The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1888-03-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

'"e aumlSSlOn OF wyoming as state.
The trial Of Judge William Wclch,
Minneapolis, for criminal libel on Secrt
;, tary Villas, was begun on the 10th.
Strother NJ. stockslager, Of Indianapoli
, has been appointed commissioner of tn
general land Office to succeed Sparks.
James France, banker at Rawlln.
Wyoming, has failed. He claims asset
of $227,O00 and liabilities Of $14c, ,OO(
A London dispatch states that sixtee
persons were drowned off Barr, on tn
10th, through the capsizing of pleasure
boat
Mansur, Of Missouri, from the hous,
committee on territories, has reported th'
Dill to annex portion of Idaho to Wash
ington and Montana.
A snow plow pushed by four engines
jumped the track at Sharon, N. Y, or
the 10th, killing four employees and
severely, if not fatally, injuring four
others.
State Treasurer Tate, of Kentucky, is
dcfaulter to the amount of about $780,
900 and has skipped to Canada. Tate
had been treasurer of that state twenty
one years.
Three boys, sons of George Walker,
Robert Wood and Edward McCully, were
drowned Wednesday while sailing on the
Delaware river. Their boat was capsized
by the strong wind.
Latest reports from the scene of the
Yellow river floods, in China, place the
number of lives lost at 100000 and the
total number of sufferers from the inunda-
ton will reach nearly 100000.
A wedding party of sixteen persons re-
turning from church at Neusatz, Hungary,
started to cross on the ice IN the Danube
in carriage, and when half way across
the Ice gave way and the entire party
were drowned.
A conflict between Mexican troops and
the Stien Pass New Mexico, train rob-
bers, took place on Saturday in which
three of the robbers, s,-Larry Sheehan,
Dick johnson and Dick Shorthand
sargcant of the Mexican troops were
killed.
By the spreading of the rails on the
Delaware, Lackawana s. Western, near
Vestal, N. Y, on the 10Th, coach and
two sleepers were thrown down thirty
foot enbankment and burned. Eleven
persons were injured, two of whom have
since died.
Col. Elliot F. Sheppard, formerly pres
ident of the New York State bar associ-
alton, has purchased from Cyrus w. Field
the New York Mail and Express news
paper. The paper will continue to be
republican and favor protection to Amer
ican industries.
Wednesday afternoon, during heavy
thunder storm, lightning struck the SEN
ate wing of the national capitol, but did
no other damage than to frighten the oc-
cupants and destroy telegraphic and tele-
phonic communication between the
building and the outside world.
In the house Nelson, of Minnesota, has
introduced bill giving states and terri
tories jurisdiction over railroads chartered
by acts Of congress as far as their tolls
and passenger rates were concerned. The
bill was slightly amended, and applies
to the Northern Pacific.
Senator Cullom in behalf of the minor
ity of the committee on territories has
presented report opposing the annex
alton OF the pan handle of Idaho to Wash
ington territory, and favoring the admis-
sion into the Union of the territory of
Washington with its present boundary.
Mrs. VIM. Dalton and daughter were
burned to death in fire III the Fremont
house, at Chicago, on Sunday morning.
About dozen other persons made their
escape in a semi-nude condition. A dis
solutc tailor, who was evicted from the
premises for non payment of rent, is sup
posed to have set the place on fire.
The late storm on the Atlantic coast did
much damage to the shipping interests.
At Lewis, Delaware, the harbor is report
ed to have been filled with wrecks of un-
known vessels. Among the vessels lost
was the barge Hazeltine, Capt. VanKirk
and crew of five men. The bark Brim
lnga, which was wrecked, had crew of
twenty three, twenty-five of whom were
lost.
A dispatch from Victoria, B. c., says
the schooner Sapphire, Capt. Petit, clear
ed Friday for Behring's Straits scaling
grounds with an armed crew. The vessel
suffered severely last year through seiz-
ure by American cutters, and Capt.
Pettit's avowcd determination is to resist
any further seizure, saying he will kill
any officer who attempts to board his
vessel.