The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1889-12-14
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

A New York dispatch says: In dow
town circles it is rumored that panic
money has broken out at Buenos Ayre
causing great excitement there and man
large failures. The rumor could not b
verified in New York. 1t is said, how
ever, that many business houses have re
celved cablegrams announcing the fact
| The Virginia legislature, in JOINT ses
sion. appointed committee to prcpar
resolutions appropriate to the memory 0
Jefferson Davis. Flags on the state capi
tol at Richmond are at half-mast. Th
Legislature is considering joint resolu
tion for committee to attend the fune
raj.
The official canvass of the vote of low;
IS as follows: Boies (dem.) for governor
18O,l1l; Hutchinson (rep) 173,50S
Boies' plurality 6,573. The remainder
OF the democratic ticket is defeated by
plurallties ranging from 1851 for Lieu
tenant Governor Pyner to $3.50 for Rail
road Commissioner Smith, The prohibi
ton vote for governor is not canvasse,'
yet, but will be about $4,000. The union
labor vote is about $780,
A New Orleans dispatch of the 9th
says: At :45 o'clock Jefferson Davis,
ex-president of the southern confederacy,
died at the residence of his life long
friend, j. A. Payne. From the beginning
of his fatal illness Mr.. Davis had insisted
that his case was quite hopeless, though
the dread of pain or fear of death never
appeared to take the slightest hold upon
his spirits, and with Christian resignation
he was content to accept what Providence
had IN store for him.
Major ". Howell read paper before
the New York chamber of commerce
Thursday afternoon on irrigation and the
lands of the west. He proposed that all
arid lands be divided into drainage sec
tions according to the natural water sheds;
that irrigation canals and reservoirs in
each be constructed by the people there
in, the money to be raised by the issuance
of bonds in similar manner, and that
the only part that the general government
should take in the matter by the passage
of legislation was to regulate the manner
of procedure and the distribution of water.
Among the joint resolutions introduced
IN the senate is one by Senator Gibson of
Iowa, proposing constitutional amend
ment making the president ineligible for
election the succeeding four years after
the expiration Of his term of office, and
providing that the terms of the president
and vice president and of congress shall
expire at noon on April 80. And another
by Mr.. Blair extending the right of
suffrage to women, and constitutional
prohibiting the manufacture,
etc, of alcoholic liquor.
The house special committee charged
with investigating the accounts of the Of
fee of the sergeant at arms met Yesterday
morning. The committee went into Sc
cret session. AT the emo of half hour
word was sent to Leedom that the COM
mittee desired his presence. Leedom,
accompanied by exCongressman Phil.
Thompson, whom he has retained as
counsel, responded to the summons, but
Thompson was denied admission. Lee
dom has made a rather searching exami-
IF tfiJfn of the books, and places the amount |
A. a~e~I.~4:D- u o., ON
John Theodore Wild, alias Greenwald,
twice convicted of the murder of Lyman
Weeks at his residence ON Dekalb ave-
nue., Brooklyn, was hanged yesterday
His neck was broken and he |
was pronounced dead in two minutes.
1t was expected Greenwald would say
at the gallows, but he did not.
He went with firm step. Greenwald |
had declared that he was innocent. He
wished this inscription put on his tomb
some: "Murdered, December 6, 1885,"
He made will declaring his innocence
and giving his effects to Mr.. Bingham, a
private detective. Greenwald was burg
lar and shot Weeks while robbing his
house.
A dispatch from Zanzibar announces
that Emin Pasha has met with probably
fatal accident. Being near sighted he
walked out of window by mistake and
fell on his head, fracturing his skull. He
is now at Embagamoyo in critical con-
dition. All the doctors except Stanley's
physician declare that Emin's injuries
will prove fatal. Stanley's physician is
hopeful of saving Emin's life, but says
under the most favorable circumstances
the patient cannot be moved for at least
ten days. Later dispatches from Zanzi-
bar say that Emin mistook the height of
the balcony parapet, over balanced and
fell distance of twenty feet. When
found his right eye was closed and the
blood issuing from his eyes. His body
was terribly bruised.
Yesterday morning Powderly, Wright
and Beaumont, representing the Knights
of Labor, met the demands OF the COM
mittee Of the Farmers and Laborers'
union, IN session at St. LOUIS. and basis
of federation agreed upon. 1t was agreed
that the farmers should appoint leglsla-
tive committee of two, to act In conjunc-
ton with the legislative committee of the
knights at Washington, to secure legisla-
ton in accordance with the views of both
bodies. The officers of the two organiza-
tions will form central council. The
various farmers bodies have agreed upon
plan of consolidation which will, as
soon as the necessary references can be
made to the various state organizations,
result IN bringing about absolute union.
Probably, in time, the knights will also
ioin the farmers in actual union.
The New York World has polled con-
gress on the question of the location of
the worlds fair. The total number of
senators and representatives interviewed
was 331; of these 4S favored New York,
81 Chicago, 20 St. Louis, "a Washington,
and .58 were non-committal.
A San Francisco dispatch of yesterday
says it is believed that Arthur Williams,
the alleged illegitimate son of Arthur
dorham, the Boston banker, is believed
to be the ex-Illinois convict known as AL
Blake, OF "Sanky Sanguinette." The
record of this prisoner at the Joliet prison
shows be was born at Clarkson. Mass, in