The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1889-08-31
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

OF SGO,OOO by fire on Thursday mornln!
Gen. F. E. Spinner, whose autograp
on greenbacks was such a puzzle som
years since, is at the point of death fro,
cancer in the face.
Boulanger publishes list of IL cand
dates who will contest in his interest fc
seats in the chamber Of deputies fror
the department Of the Seine.
1t is rumored that owing to the objeo
tion IN Hayti to having black man a
minister President Harrison has decide
to withdraw the appointment of Doug
lass.
c. D. Graham made successful tri
through the whirlpool rapids of Niagar
Falls last Saturday in barrel shape'
boat Thousands of spectators witnesses
the feat.
In family alteration Postmaster K
G. Lybarger of Millwood, Ohio, shot a
his daughter, the ball missing the daugh
ter and fatally wounding his wife. Ly
barger then suicded.
Philemon Bliss, ex-justice Of the su
preme court of Missouri and dean of tn,
Missouri Law university, died in St. Pau
last Friday, aged 76 years. He was thu
first chief justice Of Dakota, having beer
appointed by President Lincoln in 1861
A yestibule train heavily loaded Will
Grand Army veterans bound for Mil
Waukee was thrown from the track d9Wr
an embankmentfo forty feet, near Streator
ILL.,, and over fifty Of the passengers seri
ously injured. None we're killed out
right.
A collision occurred in tunnel on the
Baltimore & Ohio between Petroleum
and Silver Run, Virginia, on Saturday
in which three men were instantly killeC
and fifteen seriously injured. The cause
Of the wreck is said to have been con
fiicting kilograms.
Three Mormon elders, Engel, Taylor
and Laird. were severely whipped by
Friday night. They had been proselyt
ing in the county some time, and among
their converts were two married women,
who left home and families to follow the
elders.
Commissioner Stone Of the general
land office reports that he has under con
sideration the matter Of surveyors
vouchers, aggregating $4,000, paid un-
der the last administration it was claim
ed without warrant OF law. He expects
to lay the whole matter before the sec
retary Of the interior in about ten days.
F. F. WILDER, the most important wit
ness in the government suit against the
Bell Telephone company, died at Denver
last Saturday from the effects Of hard
drinking Wilher was chief clerk in the
electrical department Of the patent Of,
fee at the time the Bell telephone mod
el was submitted and patent applied for
Governor Waterman of California au-
thorized the dismissal Of the proceed
ings against Justice Field of the United
States supreme court for implication in
the shooting of Judge Terry few days
ago. The district attorney has already
obeyed the instructions Of the governor
and the warrant against Field stands
dismissed.
A Saltwater dispatch states that Boh
Younger, the Missouri outlaw who is
serving life sentence with his brothers
at the Minnesota penitentiary, has been
growing rapidly weaker for the last week
and is now unable to leave his bed. His
voice has entirely failed and he can con-
verse only in whispers. He is expected
to die at almost any moment.
Reliable news from the southern line
OF Kansas and the pasture lands Of the
Indian territory says that herds OF ma
tive and Texas cattle which range in the
territory are afflicted with Texas fever.
Hundreds of cattle are dying on the
pastures south of Arkansas City. Cattle
are belng shipped to the market from
pastures where carcases are lying,
In the fight between Jack Dempsey
and LaBlanche, 1.-The Marine" which
occurred under the auspices OF the Cali
fornia athletic club at San Francisco on
Tuesday night, LaBlanche won. Thirty
two rounds we're fought, in nearly all OF
which Dempsey seemed to have the best
Of the fight until knocked out by q
heavy blow in the face from LaBlanche
Advice from Montreal states that the
advance liberals, who are large power
in the Dominion, are up in arms over the
Behring sea seizures, and their organ
! the Mnntreal Herald, in q Leading edl-
torial declares if Great Britain, as would
seem, intends to maintain its good rela
tions with the United States regardless
Of Canada, the only thing for Canada tc
do is to declare her independence OF the
mother country.
Four tramps arrested at Oberly, Kan
sas, were put up at public auction anC
sold to the highest bidder. The sale hao
been duly advertised according to law
and there was large crowd present
The bidding was not very spirited, Two
- $oy ECr nc
head and another was bid in for IS cents
The fourth tramp could find no purchas
or and was returned to jail. The three
that we're sold must serve their purchas
er for four months
The steamship City Of Paris which ar
rived at New York Wednesday agair
broke the record, beating her own best
time from Queenstown by 3 hours ano
40 minutes. The actual time from
Queenstown to Sandy Hook LightshiE
was days, 10 hours and Is minutes
| Among the passengers on the City O1
Paris were Russell B. Harrison, Andrew
Carnegie, John A. Kasson and Joseph
Medill of the Chicago Tribune.
The four murderers Of women, Patrick
Packenham, Jack Lewis (colored), James
Nolan and Fred Carolin, were hanged ir
the yard Of the Tombs prison at New
York on the 23d inst. There were two
scaffolds and two men were hung or
each. Packenham and Nolan were the
first executed, on scaffold which was
erected on the Franklin street side o1
the prison. The drop fell at 6:55 o'clock
Eight minutes later Lewis and Carolir
we're hanging from the soaffold on the
Leonard street side.
The st. Louis Post Dispatch prints
another chapter Of it's army exposure
It shows the terrible state of affairs al
Jefferson barracks, alleging that the re-
cruits are treated like dogs. The mer
are strung up by the wrists until they
swoun from weakness and the brutal
sergeants deem no cruelty too severe q
punishment It relates how an insane
man was heartlessly tortured. The com
mon soldiers are imprisoned at the mer
est whim of their superiors. It is also
charged in the expose that in the guarc
house the prisoners are packed into an
inclosure twenty by forty. The sanitary
condition is terrible.
County Judge Lewis Of Harlan coun
ty. Kentucky, undertook ia arrest w
Howard, wanted for murder. The sher
| itf and taller of Harlan county are rela
t;uas IF Howard and refused to arres,