The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1888-05-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

dale, Washington, was burned Sunda,
Loss $175,000.
A Boston special says John L. Sulliva
has engaged to travel with circus th
season for 800 week.
The senate committee on privileges an
elections has decided that Senator Turpi
of Indiana is entitled to his seat.
The Brazilian senate has passed bi
abolishing slavery, which was passed b
the chamber of deputies last week.
John Dillon, tried at Dublin for incit
ing tenants to not pay rent, has been sen
fenced to six months imprisonment with
out hard labor.
An explosion of natural gas at Buffalo
N. Y, destroyed ST. Paul's cathedral, TIL
finest church in the city, besides doin!
other damage to property.
Forty dwellings, the gas works, III
gymnasium and number of busines
houses were burned at Hot Springs, Ark.
on the 18th. Loss 100000.
Commodore Norman W. Kittson OF St
Paul, one of the early pioneers of thu
northwest, died on a north bound Oman;
train ell route from Philadelphia to hi.
home in St. Paul.
The president has approved the ac1
granting the ri ght of way to the Kansas
City & Pacific Railroad company through
the Indian territory and the act creating
and organizing the county of Latac
Idaho.
Melville F. Stone, founder and editor
of the Chicago Daily News, has entirely
severed his relation with the paper, and
has sold his entire interest to Victor F
Lawson. He assigns i'll health as his
reason.
Heavy frosts and light snow visited
portions of Minnesota and Dakota on the
the night of the 18th, doing considerable
damage to vegetation. Ice formed at
Fargo to the thickness of one and one half
inches.
Another attempt was made on the life
of the car on the 18th inst During a
parade of Russian troops a lieutenant
named Timoferof was about to fire at the
czar when another officer seized him by
the arm, the weapon being discharged
and the bullet entering the ground.
Andrew Carnegie of Pittsburg sailed
for Europe Tuesday and will meet Blaine
and family in London on the 9th prox
The party will then start on coaching
tour through England and Scotland, en-
Dracing 700 miles over an entirely new
'oute. Carnegie reports Blaine in excel
cnt health
The government of New Zealand has
proclaimed all Chinese ports to be infect
I'd, in order to stop the entrance into the
colony Of Chinese emigrants. The gov
of South Australia has proposed
IN inter-colonial conference to he held for
he purpose of arranging for united meas
Tres to exclude emigfants from China.
The new capitol at Austin, Texas, was
dedicated on Wednesday last with appro
'riate ceremonies. The building is said
o be the finest and largest in the country,
ext to the national capital at Washing
On. The Chicago syndicate that built
he structure was represented on that oc-
aston by John " Farwell and Col. AL
ert Taylor.
Judge Sully of Chicago has rendered a
reliminary decision in a contested will
ase that is of considerable Importance to
IL children born in slavery and to many
the descendants of such children. He
laims them illegitimate and holds that
icy cannot inherit property from the
,ther The will contested is that of Mrs.
Elizabeth Bunch.
The union labor party in convention in
incinnati this week selected as standard
carers in the national campaign A. j.
treeter Of Illinois and Charles Z. Cum
ngham of Arkansas. The united labor
arty, in session in the same city, nomi-
ated Robert H. Cowdry of Illinois for
resident and W. H. Wakefield of Kansas
vice president.
Congressman Springer says that he will
1t permit congress to adjourn, If he can
'ntrol the matter, without securing action
! the bill to admit Dakota, Montana,
'ashington and New Mexico as states.
e will ask to have one or more days
Ied for consideration of the bill, but the
bject will remain in allegiance until the
riff bill has been disposed Of.
The horrible murder Of little Maggie
aughan at Chicago has been avenged bv
e hanging of the colored murderer, Zeph
avis. The execution took place in the
'rtheast corner of the county Jail and on
e same gallows from which the anarch
IS were swung off few months age.
avis was the first colored person to suf-
r capital punishment in Cook county.
The secretary of the interior, in letter
the commissioner of the general land
ice, holds that the presence of con-
lerable growth of mesquite trees upon
nd does not exclude it from entry under
e desert land act. This decision affects
large area of the southwest and is the
suit of petition signed by the governor
d large number of citizens of Arizona.
Orders have been issued from the war
partment for the transfer of eight Grow
dians now confined at Fort Smelling.
lnn., and four Apaches at Fort Pickens,
H., to the Indian school at Carlisle, Pa.
le Crows are portion of the band that
rticipated in the Sword Bearer war and
2 Apaches belong to Geronimo's tribe.
is proposed to send Geronimo and the
It of the band to Mt. Vernon barracks,
a.
The New York World publishes an ac-
unit OF an exhibition recently made of a
rfected Edison phonograph. Among
experiments recounted and regarded !
successful were those of the voice re-