The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1888-01-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Congress convened again on Wednesday
after the holiday recess.

i Congress convened again on Wednesda
after the holiday recess.
! Citizens Of Chicago a.S. agitating tn
erection of the tallest obelisk in the worl
to commemorate the valor 1t the police q
the Haymarket riot.
! Chicago and st. Louis psTties have pur
chased the famous Santa Anna silver mine
in Sonora, Mexico, which were flooded
and abandoned in 1912.
Proteau, the first white settler of Dako
ia and noted trapper and scout, wa
found frozen to death near Fort Bennett
Tuesday. He was 80 years old.
The jury In the case Of Tim Barret
charged with the murder Of street ca
driver Tollefson, at Minneaf ...s, vrough
in verdict of murder in the first degree
Judge Hoffman, of San Francisco
rendered decision in the United State
district court last week in which the righ
of Chinese to import opium Is sustained
Slugger Smith has replied to Sullivan's
challenge that he is ready to fight Sullivan
after the latter's match with Mitchell fol
any amount of money he chooses to name
William Herrig, who murdered his
young wife and her paramour at st. Fran.
els, Arkansas, was captured 10 the woods
near there last Friday by vigllantes and
hung.
James Hendricks, brother of the late
Vice. President Hendricks, ded at Shell
byville, Indiana, on Sunday He was the
last of the Hendricks family nd the third
to die within year.
Maurice Bernhardt, son # the actress.
Sarah Bernhardt, and Princess Virginia
Clotilde Jablonowskia, great aranddaught-
er of Lucien Bonaparte, we're married on
the Goth ult. in the church of St. Honore,
Paris.
In his message to the New York legis-
lature Governor Hill reco nmends the
passage of an act regulating the employ
ment of prison labor and measure for
some method Of capital punishment other
than by hanging.
John Crosby, a member Of the we'll
known milling firm of Washburn, Crosby,
& Co., and president of the National Mill
ers' ASSOCIATION of America, ned at his
home in Minneapolis on Friday Of last
week, of paralysis Of the heart.
A collision on the Cincinnati Southern
road On Saturday last resulted in the death
Of six persons and the injury Of fifteen
others, some of them fatally. The coils
ion was caused by the misreading of or
ders delivered to the conductor of one of
the trains. ......
The public debt statement shows the
interest bearing debt to be 81 ,O41, ,761, 1,742;
interest, $12,2O1, sol; net cash in the
treasury, $69,842,879; decrease of debt
during December, $14,5s4,654; since
June 80, $59,ss0,SS5. Total cash in
treasury, $527,625,556
The strike among the glassworkers in
tile eastern cities has thrown fifteen thous-
and men out of employment. 1t is pre-
dicted that the strike will be a long and
bitter one, with the possibility that the
differences between the workmen and man
ufacturers may not he settled this year.
The Chicago & Wyoming Oil and Min
ing company is new institution chartered
by the state of Illinois. The capital stock
Of the company is $5,O00,000, and is Or
ganlzed to Develop the coal and oil lands
Of Carbon county, Wyoming, Of which the
company now hold title to 5000 acres.
The president has issued proclamation
reciting the controversy between the Uni
ted States and the state Of Texas concern
ing the territory lying between the north
and south forks of the Red river and the
Tooth degree of longitude, warning all
persons selling or buying lands within
said district.
During a performance in theatre at
Cartagena, Spain, on the 30th, broker oc-
cupying one of the stalls committed sui
eide by exploding dynamite cartridge.
The conclusion extinguished all the lights
and the audience becoming panic-stricken
fed. During the excitement over 100
persons were more or less injured.
An 1,8OO-ton bark, believed to be an
American vessel, has been wrecked at the
entrance of Waterford, Ireland, harbor.
Her crew, consisting Of twenty-five per-
SONS, were all drowned. The vessel is
supposed to be the ship Eureka, Captain
Southland, which sailed from San Francis
co, August 10, for Queenstown, with a
cargo of wheat.
The New York municipal council Of
the Irish National League intend to pres
ent soon to Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher
set of resolutions expressing sympathy
and regret for the death of her husband
and its respect for his memory. These