The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1888-08-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

VIA AAo"S, AA"S3' otN'
Mr.. La:hrop has resigned his diplo-
matte position as minister to Russia and
Will return to the United States.
The German Emperor is going to visit
England in short time. He will pro-
badly be accompanied by Bismark.
The Indiana republican convention is
now in session in indianapolis. Over one
thousand delegates are in the convention.
Fifteen hundred bills yet await the ac-
ton of congress this session. About
$4,000 bills and joint resolutions have
been introduced this session.
Some forty republican accredited del
egates to the confederation of trades and
labor unions in indianapolis were refused
admission to the convention.
A Dominion steamer has arrived at St.
Andrews, N. B., with an American fishing
schooner IN tow that it had taken into
custody for violation of the fisheries law.
Sheridan's death gives the command of
the army to Major General Scho6eld.
The rank Of general of the army, how
ever, goes out of existence with Sheridan.
The corrected assessment vote of John
son county, Wyoming this year shows a
total valuation of $2,733,644. THIS
county has gained wonderfully in the past
two years.
The shareholders of the Panama Canal
company we're assured by De Lesseps at
their last meeting that the canal would be
open fer traffic in 1890. They expressed
great confidence in his statement and his
report was received with satisfaction.
The president has vetoed the bill grant
ing 635 acres of military reservation to
the city Of Tacoma, Washington terri
tory, for park. The army engineers re-
ported against the bill on the ground that
it might bc needed for military purposes.
Major Bartellot is in the dark CONT
nent organizing an expedition to follow
Stanley's route into the interior, but ow-
ing to the rumors of Stanleys terrible
fate at the hands of the native Africans,
he finds it difficult to get men to go with
him on the expedition.
The failure Of the commission to treat
with the Sioux Indians is laid by the
other members at the door of Capt. Pratt
Of the Carlisle Indian school. They say
that he has tried to bluff the Indians into
the treaty, but they were rendered all the
more stubborn by this treatment.
The international fight betwean Frank
Murphy of England and Jack Havlin of
Boston for $1,000 side and the light
weight championship of the world came
off on Aug 2d at Verplanks Point on the
Hudson and ended in draw. The men
fought 40 rounds, taking hours and Is
minutes.
The latest news in regard to the Sioux
Indian treaty is that there IS very little
probability of the Indians being prevailed
upon to sign it. Chief Gaul. who is lit
orally worshipped by the whole tribe,
heads the opposition and will allow no
one to make the first move towards sign
ing any paper at all.
A great match IS being talked of be-
tween Sullivan and Kilrain. Both the
pugilists are in training and it is consld-
cred sure thing that the match will
come off before long. Sullivan says he
will fight to finish next time, no draw
and for $4,000 or $4,000. Kilraln says
that the stakes cannot be too big to suit
his hackers.
A Bowery tenement house in New
York city burned down on Aug. 3rd,
causing the death of thirteen people.
One hundred and fifty people inhabited
the building mostly Polish Jews. There
we're fire escapes on the building but be-
fore they could lie reached the flames
had cut off access to them. Many people
jumped from the windows to the ground.
The new organization, the Personal
Rights League, composed of men who do
not believe IN prohibition, but do believe
in temperance, is rapidly growing in num-
bcrs. They believe that the manufacture
of alcoholic beverages should be under
the strict control of the authorities and
that stringent methods should be used to
prevent the adulteration of food products.
The Irish nationalists have secured the
appointment of judicial commission to
inquire into the charges against Parneil
and others. They will be able to thus
lay their whole case openly before the
commission and the public. 1t is ques-
ton whether the Irish can ever get just
Ice from the English government 1t is
almost foregone conclusion that they
cannot.
The funeral of General Endes, the ex
communist who dropped dead in Paris
while addressing great crowd of strikers,
was attended by thousands. 1t was the
occasion for demonstrations by the COM
munists, several times their character be-
ing of dangerous tendency owing to the
lenlency of the police. However, the op
position was not strong enough to cause
any violent outbreak, and all passed off
quietly.
The democratic papers are making
great cry about Morton's dictatorship in
the Canadian Pacific Railway company,
whereas, he was merely elected to fill a
temporary vacancy in the board until the
election of suitable Canadian director.
Since that election he has never in sim
gle instance attended a meeting of the
board or exercised any of the functions of
his office as director. His resignation was
forwarded to the board in the early part
of the summer and this place will he
filed at Tomorrow meeting.
The Sioux Indians still refuse to sign
the agreement to open the reservation. 1t
is even reported that some of the chiefs
at the council ordered that the first In
dian to sign the treaty should be killed.
The opposition to the treaty is laid to two
causes s-One the advice of the sauaw men !