The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1888-10-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

: An audience of 100000 people llstene'
!, to Blaine discourse on the tariff at tn
: New York polo grounds last Saturday.
The wheat market is in furry all owe
the world and the price of that cereal i
higher than it has been for years. Th'
q Dakota farmers are rushing their graf,
i into market and money and good time
> are the rule in all wheat growing coun
tries.
Allen G. Thurman will not probably
write any letters of acceptance. He say.
that he has fully expressed his views OF
the stump and does not consider it neces
sary. He may, however, conclude tt
write one after all, as some of the leading
! democrats ars anxious for him to do So
Some fiend is keeping a quarter o1
London, known as White Chapel, in a fer
ment of excitement by numerous murders
The police are unable to find any clue to
the perpetrator. Seven women have
been killed and their bodies more OF
less mutilated The Queen has been pc
titioned to offer reward for the capture
Of the murderer.
Mabel Vaughn, daughter of a retired
New York merchant, has caused sensa-
tion by eloping with her fathers coach
man, Hy Tupton. He IS good looking
young Englishman, and well educated
It was known that Miss Vaughn accepted
the addresses of Tupton, but Mr.. Vaughn
objected to him. Saturday the couple
eloped, the girl taking $4,000 Of her own
money with her.
A dispatch from Colonel Clendening,
dated Fort Ringgold, September 26, has
been received by General Stanley. It
says: II have protected Sebree and 9TH
ers from the mob No property has been
destroyed or depredations committed in
Rio Grande City. Affairs are not SO bad
as represented. If any real danger had
existed I would have used troops to pre-
vent bloodshed. Posses from adjoining
counties arrived last night and to- day all
is quiet"
The general council Of all the Indian
agents and leading chiefs, with the Sioux
commission, which convened last Satur
Gay at Lower Brulc agency, dissolved last
Thursday and the commission left for the
east Friday. The agents and their Indi-
ans left Brnle for their respective agencies
the same day The commissioners, hay-
ing no authority to treat with the Indians,
were compelled to refuse any concessions
to their demand for changes in the bill.
Delegations from each of the six nations,
composed of agents and their leading men,
will now visit Washington and the Indi-
ans be given an opportunity to present
their case to the government authorities,
with the hope that some arrangement will
be made tn satisfy them. The cosnm,s-
sioners now look for satisfactory conclu-
sion Of their labor, with greater hope than
at any time heretofore.
A Panama dispatch says: Merchants
doing business with Rica will be surprised
to learn that the government has issued
orders that mail sacks in the future are
not to be opened at Punta Kenas and
Lemon but forwarded to the capitol, San
Jose. This will cause delay of three days
in the receipt of letters at coast ports. and
how merchants are to claim the goods
while the bills of lading are taking jaunt
across the mountains TO the capitol is
mystery. A terrible explosion occurred
on the large iron mud carrying steamer,
Aspinwall, September IS. She had on
board IN addition to the crew, Grover,
master mechanic of the Panama railroad;
Hugh Granam and Andrew Mcintyre
The latter was recently captain of the
American dredge the City Of Paris. Eight
souls in all were lost The safety valve
blew out and the explosion followed,
causing the loss of six lives and the de.
struction of the vessel and another steamer
in the vicinity, whilst an iron lighter near
by was cut in two as if by knife.
The senate bill to allow persons who
have abandoned or relinquished home
stead entries to make other entries was
taken up in the house on Tuesday. An
amendment was adopted providing that
whenever it appears to the register Of any
land office any settler on the public do
main unable by reason Of drouth or other
unavoidable casualty secure support for
himself, the register may grant such set
tier leave of absence from such claim not
exceeding one year. On motion Of Her
mann (Oregon) an amendment was
adopted providing that all public lands
designated as double minimum pre-emp-
ton lands be reduced to the uniform
rate of ST. ,25 per acre. An amendment
was adopted providing that any home
stead settler who has entered less than a
quarter section may enter additional land
contiguous to the original entry, which,
with such entry, shall not exceed 100
acres. The bill as amended passed. The
conference report on the joint resolution
appropriating 100000 to aid in the sup
preston of yellow fever was adopted.
The resolution offered by Call on the
9th of September instructine the senate
on epidemic diseases to consider and re-
port additional legislation to prevent the
importation of contagious diseases was
taken up by the senate and Call spoke on
it. Pasco offered an amendment direct
ing the committee to inquire further into
the introduction of yellow fever in
Florida and other states during the
present year. In the course Of his re-
marks Call read letter from DR.. Reed
suggesting spirits of ammonia as al
method Of cure and prevention and rec
onlmending that some action be taken to
test that method. A long discussion
followed. Morgan said there were eight
states in the south which had been here
tofore subjected to yellow fever ravages
He proposed that each of these should
vote 100000, making fund Of $780,