The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1889-02-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

qua canal bill.
Sing Yen, cashier Of See Son & Co
Chicago, has skipped to Canada wit
$500. Alice samee Mclean.
1t is rumored that the Sultan o
Morocco has granted the request of Ger
many for piece of coast near the Alger
ian frontier for naval station.
The Cologne Gazette says Germany will
demand that the United States arrest ant
punish Klein, the American correspon
dent, on the charge of leading the Sa
moansagainst the Germans.
A decision has been handed down BY
the appeal court in England upholdins
the electric light patents of Edison ano
Swan against other patents, thus reversing
the decision of the lower court.
Famine prevails in the interior o.
Russia. The distress is greatest in Green
burg. where many persons are dying o.
starvation. Crops have been bad in the
affected districts the past four years.
At Chicago, Thomas Morgan, the ANA.
teur lightweight champion Of the north
west, and James Manning, local pugil1sts
fought to finish night before last. Man.
ming was knocked out in the eleventh
round.
The labor convention adopted resolu-
tions endorsing Master Workman Pow
derly's stand on the prohibition ques-
ton and pledged the organization to the
support of the proposed constitutional
amendment.
A telegram has been received at Wash
ington from Rear Admiral Belknap, COM
mander of the Mare Island navy yard,
California, saying the United States ship
Vandalia had arrived at Honolulu Feb.
end, and was to sail for Samoa the 7th.
The Little Rock, Ark, Gazette says
there is but little doubt; from facts that
have to come to light within the past few
days, that the assassins of Col. John W.
Clayton are known and that before long
they will be in the clutches of the law.
1t is reported that at the coming session
of parliament the English government
will propose defense loan of 100000
900, the proceeds to be devoted to the
construction of twenty men-of- war. fifty
cruisers and increasing the-nambor of
torpedo boats.
Callom introduced an amendment to
the army appropriation bill providing that
hereafter the number of paymasters in
arms with rank of major shall be forty,
and thst the army shall be paid monthly
unless circumstances shall render such
impracticable.
A bill introduced in Congress by Sena-
tor Spooner provides that system of
farmers Institutes shall be maintained as
part of the agricultural department, the
annual cost of this system Of institutions
not to exceed 100000 exclusive of per-
salaries and printing reports of
institute meetings.
The steamer Faraday has just complet-
ed laying 626 miles Of heavy submarine
cable between Coatzocvaleos, Mexico,
and Galveston, Texas, for the Mexican
Telegraph Co., thus duplicating its Gulf
system of cables and iIsurlng more
speedy telegraphic communication with
Mexico, Central and South America.
Mr.. Beardsly, an expert, says there is
a mass of asphaltum containing 700, 900
tons near Vernial, Utah, and worth $40 a
ton. And in Wyoming near Fort Washita,
he reports exhaustless stores Of petroleum
and asphalt. There are thousands Of
barrels of oil, in fact good sized lake of
it, only needing 10 be pumped up when
transportation is available.
DR.. Carver's manager, George D. Jack
son, has decamped with all the doctors
funds, including the receiptsof his recent
great shoot in Minneapolis, leaving Carver
without money. During the shoot Carver's
guns were attached for smallsum, which
was paid by one of his admirers. A Sec
ond attachment has since been made by
another creditor.
1t is said that the German government
is willing to effect settlement of the
Samoan question upon basis OF the
United States governments proposal at
the Washington conference, namely
The establishment of joint German,
American and English control over the
Samoan government thro ugh the consuls
Of tho three countries at Apia.
An elegantly dressed swindler, who
arrived at Iberville from California a few
days ago, has skipped out after swindling
a wealthy farmer named Dumas out of
$4,000 by claiming that he was Dumas
son who had disappeared mysteriously
forty years ago. The son was only six
years old when be disappeared and was
supposed to have been kidnapped.
The boilers of the Park Central hotel
in Hartford, Conn, blew up Saturday
morning, wrecking the entire front of the
structure. which was five story brick
building. The entire fire department and