The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1889-12-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

aud cartridges were destroyed. Fol
persons were killed and four injured.
4 large siy-story building on Mort
; Third and Locust streets, st. Louis, occ.
pied by the Gurnsey scudder elcctri
plant, the Commercial Printing c. mpan
and others, burned yesterday mornin:
the walls falling on and crushing tie o!
Mechanics ink building Loss, $50
600 to 100000; insured. About 30
men are thrown out OF employment
The proceedings in court at ST. Loui
to compel Chtrles Sphinx aud John Tay
lor to produce Alice Jackmap, the miss
in. heiress who was abducted IN Noven.
her. have brought forth reply from
splnk that he took charge of the girl Il
her own request and sent her to live witt
a family at Woodland Illinois. where sh
Is receiving proper care and attention ane
expresses herself as being happy.
There were five more discharges issuee
from the office of superintendent of .Pp
lice Hubbard, at Chicago Thursday. til,
officers removed are Detec ctives Paine
and Flynn, Patrolmen Michael Ahern ant
| David Cunningham and Stationkeepe
Peter Kelly. The charges in each cast
are conduct unbecoming an officer ant
neglect Of duty" but the men are all re-
moved for their actions during the Croni
trial.
At the Tilden public school at Detroit
while some sixteen girls were rehealsine
Christmas cantata which was to have
been performed yesterday. ,.one of the
performers accidentally struck a candle
with her wand, igniting +.the wand. The
flames communicated to the childfen's
clothing and all were more or less burned
Five who were enveloped in flames ran
INTO the street, where some workmen
rolled them in mud and extinguished the
flames. Jennie Lancashire was burned tc
death, however, and the other four seri-
oasly but not fatally injured The flames,
which in the meantime had communi-
Gated to the floor Of the school house,
were eNtinguished with difficulty.
The terms Of the consolidation OF the
Union Pacific and the Colorado lines
with the Denver, Texas & Fort Worth
railroad, as agreed upon Thursday by the
votes OF the Union Pacific directors, are
That certain branch companies of the
Union Pacific, namely. the Colorado Cen
tral, Denver 4 Middle Park, Denver,
Marshall u Boulder, Georgetown, Breck-
enridse 4 Leadville, Greeley, Salt Lake
y R'citic, and Cheyenne & Northern
companies, an aggregate of 5O5 miles are
tc be consolidated with the Denver, Texas
q Fort Worth railroad, extending from
Denver, Col, to Fort Worth, Texas
Seven hundred and seventy five miles
OF the nam line and branches are leased.
The new company will be known as the
Union Pacific, Denver s. Gulf railroad.
1t will be ABS miles long and will have
capital stock of $4,000 per mile and a
mortgage bond indebtedness of not ex.
ceeding $4,000 per mile.
The new association Of members of
congress at Washington, from the north
west, has changed its name to the "yVest-
ern Congressman's association" All
semblance OF a purely northwestern char
acter to the organization has been re.
moved by the adoption Of a motion which
makes senators and congressman from all
states west of the Mississippi river eligible
to membership. THIS was done after
long consideration and study, and it was
III hot To Il
Senator Stewart of Nevada was elected
president; Representative Hansb9ou9h of
North Dakota, vice president: Represent
atlvc Cater Of Montana, secretary; and
Delegate Carey of Wyoming, treasurer.
1t was decided to rent house on 18th
street, near the Arlington hotel. for head
quarters. No matters of legislation were
discussed, but some time was devoted to
the question of having wine in the rooms
There was strong sentiment against any
thing that looked like congressional
bar, but yet there was decided talk in
favor OF having such wines as the gentle
men want to entertain with
All Sing, Chinaman, was given tWen-
ty lashes on the bare back at Calgary.
N. W. T., for attempting to outrage a lit
tie girl
The Rawlins and White River stage
was held up last night fifty miles south
of Rawlins, Wyoming, by two masked
men, who took s150 from the passengers
opI oil tho ,,,,1
A caye-in occurred at a mine in
the Angeles camp, Calavaras county,
California, yesterday afternoon, burying
sixteen men. There is ne prospect of
getting them out alive. Nearly all the
victims had families.
Slavin, the pugilist. on his way to Bel
gium to meet Jem Smith in the prize
ring, was arrested at Margate and bound
over in the sum of e4OO to keep the
peace. A large number of sports have
started for the rendezvous.
Since Secretary Window announced
his policy of the gradual withdrawal of
public funds on deposit with national
banks, the amount so held has been re-
duced to little over S3s,OoO,OOO, and the
available surplus in the treasury has
been reduced to s24,OOO,OOO.
At the suggestion of Alderman Fuller
at Scranton, Pa, the constable submitted
the warrant for Powderly's arrest to
Judge Archibald for examination. The
judge scanned it critically, and advised
the constable not to attempt to make an
arrest upon it. Mr.. Powderly has decid-
ed to proceed against Callaghan for libel
and submitted all his correspondence
with Callaghan and his attorneys.
Evan Lewis, the stranger" and VIM.
Muldoon, wrestled a ten-minute bout
Saturday night at Philadelphia, but
neither gained fall. After the match
Lewis came before the curtain and chal-
lenged Muldoon for match to finish.
best two in three out of five falls. Null
doom agreed. They will wrestle during
the present week at the same place.
At the Office of the Northern Pacific
at New York nothing has been