The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1890-10-04

CANA, SATURDAY, OF
ne NEWS OF THE WEEK.
he Hon. Frederick Billings, ex-presiden
tn of the Northern Pacific railroad, died a
~ his home at Woodstock, Connecticut, o.
Is Tuesday evening
u According to the figuring OF w. 1
Hornaday there are only 1,091 buffalo
- left in the world. OF this number 2O'
z z are in the National Park, 249 captive a
# v arious points, and 642 running wild.
q, Hon. S. J. Randall, who died at Wash
), ington on the 18th of April, failed tc
. make will The registrar of wills has
r granted letters of administration On his
! estate to his widow. The entire estate
is valued at about $1,000, and consists OF
, personal effects only.
q The president has promised the labor
J, committee that when congress adJourns
,, he will give con sideration to the eight
. hour law and will insist upon its strict
. enforcement in government buildings.
! He expressed himself as earnestly de-
sirous of furthering the interests OF
workingmen.
Edward r. Ryan, aged 18, and G..
Banard, aged 20, we're instantly killed
on the 9th, at Winchester, Mass, by an
electric light guy wire coming in con-
tact with an incandescent circuit on
Pond street. Barnard's hands we're
badly burned and it is supposed Ryan
ATTEMPTED to assist him and himself fell
a victim.
The contest over the Fort Ellis mill
tary reservation has been adjusted salts
factorily. The conferees have agreed to
compromise satisfactory to both. The
now gives the building to the state of
Montana, authorizes the government to
make such selections as the state de-
sires, and within one year if any of the
lands remain, it is proposed to turn it
over to settlers.
The much talked of fight between
Frank Slavin, the Australian champion,
and Joe McAuliffe, the American heavy
weight pugilist, took place at the Or
monde club, London, at five o'clock Sat
urday morning. There were only two
rounds fought in which Slavin succeed
ed in knocking out McAuliffe The fight
was for E1,OOO and the Police Gazette
championship belt.
A special from Braddock, Pa, says:
A notice has been posted in the offices
of the Edgar Thompson steel works
that all boys under l6 years of age shall
be discharged. This is an idea of An
drew Carnegie, who has always been
opposed to young labor. The order will
affect many widows who depend on sons
for support. Some $50 boys at Brad
dock and over 100 at Homestead will be
discharged in accordance with the or
der.
Secretary Noble has promulgated
rules and regulations for the govern
ment Of the park in Tulare county, Cali
fornia, containing the mammoth trees,
created by act of congress and approved
SerpemDer 18th, 1890. The secretary
christens the new park "The Sequoia
National Park" The rules for it's regu-
lation are substantially the same as
those governing the Yellowstone Park.
The secretary said if he found it practi-
cable he would procure from an adjoin-
ing tract to the park section of one OF ,
the mammoth trees for exhibition at the
Works Fair at Chicago. s
Another attempt has been made on c
the life of the czar. This time the con-
spirators planned to wreck train by '.
which it was believed the czar intended /;
to leave st. Petersburg for Warsaw.
The obstruction placed upon the track Il
was in the shape of five sleepers which y
we're tightly wedged in between the 8
rails The train which was supposed to
be carrying the czar crashed into the g.
barricade of sleepers and was thrown 4
from the track. No details of the out r
rage have been obtained, and it is not R
Known whether any arrests were made
n connection with the affair.
In the house joint resolution was
,assed for printing $4,000 copies of the z
annual report of the commissioner of +
abor. A joint resolution was passed c
Ippropriating $4,000 to enable the post q q
Master general to test at small towns =
md villages the system of free delivery. lo
IN motion OF Morrow, of California, the W
ill passed relinquishing to the city and 6
county Of San Francisco, United States, r.
tile to lands located near the Preside 81
military reservation. The house agreed y
o concurrent resolution directing the b
Jerk of the house to number consecu. S.
lively the paragraphs of the enrolled q,
ariff bill. W
At the National Prison congress in y
ession at Cincinnati on Wednesday an a,
discussion followed the read W
ng Of the joint report from the standing n II
ommittee on discharged prisoners by st
chairman Round of New York. The 4
osition taken by Round is that no di- n
ect aid should be given to discharged "
risoners by state agents. The penal 8
ystem Of the country ought to be SO r. H.
tanned and executed that no prisoner N,
ould leave the prison walls until fitted Ja
} earn an honest living and place had " "
cen found for him. The officers elect He He
! for the ensuing year are: President,
. B. Hayes of Fremont, Ohio; secre-
Try, John L. Milligan of Allegheny, Pa. Fr
mong the honorary vice presidents is y.
en-. John McComb of California.
Slayin and McAuliffe having haen in.