The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1886-05-08

The nitro-glycerinc warehouse Of tn
California powder works, near Pinale
California. was blown to atoms on Tue:
day by the explosion of 1900 pounds o
nitro-glycerine. Three Chinese and An
drew Anderson (white) we're killed.
The election in ST. Paul on Tuesday re
suited in the election of George Refs
democrat, as city treasurer by majority
of 1000; Frank Ford, democrat, wa.
elected associate municipal judge. Ou1
of eighteen aldermen and school inspect
ors the republicans elected but four.
A fire at Buffalo, Wyoming, destroyed
the large livery barn of Braziel & Booth
on Friday night Of last week. Loss $4,000
no insurance. The public spirited citi.
zens of that town made up for the lack of
insurance by subscribing about $4,000 to
aid the sufferers from the fire in rebuild
ing.
A fund has been raised in Chicago for
the benefit of the policemen injured by
Tuesdays bomb-throwing. The amount
already raised is $4,000, about 1000
of which was contributed by members Of
the board of trade, $10,75O by the rail
roads centering in that city and the bal
ance by private individuals.
- The issue of polygamy has at last rcacii-
ed result in Idaho through the courts in
the conviction of John Jolly, on two
counts and John Gramer, Geo. w. White
and David johnson on one each. These
convictions were secured through ruling
by Judge Hays that the first wife could
testify against the husband.
Through the efforts of Chairman Cur
tin, Of the congressional labor investiga-
ton committee, the strike on the Gould
southwestern system has been ended and
the men, with the exception of few who
were recognized as those who had CON-
mitted dcpredations on the company's
property, were again placed upon the pay
rolls.
A Washington telegram says: 1t is un-
derstood that the president has been re-
quested by Senator Beck to withdraw the
nomination of Warren Green, son of the
president of the Western Union Telegraph
company, who was appointed consul to
Japan, the charges against him being so
serious as to justify his rejection by the
senate.
Senator Dockery Is to report favorably
bill to extend the free delivery system
to all towns containing 10000 inhabitants
whose gross postal revenues for the pre-
ceding year were $4,000 or more. The
bill also provides for three classes of letter
carriers, who are to receive as conpensa-
ton 81 900, $500 and 5000 per annum re-
spectively.
The treasury department has decided
that Chinese seamen do not fall within
the prohibitory provisions of the Chinese
restriction act and therefore may be al
lowed to land temporarily, in ordinary
pursuit of their calling for the purpose of
shipping on return voyage as soon as
possible, without the certificate required
by the restriction act.
The case of Walter H. Lennox Max
we'll, alias Hugh M. Brooks charged with
numbering C. Arthur Prellcr in the South
ern hotel at St. Louis and then placing
the body in trunk, will come up for
trial in the criminal court op Monday
next. Lengthy dispositions have been re-
ceived from England, most of which
gives the prisoner uniformly good char
acter. The testimony points to defense
OF mistaken identity.
A new organization, known as the Jun
ior Knights Of Labor, has been instituted
and this week held meeting in Bostor
which was attended by about 100 youths
from Is to 21 years of age. The organ
ization proposes to support the aims and
work Of the regular Knights Of Labor,
though entirely Independent of that order.
The names of 1866 members have been
enrolled, representing fourteen states and
one territory.
A Spokane Falls wv. IT, dispatch Of
the 9th tells of the shocking death of
Captain Pingstone, master of the steamer
Kootenai, which plies between Little
Dallcs and the Canadian Pacific railroad
Saturday morning last, while he was in a
house near Little Dalles, a deer came close
to the house. One of the men ran and
got Springfield rifle, and in the hurry OF
loading the weapon was discharged, the
ball striking Pingstone in the knee and
severing an artery. He only lived few
moments.
BarbarOus and Destructive.
The house committee on commerce
box,o orrood fO ronOrt favOrah1V on the