The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1890-02-01

There has been prolonged snow storm
in Hungary and Styria. Houses have
: been demolished and many lives lost.
BY an explosion of natural gas at Co
lumbus. Ohio, six persons were instantly
killed and thirty more or less seriously
injured.
Mrs. Harrison gave her first public re-
ception at the White House Saturday
afternoon. The house was beautifully
decorated for the occasion and the at
tendance was large.
At Monument, Col, the Rio Grande
expre5s train was blown from the track
and several persons injured. General
Freight Agent Zimmerman of that road
was among the fatally injured.
The general term of the New York
supreme court has affirmed the convic-
ton of Herr Most aud his sentence to
one years Imprisonment in the peniten-
tiary. Most was convicted of using Ian
guage tending to incite riot during
speech at an anarchist meeting in No
vember, 1887.
The money recently given to Mrs. Par
nell, mother of Charles Stewart Parnell,
by her friends in America to enable her
to meet the demands made upon her by
her creditors, was insufficient, and she
is now again penniless. She is again in
need of the actual necessities of life, but
will not make another appeal to the pub
lie.
The secretary Of the treasury has
/ placed the revenue steamer Rush at the
disposal Of the postmaster general for
the purpose Of carrying the mails be-
tween San Francisco and Portland, Ore,
during the existence of the present rail
road embargo. The steamship Monon-
gahela, now at Mare island, California,
navy yard, has been ordered to New
York, and will be prepared for voyage
at home.
The deadlock in the house of the Iowa
Legislature is still unbroken. The repub-
licans have submitted in conference
len gthy compromise proposition, feat
ure OF which is a safeguard against the
scheme which, it is said the democrats
proposed to work to unseat several mem
bers elected under the apportionment of
the state made by the last general as
sembly. The democrats objected siren
uously to this clause Of the proposition
and sc the matter stands. The confer
ence committee is still at work.
A Santa Fe special says: information
has been received from Springer, little
village in the northern part of the terri
tory, to the effect that Ira Gale, fore
man of the Red River Cattle company,
had killed two Mexican sheep herders in
Colfax county, on the ground that they
were trespassing with their hocks on the |
property of the cattle company. Awar-
rant has been issued for his arrest, but |
Gale has left the country. He is now
supposed to be in Colorado. His friends
say he was forced to leave for fear of
violence.
George Lounsbury, cashier OF the post
office in New York city, shot and killed |
himself at his home in Hackensack. An
investigation developed the fact that his
accounts were short to the amount of
$4,000. He had been away from the
city for three days, and sent telegram
to postmaster Van Cott, stating he was
confined to his house by illness, but
would attend to his duties as soo1 as he
got better. Van Cott being suspicious
that all was not right, set about investi-
eating Lounsbury's accounts and dis
covered the shortage. Lounsbury had
been cashier since 1880.
Miss Nellie Bly, arrived at the World
office in New York on Saturday after
noon at 4:15, having completed the cir
cult Of the globe in seventy-two days,
six hours and eleven minutes, travelling
from east to west, thus beating the rec
ord of Jules Vernes' hero by six days.
The name she uses is not her own, she
having gone to New York from Pitts
burg, where she was known as Elizabeth
Cochran. The tri. was made in the in
terest of the New York World, for which
journal Miss Bly, has been a correspond
ent. Miss BLY, left New York on the 14th
of November, and on the same day Miss
Bisland, representing the Cosmopolitan
Magazine, left New York, travelling
westward, on the same mission-the cir
cumnavigation of the globe. She should
ere this have reached New York also on
the Atlantic Ocean. She expected to
catch the steamer at Havre, but failed,
and was compelled to continue on to
Queenstown. The travellers pursued ex-
actly the same route and passed each
other somewhere on the China sea be-
tween Hong Kong and Singapore, Miss
Bisland having sailed from Hong Kong
on the 18th Of December, the same day
that Miss Bly, sailed from Singapore.
Gen. Radetzsky is dead. He was one
of the heroes of Schipka Pass, which was
gallantly held by the Russians against
the Turks in 1878.
Captain William Kennedy, who COM
manded the first relief expedition for
Sir John Franklin, the Arctic explorer,
died at his home in st. Andrews, Mani
toba, Sunday.
In railroad collision reported as hav-
ing occurred at Camp Hill, Alabama,
five. men are said to have been killed,
two engineers, fireman and two train
hands. Others were wounded. This is
the twenty third wreck on the same road
in three weeks
Investigation by Postmaster Van Cott
Of New York into the accounts of George
II. Lounsbury, the suicide cashier, show ,