The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1890-08-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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: McVickers theatre at Chicago wa
h burned Tuesday morning. Loss 5000
600.
Salvador broke the mile record a
: Mammoth Park, N. j., on Tuesday
t Time 1851.
George w. Peck mayor OF Milwaukee
and author of Peck's Bad Boy, has beel
nominated by the democrats for gov
ernor of Wisconsin.
, The remains of John Ericsson, the in
; ventor, were started on the Enterpris
. from New York Friday for Sweden, hi
native land, for final interment.
Representative Lewis +. Watson, o
Warren county, Pa, dropped dead il
the botanical gardens, at the foot of tht
capitol grounds Monday morning O
heart disease.
The New York state board of arbi
tration has served notice on the New
York Central and the strikers that il
will begin an inquiry into the strike
next Tuesday.
Geo. Early and Bljarel Woods, colored
we're hanged at Rocky Mountain, Frank
lin county, Virginia, for arson commit
ted in October last. The negroes fred
a large tobacco warehouse because the
owners refused to allow Gen. Malone to
speak there.
In the house Wednesday in the
heated discussion and flibustering over
the land bill Wilson of Washington and
Beckwith of New Jersey came to blows.
The trouble was afterwards settled by
proper apologies and friendship again
established between the contestants.
A Seattle dispatch says: Admiral
Brown of the flag ship Charleston,
which arrived frcm Honolulu Sunday
night, in an interview expressed the be-
lief that the next steamer from the Ha-
waiian Islands would bring news of a
revolution and probably declaration of
republic.
|. Secretary Noble has made decision
in case comming from Washington
state as to the necessity Of mon mineral
atfidavits in private cash entries He
holds that as the general land office has
made the rule requiring them, the entry
in the land offices.
An Ottawa dispatch states that it Is
learned from reliable sources that Sir
John Macdonald has decided to dis
solve parliament very shortly and ap-
peal to the country for re reelection be-
fore Christmas. The sentiment in favor
of extending Canada's commercial rela-
tions with the United States is steadily
growing.
United States Circuit Judge Sawyer
has rendered decision in the case of
the Bingham ordinance requiring the
removal of Chinatown from it's present
South San Francisco. Judge Sawyer
holds the ordinance unconstitutional as
it conflicts with the constitution of the
United States.
Several representative Grand Army
men in Boston are promoting the forma-
tion of an encampment of the Union
Veteran Legion, to be made up Of with
drawals from the G. A. r., with the ad-
of whose affairs, it is stated,
there is considerable dissatisfaction
among the members. Drafted men and
are not admissible to men,
bership in the legion.
New York is experiencing brick
famine. Six million bricks are daily
used in New York, Brooklyn and Jersey
City, and the brick makers along the
Hudson and about Philadelphia have
put off the supply. The union work
men of the three cities have boycotted
The Hudson river managers, and this is
,he retort. One hundred thousand will
be compelled to quit work.
Inspector General Dumont has re-
,eived the report of local inspectors who
Investigated the case of the steamer Sea
Wing, which capsized in Lake Pepin
With such fatal results. They find that
Captain Wetherin violated the ordin-
ance by starting, as he did, in the face
If an approaching storm. They there
ore revoked his license and reported
he case to the United States attorney
or prosecution.
A st. Paul dispatch says: An official
bulletin has been issued by the Broth
,rhood of Locomotive Engineers and
he Trainmen and Switchmen's Mutual
Aid association, embracing every branch
# train service in Minnesota, Dakota,
Montana and Washington, calling
Meeting for Sunday, August 31st. The
with the eastern strike.
Holzhay, the bandit confined in prison
It Marquette, Mich, made another ,
attempt to commit suicide
n prison Sunday night. He was found
ying in his cell in an unconscious con-
lition from the loss of blood, having /,
evered the arteries of his wrist with a
,iece of tin taken from slop bucket.
lis scalp was reduced to a pulp from
n attempt to dash out his brains
gainst the prison wall. {
AS one of the results of First Assist {
mt Postmaster General Clarkson's re- I
ent inspection of the postal service in
he far west, forty stamp agencies have
cen ordered to be established in San q
'rancisco and the working force of the e
ost Office of that city has been in .
reased by six mailing clerks, fourteen
elivery and stationery clerks, and five T
ther clerks, all at an annual expense Of 6
$4,000. The increase of thirty carriers t
as ordered short time ago.
The order of business for the remain
or of the session, arranged by the re-
ublican committee of the senate, pro-
des that consideration of the tariff
i'll will be completed without Interrupt
on, except by appropriation bills and 81
Inference reports. There are two con- f.
renee reports expected to be presented .
lring the week, one on the irrigation =
lrvey provisions of the sundry civil !
II, and the other one the land grant Fl
rfeiture bill. 4
At meeting of worlds fair directors +,
Chicago Tuesday evening, by a vote :
fifteen to three, they decided that Il
'ashington Park was the most desira- n
9 site for the worlds fair. A resolu- c;
On, however, was adopted postponing a,
,al decision until the 9th of September,
hen the national committee will be in q
ssion. The usual conflict between tt
g west side members of the directory Il
I'd other directors took place. n,
A private letter from Winnipeg speaks B
a report which has obtained credence Or