The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1889-09-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The business portion Of Lnkville,
egon, was wiped out by fire on the 6
inst. The loss will reach $4,000.
During a storm on Lake W-innip
Sunday night last boat containing
number of mill hands and Rev. McAfl
was swamped, and it is supposed Z;
were drowned
An explosion Of dynamite in car
ridge factory at Antwerp on the Ct
killed 800 persons and did great damas
to property. One thousand persol
were injured by the explosion.
A colliery explosion near Edinburgl
Scotland, on the 9th inst resulted in II
death of fifty miners. The scene of tt
disaster was Penicnkick,. small tow
ten miles from the city of Edinburgh.
The mammoth sugar plant of Die
Meyer & Co. at williamsburg, New Yor]
was destroyed by fire on the 7th ms
The loss, including a quantity of suga
valued at half million, is over $4,000
600.
The small coke producers of the Cor
nellsville, Pennsylvania, region hav
formed syndicate for mutual protet
tion. 1t is announced that the price c
coke will be advanced S1.5O per ton o.
toher 1st.
The descendants of Benjamin Table
(colored) lay claim to $40 acres of Ian
covering the central portion of Logans
port, Indiana. Their title is claimed t
be indisputable. The property is sal
to be worth several millions.
William P. Higenbotham, president o
the Blue Valley Bank of Manhattor
Kansas, has been convicted of grand lar
ceny. The case is the outgrowth of tn
suspension of Higenbotham's bank las
January, when the ledger showed de
ficit of 100000.
A st, Paul dispatch to the Great Fall
Leader says: All reports about J.
Hills resigning are gotten up by riva
roads in the vain attempt to prevent th,
extension of the st. Paul, Minaeanoli
and Manitoba railway to the Pacific
There is no truth in them,
The boat race on the Thames Monda,
between OCoInoF, the champion Of
America, and Searles, the champion OF
was won by the latter. The
race was for thousand pounds and the
of the world; distance
four miles and three furiongs. Searle'.
time 22:442a.
The democrats of Washington, in state
at Ellensburg, nominated G.
Griffith of Spokane Falls for congress
and Ex-Governor Eugene Temple of Ia
coma for governor. The committee or
resolutions reported a lengthy platform
approving the administration of Cleve
land and endorsing the st. Louis plat
[Orm.
At the meeting Of the division super.
Of the railway mail service
held at Washington on the 9th, it was
unanimously decided that the employees
of the service should be paid higher
wages. A recommendation to this effect
will be sent to Postmaster General Wan
and he will he asked to urge
such action upon congress in his annual
'eport
General George B, Dandy, who is now
IN tour of inspection Of the national
will, upon his return to
Washington prepare a report to lay be
iyR cor 0CsaSsstef SC Tctemstefy. The rsPaFt at
will recommend an appropriation OF 315,-
ZOO to enclose and improve the memora-
,le spot where the yellowhaired war
'ior and his little band of brave men
aid down their lives.
Steve Brodie went over Horse Shoe
Falls Saturday in rubber suit, inflated
2 inches around the body, IS inches
round the chest and head-gear also in
lated. while two steel bands protected
he body, which had been padded with
otton batting. He was picked up in an
condition and taken to Cliff
on. He recovered consciousness ryt
ong afterward, and 81 examination
howed that :a was not seriously in
vre,..
4 special from Anaconda says: Hun
lreds of Italians here are being natural
zed. A notary public has been appoint
ID deputy clerk of the court, and with
he timekeeper of the smelter has al
eady made out papers for four hundred
Who can not speak English, Men not
understanding the nature Of the
naturalization papers presented them at
]aly's bank and wanted pay for them.
such is the dirty work now being pushed
It the smelter city.
An official statement of the action of
he American nations upon invitation to
in the congress next month
las been issued by the state department.
t shows that every one has accepted the
invitation excepting San Domingo. The
eason given by the government of that
country for declining to participate was
hat the treaty negotiated by the repre-
entative of the latter country several
ears ago failed of ratification by the
enate of the United States.
One of the members of the board be-
ore whom at Annapolis Wednesday the
defective armor for the pro-
ection of guns on naval vessels was
ested, says that every shot fired pene-
rated the ''turtleback' with ease and
he fourth practically demolished it and
nded the test. The armor was ordered
" congress and cost $4,000. The sec
etary of the navy was authorized by an
ct of congress if he deemed it advisable
o place the defective armor ON the Chi
ago.
The New York Sun has published a
etter from John L. Sullivan, in which
le announces his intention of running
or congress on the democratic ticket
t is his ambition to represent the Bos-
on district. He states that with such
high ambition he trusts he will in fu=
ure make his life what it ought to be.
sullivan does not doubt his qualifica-
ion, as he says in concluding that he
Fill have no trouble in getting hearing
n congress or in making congressman
isten to what he says.
BY the flooding of coal mine near
1clden, Colorado, eleven persons lost
heir lives. Following are their names;
ohm Murphy, single: VIM. Collins, mar
led, leaves wife and four children; Jack
;ollins, married. leaves wife and four
hildren; jos. P. Allen, married, leaves
ne child: Joseph Butler, married, leaves
our children: William Bowden, married;
David Joyd, single; Henry Huseman,
married.. leaves wife and five children;
Richard Rowe, and another man whose
lame is unknown.
The dominion labor congress, in ses-
ion at Montreal. passed resolutions ap-
,roving the eight-hour movement,
Henry Georges land taxation scheme,
he appointment of a compulsory board
f arbitration for settling all disputes
,etween laborers and employers, and
skiing the government to pass law
all cigar dealers to destroy
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