The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1889-08-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Congressman Laird Of Nebraska died
at his home at Hastings, that state. on
the 18th inst.
By the burning of a iye-story tene-
ment house in New York Monday morn
ing nine persons lost their lives and sew
eral others were badly injured.
On the 18th inst John L. Sullivan was
sentenced at Purvis, Mississippi, to II
months imprisonment for prize fighting
in that state. Referee Fitzpatrick
pleaded guilty and was fined 500.
The Phoenix Woolen company of East
Greenwich, Rhode Island, has assigned.
The embarrassment is brought about by
the failure of Brown, Ateese Gs Clark of
that city, who held the company notes
for large amounts.
Twenty Arabs Of both sexes are de-
tanned at Castle Garden until the Turk
ish consul can be consulted. It is said
there are 1000 Arabs waiting to come to
this country, provided the twenty now
here are passed through.
Thos. A, Edison has been made an
italian count. At Paris on the 10Th a
special envoy of King Humbert of Italy
presented him with the ensign of grand
officer of the crown of Italy. He thus
becomes count and his wife countess.
Revs. Sam Small and Sam Jones have
opened campaign in South DaEota
against the liquor traffic. They have
been engaged by the prohibition com
mittee, with a special democratic fund
to draw from, for forty days, and accord
;,,,r ~, Tho t,r,,,c IF fboir x,.,ll
deliver two addresses each day,
A prize fight took place at Lake Park
Utah, about midnight Monday night be
tween Frank Glover, the famous Chi
cago pugilist and Jimmy Bates Of Butte.
Bates was knocked ont in the fourth
round The principals and several of
their hackers have been arrested and are
now in the custody of the United States
marshals.
Horace Seaver, editor of the Boston
Investigator, died in that city on the
Dist inst, aged seventy eight years. He
was strong anti slavery man and was a
warm friend of Wendell Phillips, Parker
Pillsbury and William Lloyd Garrison.
At the funeral, which is to be held Sun
day in Paine Memorial Hall, the euology
will be pronounced by Robert Ingersoll.
Professor Ol.iriove made a wager re-
Gently that he would walk on the bay
from any point within twenty miles of
Boston to the mainland. the stakes being
$500. The wager was filled. but the har-
Dor was so rough that Qldrieve's friends
did not dare to go more than five miles
out to sea- Oldrieve, however, pluckily
walked in with his four-feet water shoes
and won the money.
The sentence of Commander Harring-
ton to two years suspension for running
the Constellation ashore has not yet
been acted upon by the navy depart
ment, despite all reports to the contrary.
The delay of Secretary Tracy is looked
on favorably by the friends of Com
mander Harrington, some of whom as
sert that the sentence will be mitlgated,
if not wiped out altogether.
The supreme court of the state of Cal
was formerly chief justice, Friday morn
ing refused to adjourn out of respect to
Terry's memory. This decision was an
nounced from the bench, and the rea-
sons given that Terry resigned his judic-
ial position to fight duel, and that he
was killed while in the act of assaulting
a Justice of the supreme court,
The treasury department has decided
that the wife Of Chinese merchant who
may himself be entitled to exemption
from the provisions of the Chinese re-
striction act, by reason of his residence
in the United States, cannot be admitted
into the United States when coming for
the first time, alone or with a returning
husband, otherwise than upon the pro
duction of the certificate required
And now comes an orange trust, a
combination having been formed among
the leading fruit dealers of the large
cities to control the Florida orange crop.
The growers will be asked to sign con-
tracts disposing of their crops on the
trees for term of five years at a uni
form rate of 81 per box, and the fruit
will be sold at auction to the trade.
Under this arrangement all private sales
are to be stopped.
The northern Illinois mining troubles
have come to settlement. After long
discussion the miners finally offered to
make a reduction of ~ cents instead of
10. Congressman Sawyer and other del
egates were made to retire from the
wage workers conference OH the ground
of being agitators who were preventing
the settlement. After midnight the
miners committee agreed to the figures
of the proposed conditions. on an adj
vance of 211a cents in October
Rev. D.. NJ. Helmick, a Methodist
preacher of Nicola, Iowa, is now in Jail
charged with wilful murder. He is ac-
cused OF having shot down young man,
Earl Palmer, without provocation or ex-
cuse. The shooting grew out OF trouble
caused by Helmick opposing the mari
age of Miss Ella Porter to Palmer. The
sheriff has the minister in strongly
guarded prison, for the friends of the
young man are greatly excited and
threaten to hang the murderer to a tree.
There was, it is alleged, no grounds for
his opposition to the marriage.