The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1888-01-07

DulIOlng cOllapsed. "A scene OF terror en-
sued. Mary Allison and Mrs. Jones and
her child were taken from the wreck
dead.
A riot between forty or more drunken
Poles took place Monday morning at AL
den, Pennsylvania. Anthony Spinky was
stabbed five times; his arm was broken,
two fingers cut off and one eye gouged
out He was left lying unconscious on
the roadway and when found was removed
to the nearest house In dying condition.
Eight others we're seriously injured. The
fracas resulted directly from christening
which lasted two days. The participants
were drunk.
It is reported that the Washington Fire
and Marine insurance company is about to
close up its affairs and 60 out of the bust
ness. President Sweetzer admitted that
the company had reinsured Its Marine risks
in the California and Union companies, of
California. The Washington has had the
largest capital and has done the largest
business of any company Of its kind in
Boston. The aggregate amount Of fire
risks said to be already reinsured in the
Niagara and National companies is about
$70,000,c00.
At a meeting Of the Trades assembly
last week at Chicago for the purpose of
instructing delegates to the coming session
OF the Illinois State Labor association at
Peoria, a declaration was unanimously
adopted that the time has come for inde-
pendent political action by the workmen.
Strikes and boycotts against great corpor-
ations were pronounced to have lost all
usefulness, and the delegates to Peoria
were instructed to ask the state associa-
ton to call upon all its auxiliary bodies to
organize for the separate exercise Of their
political powers.
During fight between rival factions OF
boys in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania.
Monday, Joseph Johnston, aged ten years,
was shot in the abdomen and fatally
wounded. About fifty boys ranging from
eight to fourteen years, participated IN
the battle. At the start they contented
themselves with throwing stones, but as
the fight waged fiercer, revolvers were
drawn and several shots were fred on
both sides, but fortunately only Johnston
was injured. 1t is not known who fred
the fatal shot. Five OF the participants
have been arrested on suspicion.
The great objective or thirty -sax inch
lens of the Lick telescope was successfully
Monday afternoon ct San Jose,
CAL, and would have been turned on the
heavens had the sky been clear, but it
having become obscured about sundown,
no observations were made. Supt Floyd,
Prof. Keeler, and Messrs. Swazey and Clark
are we'll pleased with the work AS soon as
an observation is made the Photographic
lens will be mounted and experimental
will be taken to determine
the work required to finish it which Mr..
Clark heretofore has been unable to do.
A dispatch from Wichita, Kansas says
Charles Green, cattle dealer from "No
Mans Land" has arrived there, and gives
some details of the capture and lynching
Of the Kelly family whose horrible crimes,
published widely a few days ago, are
equally as atrocious as anything commit
ted by the Bender family. The Kelly
family left their ranch, going south. A
posse started in pursuit and followed
them fully fifty miles south. In Texas
the old man escaped, but his son Bill was
hanged and the mother and daughter shot,
while the posse were endeavoring to cap
ture them.
Representative Springer, in recent in
terview, said: Three territories are ready
for admission to statehood, Dakota, Mon
tana and Washing gton. It's too late to adj
nit them this year. Enabling acts will
probably be passed this winter for the ter
ritories named. They can choose delegates
to their constitutional convention at once,
tc meet say in June and July, and form
These will he submitted
to the people in November and they can
ratlfy and elect governors and legislatures
and get admitted in the following Janu
ary. This is as early as it can be done.
They will retain their present territorial
limits. Dakota will not be split"
Copies of the following bloodthirsty cir
cular were distributed on the streets of
New York last Saturday, where working
men could get them: The torch and bomb
must be applied! Fellow workmen:
the hour has come. The agencies of
science must play their part in the strug-
gle Of the future. Yesterday it was the
slaughter of our comrades at Chicago.
To-day 1t is the assassination of 10000
of our brothers on the Philadelphia &
Reading railway system. True, the sword
is weapon of circumstances, but their
victims perish all the same. Do not waste