The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1890-03-15
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

} have failed with liabilities of 100000.
Three distributors in the Chicago
!. postoffice died Sunday of the grip,
contracted in handling the Russian
mails.
A railroad accident near Hamburg,
New York, on the eth inst, resulted in
the death of five persons and the serious
injury Of eighteen.
The Seattle, Washington, Insurance
company has failed with liabilities of
s5O,OOO The failure is due to the re-
fusal of stockholders to pay assessments.
The senate has passed bills making
appropriations for public buildings as
follows: Helena, 100000; Cheyenne,
Wyoming, 5l5O,OOO; Oakland, California,
100000.
The president has sent to the senate
the nomination of Lieutenant Colonel
William Smith, deputy paymaster gen
eral, to be paymaster general, with the
rank of brigadier general.
An explosion occurred Monday in the
Norsa colliery, Glamorganshire, Wales.
One hundred miners we're entombed
and communication with them pre-
vented 1t is feared all have perished.
At Montreal, Sunday, Mrs. Onesine
Collerette and her seven children we're
burned to death in the flames that con-
sumed her residence. The fire was
caused by the explosion of can of
kerosene OIL
An order has been issued by Land
Commissioner Croft directing a re-ex-
animation of all suspended final entries,
the object being to release all suspended
land cases and submit them for decision
to the secretary of the interior.
The will of the late Gov. English, of
New Haven, Conn, has been made pub
lie. 1t gives $4,000 to various charita-
BILE and educational projects The fam
lily mansion and personal property is be-
queathed to his widow and the remand
er of the estate, estimated at 100000
to his only son Harry.
Acting upon the advice of the attorney
general, Secretary Window has decided
that Chinese merchants coming to this
country for the first time, provided with
the certificates prescribed by section 6
of the act of July ), 1885, cannot be per-
mitted to land in the United States, not
withstanding the fact that they are not
laborers.
A Pittsburg, Pa, dispatch says: A
prominent dealer in canned goods has
just returned from Oregon. He says
that the English are trying to buy the
Columbia river salmon canneries They
have options on every cannery but three
and the entire transaction involves
51,O0O,OOO. The affair will probably be
consummated and the salmon fisheries
will be run hereafter by syndicate.
The Seattle and Montana Railroad
company has been incorporated at
Seattle with capital stock Of S10,OOO,-
OOO The following officers were elected:
President, D. H. Gilman; vice president,
Edward o. Graves. The company has
been granted franchise through the
city of Seattle. It is stated that the
Seattle and Montana is the western divi-
sion of the Great Northern system,
which has announced it's intention of
making Seattle it's western terminus.
A Bismarck dispatch says: A private
letter on the lottery scheme, written by
Attorney General Goodwin to news
paper friend in Lisbon, has been brought
to light. The document states definitely
that $500 was paid to each member to
support the lottery bill, with the under
standing that the amount would be
doubled when the measure passed. 1t
says the attorney general as political
rival held out for $4,000. Rumors of
lotteries are thick It is said an attempt
will be made to impeach Goodwin.
A proposed amendment to the consti-
tuition of the United States has been
drawn by Lawyer W. A. Butler of New
York, acting in consultation with ex-
Governor Long of Massachusetts, the
object of which is to prevent the use of
public money in any way for any private
educational institution under the con-
troll of religious denomination. Peti-
tions with the proposed amendment ac-
companying will be distributed through
out the states with a preamble declaring
for the non-union of church and state.
Congressman Taulbee, who was
shot by Correspondent Klncaid, died
Tuesday morning. AS soon as the police
we're notified of the death of Taulbee,
Kincaid was re-arrested. Elk Congress
man Preston Taulbee Of Kentucky was
shot in the head by Charles E. Kincaid,
correspondent of the Louisville Times.
in the house wing of the capitol on the
afternoon of February 2Sth. He died at
4:45 Tuesday morning at the Providence
hospital. Taulbee had been unconscious
some time before his death and his end
was painless. An autopsy was held and
the ball definitely located and the pro-
gress of the wound traced. Kincaid,,
who has been out ON bail, was arrested
very short while after the latter's
death and locked up to await the action
of the court.
The special house subcommittee on
the Worlds fair, held another confer
ence with the visiting Chicago delega-
ton Monday and completed plan
which will be presented to the full COM
mittee as soon as the chairman can call
it together A few changes are made.
The provision for National commission,
to be composed Of two members from
each state to be nominated by the gov
ernor and appointed by the president, is