The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1891-08-29

Latest advices from Martinique say
that 80 persons, not including the ship
wreck fatalities, perished in the recent
hurricane.
Hon. Redfeld Proctor has been ap
pointed by Governor Page Of Vermont
to succeed Senator Edmunds, resigned
as United States senator from that state
During a fight at Greenville, S. C..
Monday between two families, the Dur
hams and Heards, and their friends, two
men were killed and several others
wounded.
Heavy frosts throughout sections OF
Minnesota and the Dakotas did great
damage to corn and garden truck, but
it is believed that 80 far no injury has
resulted to the wheat, oats, rye and bar
ley crops.
w. A. McElvain, publisher Of the Sar-
atogian, has been sued for $4,000 libel
by w. J. Arkell The paper intimated
that the presidents visit to Saratoga
had been used to commercial advantage
by certain parties, and in the article
mentioned Arkells name.
A terrible explosion, followed by fire,
destroyed the buildings at No. 68, 70 and
and y Park Place, in New York Satur-
day, and buried the occupants in the
debris. Nearly fifty bodies OF victims
have been recovered, and as eighty six
persons are missing and unaccounted for
it is believed the loss of life will reach
that number. The disaster is the most
appalling in the history of the city.
Changes were made Tuesday in the
interior plans of the manufacturers
building of the worlds fair, which add
ten acres to the floor OF the building
and give it forty acres available for ex-
hibits and avenues, making the largest
exposition building ever constructed.
The music hall and shoe and leather
buildings are forced out by this new ar
rangement to other parts of the grounds.
The change was the result of protest
by Vice President DeYoung Of the ma
tional commission.
A fearful cloudburst occurred at
Pottsville, Pa, Sunday afternoon and
water po ured down in torrents for over
an hour. The thunder and lightning
were most frightful. The culverts were
unable to carry all the water and some
burst and portions of the town were in
undated. Fully 400 families were driven
to the upper stories OF their homes and
their cellars and kitchens are filled with
water and mud. Railroad and Coal
streets were turned into rivers three and
four feet deep and the raging torrents
carried all sorts Of goods and debris
down to the Schuylkill river. The dam
age is immense.
Frank Berry, a negro at Peoria, Hi
nois, ran amuck Wednesday on the
streets of that city. He had quarreled
with negro woman and attacked her
with knife. She escaped and ran into
the office of Mathew Hennebury, who
tried to protect her, but the negro drove
him away. Just then Officers Sloan
and Campbell entered. Berry jumped
at them and cut both badly. He drove
the knife into the woman's breast and
then ran down the street, threatening
every one he met with the bloody knife.
He was finally Knocked down and cap
tured by a policeman. Among those
cut by him two are in serious condi-
ton.
A frightful catastrophe is reported by
the treasury department from the Arctic
regions. 1t is said that the crews Of
two small steam whalers wintering near
the mout tn of the Mackenzie, about 500
miles east of Point Barrow, have been
by the natives of that region.
The steamers were the property OF the
Pacific Whaling company and carried
sixty men as crew. They were well
armed, equipped and provisioned. Here
tofore the natives have been very
friendly to the whites. Many of them
are we'll armed, having been supplied
with rifles by trading vessels, which
have exchanged whisky and guns for
furs. While it is new thing for whal-
ers to winter in the Arctic region ss far
as these two steamers have, white men
have spent the winters on shore with
the natives and have lived with good
degree of comfort. Whaling crews en-
camped on land would not be under any
such strict discipline as might be en-
forced on shipboard, and if their inter.
course with the natives was offensive
they have probably been overpowered
by superior numbers.
Additional details received from St.. |
Pierre, capital of the island of Martin
ique, which was visited by terrible
hurricane, show that the facts already
published are not only in no way ex-
aggerated, but that they did not tell the
full story Of the disaster. The number
of dead was originally estimated at sixty,
with hundreds of injured. The latest
dispatches received announce that 218 |
persons are found to have been killed in
the coast towns alone, the towns in the
interior not having been heard from as
yet. There is no doubt that the loss of |
life in the interior towns may have been
as great, if not greater, than the coast
towns. The death list by towns, as for
warded by Governor Casse up to date, is
as follows: st. Pierre, "a; Morne Rouge,
%; Fondu st. Denis, 7; Precheurs, 6;
Carbet, 4; st. Joseph, %; Martin, 8; Van
chin, 10; Lamentin, 26; Francois, q;
Robert, %; Riviere Pilot, Z; miscellane- /