The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1889-11-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

A Chicago man named Martin Duan
was arrested Saturday at st. Joseph
Michigan. 1t is rumored he is wante,
for completely in the Cronin case.
Registration began in Virginia tn
18th. The weather was very storm,
and voters did not turn out in full mum
bers. In the vicinity Of Richmond tn
registration shows white over the col
ored vote.
An explosion on the steamer Cepso
MIA shortly after her departure from
Liverpool for Boston Thursday, resulted
more seriously than was expected Three
of the men injured died. 1t is believed
one other will not recover.
Much Of the business portion of Port
Leydon, New York, was destroyed b,
fire yesterday morning. The Douglass
house, opera house, eight stores, the
postoffice and several dwellings were de,
stroyed. Fifteen families lost Their
homes and much of their possessions.
The squawmen on the reservation
have settled on all lands for miles about
Fort Pierre, and intending settlers
are greatly excited. They claim the
government has decided the squawmen
are no better than other whites. Serious
trouble is feared, as the whites are Or
ganized and threaten to eject the squaw-
uen.
Jimmy Murphy, of Australia, and
Dick Delaney, of New York, light
weights, met accidentally at the Athletic
Club, San Francisco, Friday night in a
fight to finish for purse of $3.50.
forced the fight from start to
finish, and in the fourth round split
Delancy's upper lip, which caused blood
to flow freely. In the eleventh round
Delaney was knocked out by blow on
the neck.
John jackson, chief of the st. Paul
fire department, was fatally injured at 8
o'clock Saturday evening. Chief Jack
son was driving at break-neck speed on
the Wabasha street bridge over the Mis-
siesippi to a fire on the West Side, when
he came into violent contact with a
Ballard express wagon and was thrown
against one of the supports of the bridge
and his skull fractured. He is still alive
but cannot live more than an hour or
two.
A freight train on the Lake Erie &
Western railroad was wrecked at Ko-
komo, Indiana, early yesterday morning
by an obstruction placed on the switch
by train wreckers. Twelve oil tanks ex-
ploded in quick succession, setting fire
TO and burning a number of cars. En-
yineer Mehl, Fireman Burnett and Head
Brakeman Spellman were thrown be-
Meath the tanks and burned to crisp.
This has been the third attempt at train
yrecking in that vicinity within the past
TWO months.
Postmaster General Wanamaker has
awarded the contract for furnishing ad-
hesive postage stamps for one year, be-
ginning on the LIST of January next, to
the American Bank Note company Of
New York. The new stamps will be
about one-eighth smaller than those in
present use. The one-cent stamps will
be continue to be printed blue, the two
cent stamps now printed in green will be
n bright carmine, and changes will be
made in some of the other denomina-
lions.
Governor Cooper of Colorado issued
on the governor of California
or the return to that state of J. Dikson
Price on the 26th. Price was drawn as
! venire man ON the famous Connors-
Marshall case, wherein the defendants
charged conspiracy to rob the Rio
5rande express. 1t being discovered
hat number of venire men had been
;ampered with, the entire panel was dis
charged by the court when Price skipped
ind is now supposed to be in San Jose,
Cal. It is alleged he received $500 to
stand for acquittal.
A special from Pennington, few
niles south Of Spokane Falls, says that
lbout 8 o'clock Saturday morning a man
famed Russell, in company with Ber-
lard Cotton, cripple from a neighbor-
ng town, entered the Palace saloon
and after a few remarks
lrew pistol and shot Daniel Candy
trough the head, the ball entering be-
ow the right temple and coming out at
he back Of the neck. Medical assistance
vas summoned but Candy cannot posi-
'ly survive. The victim is young man
bout % years old and highly respected.
sussell is about the same age and the
on of Charles Russell, an old pioneer of
Valla Walla. He is now in the city Jail |
waiting examination.
James Finch, British seaman, made
n assault with revolver on English
'onsul Donohue and Vice Consul Moore
aturday in San Francisco. He first at
empted to shoot Moore, but the cart
ldge did not explode. He then turned
he weapon on the consul and fred, bu:
ne bullet missed it's mark. He was
1en overpowered. He was formerly
on the British ship Amazon,
ut was discharged because he was too
to accompany the vessel when it
allied last month. He claimed there
as money due him, and has frequently
allied at the consulate's Office. He was
I'D to-day the money had been sent to
ondon because he had failed to comply
ith certain rules and this led to the
looting.
A Washington special to the Journal
Oct. 8 says that prominent republi-
ms at Olympia, WASH, telegraphed
ere tonight, asking when President
arrison intended issuing his proclama-