The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1889-05-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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privately married in New York Sunday.
"Cyclone Bill" and VIM. Cunningham
have been arrested and identified as two
of the band of robbers who attacked ard
robbed Paymaster Wham in Arizona last
week.
Mrs. Oscar Folsom, mother of Mrs
Grover Cleveland. was married Monday
evening at Jackson, Mich, to Henry E
Perrlne, secretary of the Buffalo City
Cemetery association.
Earthquake shocks were felt through
out California on Sunday morning. AT
some points the shock was sufficiently
severe to awaken sleepers and throw
down the tops of chimneys.
Twenty six head of fine steers in herd
fattencd at Abilene, Kansas, were re-
Gently killed because they had hydro.
phobia. A mad dog bit one of herd of
two hundred few weeks since and rabies
spread rapidly.
1t is rumored that Mr.. Ainslie, the
present general superintendent of the
Northern Pacific, will be appointed gen
eral manager of the Wisconsin Central, to
succeed W. S. Mellen, recently appointed
general manager of the Northern Pacific
w. S. Mellen, general manager of the
Wisconsin Central railway, has been
appointed general manager Of the North
crn Pacific and all Its leased lines. Mr.
Mellen has been in the railway service fol
twenty years, beginning as an Office boy
for the Northwestern road. His head
quarters will be in St. Paul
Solomon Hirsch OF Oregon has been
appointed minister to Turkey. Hirsch is
prominent business man of Portland,
and of Hebrew parentage He was a
leading candidate for the senate from
that state at the last election, but was de-
feated by Mitchell after a long struggle
A young German named Richard
Boecker, of Albany, N. Y, issued chal :
lenge to Henry Willard on the 10th to
fight duel. Boecker was subsequently
arrested and committed to jail to await
the action of the grand jury. When ar
rested he insisted that he had reason for
his action, but would not diyulgc 1t.
New York dispatches Indicate that in
the contest between Willard and Elijah
Smith for control of the Oregon Trans
continental, Willard had succeeded in
gaining possession of a majority of the
stock Of the company. In the spirited
bidding for stock $G4.50 per share was
paid, the highest point reached for years.
Frank Josinski is young tough who
resides in Chicago, and has an outfit OF
revolvers, knives, etc. The other night
he stood among his admirers with rifle
in his hand, and to justify their esteem OF
him deliberately shot down Frank Kl-
owski and Mike Meka, lads of his own
age, standing hundred feet or more
away. Josinski then made his escape.
AT the special congressional elections
held Tuesday, Harrison Kelly, republican
was elected in the Fourth Kansas district
to fill the vacancy caused by the appoint
ment of Congressman Ryan to the Mex
ican mission. 5. R. Williams, democrat
defeated I. B. Ridgcway in the Nine
tecnth Illinois district, to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Congressman
Townsend.
A riot at Forrest City, Arkansas, be
tween the white and colored voters
growing out of an election for members
of a school board, resulted in the killing
of three men on Saturday last. The fol
lowing morning sheriff's posse startet
after A. M. Neeley, prominent colored
man, and having found him under tht
floor of the Advertiser building, where h,
had taken refuge, completely riddled his
body with bullets.
Adviccs from St. Petersburg, Russia
state that the conspiracy among militar.
officers against the czar. recently un
earthed, has many widespread ramifica
tions. Officers Of regiments stationed a
Moscow and Warsaw are implicated il
the plot. Three of them have committed
suicide. A bomb was found in the quar-
ters of one OF the officers in Warsaw. On
hundred Of the conspirators we're arrested
The discovery of the PLOT has completed,
unnerved the czarina.
Steve Brodie, the bridge jumper
Jumped over the Passiac falls Monda
and came off without danger. For tn
past three months Brodie has entertaine
the idea of perfecting his record as
jumper to rival the late Sam Patch b
jumping from some of the places fror
which the latter jumped. About Marcl
! 1st Brodie went to Rochester to jum]
from Genessee falls, where Patch lost hi
. life, but was dissuaded as the water We
only five feet deep. The scene OF Monday
!, jump is is one of the places from whic
Patch jumped.
The sensational divorce case, in whic