The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1889-07-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The Otis Iron and Steel company's
has been sold to an English syndicate
for s4,50O,OOO.
Two hundred people at picnic near
Seeley's Bay, Quebec, were poisoned by
eating ice cream containing lactate of
zinc, and several deaths may result.
At Salt Lake City Mrs. Perry attempt
ed to light fire with coal oil. The ex-
plosion that followed caused the death
of herself and 13-year-old daughter.
The International Salt Trust associa-
ton, with capital of S2O,O0O,OOO, is to
be incorporated under the laws of New
York. 1t will begin business January /.
The expected collision between strik-
ers and Pinkerton men at Homestead,
Pa, did not occur, and the differences
between Carnegie and the strikers is be-
ing amicably adjusted.
John E. Burton of Elkhorn, Wis.,,
known as the "Gogebic Iron King" dur
ing the mining craze two years ago, has
failed. His liabilities aggregate $685.
600, with assets Of S75O,OOO.
The town of Princeton, in Butler coun-
ty, Ohio, was blown away by terrific
windstorm that swept through that sec
ton Sunday afternoon. There were
about thirty houses in the place and all
are gone.
Prof. j. r. Dodge, statistician, has
been detailed by Secretary Rusk to in
vestigate the agricultural statistics of
the states and territories in the Rocky
mountain region. He left Washington
this week
A collision occurred at Grenoble,
France, on Sunday, between passenger
| train and freight train on the Paris,
Lyons & Mediterranean railroad, by
which twenty persons were killed and
many injured.
A London syndicate proposes to Or
ganize a company with a capital of $780,
100000, to put in plants for making
cheap gas all over the United States.
They claim it can be made for cents
per 1,OOO feet.
The contract for the new congress
sional library building at Washington
has been awarded to Hartford Granite
company for Sl,2OO,OOO. 1t will require
thousand men nearly four years to
complete the work.
Texas fever is reported to be playing
havoc with herds upon the Cherokee
strip Hundreds of cattle are said to be
dying in Oklahoma and it is predicted
that not hoof will be taken north from
there for some months.
A controlling interest in the Fargo
Argus Printing company has been offered
for sale to the highest bidder to satisfy
debt, and it is probable that the man
| <f< <hn ,h
after the Goth of this month.
Sullivan and party, arrested at Nash
vile, Tennessee, last week upon tele-
gram from Governor Lowry of Missis-
sippi, were released upon an order of
Judge McAllister, who held that a mis-
demeanor was not extraditable under
the laws of Tennessee.
A, w. Crandall, a former employe of
the Northern Pacific freight department
at Spokane Falls, who skipped out with
81, 400 of the company's funds last fall,
was captured at Salt Lake and taken
back to that city Saturday. He waived
examination and was held in $1,000
bonds to the granu jury.
It is reported among paper box manu-
facturers that the straw braid trust has
given up the fight, and that it is only a
question of few days when the pool
will be broken. The rumor is partly
confirmed by the decline in the past
week of from So to 513 per ton in the
price of straw braids.
Judge Cooley, president of the inter
state commerce commission, and United
States Attorney Baxter held confer
ence in st. Paul Tuesday, and as re-
suit the officials of the 500 railroad are
to be indicted for alleged discrimination
in carrying 1,8OO gallons of alcohol from
St. Paul to New York for AZ cents per
gallon.
Secretary of the Treasury Window has
approved the course of the immigrant
commissioners in OBTAINING the immi-
grants sent to Agent Hill of the South
ern Pacific railroad by Wright & Son of
London. and ordered the immediate re-
turn of every man sent Agent Hill, un-
der the law prohibiting the importation
of contract labor.
A waterspout caused the small streams
known as Herrings run and Moore's
run, near Baltimore, Maryland, to rise
to an unprecedented height Saturday
afternoon, bursting two dams. The
water rushed down in wall twenty feet
deep, sweeping everything before it.
Several persons were drowned and great |
damage done to buildings and growing
crops.
Secretary Noble in an interview with
Delegate Carey of Wyoming said the
policy Of the administration would be |
broad and liberal one towards the terri |
tories; that lands where there was no ev-
idence of mineral should be open to pat |
ent; that persons who settled upon pub
lie lands or purchased land in good faith |
should understand that this was his
policy.
C. w. Rich and J. r. Jamison we're ar
rested at Purvis, Miss, Monday, on war
rants charging them with aiding and
abetting the Sulliyan-Kilrain fight. They
we're placed under bonds for their ap-
pearance at the next term of court.
John Fitzpatrick, the referee, was also
arrested, and it is reported that Cover
nor Lowry is after some of the railroad
officials.
Information was received at the office
of the United States attorney at Topeka,
Kansas, of the killing OF Robert Dalton,
deputy United States marshal, in Ok
in the act of arresting Lee West, no
torious criminal, for being moonshiner,
or whisky peddlar. West shot Dalton
fatally, but before he expired the officer
shot West, killing him instantly.
London has been greatly startled by
another horrible murder, thought to
have been committed by the butcher of
fallen women, known as Jack the Rip
per-" The body of woman, mutilated
in the usual frightful manner, was found
Tuesday in Castle alley, in White Chapel
district. Although the police have used
every means to apprehend the murderer,
no trace has yet been found.
A circular has been issued that bears
the signatures of the chief officers of the
principal labor organizations of the
United States, including the Knights of
Labor. Federation of Labor, and Broth
erhood of Carpenters and Joiners. It
proposes an alliance of all labor organi-
cations in the country. If the alliance
is realized it will be by far the most for
midable labor organization that ever ex-
isted in the United States or elsewhere.