The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1890-07-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Seattle suffered loss Of 100000 by
fire on Tuesday night
, The dependent pension bill has been
8 approved by the president and now be-
comes a law.
= 1t is estimated from returns already
received that Chicago's population will
!. be about 1,0S5,000.
1t is stated that the census returns
give st. Paul population Of 1853 :341 and
Minneapolis 263,4OG.
!. The senate has passed the bill for the
admission of Wyoming by vote Of %
to IS, a strict party vote.
Carbon, mining town in Wyoming,
was destroyed by fire on the 9th, en-
failing a loss of 100000.
The Hendricks monument at Indian
apolis was unveiled Tuesday, with ap-
{ propriate and impressive ceremonies
Marder, Luse & Co., type founders,
and George HUM, druggist, lost $4,000
each by fire at Minneapolis on Monday.
The official count of the population of
the District of Columbia is 1886, a
gain il ten years of something over
$1,000.
The immense plant of the Allen Brad
ley distiliing company at Louisville, was
destroyed by fire on Monday. Loss
s15O,OOO.
The four-mile, straight away, eight
oar shell race between Yale and Har-
ward on the 9th was won by Yale, max
ing their fifth successive victory.
By an explosion at the works of the
Standard Oil refinery, at Louisville on
Monday, three persons were fatally
burned and number injured. The loss
to property was $4,000.
It is estimated at the treasury depart
ment that the decrease will be about
S20,0O0,0O0 in the public debt since June
1st The total decrease for the year is
S7,S0O,OOO as against S114,O0O,O0O for
the previous fiscal year.
The Worlds Fair commissioners have
selected the following vice presidents:
T. w. Waller of Connecticut, M. Fl. De |
Young Of California, d. B. Penn of Lou
isiana, G.. w. Allen of New York, A. B.
Andrew of North Carolina.
The strike of employees on the Illinois
Central was settled by compromise.
The men went back to work and with
drew their demands for the removal of
Division Superintendent Russell, and
the company takes from that official the
power to hire or discharge men.
The secretary of the interior has
transmitted to the house an estimate of
the additional appropriations of 1881, 900
to carry out the provisions of the dsa-
bility pension bill, signed by the presi-
dent on Friday, 100000 of which is for
surgeons fees, 100000 for clerk hire and
the rest for incidental expenses.
A Missouri Pacific express train was
wrecked near Nevada, Missouri, on Sat
urdaY. Three coaches were precipitated
down an embankment. Conductor Sam
Jones and child of w. H. Marvins,
both of Kansas City, were fatally hurt.
Twenty seven other people were injured
more or less seriously, but it is not
thought that any of them will die
The international glove fight between
George Dixon, colored, bantam weight
champion Of America, and Nunc Wal
lace, bantam weight champion of Eng
land took place before the Pelican club,
London, on the 9th. The match was
for the bantam weight championship of
the world and purse of f50O. Wallace
retired in the nineteenth round and
Dixon was declared the victor.
A dispatch from Dunbar, Pa, scene
of the recent mine horror by which
thirty men lost their lives, says: The
work Of smothering the fire in the Hill I
Farm mine has commenced. The mine Is
cannot be flooded. An inquest over the
bodies of two men brought out of the
slope began on Monday. What is most !
needed now is relief for the q widows
and n orphans of the victims. There is
much suffering
Joseph Russell, of Ludlow, Ky, and
Jack Tyrrell, of Greenville, jumped !
from the railroad bridge at Charleston,
W. Va, 185 feet above the water Tyr
rell struck on his right side and injured
himself internally. He was taken from .
the water in a serious condition, and it !
is feared he will die. Russell dived,
turned somersault and struck on his q
Feet He was uninjured and swan to
the boat. Russell was declared winner q
Of a purse of $500.
Warrants were issued at Philadelphia
Saturday for the arrest of John McFar-
and, president of the defunct American
Life Insurance company, Louis E. Peif- .
Ter, president of the defunct Bank of
and Chas. w. DUNCAN, cashier
If the Bank of America, charging them
with conspiracy in obtaining S125,0OO of ii
The funds of the bank by crediting loans t
% Richard E. Banks, one of the en-
oloyes of the bank. This is the first n
step taken by the depositors to begin il
criminal proceedings against the officers
# the Bank of America and their ac +
completes. G
A Colorado Springs special says A Y
oarty Of four ladies In carriage with a g
1oung man and driver, while attempt
ng to cross the Midland track at Ute
Pass, were struck by a Midland excurs- Il
on train. The carriage was utterly de-
and Mrs. Cosgrove, of Chicago N
vas instantly killed and Mrs. Wolf, of i
Newark, IN. j., received injuries from = =
which she died in two hours. Mrs. Gill, F"
t Chicago, had her legs broken and
1rs. Wilson, of the same CITY. was q,