The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1888-10-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

A grand stand containing 4,500 people
collapsed at Quincy, Ills, during local
celebration. One hundred and fifty peo-
pie were seriously injured, many Of whom
will die.
| A circular has been issued by the
Northern Pacific, over the signature OF
President Oakes, as follows: The elect
ion of G. H. Prescott as second vice pres
ident is hereby announced. The office
Of the second vice president will be at
Tacoma, and the duties will he more par
tlcularly defined hereafter. The heads of
departments on the Pacific coast are in
structed to forward to him business re-
qulrlng higher authority, before forward
ing to the undersigned for final action.
The National Line steamer Queen,
which arrived at New York Wednesday
from England, is reported to have collided
with the fishing schooner Madeline on the
5th inst It is said that twenty persons
perished. The collision occurred at a.
m. Friday during a fog off the banks of
New Foundland. The Queen struck the
Madeline amidships, cutting her in two
and sinking her Immediately. The cap.
tain and first and second mates and stew
ard on the fishing schooner were rescued
after they had been in the water nearly
an hour. Tho rest Of the crew, number
ing twenty, were lost. The Queen lost
her bowsprit and foremast. The NADIA
line was French fishing schooner.
A horrible accident occurred Wednes-
day on the Lehigh Valley railway at Mud
Run, the first station above Penn Haven.
A grand parade of Catholic societies took
place at Hazleton and a large excursion
@as run from Wilkesbarre for the OCCASION,
composed Of lodges, bands and sightseers
from Wilkcsbarre, Nanticoke and other
points along the line. The excursion
train was run in two sections, and upon
their return trip the rear section ran into
the forward section at Mud Run about 9
o'clock, with disastrous results. Several
cars of the forward section were tele-
scoped and forty persons killed outright,
and about an equal number injured, many
Of them probably fatally.
The corner stone of the Polish Catholic
church, Twelfth and Spruce streets, in
Reading Pa. was laid last Saturday.
During the ceremony the floor, on which
fully 5000 men, women and children
were standing, gave way, precipitating
several hundred persons to the basement,
distance Of fifteen feet. Over one hun
dred men and women were thrown in a
heap and all were more or less injured,
some seriously and others fatally. The
widest excitement followed, and the s.
900 spectators became panic-stricken.
Cooler heads, however, went to the res
cue of the unfortunate, and the injured
were taken into the neighboring dwell
ings and physicians hastily summond.
Later the wounded were removed to their
homes and to the various hospitals by
ambulances.
An informal conference of republican
senators was held on the 10th to talk over
the general situation, more especially to
arrange the course of the debate on the
tariff bill. The results were meagrc, ow-
ing to the doubt everywhere entertained
whether the quorum of the senate can be
held in Washington should the tariff de-
bate be protracted beyond next week. No
action was taken in the conference and no
policy sketched, but there is reason to
believe that if the senate finds itself tor
any length of time without quorum
either an adjournment sine die or recess
for several weeks will be taken. There
fore it now seems probable this session
will practically come to an end next week,
or early the week after, and that the tar
1ff bill will be left for final action until
after election day.
The annual report of William A. West,
chief inspector of the postoffice depart
ment, shows that during the last fiscal
year 791 persons were arrested for of
fenses against the postal laws; 213 were
postal employees, 172 were burglars and
mail robbers and 406 were persons un-
classified. During the year 12,957,611
pieces of mail matter were registered, OF
which only 845 we're lost. The increase
in the number of complaints made IN 1888
over 1887 was 1891, while the revenue
and corresponding volume of business in
creased $4,329,026. During the year
"a, ,889 postoffices were inspected and their
financial condition ascertalned. During
the year 1885 complaints of various
kinds were filed of delays or loss to for
eign mails, largely caused by insufficient
or wrong direction.
Acting secretary Thompson has ad-
dressed letter to congress inviting the
the attention to the necessity of making
some appropriations for carrying into ef
feet the provisions of the Chinese exclu-
sion act. He says: The enforcement of
the act necessarily devolves, in the first
instance, upon the collectors Of the sew
eral ports of entry in the United States,
from the nature of the service, must re-
qulre the maintenance of a special force
Of inspectors, guards and other employees,
and as entry may be effected into the
United States, not only at ports along the
Atlantic, Pacific and Gulf coast, but also
across the Canadian and Mexican border
lines, it is evident that considerable
force must eventually be employed in Or
der to effectually enforce the provisions
of the amendment. It would be difficult
to give detailed estimate of the expendi-
lures which might be required for the pur-
pose. but it is recommended that $50, 900
be made.
The spectacle was witnessed in Chicago
Tuesday of 100000 people reduced to
walking to whatever point they might de-
sire to reach. This uncomfortable and
unprecedented state of affairs was the re-
suit of the strike of the street car drivers