenty-six assemblies
in England and twenty-four in Belgium,
and the establishment of general assem-
bly, in England, to include the continent,
is but fore-runner of IA plan to organize
the world into five general assemblies,
which would be subordinate only to su-
preme assembly, composed of the repre-
sentatives of each country.
Advices were received at San Francisco
Monday to the effect that vessel, sup
posed to be the British bark Abercorn,
bound from Mayport, England, to Port
land, Oregon, was wrecked on the Wash
ington territory coast, on the night of Feb
ruary 1st The vessel arrived off Colum-
bia river bar on February 1st, but being
unable to get over the breakers, put to sea
again. She was caught in a gale and driven
northward, and during the night was
wrecked on the coast near Gray's Harbor.
The sea was so high that the officers and
crew could not leave the vessel. They
tried to Go SO but failed, and were lost ex-
cept two seamcn and an apprentice. Its
thought that fully twenty lives were lost.
The Abercorn's captain was named Nc
Cullom. She had cargo of iron ore, and
the vessel and cargo was valued at $780,
900.
Hubbard Harrell, colored boy 20 years
old, under the influence of liquor went
to the home of his brother-in law, James
Pope, near Eastman, Georgia, on the 4th
inst. and killed Pope's three children.
Filling large kettle used for washing
hogs, with boiling water, Harrell CON-
menced his work by inducing one of the
children to entirely undress, after which he
suddenly trlppcd the little fellow up and
landed him in the kettle, where he was
boiled alive. The next child resisted, hut
Harrell felled her to the ground with an
iron bar, and while she was still insensible,
threw her into the cauldron with the boiled
corpse of her brother. The remaining child
was the younges; of the trio, and picking
it up by the ankles, Harrell was beating
its head against tree, when, attracted by
its cries, the parents appeared and the
young murderer fled. The little one
skull was so badly fractured, however, that
death resulted. At last accounts young
Harrel! was still at large.
A Remarkable Blizzard Story.
The champion blizzard story of the
season comes from Aurora county, D.
T., and is printed in the Minneapolis
Journal thusly: The biggest authentic
blizzard story of the season comes from
Aurora county, When the great storm
of the 18th inst. swept over that county
Eric johnson, farmer near Plankin-
ton, was watering his cattle at some dis
lance from his buildings. He used his
utmost exertions to drive the cattle
home, but without avail, as shortly
they as well as himself were exhausted,
Among the drove of cattle was very
large OK which soon became bewildered
and lay down to die close to where
johnson was floundering in the snow
At this moment johnson, who was
making frantic efforts to save himself
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