The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1888-01-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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L. @. C. Lamar was installed as an as
sociate justice of the supreme court OF the
United States, on Wednesday.
| Near Princeton, Minnesota, a Swede
killed his wife and seven children, chop
ping their heads off with broadaxe.
Three men were killed and many badly
injured by an accidental discharge of
giant powder near Boston on the 14th inst.
A fire at indianapolis, Indiana, on the
18th INST, destroyed a million dollars
worth of property in the wholesale portion
of the city.
The wholesale grocery house of Beaupre,
Keogh & Davis, of St. Paul, was destroyed
by fire Tuesday afternoon. Loss on stock
and building $376,ooo, fully insured.
The Union Cattle company, of Wyo-
ming, is embarrassed, and receivers have
been appointed. The assets are said to
be 81, ,00O,0 with liabilities of 81 ,2O0,-
900.
An immense bob-sled contained fifty
two persons used in coastlng at Kansas
City collided with another sled while de-
scending Broadway hill Wednesday night,
lnjuring seventeen of the riders, three of
them fatally.
Senator Dolph has introduced bill to
amend the Indian severalty act SO its pro-
visions shall not apply to any Indian tribe
until the consent of two-thirds of the mem
bers of tribes over 21 years of age has first
been obtained.
The Church of the Redeemer was des-
troyed by fire in Minneapolis Sunday.
The loss is $4,000. The fremen fought
the fire all day with the thermometer 80
degrees below zero. Two firemen were
seriously injured.
1t is figured out that there has been 217
deaths hy the blizzard The remains of
many Of the people rc,,orted missing may
not be found until the snow thaws IN the
spring, the bodies being covered by the
deep drifts that have formed over them.
The post commissary building at Fort
Mckinney burned last Tuesday. Loss
100000, on which there is no insurance.
The building was stocked with commits
sary supplies to last till next May. Only
ten days supplies are left and the garrison
has been ordered on half rations.
w. j. Gallagher, who was concerned in
the notorious ballot-box frauds which
nearly deprived General Logan of his seat
in the United States senate, and for which
Joseph c. Mackin is still IN the peniten-
tiary, has been transferred from Joliet to
Philadelphia, to answer a charge of forg
cry.
A bill has been introduced in the Uni
ted States senate by Plumb, of Kansas, de-
claring forfeited all lands, except the
right. of-way, granted to any state to aid
in the construction of a railroad opposite
to and co-tcrminus with the uncompleted
portion of any such railroad for the bene-
fit of which lands have heretofore been
granted. The forfeited lands are declared
open to settlement under the homestead
laws only.
Senator Dolph has proposed constitu-
tional amendment on the subject of mar
riage and divorce. The proposed amend
ment is in the following words: Congress
shall have power to legisiate on the sub
ject of marriage and divorce by general
laws applicable alike to all states and ter
ritories, and neither bigamy nor polgamy
shall exist or be permitted within the
United States or any place subject to their
jurisdiction.
Howard Douglass, supreme chancellor
of the world of the knights of Pythias,
has suspended the entire jurisdiction Of
the Grand Lodge Of the state of Pennsyl-
vania, for disobedience to orders. The
disobedience consists Ill refusing to amend
the constitution in certain particulars, as
has been previously required. Chancellor
Douglass will cite the officers of the Grand
Lodge to appear before him January 21st,
to show cause why the charter should
not be arrested.
The treasury department has decided
the disputed question in regard to the
proper classification of cashmeres and
dress goods, composed principally of
wool, and containing small percentage
of cotton, by sustaining the practice
adopted at the port of New York. Sec
retary Maynard says the samples of goods
have been submitted to severe test, and
it has been found that they contain such
small percentage of cotton as to be prac-
tlcally all wool, and should be so ap-
praised.
After eluding the detectives for a
year, the man who SO successfully
swindled the residents of the City of
Mexico out of nearly 100000 by spuri-
Gus advance sale of tickets for series of
concerts by Nine Patti, has been arrested
in Now York City. He has been suspected
as Chas. Bourton, who lived there tor a
short time and claimed to be representa-
tive of the London Referee and Gil Bias
of Paris. The swindle in the City of Mex
leo is not the only crime for which he is
wanted. He is one of the most successful
and dangerous of confidence men, and has
operated as successfully all over Europe,
and if the American authorities do not
want him, he will be held to answer some
other of his many offenses.
The fourteenth regiment armory al
Columbus, Ohio, burned on the 18th. All
the uniforms and equipment of the regi-
ment we're destroyed, also 1000 pounds
of cartridges The Ohio Poultry, Pigeon,
Kennel and Pet Stock association were
holding an annual exhibition in the ar
mory at the time The value Of the ex
hibition is placed at $50, 900, all of which
was consumed snYcanf two nr three dNOs