The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1890-08-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


viii, three-story buildings. The loss is
estitsated at one million dollars.
The senate has passed the bill grant
ing . pension of $1,000 a year to the
widog Of the late General Crook. Bills
were also passed granting like pensions
to iMrs. fremont and Mrs. Mcclellan.
The supreme court of Utah has rem
dered decision to the effect that child
ren Of polyganous wives cannot inherit
property. The decision will doubtless
be appealed to the United States su-
preme court.
Rev, Robert Laird Collier, one Of the
moss widely known Unitarian divines in
the country. died Sunday morning at
his country homo at Salisbury, Mary
land. He was stricken with paralysis
on Friday night and never regalned
consciousness.
A recount of the cities Of ST. Paul and
Min.t ..po!is has been ordered as an out
confs Of the census fight IN those cities.
james FL. Wardle, assistant chief clerk
Of the census bureau, will have charge
Of tie work at ST. Paul, and f. W. kruZ,
special agent at Minneapolis.
George Francis Train has made ar
rangements with the Tacoma Ledger to
make an attempt to beat the record for
a trip around the world. He will leave
Tacoma August 7th Oh the steamer
China, and calculates that he can make
the circuit of the globe in 81 days.
A fearful accident happened on Mon
day in the New Mar" oster ship canal.
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unexplained stupidity of the switchman,
coilided. Zen Workmen were instantly
killed and sixty others injured, of whom
twenty, it is said, will certainly die.
The committee in charge of the ar
raingements for the removal of the re-
mans of the late Captain Erickson have
received communication from King
Oscar Of Sweden, stating that he is
taking an active interest in tho final IN
terment Of the remains, and when they
reached Sweden he would see that they
wero received with all the honors usually
awarded a duke Or an admiral.
Nathaniel E. Locke, father of the late
D. +. Locke, better known as ''Petrol-
eum V Nasby,' died at Toledo, Ohio, on
the 18th at the advanced age of 81 years.
He has been consistent member of the
Methodist church since his fifteenth
year, and was probably the oldest
Methodist in the United States. He
was an old time abolitiOnlst, one OF the
founders OF the old republican party
and all his life advocated prohibition.
The two census supervisors for Colo
RADIO have so far completed their work
as to be able to announce that the pop
ulation of the state will be very close on
TO 100000. The three largest cities in
the state outside of Denver are as fol-
lows: Pueblo, 27,425; Leadville, 1865;
Colorado Springs, 11,20O. Pueblo may
claim the honor Of being the only city
in America which has doubled its popu
lation in two years, the returns in 1888
giving that city l3,40O.
Delegates from 105 railroad centers in
this country and Canada attended the
meeting of the grand council of the
Steam Railroad Mems Protective union
at Boston on the 9th. The necessity
for automatic drawbar guard and higher
elevation of bridges was forcibly pre-
sented by several delegates. The ques-
ton Of reduced hours of labor for train
men and switchmen and moro wages
were discussed, but nothing definite was
done. Several standing committees and
the general president were instr ucted to
secure the enactment of legislative
measures in the interests of railroad
employees.
Secretary Noble has given a decision
that employees of tho surveyor general
are not allowed to make entry or pur-
chase public lands under the land laws
which govern the sale of lands to pri-
vate individuals. The case came from
Washington state. Herbert McMickett,
A. j. Treadway and John P. Tweed, en-
ployes in the surveyor generals office,
made entry for three quarters of a sec
tion in section 20, township IS, range 3,
of the Seattle district. They told the
register and receiver what position they
held and they accepted their money and
allowed entry. Their claims were can
celed by the land commissioner on
appeal. The secretaries decision
was made sustaining the commissioner.
The secretary holds that all employees
who are under the jurisdiction of the
general land Office come within the class
prohibited.
4 cyclone, the first of any considerable
importance within memory in New En-
gland, and one equaling in destruc ton
and power those frequently reported
from the western states, visited South
Lawrence, Mass, Saturday morning and
in fifteen minutes had killed eight peo-
pie, seriously injured from fifteen to
twenty, slightly injured at least twenty
more, cut swath through thickly
populated section 200 feet wide and a
mile long rendering many people home
less, destroyed or greatly damaged some
seventy-five to one hundred buildings,
mostly dwelling houses, levelled beau
tiful square of over 500 trees and entail
ed property loss now estimated at
100000, all of which was uninsured
against damage by wind and storm. The
calamity is the greatest which has Wis
tied Lawrence since the fall and burn
ing Of the Pemberton mills thirty years
ago.
All Washington dealers in silverware
have been notified by the manufac-
turers that prices have been increased
Is per cent owing to the rise in silver
bullion occasioned by the adoption Of
the silver coinage bill. Further notice
has been given by the manufacturers
that still greater increase in prices is
anticipated, and they have been advised
to give orders for future delivery. It is
stated at the treasury department that
the price of silver bullion is expected to
go to S1.15 per ounce within few weeks
Parity for silver bullion is about s1.29,
and it was stated during the discussion
of the silver bill that if there should be
absolute free coinage, bullion would
reach parity within ninety days after
the measure became law. At any rate
purchasers Of silverware are all paying
Is per cent. more than they were paying
thirty days since, and further increase
of at least 5 per cent. is expected within
the coming month.
The Mill Creek District.
A representative of this paper visited
the mines. on Mill creek, about twenty
five miles south of this city this week