The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1889-06-15
NEWS OF Tie WEEK.

( NEWS OF TIE WEEK.
9 Among those believed to have been
. lost in the Pennsylvania flood is Blind
. Tom," the well known pianist.
Ex-senator H. NJ Sabin of Minnesota
0 has entered proceedings for divorce
. against his wife for the excessive use of
! morphine and Intoxicating liquors.
} Calvin S. Brice was elected chairman
! of the national democratic committee at
D it's meeting held in New York Wednes-
day He succeeds w. H. Barnum, de-
! ceased.
The Iowa Funeral Directors, common
, ly known as members of the coffin trust,
, all undertakers who advertise collins at
, reduced prices.
The National White Lead company has
purchased the plant of the Collier White
, Lead company for S4,5OO,OOO. This gives
the Standard Oil people control of the
entire output Of white lead in America.
}, A young lad named Eddie Fisher,
whose mother and five sisters and broth
ers lost their lives in the flood, commit
ted suicide at Johnstown, while in fit
of dependency, by hurling himself from
the top of building.
! Investigation into the affairs of the in
sane asylum at Rochester Mimi, has re-
suited in the suspension of Superintend
ent Bowers and all employees connected
with the Coombs murder. Governor
Merriam will make thorough investi-
cation.
The grand jury in session at New York
on Monday found indictments against
Doctors Irwin, Fergus and Hance, the
physicians who performed an autopsy on
the body of Washington Irving Bishop,
the mind reader, for violation of the
sanctity laws.
The World says that the compromise
in the Stewart will case is absolutely
concluded and litigation ended; that
Judge Hilton will pay the contestants
S6,OOO,OOO and allow them to cooperate
with him as executors. The estate is
valued at s4O,0OOOOO
A cyclone passed through Port Ley
den, N. Y, and adjacent country Sunday
afternoon, overturning houses, trees and
fences and damaging crops. The streets
of Port Leyden were rendered impassa-
ble on account of the wreckage. Only
one life was reported lost.
| An excursion train from Armagh, Ire
land, was wrecked near that place We'd
nesday. The train contained 100 per-
sons, composed of Methodist Sunday
school scholars, teachers and relatives
Seventy bodies have been taken from
the wreck and over one hundred were
injured.
A cyclone swept through Arkansas
City, Arkansas, on the evening of the
9th. Two churches and ten stores and
| residences were wrecked and considera-
bic other damage done. The only lives
lost we're those Of Kate Walton, aged Is,
and Tudy Walton, aged 8. Mrs. Walton
and another daughter were badly hurt.
Leonard SWEET, the we'll known attor-
ney and one of the old residents of Chi
cago, died on the Sth. He was at one
time a law partner of Abraham Lincoln
and made the speech nominating the
martyr president in 1860. He performed
the same service for Judge Gresham in
1885,
The Vest select committee of five ap-
pointed to investigate the meat produce
question and the Indian affairs commit
tee will meet in Chicago early in July
and will then proceed through the north
and west looking into Indian affairs, and
perhaps to Alaska, to be gone two
months, returning to Washington about
October l.
The sixty ton center board English !
lugger, Paradox, which is destined to |
race in American waters, was launched |
at Eastbourne on the 8th The Paradox |
is seventy feet in length, twenty feet |
beam and draws nine feet of water She |
will carry twenty-six tons of lead on her |
keel and will have spread of 1000 |
square feet of canvas.
A fighter known as montana Kid"
met Jack Dempsey, the middle weight |
champion, on the streets of San Francis
co Sunday and insisted upon a fight |
Dempsey refused but the Kid" who
was intoxicated, attacked him and was
getting decidedly the best Of the fight,
when Dempsey's friends separated the
men and afterwards had the "Kid" ar
rested.
John ID. Miles, of Lawrence, Kas., has
been appointed commissioner to nego-
tiate with the Cherokee and other In
dians for the cession to the United States
of lands in Indian territory. The board
is now complete and is composed of !
Humphreys, of Illinois, and Wilson, of |
Arkansas, with Miles. The chairman of
the commission will probably start for
his field of labor within the next two
weeks.
The Sioux Indians at Rosebud agency
have been steadily signing the Dawes
agreement, and it is now almost a settled
fact that the reservation will be opened.
The necessary three-fourths have already
been secured at this agency Reports
from the Cheyenne and other agencies
are also very favorable, the action of the
Indians depending in a great measure
upon the decision of their brethren at
the former agency
The thirty seventh annual convention
of the International Typographical union
has been in session at Denver this week.
About 200 delegates are in attendance.
Among the principal subjects under dis
cussion was the disposition of the Childs-
Drexel fund. This fund now amounts
to $4,000. Some favor the establishment
of an insurance department, others the
creation of widows fund, while an ap-
parent majority favor the establishing of
a home for aged printers.
In the case of Capt. George A. Armes,
U. S. A., retired, sentenced by court
martial to be dismissed from the service,
the president has committed the sentence
in consideration of good service and
some mitigating circumstances connect
ed with the offenses of which he was
found guilty, to confinement within such ,
limits as the secretary of war may pre-
scribe, and the deprivation of the right
to wear his uniform and the insignia of
his rank for five years. The findings of !
the court show it acquitted Capt. Armes
of the first specification, which charged '
false prosecution of Captain Bourke of {
the Third cavalry, but found him guilty {
Of the remaining charges, preferring ma !
licious charges against Colonel Gibson i
and Captain Bourke, with defamatory ;
publications and with assaulting Gov ;
ernor Beaver. |
A special from Knoxville to the Amer
lean says: Reynolds and Thomas j.
Lloyd, both noted hard cases, went to the .
house of Rev. J. Hatness, Baptist min i