The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1890-04-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


= sional district of Indiana, in convention
N at Shoals nominated John T. Britz 0
( Dubois for congressman from that dis
trict on the 3o7th ballot.
: In the district court at Bismarck Wpl
a. Everett recovered a verdict against tn,
at Northern Pacific for $1,000. Everett
" was formerly brakeman who sustain
'e ed injuries while coupling cars at James
h. town, Dakota, last summer.
n, The senate has passed the Chicago
e. fair bill with an amendment providing
tn for naval review at the harbor of New
d d York, but emitting the provision 70
ceremonies inaugurating the statute O
Columbus. The vote was 43 to 13
% The indictment against Frank Wood
O. ruff, alias Black, charging him with
ID coaplicity in the murder of DR.. H. H
ID ID Cronin, has been dismissed by the con
h sent of the state. The indictment Of
e horse stealing still pends against him.
O. The little town of Kywe, twenty miles
st south of Austin, Texas, was visited by 6
IS cyclone Tuesday night. Many houses
is were overturned ard several swept
!, away. Several persons were injured
k The destruction to fences and growing
crops was very great.
: At Springfield, Ohio, on Sunday after
It noon, while large crowd were congre-
. gated upon bridge witnessing col
q q ored baptizing, the structure gave way
i and precipitated the occupants into the
h creek. About fifty persons were injured,
: several of whom cannot recover.
r The wife of E. J. Lehman, the million
!, aire proprietor of 1.-THE Fair" a great
i department store at Chicago, has applied
for a conservator for his estates on the
ground that he is distracted person.
= He is in Bloomingdale asylum, New
York. Oyerwork was the cause of the
breakdown.
The largest silk mill in the Lehigh
valley, located at Catasaqua, Pennsyl-
vania, was burned Thursday morning
,, During the blaze an explosion of vitriol
, and acids took place and seven persons
were killed and twelve badly injured by
falling walls and flying debris. The loss
y is $4,000.
The postmaster general favors the
house bill providing a fifteen days an
nual leave of absence for clerks and en-
ployes attached to the first and second
class postofiices after a service of one
year, but not of third-class Offices He
estimates the additional cost will be
about 5195,0OO per year.
The troubles of the pos al card factory
at New Haven, Conn.,, have been salts
factorily arranged. George Z. Lemon, a
Washington capitalist, has come to Dag
getts relief. 1t is alleged that a fine of
ten cents thousand on two million
cards, imposed by the government for
defective work, caused Daggett's trouble,
as the fine equalled the profits.
A special from Cheyenne says a con-
ference has been called to consider the
demands of the Union Pacific train men
for an increase of wages. Nearly all of
the officials are now at Cheyenne. Ii
some solution is not reached strike
will ensue, taking in the Denver, Texas
& Fort Worth, the Oregon Short Line,
!. tae Kansas Pacific and the Union
| Pacific.
| Saturday was the last day on which
immigrants could be landed at Castle
Garden. The immigration commission
ers had their valedictory meeting in the
afternoon and heard read the termina-
tion of the contract between them and
the treasury department. Part of the
contract, however, which states that the
secretary of the treasury shall make
provision for sick and insane immigrants
in care of the commissioners, still holds |
good.
In the senate Monday Mitchell of Or
egon made long speech in favor OF his
proposed constitutional amendment for
the election of senators by the people. |
He declared that the secrecy OF execu-
tive sessions was no longer in harmony
with the spirit OF the age. Public opin-
ion would, at no distant day, break down
and destroy the doors of secret eXecu-
tive sessions. Such sessions were relics
of monarchy and should end no recogn;-
tion in republic.
United States customs inspectors at |
Buffalo, New York, on Tuesday captured
three Chinese smugglers. In their pos
lars worth of opium. They had crossed
in waiting on the American side. The
and travelled through Canada to Suspen-
Fort Erie. They were on their way to
New York.
Secretary Window on Monday sent to
UD6 S6udU0 d lcCUc1 LII lcSpOuSc W UI10 !
Chinese resolution. The secretary SAYS
that no Chinese who entered the United !
States for transit have failed to depart,
and that SO far but a very small num-
ber, not more than 100 Chinese persons,
probably, have availed themselves of the
privileges prescribed in the regulations
Of September s, 1889, and that all who
have entered the United States at New
al %ho Woo4 IT, L IL
darted at San Francisco for China.
In the house Monday Dorsey Of Ne
braska introduced joint resolution
that the secretary of the treasury be di-
rected to increase the treasury purchase
of silver bullion to the maximum amount
authorized by the act to authorize the
coinage of the standard silver dollar and
to restore it's legal tender character,
which was passed over the veto of the
president and became a law February
%, 1873. It was referred. A similar
resolution was introduced in the senate
by Plumb of Kansas.
Senator Allen has introduced bill to
donate to the state Of Washington one
half section for home for honorably
discharged soldiers, sailors and mem
bers of the militia disabled while in ser
vice. It also calls for two tracts of 16O
acres each as training ground for the
militia and the establishment and main
tenance of militia academies. These
tracts are to be selected by the governor
of Washington and the board of man
ayers OF the Washington soldiers home
within six months Of the passage of the
bill.
The Hamburger Nachrichten, pub
lished at Berlin, denies that the recent
articles against Chancellor Won Caprivi
were instituted by Bismarck. At the
same time it announces that the prince
will not relinquish his connection with
the press and intends soon to appear in
the upper house, and will also accept a
candidature for the reichstag. Mach
richten says it would be great mistake
to imagine the ex-chancellor as old and
broken down. The German people have
right to know the princes views on
important questions.
Among the bills passed in the senate
Wednesday were the following: The
senate bills appropriating s14,859 to re-
imburse the state of South Dakota for |