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

The state senate of North Dakota has
passed woman's suffrage bill by vote
of Is to Z.
A passenger train at the Oswego, New
York, depot was run into by another ex
press train in the rear and three persons
reported killed.
The worlds fair executive committee
at Chicago has decided to increase the
fund to S1O,G00,o0O by the issuance of
100000 in bonds.
The Cunard line steamer Bothnia was
sighted off Sandy Hook Thursday morn
ing. Miss Bisland, who was the com
petitor of Nellie BLY, in the race around
the world, is on board.
Peter Jackson, the Australian, exhib-
tied before Boston audience Wednes-
day night in sparring contest with
Jack Ashton of Providence. The exhi-
bition was very tame, but won many
compliments for Jackson. John L. Sui
livan was a spectator.
The house committee on commerce
has signified it's disposition toward the
effort to repeal the interstate commerce
law by ordering that all bills with that
end in view be reported back to the
house with the recommendation that
thew he laid on thn table
Pat Grant, special correspondent of
the Chicago Inter Ocean has been ca
piased at the instance Of DR.. O'Reilly,
treasurer of the Land League, for an al
legged libel for recent publications in the
Inter Ocean over Mr.. Grants signature.
He was released on $1,000 bail.
The house committee on Indian af-
fairs has ordered a favorable report on
the bill authorizing the secretary Of the
interior to procure and submit to con
gress a proposal for sale to the United
States of the western part of the Crow
Indian reservation, in Montana.
E. l.. Lomax, general passenger agent
of the Union Pacific railway, telegraphed
from Omaha that after the two weeks
blockade the Central Pacific line is now
opened and that all the delayed west
bound passengers will reach their desti
nation tonight or tomorrow, and matters
will resume their normal condition with
in day or two.
The New York Herald claims to have
discovered Silcott, the defaulting cash
ier Of the house Of representatives, in
the village of Terrebonne, Quebec, and
prints long interview had with him.
Silcott was found at the home Of Louise
Thiebault, the woman with whom it is
said he fed from Washington.
A dispatch from Cook county, Texas,
says very fatal epidemic, trongly re-
sembling meningitis, is ,raiding the coun-
try in the western part Of that county.
In many instances patients die in a few
hours after taking the disease Twenty
five deaths a. reported from the malady
during the past tWenty-four hours.
Among combinations by the United
States senate Wednesday were the fol-
lowing: Indian agents, Archer Q. ST.
mons, Belknap agency, Montana; John
Fisher at Shoshone agency, Wyoming;
Moses P. Wyman at the Grow agency,
Montana; Warren P Robbins at the Nez
Perce agency, Idaho; Everett ", Foster
at the Yankton agency.
Five hundred glass workers, who are
on strike in Gabloon, Bohemia, made
an attack upon the factories in which
they had been employed, and, forcing an
entrance into the building, destroyed all
the machinery. The police attempted
to quell the disturbance, whereupon the
strikers turned on them and in a con-
fiict that followed two Of the rioters
were killed by the police and many were
severely wounded.
Gladstone's usual circular to his sup
porters in the house of commons, just
before The opening of tn e session OF par
lament has been published. He says
the condition of public affairs is not
without some peculiar features, and that
the questions to be considered at the
opening of the.session may be of press
ing interest. The wording of the circu-
lar is unusual and is taken to indicate
an early discussion of the Pigott letters
and other matters of vital Importance to
the liberal and home rule members.
A San Francisco dispatch says: A
rotary plow broke down yesterday after
noon in the final drift remaining near
Cascade. The ploW had been working
continually for fifteen days, and it was
thought the big machine would hold to-
gether until the road had been cleared.
An army of shovelers have been put to
work. Mrs. McVean, wife of Surgeon
McVean of Jefferson Barracks, died at
Truckee Monday, OF diphtheria, while
on one of the delayed trains. Yesterday
Lucia Zaretta, the Mexican midget. SAID
to be the smallest human being in the
world, passenger on the same train,
died Of gastric fever.
A Laporte, Ind, dispatch says: AL.
Brown, real estate and insurance agent,
disappeared, and considerable excite
ment prevails over his fight. He had
been here for twelve years, and carried
on an extensive brokers' business. He
duped friends right and left, and also
defrauded the insurance companies he
represented. He cheated poor widow
out Of $500, the amount of policy she
received on the death of her husband,
and which she loaned Brown. Several
similar transactions have been disclosed
since his fight. His liabilities are placed
at SS25,oOO, while his assets are small,
as all of his property is heavily mort
gagged. Brown has been located at Con
cordia, Kas., and he will be forced to re-
turn and face the music.