The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1890-05-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

prohibition law having gone into effect.
The president has vetoed the bill t.
authorize the city of Ogden, Utah, t.
assume an increased Indebtedness. Thi:
is President Harrison's first veto.
The senate has passed the bill to val
idate pre-emption filings and pre-emp
ton proofs made within the states OF
North and South Dakota, Montana and
Washington.
Advices from ST. Petersburg, RussM
state that Captain Schmidt, who sold
the plans of the torpedo defenses to En-
glish and German attaches, Will be shot
and the plans altered
The grand jury at New York has just
handed in indictments against Joseph
Pulitzer, John A. Cockeriil, julius Cham
bers and James F. Graham, of the New
York World, for criminal libel of ex-
Judge Hilton.
Henry w. King, ex-prefect of the
Pennsylvania institution for the blind,
WIZ was last week convicted of crimes
of grossly immoral nature at the insti-
tuition, has been sentenced to five years
in the penitentiary.
| President Harrison on Tuesday We
toed bill authorizing the construction
of an addition to the Dallas, Texas, pub
lie building at cost of $500, 900. This
is the second veto by the president
within the past ten days.
In set-to before the Bay State Ath-
letic club at Boston, between j. .. Fal-
Ion and John Murray, the former re-
ceived terrific blow on the head which
rendered him insensible and resulted in
his death the following day.
Representatives of ten of the seven
teen nations participating in the inter
national American conference have
signed the agreement drawn up by the
conference for the settlement by arbi-
tration of differences between them.
Mrs. Garfield and daughter, Mrs j.
Stanley Brown, visited the white house
Saturday morning for the first time
since The death of President Garfield
and were received in the red parlor by
the president and Mrs. Harrison and
Mrs. Mckee.
Judge Wallace, of the United States
court at Auburn, New York, has granted
writ OF habeas corpus, returnable June
II, in the case of Kemmler, sentenced to
death. The ground for the writ is that
the act under which the execution was
to take place is in violation of the CON
stitution.
The United States supreme court,
through Chief Justice Fuller, has rem
dered an opinion adverse to the consti-
tutionality of state laws providing for
the seizure of liquor brought into the
state in original packages. Such law,
the court holds, is an interference with
interstate commerce.
The New York state senate recalled
from the assembly the ballot reform bill
and again passed it, changing it to agree
with the amended bill agreed upon last
Friday by the governor and others. It
is understood the governor will sign this
bill and the long fight over ballot reform
in that state will be at an end.
At Auburn, New York, Warden Dur
ston made test of the electrical execu-
ton machinery Thursday for his own
satisfaction. 4 six weeks old calf weigh
ing 100 pounds was the victim. When
she volt meter registered one thousand,
the switch was thrown and the calf died
instantaneously with but one tremor of
the legs.
A Paris dispatch of the Doth ult., says:
Twelve anarchists were arrested yester-
day. Among them were the Marquis
DeMores, his secretary, Mondacq, and
Provost, secretary Of the Hairdressers'
union. A number of additional arrests
we're made throught France of persons
charged with melting the workingmen
to riot and pillage on May 1st.
News has been received of the attempt
ed assassination of Judge Botkin at
Ulysses, Grant county. 1t is reported
that an attempt was made to force him
to decide point in the preliminary
hearing of the county commissioners i'm
plicated in the Wolf county frauds in
opposition to his judgment. His re-
fusal resulted in the attempted assassi-
nation.
Senator Paddock on Saturday pre-
sented a pamphlet from the legislative
committee of the national grange con-
tanning their memorial in favor of legis-
lation to prohibit adulteration and gam
bling in farm products and the forma-
ton and continuation of trusts, and also
in favor of the reconciliation of silver
and the revision Of the tariff in the in
terests of agriculture.
The senate committee on Indian af
fairs has favorably reported Vests bill
to provide for the compulsory education
of Indian children. The bill makes it
the duty of the secretary of the interior
to establish an industrial boarding school
on every Indian reservation with the
population of adults exceeding five hun
dred. The bill will not apply to the five
civilized tribes nor the Usage Indians.
The Bank of America at Philadelphia
has suspended payment. The suspen-
sion of the bank did not cause much sur
prise, as it was known in financial cir
cles that there had been heavy decline
on it for some days. Branch offices in
different parts of the city are also shut
up. The deposits are said to amount to
about 100000. The bank was closely
allied to the Insurance Company of
America. The suspension is due to ru-
mors set afioat Saturday affecting the
credit Of President McFarlane of the in
surance company.
The May Day strikes throughout the
United States and Europe were not SO
numerous as had been anticipated and
were unattended by any, disorderly pro-
ceedings. At New York and st. Louis
monster professions under the auspices
of the Labor federation paraded the
streets, in the latter city more than
25OOO men being in line. The strikes,
however, were confined principally to
those engaged in building trade and will
not result seriously. The demands of
the strikers for day Of eight hours
have been conceded in several cities of
the east.
A Chicago dispatch says that Lieuten-
ant Fredrick Schwatka has filed bill in
the supreme court, in which he an
nounces the financial failure of his dis
covery and importation of the band of
Tarahuwas Indians, or cave-dwellers,
and asks the court to enable him TO keep
his promise and send to their home the
remaining five Indians of the band who
are still in this country. Schwatka as
serts that w. D. Boyce, his partner and
manager, has not keep his agreement as
to the amount of money put up, and fur
ther, that he Boyce) kept the lions
share of the receipts from the dime mus
cum engagements. The remaining In
dams are tired of the United States and
want to return to Mexico, and Schwatka