The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1888-02-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

the senate by vote of 80 to 20.
The house has passed bill to disco1
tinue the coinage of the three-cent piece
!, Lincoln's birthday was celebrated i
New York, Boston, Washington and othe
, cities on Sunday
John L. Sullivan has accepted the offe
of Jack Knifton to stand before him 81.
rounds for f2OO.
The first state convention to be hell
this year will be the Oregon state demo
cratic convention, April 3rd.
! Seven Indian territory murderers have
been sentenced by Judge Parker at For
Smith to be hanged on April ~.
The Saco, Maine, bank which was rob
bed in August last has recovered the
$S56,000 registered bonds which were
taken.
Heavy snow storms in the west oi
England, Wales and Scotland, the past
week have caused blockades on the rail
roads.
Alex. MeCue, of New York, has been
nominated to be assistant treasurer of the
United States at New York, in place Of
Charles J. Canda, resigned.
At New Prague, Minnesota, Matthias
Janacek, murdered his wife, fatally
wounded his step-daughter and ended his
work by taking his own life.
/ The comptroller of the currency has
appointed James McConvilel, of Steuben-
vile, Ohio, to be receiver Of the Metro
pOlitan National bank of Cincinnati.
Seven negroes and six whites, convicted
Of petty larcenies, we're whipped from
five to ten lashes each at New Castle, Del
aware, on the 18th. About 200 specta-
tors were present.
The treasurer's office at Carthage, Pan
ola county, Texas, was robbed Friday
might of last week and county treasurer
Hill killed. The crime was not discover
ed until late Saturday night. The rob
bers secured $4,000.
Ralph Lee, who shot and dangerously
wounded his step-father, Banker Rawson
IN Chicago several months since, has been
sentenced to eighteen months in the
county Jail, the extreme limit of the law
tor his offense, he being minor.
With the view Of disproving the exag-
gerated statements of loss of life in Dako-
ia by the blizzard IN January. the terri
torial superintendent Of public instruction
will make up, with the assistance Of the
county superintendent, an exact list Of
those lost.
A Sioux squaw Of Colonel Cody's camp,
London, has given birth to a daughter.
This is the first Indian child ever born in
England. The infant has been named
Frances Victoria Alexandra, in honor Of
Mrs. Cleveland, Queen Victoria and the
princess of Wales.
The committee Of the Kentucky legis-
lature which has been investigating the fa-
nous Rowen county trouble have complet-
ed their labors. A very deplorable state Of
affairs was found to exist, and it is prob
able that the county will either be abol
lshed or transferred to another judicial
district
The secret service division Of the treas
ury department has discovered that new
counterfeit Of the fve-dollar certificates
has been put in circulation. The bill is
about three -sixtecnths an of inch too short.
There are no distinct lines on the paper.
The general appearance is good and liable
to deceive.
A fire occurred in fashionable board
ing house in Brooklyn Heights, New
York, on the 18th. Thirty mine persons
were asleep in the house at the time. NJ. G..
Comb, wall street broker, jumped from
an upper window and was fatally injured.
John Gordon, salesman, and Minnie
Reynolds and Mary Wyatt, servants, were
badly hurt by jumping, having legs or
arms broken.
Representative Payson, who has been
appointed subcommittee of one by
the house committee on public lands
on the the bill to quiet the title Of settlers
upon the Des Moines river lands, will re-
port favorably to the full committee on
Monday, and expects it to receive the ap-
proval Of that body. This was the bill
which passed both houses last year, but
was vetoed by the president.
The underwriters of San Francisco have
given up the British bark Glenavon as
lost. She sailed from Astoria, Oregon,
August ~, for Liverpool, and was spoken
| October 28 off the Falkland islands by
the ship Scottish Wizard. Three days
later the Wizard barely escaped being
| wrecked in a terrible storm and the bark
is supposed to have gone down.
Lone Chew, a Chinese merchant resid-
:.u 8, Porfland OREGON RECENTLY innrired