The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1890-03-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

another envoy to England despite the
vigorous protests Of the Chinese govern
ment.
A boiler in the works of the Armour
Cudahy Packing company at Omaha last
Saturday exploded killing three mer
outright and seriously injured severa,
others.
The jury in the Cronin jury bribery
case brought in verdict finding the
only remaining defendant on trial, Jere-
miah O'Donnell, guilty, and fixing his
punishment at three years in the peni-
tentiary.
The dam across the Hassapara river
at Prescott, Arizana, gave way last Sat
urday from the heavy pressure of fooo
and drowned forty persons The dam
was built three years ago at cost o1
nea.ly 100000.
The Union stock yards at Chicago,
says dispatch, have been sold to an
English syndicate for s3O,OOO,OO0, o1
which S15,OOO,OOO is to be paid down and
the balance to be taken in bonds and
preferred stock.
Miss Regina Rothschild, a young lady
Of Port Townsend, Washington, will
start from there March 18th on tour Of
the globe, in an attempt to beat all pre-
vious records. She will go eastward
over the Canadian Pacific.
Intelligence from Mozambique dated
January 8th says it is reported that
Makololo, melted by agents of the East
African Lakes company, had attacked
the natives, supplied with arms and am
munition by agents of the Scotch mis-
sionaries, who opposed the hostilities
and restored peace.
The secretary of the treasury has sub
mitted to congress estimates for addi
tiopal appropriations for the current fis
cal year as follows: Printing the publ
cations of the photographic Office, $1,000
support of reservation Indiar
schools, s292,625. The appropriation
asked for amounted to s42O, 800, making
the total of the amended estimate S7l3,
125.
William Crook, of Adamsburg, vii
lage six miles west of Pittsburg, Penn
sylvania, took home last Saturday after
noon stick Of dynamite and placed i
in the stove to dry. In ten minutes
terrific explosion occurred, wrecking thu
house. A piece of stove struck William
Stencil, killing him instantly. Flying
missiles struck Crook and his wife ant
child who we're in the room and the.
were fatally hurt.
Commissioner Croft of the genera
land office has rendered decision in th'
celebrated Peralts grant case in Arizon'
in which he holds that no grant of tn
character claimed was ever made. HI
decided against the claimants on ever,
point and orders the case stricken from
the surveyor generals docket. Th
claim has been many years before tn
department and embraces about fou
million acres in the central part OF Ari
Zona.
It is rumored that the Weldon extra
dition bill passed in the last session vii
shortly be proclaimed in the Canadial
parliament It is measure of Canada
good will, the dominion agreeing to SUI
render all criminals even to countrie
which have no extradition treaty wit
Canada. The scope of offences is eve
larger than that embraced in the treat
recently negotiated between Great Brit
ain and the United States and to whic
Canada is party.
Senator Stanford Saturday receive
the following telegram from Genera
Manager Towne, of the Central Pacif
railroad, at San Francisco: The las
, passenger train but one that went u
the mountain on the Central Pacific r.
quired eighteen of our most powerfu
!! locomotives and push plow to get ther
, over and even with this power it &C
: stalled near Emigrant Gap. If the storr
continues twenty-four hours longer
will be impossible to keep the line ope
with any power.
Il At the session of the Educational cor
, ference in New York last Friday morr
ing resolution was proposed and unar
imously adopted declaring that the as
sociation regarded the public schoe
system as the chief source of civilization
and the bulwark of civil and religion
liberty; approving the placing of tn
American flag over the school houses
and recommending the study of tn
Declaration of Independence and othe
historical American papers; in order t
meet hostile criticisms and make tn
public schools allies of the home ant
sources Of the highest moral instruction
without any sectional bias.
John Jacob Astor died in New Yorl
Saturday morning of heart failure. H
was the eldest son of the late William
Astor and the grandson of the origina
John Jacob Astor, who founded thu
fortunes Of the family. He was tht
head Of the third generation of the Asto
family and was born sixty five years ago
In 1875 his father died, leaving John
Jacob two-t thirds share of his propert,
valued at s2OO,OOO,OOO During the civi
war Astor went to the front and servee
with credit as aide-de-camp to Genera
McC Clellan. He is succeeded by his only
fson, VIM. Waldorf Astor, who was min
lister to Italy some years ago.
| The Pacific mail steamer China which
arrived at San Francisco Friday, brings
advices from Japan to the effect thai
the storm which swept over Boshu or
January oath carried a thousand fishing
boats, with between $500 and 5000 fish
ermen, out to sea. Nine hundred ol
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