The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1886-03-20
A large mass meeting was held in Sitka

land laws over Alaska. Under the pres
ent laws no one can hold PROPERTY except
miners; nor can they cut timber without
risk Of prosecution.
Miss Abigail 1. Bates died at Scituate,
Mass, on the 18th inst, aged 80 years.
She was one of the two heroines who,
during the war Of 1912, drove the British
from that harbor by concealing themselves
in the bushes and playing vigorously upon
fife and drums, thereby leading the enemy
to believe large force was ready to re-
ceive them.
It is officially announced that at the
consistory to be held on the 18th of April
next, the following dignitaries of the
church will be made cardinals: Arch
bishop Saschereau of Quebec, Archbishop
Gibbons of Baltimore, Monsignor Terrata,
Nuncio at Vienna; Monsignor Dercnde,
Nuncio at Paris; Monsignor Wampollo
Del Tindara, Nuncio at Madrid; Monslg
nor Massella, Nuncio at lisbon.
The state executive board of the Knights
Of Labor of Illinois have been directed
that no new assemblies of the order be
formed in that state for a period of forty
davs. The idea is to spend the interval
in enlightening the people as to the objects
of the order so that no one will come in
without complete knowledge on the sub
iect. The order in Illinois was growing
SO fast that Objectionable characters were
getting in.
The mills of the Toledo Linseed Oil
company, of OHIO, which were destroyed
by fire on the 10Th, were among the larg-
est in the country. Over 100 barrels of
naptha were stored in the building, which
exploded, shaking the whole city and
shattering window panes in the neighbor-
hood. Two men on the opposite side of
the street we're badly burned and num-
Der of others hurt. Loss, 100000; in
surance, $4,000.
The New York Suns London special
says: At dividend meeting Of the Bank
of England to-day, the question of bl-met-
allism was discussed and the coinage of
the silver rupee and florin currency for
circulation in India and England was sug-
gested. The decrease of gold in England
was the subject of much comment, it
beng shown that the quantity of metal
has decreased f1O,Ooo;o0o within the
past five years.
The much -talked-o prize fight between
Jack Dempsey of New York and George
LaBlanche of Boston took place at Rye, on
the border line Of New Yolk aud Con-
necticut, at 7 o'clock on Sunday morning
last. The purse amounted to $2,lOO and
there was a stake of 81, 900 side put up
by the contestants. After thirteen closely
contested rounds Dempsey was declared
the winner, LaBlanche being unable to
respond to the call of ''time.'
An attempt was made last week at
Amicns, France, to assassina:e Jules Verne.
Two shots were fired at him by young
student who turned out to he the authors
own nephew and who had come down from
Paris for the express purpose OF killing
his uncle One of the bullets missed the
novelist altogether. The other struck him
in the leg inficting slight wound. The
nephew has for some time been student
in Paris and is thought to be monoman-
lac.
P. H. Ford and John Murphy were
hanged at New Orleans, Friday of last
week, for the assassination of Capt. A. H.
Murphy Of that city in December, 1884,
the execution taking place under peculiar
circumstances. The morning of the exc
cution the men attempted suicide by TAX
ing belladona, and at the time set for their
hanging were in an unconscious condition.
They had to be carried to the gallows and
placed in recumbent position while their
arms and legs were pinioned, and in that
condition were swung into eternity.
Anew Orleans dispatch Of the 18th inst,
says that the strike on the Gould system is
c onsidered on fair way to settlement.
The receivers will not arbitrate, but if
Hall submits his own case to the United
States court and the judge should decide
that Hall was discharged without suffi-
cient cause, then the receivers will rein
state him. If, after this, the strikers will
not return to work, then the company will
proceed under the protection Of the court
to carry on its business. If the strikers
will submit to the judges decision if it
should be adverse to them, then of course
the strike would end.
A few days ago farmer living near
Lawrence, Kansas, discovered cave on
his farm inhabited by about 800 prairie
wolves. He reported the fact and large
hunting party visited the. cave. They
turned their dogs loose and one or two of
them rushed into the cave and were torn