The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1889-05-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

- coming session.
Fifteen hundred boxes of opium
: Cape Vincent were sold under seizure /
he United States marshal last Saturday.
= Coupled with all the murder AM
bloodshed reported from Oklahoma
: smallpox epidemic has broke out
p Guthrie and other towns.
i The treasure which was aboard th
q United States war ship Trenton when sh
I was wrecked at Apia has been recovered
e The Nipsic will be brought to Aucklan
g by the United States steamer Alert.
e A tremendous snow storm prevailed i
9 the upper peninsula of Michigan sunda
night, accompanied by northwest gale
From two to four inches of snow. fell
No disaster to the shipping reported a
yet.
1t is expected that the Spanish govern
ment will soon sell at auction $4,000,
900 Of state woodland in order to covel
the financial deficit and to build railroads
canals and highways, and to establish
rural loan banks
John Kiewzry, a wealthy German, OF
Bridgeport, Conn.,, suiclded last Saturday
It seems that there has existed for several
years secret organization in that city
known as the "Suicide Club" Four of
its six members have already suicided
It is announced that F. B. Harper will
| attempt to lower the mile record of Ten
brock with the mare Valuable. She is
the daughter Of Tenbroek, 5 years old,
and at private trial recently she went
mile in 40 and it is believed by Har-
per she can excel her sire's great record
Of 139i. The race against time will be
made some time during the spring meet
ing Of the Jockey club
A terrible railroad accident occurred
on the Grand Trunk road near Hamilton,
Ont, at 7 o'clock Sunday morning. The
St. Louis express jumped the track and
the engine ran into the water tank. Two
cars were telescoped and Immediately
took fire. All the dead, seventeen in
number, have been taken out. The only
bodies that have been identified are those
Of B. s. Gurney and Rudolph F. Ederer
Of Chicago.
The news Of fearful tragedy, with
children as the principals, comes from
Malvain, Carroll county, Ohlo Five
year old Charley Deckman and his eight
year old cousin Johnny Hexamer, quar-
relied over playing ground. Hexamer
becoming enraged, seized a shot gun and
shot Charley Deckman 10 the head, in
flicting wound foom which he soon
died. The Hexamcr boy was knocked
down and seriously injured by the recoll
Of the gun.
A horrible tale of murder and suicide
IS reporter from Winnipeg, the victims
being farmer named Mcleod and his
daughter, aged s, while another child
boy of 13 years, is SO badly wounded he
cannot recover. A neighbor named Lot
"a visited the house to-day, and was hor-
'ified to find Mcleod with his throat cut
ying near the stove. Both children were ,
eund in the bed room. The girl had
'een struck on the head with the sharp
'dge of an axe and was dead. The boy
lad four deep gashes on his head The ,
ause of the deed is attributed to the f.
lancial difficulty Of McLeod, whose wife
lied two years ago.
A sensational incident occurred in Chi
ago on the 9th in connection with I
cries Of articles being published in the 6
lines exposing barbarities by the at
endents in the Cook county insane asyl-
m. A Times reporter disguised himself
nd feigned insanity and was committed
) the asylum. His room mate was
rawny laborer, whose malady was exces-
i've timidity. According to the Times +
ian, the defenseless maniac was inhum- b
My beaten on several occasions by at S
sndants. They often called on simple t
IN to assist them in their cruelty. The /
lborer has since died Of his injuries i,
he Times will make further disclosures Il
startling nature in few days. b
Charles E. Woodruff, formerly secre- Il
'ry of the Young Mems club of New I
ritain, Conn.,, has confessed that he ut
red forged papers to the extent of $40,- P
DO. H,s victims are the banks Wood b
1T has practiced forgeries, according to
IS own confession, for many months, Ia
aring which time he has forged notes to b
le amount of $5OO,OOO. OF this amount u
e managed without being discovered to Il
axe good all but the sum mentioned. b
early all the forgeries were in the shape e1
endorsements of Woodruff's notes. As h
le note became due he issued another 81
I'd forged the endorsement to take 1t up. al
October, 1887, he had out over $780,
10 unpaid notes. From that time to 4
e present he uttered, according to his ..
IN admission, nearly 100000 of bogus ;.
ties and checks. q