The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1889-07-06

announces that it is impossible to esti
mate the damage done to the corn croI
by continuous rains during the past si,
weeks and the overfiowing of thousand!
of acres of river bottom lands in the cen
trail and southern part of the state.
Canadian millers have called mass
meeting at Toronto to protest against
the action of parliament in refusing te
protect them against American millers
The duty on -four is 80 cents barrel
while the duty on the amount of wheat
necessary to make a barrel of flour is 81
cents, clear discrimination in favor OF
the American millers of about II cents
a barrel.
the limited express from Boston, Oh
the Boston & Albany road, was ditched
just outside the city limits of New Haven
Connecticut, on Saturday. Four persons
we're killed and several badly wounded
There were several hundred passengers
on the train and majority of them were
shaken up and more Or less bruised and
cut. The accident was caused by spread
ing of the rails.
At Bedford. Iowa, on Sunday vagrant
Indian who had been ordered from town
went to the residence of Frank Glass
man, a young farmer, and attempted a
criminal assault on Mrs. Glassnan. She
escaped and the Indian was arrested and
placed in Jail. Early the following morn.
ing a mob called on the sheriff and :ie-
manded the keys. He refused and the
mob battered down the doors, took the
Indian and lynched him.
Joaquin Miller, the we'll known poet
and California magazine writer. is soon
TO commence upon series of articles for
the New York Independent. His sub
ject are to embrace sketches of Oregon,
Washington, Montana, Idaho and the
two Dakotas. His first article will be
devoted to Portland, and from there,
after making a few trips 70 the more
picturesque spots through the valley, he
goes to Washington territory.
Complaint has been made that the
government has contracted for the pnr-
chase Of 100000 ename,ed bricks. made
in England, for use in the construction
of the congressional library building,
Gen. Casey, chief of engineers, who has
charge Of the 1orh, SAID he had bought
those bricks because they were cheapest
and best He had advertised extensive
ly for bids for these bricks and not a sin
gle American manufacturer had put in a
rropeAaii
A riot OF two factions numbering about
twenty persons ooeurred on the streets
Of Glasgow, Missouri, Sunday afternoon.
The difficulty was the outgrowth of a
long feud. John Potter saw Louis Walls
on the street and commenced throwing
stones ut him, finally rushing at him
with an open knife Walls drew revol-
yer and opened fire. Friends of the men
rushed in and the fight became general.
Aaron johnson and Ion;;s Nails received
mortal wounds and John Potter was
shot dead. Six other persons were in
jured. The sheriff's posse finally quelled
the riot, making number OF arrests.
\ combined cyclone or water spout
and hail storm passed east of Rushford,
Minnesota, on the 2Sth, destroying every
thing in it's path. rs belt, which was
two miles wide and thirty miles in length,
is absolutely laid waste. frees are as
bare Of leaves as In winter. The loss is
about S1,000,O0O Immense trees two
feet or more in diameter were torn up
and twisted off. For two miles in width
the merciless hail pelted into the ground.
It fell fully as large as mans fist An
drew Fizico of Yucatan was drowned in
the food. Another drowning is reported
from Houston.
Specifications have just been issued
by the postmaster general !on the guild
anes Of bidders under the next contracts
for postage stamps advertised for under
date of June II, 1889, which provides for
bids of two series Of stamps in different
sizes, one of them being the size now in
use, the other about one-third smaller,
Ia speaking of the proposed changes
Postmaster General Wanamaker said he
believed the smaller-sized stamp would
be quite as useful and popular as the
larger size now in use, and by reducing
the size Of the stamp material saving
would be effected, which could be profit
ably expended in better and in every
way more desirable color.
The case of Kemmler, the Rutfalo
murderer, condemned ~ suffer death by
electricity, has had a hearing upon ap-
peal in the supreme court Of New York.
The appeal was taken on the ground
that the state constitution prohibited
cruel and unusual punishment, and the
counsel for the murderer contended that
execution by electricity was both cruel
and unusual. The case was argued at
considerable length by both sides. and
the court finally decided that the testi-
mouy would have to be taken as to the
effect of an electric current on the hui
man body, and appointed Tracy G.
Becker, lawyer of Buffalo, to take test
imony and report to the court July 30th
next.
The latest sensation in the Cronin
murder case at Chicago is the reported
confession of John Kunze, who was in
dicted by the grand jury Saturday, to-
gether with six others, for completely in
the murder of DR.. Cronin. 1t is stated
that Kunze is the important witness
whose testimony before the grand jury
Saturday fastened the indictments and
final report. 1t is understood Kunze has
told the police everything he knows
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