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

cagO that city has population OF over
100000.
Ex-President Woolsey of Yale died at
New Haven. Connecticut Monday, aged
81 years.
Carlotta Patti, the well known singer
and sister of Adelina Patti. died at Paris
on the 2sth ult.
The president has appointed Frederick
Douglas of the District of Columbia to
be consul general to Hayti.
Joseph B. Mackin. the notorious bal
lot box manipulation at Chicago, has been
pardoned by Governor Fifer.
The public debt was decreased during
the month Of June about s15,5OO,OOO,
making reduction for the fiscal year
ending June 80 of S98, ,182,2OO.
The indications are that the strike
among the Pennsylvania miners will be
far reaching. About 10000 men are
already out, and others are expected to
! follow.
A monument will be erected at Peters
burg, Illinois, over the grave of DR.. b.
F. Stephenson, the founder of the Grand
Army Of the Republic in the United
States.
| Generel Cameron:s funeral at Harris
burg, Pennsylvania. on Saturday last
was characterized by the greatest sim
| plicity in accord with wish he often
expressed during life.
w. S. Mellen, since 1857 general mana
ger of the Wisconsin Central railroad, on
Monday assumed charge Of the Northern
Pacific railroad as general manager with
headquarters in st. Paul.
In contest between the Massachu-
setts rifle team and the Honorable Ar
tillery company in a rifle shoot at Lon
don Monday the American team won by
Sullivan and Kilrain will meet some
where in Mississippi next Monday in their
| fight to finish. The ground has been
selected but to avoid interference by
she authorities Il is kept strict secret
Heavy rains in Pennsylvania have done
great damage to property the past week.
The Conemaugh valley was again PAR
tail, flooded and considerable damage
resulted to residence property at Cam
bria City.
The governor Of Michigan has signed
the local option bill The bill prac-
tically means prohibition in over one
half Of the counties in the state as soon
as the prohibition question is put to a
test therein.
The business and a part of the resi-
dence portion of Durango, Colorado, was
destroyed by fire on Monday, The loss
is placed at 100000, with but light in
surance. The origin of the fire is sup
posed to have been incendiary.
| Captain Arthur Macarthur, Jr., Thir-
teenth infantry, has hee:. appointed as
sistant adjutant general with the rank
Of major, to succeed to the vacancy
caused by the appointment of General
Kelton to be adiutant general.
A dining car on Saturdays east bound
Northern Pacific express caught fire
near jamestown and was destroyed. The
sleeper also caught bnt .he ire was ex
tinguished before much damage was
done to it. The loss is over $4,000.
Elicit Snow Of Utah and Edward
Moaie Of Montana are among the naval
cadets of the class of 1883 who have Just
completed their final examination and
| have been recommended to be retained
in the navy to fill vacancies as ensigns.
The grand jury in the Cronin investi-
CATION at Chicago has returned indict-
ments against Martin Burke, John F.
Beggs Patrick Cooney, Daniel Coughlin,
Patrick O'Sulliyan, l.rank Woodruff and
Frank Kunze for completely in the
murder.
Mail advices from west Africa confirm
previous reports Of the shocking priva-
tions to which Stanley has been subject
ed 1t is stated his hair has turned
snow white, that his clothes are rags
and that he is without shoes, being
obliged to use skins to cover his feet.
Beckman and Peterson, the attend
ants in the Rochester, Minnesota, insane
asylum, whose brutal treatment of
Coombs, an inmate Of that institution,
resulted in his death, have been SEN
fenced to the penitentiary Beckman for
four years and Peterson for three years,
AS a result OF the remarkable per-
formance of the three -year-old trotting
horse, Axtell, in lowering the record for
horses Of his age from 2:18 to 2:151s, at
Minnehaha Park on Tuesday, Robert
Bonner of New York telegraphed his
owner that he would pay 565,0OO for
him.
The fourteenth annual four-nile,
straishtawaF, eight t=oared race between
crews representing the universities Of
Yale and Harvard, was rowed on the
28th, over the Thames river course, and
won by Yale by six boat lengths. The
official time was: Yale, 2l:3O; Harvard,
21:55.
The vote on annexation in the suburbs
of Hyde Park, Lake, Lake View, Cicero
and Jefferson Saturday resulted in an
overgh helming majority for annexation to
the city. This gives Chicago popula-
ton Of about 100000, in an area Of 174
square miles, the city limits running to
the Indiana state line.
One Of the heaviest failures in the his
tory of the northwest occurred at st.
Paul on the goth. The Eureka I'm
pro.ement company Of that city made
an assignment with liabilities Of 100000
to s1,OOO,OOO. Most Of the outside cred