The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1890-09-20
NEWS OF THE EEK.

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: Great damage has been done in ives
th ern Pennsylvania caused by river flood
A slight earthquake shock was felt
= the central part of Wyoming few day
3 ago.
ie The latest recount of the twin cite
H. gives st. Paul 133,3Ol and Minneapoli
- 164, ,738.
OF General Nelson Miles has gone to For
= Leayenworth, Kansas, to assume hi
duties as commander Of the department
of the Missouri.
= Superintendent Porter, of the censu
} Office, announced the recount of Min
o neapolis, which shows a population O
164, ,79O, an increase of 251 per cent since
: 1880.
h The population of the state of Col
o orado, according to the count of th'
I Z United States bureau, is 41O,975. Thi
y is a net increase during the decade O
:, 216,648.
Kopp, a lineman in New York city
was tortured to death on an electric
light pole which he had climbed near the
corner of Broadway and Thirty y-fifth
. streets, on Monday evening.
e The secretary of the treasury has di-
: rected arrangements to be made for pre-
2 payment of interest due January l, and
!. July l, 1891, on bonds commonly known
! as currency SKIES on and after the 18th
inst.
Warrants were sworn last Saturday
morning for the arrest of Loring r.
Loomis, young stock broker of Chic
ago, who has disappeared, and 1t is al
legged has taken 5000 of his customers
; money.
The annual report of the Northern
!; Pacific shows the gross earnings to be
S2261O, SOP, an increase of S2,9O3,034; ex-
penses, S13,O89, ,O36, an increase of 81 ,225,-
595; net earnings, s9,521 1850, an increase
Of 81 OF, ,44O.
Laramie men have organized an expe-
dition to capture the buffalo ranging on
the Red Desert in central Wyoming.
The herd numbers about thirty and has
been seen several times by cattlemen
this summer.
The New York Central strike has bee
declared off. The order was read We'd
nesday morning in every local assembly
between New York and Buffalo. 1t
emanated from headquarters of the dis
trict assembly.
The through Kansas City express on
the Missouri Pacific was partially wreck
twenty seven miles west of st. Louis.
One passenger was killed and fifteen in
jured, four fatally.
The prize fight between Mike Bren-
nan. champion of Montana, and Tommy
Mccarthy of Buffalo took place in New
York City last Saturday evening. Ten
rounds were fought when the match
was declared draw.
Senator Plumb has reported favorably
| from the public lands committee the
bill declaring that railroad land grants
shall not be held to include land con-
tanning valuable deposits of gold, silver,
lead, iron or other metal, unless the
same is specified in the grant.
One hundred negroes we're poisoned
Sunday at a barbecue in Dallas county, |
Alabama, winding up a big revival meet
ing. Eight have died and many others
are seriously ill. 1t is feared that many
more will die. An analysis of the bar
becued pork disclosed traces of arsenic.
The coroner is Investigating.
Africa, have published notice permit
ting everybody to engage freely in the
slave traffic and only prohibiting expor-
tation Of slaves by sea. The Arab slave
dealers are also authorized to recover
runaways. The Arabs are overjoyed at
the license thus afforded them and are
openly buying slaves at street auction.
The Canadian cabinet has been organ
lied as follows: Oliver Nowat, premier
and attorney general; G. A. Ross, min
lister of education; G. F. Felser, commits
sioner of public works; A. E. Hevidy,
commissioner of crown lands; Richard
Harcourt, provincial treasurer; John
Dryden, minister of agriculture; j. NJ.
Gibson, provincial secretary; E. H. Bron-
son, under official.
An immense deal in lands has been
closed by William Specht, founder of
"Specht's colony" in northwestern Texas,
and Gustave Ranger, of New York, the
"sugar king" They purchased 100000
acres known as No Mans Land" and
$4,000 acres more in northwestern Tex
as, making total of 1,25O,OOO acres, for
the purpose of renting grazing land to
cattle men.
In the report to the convention of
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen,
in session at San Francisco, Grand
Master Sergeant recommended the erec-
tlon in some central city of building
for Offices, to cost not less than S15O,OOO;
the money to be raised by general as
sessment, and that steps be taken to
secure legislation prohibiting the en-
ployment of Pinkerton men. The
brotherhood raised by assessment $780,
600 to support the great 20" strike. "a
The sealing schooner, j. H. Lewis
from Behring sea, had an adventure
with Russian gunboat June 13, near {
Cooper island, in the Japan sea- The 8
Lewis was chased by the ex-Russian
gunboat Alexander, now used by the !
Alaska Commercial company to carry
sealskins, but which has on board Rus t
sian officials to arrest sealing schooners :
within nine miles of the Russian coast. :
The Lewis was overhauled and her :
papers demanded by the Russian Off
American flag, and refused to deliver ,
the paper. The crew were well armed.
and the Russians allowed the Lewis to
depart. II
Senator Sanders has introduced bill | I
WHICH PROVIDES LnaG In the states or | r
Colorado, Montana and the Dakotas, the
gold and silver regions of Nevada, the
state of Idaho and the territory of Utah,
in any prosecution by the United States
for cutting timber upon the public do
main, it shall be the defense for the de- .
fendant to prove that the timber was
cut by q resident of the state for mining, Q
agricultural, domestic or manufacturing
purposes and that it has not been re- 2
moved out Of the state, but this shall
not enlarge the right of railroad COM '
panies to cut timber, and the timber cut I
shall be under the regulations prescrib- a
I'd by the secretary of the interior. 4 r
Pittsburg Dispatch: The rivers here
are rising steadily, and though not near
the danger point yet, advices from all 9
along the Allegheny and Monongahela a
rivers promise much higher waters be Q
1ore Sunday. The rainfall averaged six =
inches the past three days, something
Unprecedented in the upper counties. q
County fairs are suffering greatly, being o
ocated on low lands as rule, and dam d
aged exhibits and ruined race tracks are
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