The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1890-12-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


= The house has passed the apportiol
10 ment bill fixing the representation ;
81, 356
The Farmers bank of Fontanell'
Ial Iowa, has failed; liabilities 10000; as
On On sets $4,000.
ne James W. Hathaway of Montana too
the oath of Office as postmaster OF tn
: house on Monday.
" The Irish envoys, William O'Brien, I
"a p Gill and Timothy Harrington, sailet
,. Saturday for Europe.
: The house coinage committee on Tues
a. a. day elected Wickham of Ohio, chairman
3, to succeed Conger, who resigned to be-
g come minister to Brazil.
e The Hume National bank of Huron
S. D., suspended Tuesday because OF
. the withdrawal of $4,000 of deposits.
c The bank claims to be able to pay every
dollar OF Indebtedness.
. Tullyrone was the scene of great ex-
citement Saturday. The Parnell forces
and the anti Parnell faction threw sticks
and stones at each other and riot was
nearly precipitated. The Parnellites
were worsted.
At Portland, Oregon, Major r. A. Hen
dershot, the drummer boy of the Kappa
<o1 oh Of
passing worthless check on hotel
keeper He refused to settle or give
bonds and went to Jail.
The house committee on liquor traffic
has agreed to report favorably bill to
prohibit the manufacture and sale of
spurious and intoxicating liquors in the
district Of Columbia, except for medical
and scientific purposes.
The apportionment bill, based on
representation of 356 members of the
house of representatives, as originally
proposed by Frank of Missouri, has been
favorably acted on by the committee on
census and reported in the house.
Instructions have been issued to the
registers and receivers of land offices
in California to withhold from entry
lands containing the "bg trees" The
intention is to ask congress to reserve
such lands for national park purposes.
The senate has passed the bill provid-
ing that entrymen upon the public do s
main who have taken eighty acres of I
surveyed land may take an additional |
eighty acres of unsurveyed land, provid- ]
ing that it is contiguous to that already 7
entered. r
Brevet Major General Alfred HI. Ter f
ry, on the retired list United States I
army, died Tuesday morning at his home d
in New Haven, Connecticut. For three d
years the general has been suffering
from Brights disease, and it was from a
this that death resulted. 6
The house committee on invalid pen T.
sions has agreed to report favorably the !;
dill limiting to 50 the fee allowed an Il
agent or attorney in prosecuting the o
application for an increase of pension on Ii
account of the increase of disability. fl
The maximum fee now allowed is so. d
The house committee on irrigation n
las agreed to report favorably on the NJ
'ill giving to states all public lands u
within their borders, the use and pro- OF
leeds of which are to 60 toward the es- et
ablishment of irrigation. All questions Ia
8 to water rights, etc., are to be settled al
~ the states themselves. al
The cabinet meeting Saturday consid- u
red the financial condition of the coun-
ry and the result is that the president, ia
is understood, will send a message to fr
ongress suggesting as measure of re- IL
ef the enactment of legislation for the nc
ssue of additional currency based on cl
1creased silver purchases. TO
The bill introduced by Congressman I'll
'arter has been ordered favorably re- a. a.
orted. It provides that gold coin may IT
9 exchanged for gold bars, but gives tn
ne director of the mint the power to W.
Sc his discretion to impose for such ex- no no
hange charge which shall equal the be
ost of manufacturing them. re-
The board of general appraisers in the ~ ~
ase brought before it by Marshall Field co
Co., Chicago, has decided the omis-
on OF section 80 does not invalidate uu
'e Mckinley tariff bill, but affects only Go
'e omitted section. They also decide wi wi
lat the bill confers on the president no H tb
gislative power. The case will be ap- tn
,aled. att
In the United States district court at n; N;
hicago Saturday Judge Blodgett SEN Ut
need George r. Sims to fifteen months Wi
Jail. He was found guilty of issuing we we
DEGREES Of divorce purporting wa W.,
be issued by the probate court of Box col
lder county, Utah. In this way he di- wh
'rced hundreds OF people throughout o ons
Q country. ne e'
Senator Power has introduced an Th
nendment to reduce the amount of LaO ia'
1ited States bonds required of the 339
tlonal banks, so as to provide that the
lenever the notes are retired under nul
9 existing laws so that the national 20 20,
nix reserve shall aggregate s1OOOOCO low
hall be the duty of the secretary of sac
etreasury to purchase silver bullion Cal
the same amount and to pay for the ''io
ne with United States notes.
a Cheyenne dispatch of the 18th says: A
Velye hundred miners and laborers ;las ;ns
the Rock Spring mines of the Union dict
citic are on strike and the miners give
idle. The company proposed paying will
y workmen by the hour instead of by els