The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1890-08-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

f NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Emperor William has sailed for Russi
on visit to the czar.
The railroad strike at Cardiff, Eng
: land, has ended by compromise.
Potato blight is spreading all ove
Ireland and the crop of esculents prom
lses to be small in consequence.
Three hundred and fifty railroad la
borers at Spokane Falls struck last Fri
f day for an increase of wages from 81 te
1926 per day.
The bodies of two unknown men were
found hanging from tree near Spo
kane Falls last Saturday. They were
evidently the victims of lynching bee.
John Ruskin, the world famous poet
and literateur is in dying condition
He is almost continuously delirious and
has twice made an attempt to take his
own life.
A natural gas we'll, estimated to be
Santa Barbara, Cal, last Friday. Its
flow is estimated at 100000 cubic feet
of gas per day. .,.
Speaker Reed has appointed Lewis of
Mississippi on the committee to investi-
gate the charges against Pension Com
missioner Raum. The investigation be-
gan Wednesday.
A terrible food prevails on the Can
ges river in India. The river has over
flowed it's banks and the country sur
rounding Calcutta is inundated to an
extent never before known. There is
great loss of lite.
An epidemic of cholera is raging in
Turkey and southern Russia. Many
are dying daily and considerable alarm
is manifested by other European nations
that the dreaded disease will spread and
prevail with dreadful virulence during
the hot season.
Dispatches from Dexter, Missouri,
announce the disappearance Of George
N. Boughton, ex-mayor and prominent
citizen OF that place, and also state that
Boughton is probably short in his &C.
counts with one Chas. D. Matthews to
the amount of $4,000.
The silver bullion offered for sale to
the treasury department Wednesday
was 1,314,OOO ounces. The amount
purchased was 100000 ounces, as fol-
lows: $4,000 ounces at 10 As; 10000
ounces at l 16S rs; 10000 ounces at /
20; 100000 ounces at 20 25.
A plan is on foot by Erasmus Wyman
to tunnel under the bay between Staten
Island and Bay Ridge, New York, for the
purpose of constructing an underground
railroad between the cities of New York
and Brooklyn. The cost Of the proposed
scheme will approximate S6,OOO,OOO.
A Cheyenne, Wyoming, dispatch states
that stampede of prospectors to the
recently discovered mines near the head |
of Tongue river is in progress. On Mon
day night party of prospectors left |
under cover of darkness from Sheridan |
for the mines. AS high as S25 per man
is being taken out from the placers.
A destructive cyclone visited Wilkes
barre, Pa, Tuesday afternoon, doing
damage to property and re-
sulting in serious loss of life. A careful
places the number of buildings
demolished and partially destroyed at
400. The loss will probably reach
nearly, if not quite, S1,OOOOOO. The
number killed is eleven, the fatally in
jured ten, and severely injured twenty
four.
The Pacific express company lost $780,
loo hy train robbery on the Missouri
Pacific railway early Sunday morning.
The train was the Kansas City limited
and it was crowded with passengers.
The robbery occurred at point known
as Robbers Cut, just east of Otterville,
Mo-, where one of the most desperate
robberies OF the James gang was COM
nitted. It is supposed the robbers
boarded the train at Upton.
Joseph A. Jameson, a millionaire
broker and banker of New York. com
nitted suicide Sunday night by hang
ng. Jameson's family were out Of town.
and from what could be learned from
trends, temporary insanity caused by
illness, and perhaps aggravated by a
ceiling of loneliness in the absence of
lis family, is thought to have been the
cause OF the tragedy. Jamesons part
Ter is James D. Smith, commodore of
he New York yacht club.
The census office has practically COM
outed the population of the United
states. There are, however, about 1,2OO {
enumeration districts from which re-. I
urns have not been received. In con-
equence of this delay the announcement
Il the population of several states can {
lot be made for some time yet. The {
ount up to this time shows an aggre-
'ate of g., 1885, ,955, and when the entire j,
ount is finished the population of the
country will be about 64,OOO,OOO, an in {
rease of about 80 per cent. during the i
lecade.
The suburb of North Indianapolis is !
cry much excited over the disappear
nee of Clara and Flora Phillips, aged &
8 and 13 respectively, and searching a
artles have been organized and are f
ooking in all directions for them. The :
iris left home on Tuesday for the pur 9
ose of gathering berries, and since that s
me nothing has been heard of them. 8
lays have been spent in securing the a
'oods and fields for miles around. but !
o clue to their whereabouts could be 81
,und. 1t is thought they have been O
bducted. g,
A serious accident occurred to the n
ape Cod and Woods Hall passenger c,
ain on the Old Colony road at Quincy, =,
assachusetts, Tuesday. The engine u
It tire to the train. The fireman was tc
stanLly Killed and the engineer fatally CT
jured. AS far as can be learned eight ar
lssengers were killed and about twenty -
jured: OF the latter the greater part P
sre injured by escaping steam, having NJ
zen frightfully scalded. The Quincy m
9 department was called to the scene to
quickly as possible and shortly after ~
ard the fire was extinguished. The VI
ad and injured were removed from tn
9 scene, the latter being taken into or
lvate houses and to the Quincy hospi- II;
Captain Erskin, of the steamer st. 'o
lul, which has arrived at San Fran pr
'co from Ounalaska, says the Victoria ta
achers thie year secured 10000 seal Or
ms. In consequence the North vi,
nerlcan Commercial company, which A
'ses the seal rockeries from the gov IN
1ment finds it's take reduced to 10000 I'M