The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1891-11-28
Mrs. CYRUS W. Field died Monday

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aged y.
Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, ear
of Ly tton, British ambassador to France
died suddenly Tuesday of heart disease
A telegram from Pernambuco says tht
railway was cut near Rio Janeiro Sunda!
night, and portion of it removed. Il
is supposed the work was done by
revolutionists. 1t is reported that the
insurgents in Rio Grande are fitting ul
an expedition to capture De Sterro or
acco unit of lis harbor.
| Judge Rising of Denver has denied
the motion of DR.. Graves for continu
ance of ninty days in the case wherein
he is charged with poisoning Mrs. Jose
phine Barnaby, of Providence. DR.
Graves attorney, Judge Furman, took
exception and the court announced that
the work OF selecting jury would
begin Wednesday.
The '1O1" democratic members of the
Illinois general assembly, who achieved
national reputation by their persistent
loyalty to Gen. John M. Palmer in the
long senatorial contest of last winter
announce that they will leave for Wash
ington Dec. l, to assist William NJ
Springer, of illinois, in his canvass for
the speakership.
S. P. Sherrin, seer etary of the national
democratic committee and ex-officio
secretary of the executive committee OF
that body, has by direction Of Senator
Brice, chairman, issued call for meet
lug of the executive committee at the
Arlington hotel, Washington, Dec. 8, 1891.
The executive committee is composed OF
twenty-five members of the national
committee.
The ladies' auxiliary of the Confeder-
ate Home concluded their work OF the
Chrysanthemum fair at Nashville Satur-
day and turned over to S. A. Cunningham,
general agent for the jefferson Davis
monument fund, s1,13O25 net profit.
This, added to the former sums raised ct
Nashville, gives an aggregate of 1894
raised at that city. The entire fund now
amounts to about $4,000.
The influenza is spreading IN France
and Germany. The epidemic has closed
several schools in the department of
Gers, France, and one school in
Paris. It extends all over Berlin, where
the noted painter, Spangenburg. with
many others, has succumbed to the di-
sease, and is also prevalent in Posen and
West Prussia. The death rate III Ham
burg is $50 above the normal average,
the increase being chiefly due to the
influenza.
Frank Melbourne has completed his
arrangements for his rainmaking
company in Kansas. Last week party
of Goodland, Kan, men went down into
the Pan handle of Texas and expert
mented. They produced flood of rain
and came back satisfied. The company
has a capital of 100000, and will operate
next year under the title of the Good
land Rain Producing association. Mel
bourne is to have charge of the companys
operations.
The Thaddeus Stevens estate remains
unsettled. and twenty three years after
his death, has just given rise to sensa-
tional features. A woman who claims
to be the widow of Captain Alanson
Stevens, Thaddeus Stevens nephew
has filed a large claim against the estate
and the auditors heard the testimony
Monday. Hon. Edward Mcpherson, one of
the surviving executors, presented tes-
timony showing that the woman, whose
maiden name was Mary J. Prim, was
never married to Captain Stevens
President Baker of the Worlds Colum-
bian exposition had an Interview with
President Harrison. He described at
length the progress and future prospects
of the great undertaking, devoting par
ticular attention to the subject of the
proposed s5,Coo00o loan. The president
showed the deepest interest IN the sub
ject and expressed an intention to do all
that could properly be done by him to
help along the exposition, and said if he
ultimately concluded to recommend
that congress extend further aid to the
project he would do it from the convic-
tion that it was his duty and would give
no half-hearted support to the measure
Sam Small, the noted evangelist, was
attacked Thursday morning and severly
beaten by Tom Minor, an Atlanta Ga.
saloon keeper, says dispatch. The
liquor mans fists were welded with
great force, and the sensational preacher
came out of the encounter with a split
lip and a badly bruised nose. Last
Sunday the reverend gentleman deliv
cred an address to large crowd at the
| Prohibition hall in Atlanta and aftel
attacking the character of several At
lanta whisky dealers, he charged Tom
Minor with having deserted his family
leaving them to starve. Minor saw
Small entering barber shop and fol
lowed him. AS Mr.. Small hung his
overcoat up and started towards chail
Minor struck him on the nose. Small
fell to the fooor, and before he coulo
rise Minor kicked him in the face
Small's face is badly bruised, his under
| lip is cut and he lost three teeth.
Gen. Alvin P. Hovey, governor o.
Indiana, died Monday afternoon at l2:1O.
He died of heart failure. About three
weeks ago Gov. Hovey started on 8
pleasure trip through the west ane
| Mexico. When the trip was about hall
completed the governor was taken sud
denly i'll and had to return home. Gov
Hovey was born in Posey county, neal
Mt. Vernon. Ind, in 1921. He served