The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1888-02-11

dismissal of Statistlcan Lodge, was re
ceived Saturday by the Commissioners O
Agriculture. The movement is under
stood to have originated with the tobacco
growers who we're aggrieved by the stats
tician's crop report last summer.
A dynamite explosion at the works o
the Hancock Chemical company, nea
Hancock, Michigan, Monday, who'll.
wrecked No. 2 packing house and blew
down No. adjoining. Three men, ]
A. Almond, John Olson and Adam Ytsilis
were instantly killed by the explosion
which Was of terrific force.
President Means of the suspended Ne
tropolitan bank of Cincinnati has been ar
rested on charge of missppropriatine
some $224,0OO of the banks funds fo1
himself. He was arraigned before the
United States commissioner and his bond
placed at $50, 900, which he Immediately
furnished and was released.
Miss Royce, the Nebraska school teach
er, three of whose pupils died in her arms
during the recent blizzard, will lose both
feet and one arm as result of her expos.
ure in the blizzard Four thousand dol
lars has been contributed to the teachers
fund for Misses Freeman, Royce and Shat
tuck. The latter lost both her limbs.
A war between the two sugar refneries
of San Francisco was inaugurated on the
3rd, and prices for c sugar declined to
five and tbree-quarters cents per pound
An effort has been made by the Sugar Trust
to induce one or both of the above refine
ries to enter the combination, but it is sta
ted that neither company will join the
trust.
A native paper at Hong Kong announces
that the Chinese government has resolved
to pay back the United States large sum
of money as an unclaimed balance of the
Wyoming indemnity, and hints that the
United States might initiate the example
by refunding to China balance of the un-
claimed indemnity paid to the United
States thirty years ago.
The first regular session, Of the general
executive board of the Knights Of Labor
this year was begun at Philadelphia Mon
day. Powderly and Aylesworth were alb
sent. The board endorsed the strike of the
Reading employees, both railroaders and
miners, and the moral, if not the financial,
aid Of the order will be brought to bear
in favor Of the strikers.
A chemist named Derby his wife and
six children were found dead in their
dwelling house at Manchester, England.
Their death was evidently caused by pois-
on. They had been dead several days.
The belief is that the man, driven to des-
peration by his inability to support his
family, administered poison to them and
then committed suicide.
The Metropolitan National bank of Gin
cinnati has suspended. The capital stock
OF the bank was 81 100000. 1t believed
that depositors will be paid in full, while
the stockholders will be assessed 10 to Is
per cent on their holdings. Vice President
Decamp has been arrested on the charge
of certifying to false statement of the
December condition of the bank.
The Grant monument association has
issued circular addressed to artists,
architects and sculptors inviting competi-
tive designs for a monument over General
Grants grave to cost $500:O00. Prizes of
$500, $1,000, $500, $500 and $500 are
offered. Information as to rules govern
ing the competition can be had on appli-
cation to Richard T. Greener, secretary,
Broadway.
Miss Eta Shattuck, the school teach
er who was exposed for seventy-eigb'
hours during the recent blizzard, and
lost both legs as a result, died at Sew
ard, Nebraska, Tuesday. Her back was
SO badly frozen that the flesh dropped
off. She suffered intensely before her
death. Her share of the Omaha Bee re-
lief fund amounted to nearly 81, 1000. The
money will probably given to her parents
At Dayton. a small town in johnson
county, Wyoming, Bob Smith ana Jesse
Alexander, two would-be bad men, at
tempted to run the town, when the depu.
ty sheriff and posse ''rounded them up
The officer was given to understand that
his ability to arrest them depended upon
his capabilities as a marksman. This
threat was enforced by shot from Smith
and Alexander, which was answered by
return shots from the sheriff's posse, and
resulted in the killing of Smith and seri
ously woundlng Of Alexander.
The United States treasurer has ISSUED
the following notice in regard to tht
amount of 81 and So silver certificates
The treasurer Of the United States will is
sue silver certificates of the denomination.
Of 81 and 81 in return for national banl