The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1889-10-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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the Cleveland, Wheeling 4 Lorin rail
way, near Bridgeport, Ohio, injurine
eighteen men, three fatally.
At the bve-electicn at Peterborough
England, on the 7th instant, Morton
Gladstonian, was elected by about 20o
majority, where at the previous election
home ruler was beaten by 800 majority.
There was very large attendance at
the Cooper Institute in Now York
Thursday evening to pay tribute to
the memory of the late S. S. Cox. The
meeting was under the auspices Of the
Strechler association, of which Cox was
member. Ex-President Cleveland,
Mayor Grant, General Sherman and
others were among the many we'll known
citizens On the platform.
The assignees OF the Riverside and
Oswego mills at Providence, r. l., have
| prepared statement, which shows to-
tai liabilities OF S3.OOO,OO0, against which
there are assets OF 81 ,661, 1912, not in-
Guiding the plants. The plants, includ
ing all machinery and furniture, real es-
tate, etc, aggregates 5574, ,O6O, bat the
cost of both plants, as appears by the
company's books, is no less thai et,a4o,-
$50
At a meeting of the western cattle
men at Caldwell, Kansas, memorial to
the Chicago Live Stoeh exchange was
adopted, which viii be extensively cir
culated N the range country. 1t pro-
tests against the commissions now
charged in Chicago as inequitable and
unjust, and asks for the adoption of
rate of charges which will distribute the
cost of selling cattle according to their
values.
Cem,naBdeE Goodrich, chairman OF
the trial board, telegraphs Secretary
Tracy that the test Of the dynamite
cruiser Vesuvius has been successful to
a degree not anticipated. Tie guns
were fired five times in seventeen min
utes instead of thirty minutes, which
had been estimated as the necessary
time to fire that number of shots. The
speed Of the vessel was up to the re-
quirements and even beyond
An Indiana congressman who had
talk with President Harrison on the
subject says all internal revenue laws
except that taxing Intoxicating liquors
used as beverages will be repealed at the
approaching session Of congress. This
will reduce the number of collectors of
internal revenue ahont two .huas and
tho deputies onc-haff.. Many states and
territories will be thrown together as a
sinple collection district.
A telegram received in. st. Paul an
nounces the completion of the Oregon
Railway & Navigation line from Rock
ford to Spokane Falls, W. T. This opens
another line from the east to eastern
Washington. The line is via the Uric.G,
Pacific, Oregon Short .-,as and Oregon
Railway & navigation lines The further
statement is made that the Oregon Rail
Way Il Navigation projected Line 10 M>,i
len has been completed to St. Soc, Idaho.
Secretary Blaine has cabled William
Baird Lewis, United States consul at
Tangiers, tn appear at the state depart
ment, Washington, and meet charges of
corruption made against him by Bene
came all the way from Tangiers to pre-
fer the charges. Simon Wolf and the
Solomons, American members of the
Alliance of the Israelite Universal, ac-
companied Benezuli before Secretary
Blaine yesterday, when Benezul made
his complaint.
The annual meeting Of the Northern
Pacific will be held in New York Thurs
day of next week, the l7th inst. Here
tofore the annual meetings have been
held in September, but last year the
date of the coming meeting was changed
to the third Thursday Of October. The
coming meeting will be of more. than
usual interest because of the action to
be taken upon the reorganization plan
prepared by Mr. Willard. This provides
for the creation of sl6O,0U4OOO mort
gage, with which it is intended to wipe
out all other Indebtedness. The plan
has been approved by the board of direc-
tors, but before it can be put into effect
must secure the approval of two-thirds
of the preferred stockholders.
Advices from Mexico say the bill to
grant concession to Henry c. Ferguson
and VIM. H. Ellis, the two colored men
from Texas who propose to colonize
lands in the states of Oaxaca, Guerrero,
Vera Cruz, Michoacan and San Luis Po-
tosi, with negroes from Texas and other
American states, has passed the lower
house Of the Mexican congress with but
one dissenting vote, and has gone to the
senate. 1t is believed that the bill will
pass and be signed by President Diaz.
Ferguson and Ellis expect that 10000
negroes from Texas alone will move to
Mexico and raise cotton on these lands.
and that many thousands Of Industrious
blacks, skilled in the cultivation of cot
ton, will follow them from states east Of
the Mississippi river:
The delegates to the International
Maratime Conference are beginning to
arrive at Washington. The first to re-
port was Captain A. M. Bisbee. dele
gate from China He is an American,
who has been for many years connected
with the Chinese imperial custom serv-
ice. Chevalier Settlebrim, ltaly's dele
gate, has reached this country and will
be in Washington in day or two. The
conference will not meet until next
Wednesday. The arrangements for the
formal opening have not yet been an