The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1890-07-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


I; In the international cricket match
n Philadelphia, Canada vs.. the Unite
" States, the latter won by one inning al
n n thirty -one runs.
~ The residence of John Hamlet
Valparaiso, Indiana, was destroyed t
- fire Wednesday morning and his vii
n and four children burned to death.
r William Jackson, colored, who mu
dered his paramour, Octavia Dillol
alias Mary Banks, in April last, wa
Q hanged at New Orleans Friday. Hi
e neck wat not broken and he died c
. strangulation.
The president of the Argentine Re
, public has declined to accept the resig
; nation Of the minister of finance. Th
r financial panic is subsiding The prem
ium on gold has fallen sixteen per cen
and is now quoted at 1873 per cent.
The new United States torpedo boa
Gushing sailed from the Brooklyn nav,
yard Friday afternoon fer Newport ane
on the trip proved the speediest vesse
J OF her class in the world. She made the
run between Brooklyn and New London
12O miles, in four hours and forty -foul
minutes, an average speed of 25.35 miles
per hour for the continuous run, which
is the best time ever made between New
York and New London.
General John Charles Fremont, first
candidate of the republican party for
president, died at the home of his adopt
ed daughter, the wife of Col. H. M. Por-
ter, 40 West Twenty fifth street, New
York, at $40 o'clock Sunday afternoon.
Death was due to inflammation of the
bowels. The funeral took place at 10
o'clock Wednesday morning from the
Episcopal church Of St. Ignatius at
Washington, and the body inferred in
Trinity cemetery.
The first annual session of the Inde-
pendent Order of Railway Conductors
was held in New York Monday. It now
has membership of 800, nearly all Sc
ceders from the old order of railway con-
ductors, who could not stand the elimi-
nation of the non striking clause from
the old constitution. The mutual in
surance scheme provides for $1,000 on
death instead Of $500 as in the old
body. s. Wheaton, formerly grand chief
conductor of the old order, was elected
president.
Advices from Victoria state that a
general opinion prevails there that two
fleet sailing vessels have been fitted out,
armed and equipped and sent to Behr-
ing sea to aid British sealing vessels to
resist capture by American revenue cut
ters. The Corwin is at Victoria await
ing sailing orders, and information has
hAAn seceived horo that tho Gutter Oil
yer Wolcott, which has been undergoing
repairs at Seattle, has been ordered to
make ready at once and proceed to Behr-
ing sea.
Two carloads of powder containing
l 300 kegs exploded at Kings Mills, %
miles east of Cincinnati, killing twelve
persons aud injuring number of 9TH
ers, some fatally. The explosion was
caused by switching cars, the concus-
sion of the humping cars igniting the
powder. Following is list of the killed:
Mrs. James Deacon, Henry Reynolds,
Samuel Stephens, Mrs. James Moss and
child; Mrs, Fred. Miller and child, VIM.
Franey, Ralph Williams, Baby Elstine,
Nick Snyder and an unknown man.
The San Francisco Chronicles ad-
vices from Honolulu state that there
has been wholesale desertions from the
United States steamer Charleston. Most
Of the recaptured sailors have charged
that the discipline was too severe. They
say they were kept below decks the en-
tire time when not needed on deck and
not permitted to use the library pre-
sented them by the citizens of San Fran
cisco. A man who went with the ship
Is electrician and was reduced in rank
% assistant machinist, seems to have
been the ringleader.
On the night of June 7th last the
Northern Pacific train was boarded near ,
New Salem, N. D., by two masked men ,
Who terrorized the train men and got
way with several packages of registered
nail matter. One Of the robbers was 1
'fterward captured. The postal author
ties probably know by this time the ,
mount they secured. The published .
stimate of 5000 or 5000 as the amount !
8 but rude guess. It is believed the :
obbers got away with nearer $4,000.
'ostal inspectors have searched over the
round where they caught the robber. }
hey found in torn bits and ragged
ieces a large amount of currency, in -,
luding one bill for 81 600 and a number .
t tens and twenties more or less mutt ,
ated. A whole bundle had been drop
ed in one place and in the robbers
aste not securely tied. Coyotes or =
ophers had torn or separated the money 6
nd the wind had scattered it. The =
mount recovered the inspector will not
isclose, but it runs into the thousands. .
The venerable mother of Lieutenant t
William B. Gushing, who in May, 1864, d
18th crew Of thirteen men, went up
le river to Plymouth, N. c.. and blew !,
p the rebel ram Albemarle, is now an q
bject Of charity, and has called upon d
1e Masonic lodge in the city of Belfast, b
le., for assistance. She is poor and
wes for her board since November last. Ii
II OF her eleven childen are dead. Dur C
g the war she served as nurse and a
as wounded twice while caring for IN Q,
lred soldiers on the field OF battle.
nee she was struck on the head by q q
,ent ball and also wounded on the arm. m
he claims to own property in Monterey il
,unty. California, and also lands in ct