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

NEWS OF THE WEEK.
The Duluth Grand Opera house wa'
destroyed by fire the first of this week
loss $25O,OOO.
The drivers and conductors on every
street car line in New York city are on 8
strike and reports of serious riots are con
firmed by later dispatches.
A special from Kansas City says that
many people of Seward county, Kan, are
on the verge of starvation. Appeals have
been sent to various places.
Nearly 5000 men were made idle last
week in the Shenandoah coal regions by
the suspension of all the Lehigh Coal
companies and individual coal quarries.
Sheriff Kennibie of Boyd county, KY,
made an assignment Wednesday night
and left home before daylight Saturday
morning. He is said to be short $14, 900.
A dispatch from Brisbane, Queensland,
says that Mr.. Armstrong, government la
Dor agent in New Guinea, was inveigled
ashore by natives on the island of Mancha
and put to death.
Arcduke Rudolf, the Austrian Crown
Prince and heir apparent to the throne,
died suddenly on Wednesday. The
prince died at Mierling, near Baden.
His death is supposed to have been caused
by apoplexy.
A special cablegram was received this
week by the Chadwic lead works, of
Boston, stating the great EUROPEAN copper
syndicate refused to buy any more copper
and the market was virtually demorallzed
This is interpreted as practically break
ing up Of the syndicate.
The bill to remove the territorial capi-
tai of Arizona from Prescott to Phoenix
passed both houses, was signed by the
governor and reported to the Legislature
Saturday. Both houses passed resolu-
tion to adjourn at noon Monday, January
2Sth, to meet at Phoenix Thursday, Feb
ruary 18th.
The house judiciary committee has
amended the naturalization bill by inclu6-
ing anarchists and polygamists in the
class of people ineligible to citizenship
and striking out the requirement that the
applicant for naturalization must be able
to read the Constitution of the United
States in English.
A company OF United States troops ar
rived at Purcell, Indian Territory, Friday,
fran Reno, passed the Canadian river and
proceeded to put the "boomersn out of
the Oklahoma country. Over 600 fami
lies were driven out and they are now en-
camped around Purcell. Some of the
people resisted and had to be tied to the
wagons and were pulled out in this way.
In the case of the United States govern
ment against the Sierra Lumber company.
which was brought in April, 1886, to re-
cover $2,217, ,254 damages for illegal cut
ting Of some 64,000.OOO feet of timber
from government lands in Tehama and
Butte counties, California, the jury re-
turned verdict in favor of the govern
ment.
Patsy Cardiff has signed articles of
agreement to fight Peter Jackson, the
colored pugilist, in April, the fight to be
to the finish with small gloves, at the
California Athletic Club, San Francisco,
The winner to receive $1,000 and the
loser $500. Patsy Cardiff, who has gone
into training, says the finish fight is his
forte, and he expects to win.
stanhope, secretary of state, addressed
a meeting in Lincolnshire. He said
thunder cloud was hanging over Europe
and that sooner or later it would burst,
the fiercest and most terrible
war ever known. It was impossible to
view the preparations for war now being
made throughout Europe without feeling
that war was approaching. He hoped,
however, that the wisdom of England's
statesmen would prevent that nation be-
ing involved.
The assassination of Hon. John NJ.
Clayton occurred at 9 o'clock Tuesday
night at boarding house in Plummerville,
Ark. After walking the floor nervously
Clayton stepped TO the window when an
unknown person fired load of buck-shot
through the window into his neck, break
ing it and killing him instantly. A bill
was presented in the senate on Wednes-
day authorizing the governor to offer $5,-
900 reward for the arrest of the murderer
Of John NJ. Clayton.
In an interview published at Baltimore
Bayard says Germany has given
this country no casus belli; that our flag
has not been insulted or American prop
erty destroyed, and that the whole ques-
ton is, Shall this country assert the indie
pendence of Samoa by force of arms if
need be, against German aggression? As
this involves the question of peace or war,
the determination of which reside with
congress, the whole subject has been re-
ferred to that body, the president not
feeling authorized to take further steps
which might precipitate hostilities.