The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1890-01-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

with la grippe.
Alexander Beck & Son, carpet manu-
facturers of Philadelphia, have made ar
assignment. Liabilities $4,000; assets
100000.
Thirty odd of the local postoffice
clerks and letter carriers at Baltimore
are suffering from influenza and are un-
able to work.
The Russian influenza has reached
Chicago, one physician reporting fifteen
cases. States Attorney Longenecker is
one of the victims.
Colonel Robert J. Stevens, United
States consul at Victoria, B. c., died
suddenly on the 26th of apoplexy, at the
residence of his son at Seattle.
During fog on the river Clyde The
steamer Covington came in collision
with the steamer Queen Victoria and
the former sank Five persons we're
drowned.
John Templeton Coolidge, president Of
the Columbia bank, died Saturday morn
ing at his residence in Boston of la
grippe. Coolidge was one of the Oldest
bank presidents in Boston.
The latest reports from the Angeles,
California, camp disaster is that there
are at least seventeen and probably
nineteen men buried in the mine. There
are little hopes of ever recovering the
bodies.
Three carloads of Pinkerton's detect
ives passed through Altoona, Pa, Mon
day afternoon for Watson, mining
town six miles from Punxsutawney, Pa,
where trouble is feared from striking
miners.
kilograms from the republic of San
Salvador, state the revolutionists in the
of Cuscatelau are retreating
before the government troops sent
against them, and the revolution is of
no Importance.
Theodore Gross and wife, six children,
visitor and servant were burned to
death in their house at Hurontown.
Michigan, early Monday morning. The
charred remains of eleven bodies were
taken from the ruins.
George W. Swain, an instructor of
mathematics at Harvard college, died
Monday morning at Massachusetts gen
eral hospital, aged % years. He was
seized with an attack of peritonitis Tues
day, and on Wednesday was taken down
with la grippe.
The report comes from st. Petersburg
that there is some disaffection in the
Russian army, and several arrests have
been made of officers who have given
free vent to their opinions. The minis
ter of war, it is said, is redressing the
grievances which gave rise to the disaf-
fection.
Major Wissman, with force of men
and several steamers, has gone to meet
an attack Of 5000 Arabs on the Pom
gani, The Arabs, who are led by Be
monahori, attacked a German detach-
ment two days ago, wounding an officer
and killing several men.
The large number of deaths resulting
from influenza in Paris is exciting the
gravest apprehension. It is reported
that $50 deaths occurred from the dis
ease within "A hours The papers print
ed the report, but some doubt the fig
ures, claiming they are too large.
The number of deaths from influenza
in Paris is increasing and the residents
of the city are beginning to manifest a
panicky feeling. The condition of De-
Frecynet, minister of war, has changed
for the worse. Drs. Brouardel and
Proust have been attacked and their
condition is serious.
A special from Ellensburg, Wash,
says: Lloyd & Co., the chief merean-
tile firm in Ellensburg, made an assign
ment Saturday after executing mort
cages on their stock in favor OF Tacoma
banks. Tha principal creditors are in
st. Paul, Chicago and New York. The
liabilities will exceed S15O,OOO,
Houston has written letter denounc-
ing the statement made by Parnel! in
his letter to the Journal that he insti-
gated Captain O'Shea to bring suit for
divorce against Mrs. O'Shea. Houston
says he had no knowledge of the action
taken by O'Shea until he saw the an
of the divorce case pub
lished in the papers on Saturday.
1t is reported at Tacoma that the Hi
nois Central is going to build to Puget
Sound. G. H. Prescott, of the Northern
Pacific railroad, received a letter from
the chief engineer of the Illinois Central
asking for figures for the next best pass
through the Cascade mountains to the
one chosen by the Northern Pacific.
Duplicate plans and profiles we're for
warded.
The ceremony Of proclaiming his maj
esty Carlos I. as king of Portugal and
Algrave took place Saturday. The
weather was cloudy, but it had no effect
upon the crowds of enthusiastic people,
who thronged the streets through which
the king passed on his way to the palace
of Necessidades. The Eing left the cas-
tie at II O'Clock and the journey TO the
palace, where he took the oath of office
before the Cortez, was made without
the occurrence Of any incident of an un-
favorable character.
Joseph Kemmler, the murderer sem
fenced to death by electricity in Ro;hes-
ter, New York, appealed to the general
term, claiming his sentence was uncon-
as it prescribed an unusual
and cruel manner of death. The court
held that the evidence went to show it
was not a cruel manner of infiicting the