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

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pulsory Indian education.
The public debt was reduced $7,756
366 during the month of February.
i w. W. Corcoran, the philanthrophist
died at Washington on the Gath ult., age,
90 years.
| Judge Turner, associate justice of tn
supreme court Of Washington territory
has resigned.
The French schooner Flcur de La Me-
has floundered off the island Of Cayenne
and sixty passengers were drowned.
An illicit still has been discovered al
Huron, Dakota. The proprietor claims
he had a special permit from a revenue
collector to experiment"
Advices from Tula, Mexico, state tina,
on the night Of the 25th Judge Emile
Martinez, the highest judicial authority OF
that country, was murdered.
A sculling race between Teemer, Hamm
and Mckay, for the championship of
America, took place Tuesday at Lake
Weir, Florida, and was won by Teemcr.
James G. Flynn, member Of parliament
for North Cork, has been sentenced at
Kanturk to two weeks Imprisonment
without hard labor, for melting conspir-
acy.
BY wreck on the Canadian Pacific
east Of Winnepeg, on the Goth, sixteen
passengers were injured, six severely.
The accident was caused by broken
rail.
The United States grand jury at Gin
cinnati have found an indictment against
VIM. Means, late president, and DeCamp,
late cashier, of the metropolitan bank of
that city.
By an explosion on the ferry steamer,
Julia, plying between South Vallcgo and
Valego station, California, Monday, forty
persons lost their. lives and many others
we're injured.
H.C. st. CLAIR, a resident of Menoken,
Burleigh county, Oak, fell from the plat
form of Northern Pacific train at Royal
ton, Mimi, while en- route home, and was
instantly killed.
Sam Tohnan, of Phillipsburg, has en-
tered suit for damages in the sum Of
$4,000, against the parties whom he
claims drove him out of that town last
summer for CLAIM jumping.
The Union Square theatre of New York,
with all its contents, burned Tuesday.
The loss is third of a million dollars.
Six fremen were severely injured by the
collapse of the burning staircase, three of
whom may die.
It is stated that all mail clerks on the
Iowa division of the Burlington road
have signed a petition to the general
superintendent to have the government
compel that railway to put competent
engineers on mail trains.
The village Of Valtosta, Italy, has been
half buried by an avalanche. Many
houses were wrecked and their occupants
buried in the ruins. Troops were sent
from Bergamo to aid in disinterring the
buried. Twenty three corpses were re-
covered and several persons cxtrlcated
alive
A tornado which passed over Wander
burg and adjoining counties in Indiana,
on the gath, did great damage to prop
erty. Dwellings, barns, fences and orch
ards suffered greatly, and much loss of
life resulted to live stock. Fires were
reported and general destruction pre-
vailed.
The schooner Nellie Bowers, coal
laden, bound from New York for Port
land, was wrecked Saturday evening on
the east point of Richmond Island. The
crew consisted of eighteen men and eight
Of these, the captain, George Spear, the
first and second mates and the cook, were
drowned.
The London police arc endeavoring to
prevent the fight between Sullivan and
Mitchell and have been keeping close
watch on Sullivan's quarters at the Wind
SCR Wednesday they were astounded to
find that Sullivan had disappeared. 1t is
not known where he has gone, and the po-
lice are completely baffled.
Chinese papers announce the death of
Gideon Nye, United States vicc-consul at
Canton. He was the oldest foreign resi-
dent in China, having gone there in 1888.
He amassed fortune of about Sc, ,O00,-
OOC, but afterwards lost it all. At the
time of his death he was writing history
of China's relation with foreign powers.
Monday night farmer named Miller,
living near Fair Haven, Minnesota, went
to church with his wife, leaving three
children, aged 13, 10 and z, locked in
the house. A lantern exploded, the house
caught on fire and when the parents re-