The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1889-11-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


: lives, while several others were more OF
! less injured by leaping from windows.
Secretary Window said Yesterday that
while not now prepared to state the ex-
act nature of his forthcoming recon
: rendation on the silver question, he de-
sired to have the public informed that
4 none OF the newspaper publications pur-
porting to give the features Of his plan
are correct.
, The tug Fearless sunk off the mouth
d OF the Umpqua river Tuesday evening in
n a heavy storm, and no one was saved
: She was on her return trip from Astoria,
Oregon, where she had taken lot of
: Cinnamon, and is believed to have had
: several passengers on board. 1t is feared
/ that ten or fifteen persons persisted. No
i bodies have yet been recovered.
c. A. Corneiller. who has been investi-
eating the smuggling of whislley between
Canada and the United States, states
that as far as can be traced there has
E been smuggled into Canada, by way of
st. Pierre and Niquelon, this year, about
10000 barrels of American whisky, and
as each gallon should have paid s. duty
that government has lost 100000 in rev
enue from that source alone.
Minneapolis Journal: Three Austra!
.ans, Walter Balm, Perry S. Luke and
James S. Luke arrived in ST. Paul yes
terday, having walked the entire dist
ance from Tacoma to st. Paul in fifty
eight days. They are making trip as
the result Of wager of $4,000, that
they could not make the circuit Of the
globe in eight months, walking from tie
Pacific to the Atlantic oceans.
In the Mormon investigation at Sal
Lake City Oh Saturday James Talmage.
principal of the Mormon college, testified
the pupils we're taught that the revela-
ton in regard to plural marriage was
from God and that the constitution.
properly administered, did not interfere
with the revelations of God. Witness
believed polygamy right and the law
againstit unconstituti tional lnotwithstand- /
ing the decision of the United States su-
preme court.
John L. Sullivan says, with relation I
to the $4,000 offered by the California
Athletic club: 1.-THE California Athletic |
club know what | offered them when I |
was asked to go out there and that is
just what | will dc. | will meet the col !
ored fighter at their club rooms if a
purse OF $4,000 is hung up, and that is
my final answer. [ am willing to meet
any man they put against me, but they
must carry out the deal about jackson
now or it will cost them more money
when they come to talk it over again."
Senator Vest says he has sent the ser
seant alarms to Chicago with subpnnas
for Armour and the other dressed beef
men. who refused to appear before his
committee in October last, in order to
see whether they were bigger than the
United States senate. Mr.. Armour"
said the senator, published an inter
view N the Chicago papers that | was
prejudlced against him, and he did not
propose to be examined by me. We will
see about that on November 3Oth. He
has the best Of it in Chicago, With the
whole city bowling for him and his
dressed beef, but we will see how it goes ]
in the District of Columbia, which is ,
common ground for both parties. If !
Mr.. Armour does not appear here, he =,
Will be indicted by the grand jury of the
district l couldn't reach him in Chica-
go because the statute as to recalcitrant Z
witnesses before congressional commit
tees applies only to the District of Co d
lumbla, and therefore | subpnnaed him V
to come here. Mr.. Armour will come. s
They will all come
Albert Houlton Of Albury, Australia T
who is IN Chicago, said to a reporter
that "a project of consolidation of the g
Australian continent into one powerful
state is slowly but surely gaining /
ground. Within two years a definite /
plan for founding new nation will be
forwarded to the colonial office for the !
endorsement of the crown. Before long. p
and without the slightest commotion IN ,
England or Australia, the mother coun- :
try will see this great group Of her col q
onles pass into new nation of the il
United States Of Australia. Like your 1
country Australia will be practically :,
free from invasion. Her people have al u =
ready shown desire to be supreme In d
the Pacific, which cannot be gratifed (
unless Ter government possesses means f,
OF ruling dependencies not admitted 10 :,
political equity New Guinea alone is a $
kingdom in herself and rightfully be- s.
longs to Australia. AS an independent I
republic Australia will be mighty mas A.
itime power. She is to settle and gov !, =
ern the only valuable possession winch Il
Europe has left for the next conquering
power" >;
The committee which was appointed .
at the recent annual meeting Of the Ma o
tional League Of Professional Ball clubs OF
to prepare an address to the public ds- &C
lining the position of that organization .,
n the base ball controversy, completed - =,
heir labor yesterday. The committee u
consisted Of Spaulding of Chicago, Day tc
If New York and Rogers of Philadel- Sc
ohia. The address recounts the history n
# the league, claims the credit to the :.
eague for the present high standing of lit
jhe base ball business. and says the orr Il
,in Of the reservation and sale of play b,
RS came from the necessity of strength n
ming the weaker clubs: mentions the
Of the brotherhood in 1877, 10
md says: "To correct any misappre- CT
tension in the public mind as to the al
eyed enormous profits divided among r.,
he stockholders Of the league clubs it II
nay be interesting to know that during "
he past five and only prosperous years, in
here has been paid in cash dividends to :
tockholders in the eight league clubs :,
ess than s15O,0OO, and during the same Oil
ime league players have received in sal th
ries sl,5O0,OOO. The balance of the eli
rofts Of the few successful clubs, to- ~
ether With the original capital and sub u.
equent assessments of stockholders, is at
epresented entirely in the grounds and err
for the permanent good at
f the game, costing about 100000" -;
he address then says the claim of WI
rievances by the brotherhood is a pre- cel
sxt for secession and is false on it's face Or
A Maiden, Mass, special says: A man an
'ho claims to have been the original in ist
entor Of the Monitor was sent to the
vestboro insane hospital to-day. His :
anne is Joseph W. Norcross. His insan- 23
y was caused directly by the refusal of to
ecretary of the Navy Whitney to adopt ~ ~
model for lifeboat which he designed We
lis wife substantiates his statement Ia
lat be was the original designer Of the La
-onitor, and says that he submitted his do.
esigns to Gideon Welles, then secre- -
ry Of the navy, together with model ii'
r gun turret. He claims that these cel
odels were turned over to Ericsson, GU
ho built the Monitor. He says he ,.;r
atched the construction Of the boat -
I'd told Ericsson that it would sink, as re