The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1890-01-25

more, at Chicago Wednesday night,
drew 1000 people to Battery D to wit
ness it During the fifth round, and
when the fighting was becoming very
interesting, the police interfered and
stopped the entertainment.
John L. Sullivan has received tele
gram from the California Athletic club
offering him $1,000 to meet jackson.
Sullivan replied by wire, refusing to
meet Jackson for the sum named. He
said that he would fight Jackson for
$4,000, the winner to take all or $4,000,
the loser to take $1,000 or nothing.
The Commercial Telegraph company
of New York has announced that the
property heretofore operated by it has
been sold at sheriff's sale to satisfy
judgments against the company and now
finds itself unable to distribute after this
date the quotations which have hereto
fore been supplied to it's customers.
The steamship Earndale, Capt. W. H.
Carter, arrived at Baltimore Thursday
afternoon from Cuba, with Steward W.
Walker IN irons, charged with attempt
ing to poison the whole ships crew and
officers on Monday last. He acknowl-
edged to the second mate to have put a
bottle of jalap into the food. Later he
wrote long letter to the captain telling
how he had poisoned the food and plead
ed excessive drinking as the cause. He
told the assistant steward on Monday
that he had poisoned the food of the
second officer, John Leddon for an old
grudge. All the poisoned officers and
hands have recovered.
Judge Shafter, in the superior court
at San Francisco, Thursday rendered a
decision in the Sharon case which virtu
ally ends that famous litigation. The
principal point in the present contro
versy was on demurrer to the answer
made by the Sharon heirs. In this an
swer they Incorporated the decree of the
United States circuit court by which the
alleged marriage contract between Will
lam Sharon and Sarah Althea Hill was
declared a forgery and ordered can
celled. Judge Shafter held that this
decree of the United States was in force
in all the courts, and that the contract
has no legal existence. He ordered the
Sharon case postponed indefinitely.
A Washington special says: Senators
and representatives are awaiting the ar
rival of the four men from Montana, who
claim to be senators from that state. It
is easy to get an official opinion as to the
result when the two sets of senators ar
rive. The opinion prevails that none of
the four will be given seats unless the
senate decides to go over full investi-
cation Of the case from the day the cleo
tion was held in Silver Bow precinct.
There is some ground for believing that
this will not be done, but that all four
will be sent home and the state be COM
PEELED to 50 unrepresented until proper
| VI tuCu dI6
Walker Blaine, examiner of claims of
the state department and the eldest son
of Hon. James G. Blaine, secretary of
state, died at the family residence in
Washington at 800 o'clock Wednesday
evening of acute pneumonia, superin-
duced by an attack of la grippe. Walker
j.. Blaine graduated from Yale college in
1876, and after studying law received his
diploma from Columbia college, New
York, in 1878. In 1881, while Garfield
was on his deathbed, he sent for Walker
Blaine and appointed him third assistant
secretary Of state, saying he appreciated
his ability and wanted to show it. After
serving in this capacity very acceptably
for nearly year, he was appointed on
the Alabama claims commission, where
he served with great credit from 1882 to
1885. On the advent of the present adj
ministration he was appointed solicitor
to the state department, position
which he has filled with great credit and
ability.
The naval board of policy appointed to
formulate plan for the building of
navy commensurate with the dignity
and power of the nation, in their report
to the secretary of the navy will recon-
mend the construction of ninety two
vessels of different types and sizes, and
these will be built according to the plan
of the board, in fourteen years, and will
cost together with their maintenance
during the fourteen years s28O0OOO0O.
They say the cost of the maintenance of
the feet of vessels such as they propose
would be only one-quarter that of keep
ing up the same number of old-style ves-
sells. The scheme Of the board COM
prises the following vessels, the esti-
mated cost of which, with the armament
complete, is appended: Ten battle ships
of 10000 tons, S5,OO0,OO0 each; eight of
5000 tons, s5,OOO,OOO each; twelve of
1000 tons, 100000 each; five of 5000
tons, 100000 each; ten rams of $500
tons. 100000 each: nine armored cruis-
ers of $3.50 tons, to make nineteen knots
an hour, s3,5OOO0O each; four protected
cruisers of 7 400 tons, to make twenty
two knots an hour, s3,5O0OOO each; nine
protected cruisers of 5, 400 tons, to make
twenty knots an hour, S28O0,OOO each;
two protected cruisers of 1900 tons, to
make nineteen knots an hour, 100000
each; five special cruisers Of 1900 tons,
to make eighteen knots an hour, $780,
600 each, fifteen torpedo cruisers Of 900
tons, to make twenty-knots an hour,
$4,000 each, three artiticers' ships,
100000 each. The eight ships which
the secretary recommends in his report
shall be begun at once, are not the eight
proposed by the board but eight of the
first ten.
The weekly bank statement shows the
reserve increase to be 81, ,7f5, ,425.