The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1890-12-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

succeed Wade Hampton.
William Furnell, proprietor of til
t. woolen mills at Wilton, Maine, hs
failed. Liabilities $4,000; assets s35
y 600.
70 AL. Daggett, postal card contractor a
Birmingham, Conn.,, has been declare
:, bankrupt on petition of his creditor,
!, His debts will exceed $4,000.
r Washington Mclean, former propri
;, etor of the Cincinnati Enquirer, died a
!, Washington Monday, aged "a. His son
John Mclean, is the present editor o
: the Enquirer.
0 George Washington Smith, of Sal
Q Francisco, vice-president of the Nicar
0 aguan canal, was taken to Bellevue hos
) pital, New York, on Saturday, insan,
. from alcoholism.
} Emin Pasha, at the head of German
} expedition, has arrived at Lake Victoria
) The expedition had number of fight.
with Arab slave traders, but was sue
cessful in all their engagements
New York is to have the loftiest hotel
in the world. It will be seventeen
stories, and will be 225 feet high. The
building is to be erected by William
Waldow Astor, and will cost s1,OOO,OOO.
Representative Hansbrough, of North
Dakota, introduced a bill providing for
the disarmament of Indians, and max
ing it a punishable offense for any per-
son to sell arms or ammunition to them.
The Farmers Alliance, which has
been in national convention at Ocala,
Florida, adjourned on Saturday. The
next annual meeting will be held in
Washington on the third Tuesday of
February.
In an interview at Milwaukee Wednes
day Henry Willard said the furry in
Wall street had not affected his interests
His relations with the Northern Pacific
and with the North American and other
companies were the same as they had
been, and would remain the same.
Representatives of the barbed wire
manufacturers of the United States met
in Chicago Monday in response to cir
cular sent out by j. W. Gates, represent
ing the st. Louis wire works. Gates
said the object of the meeting was to
form trust and raise the price of
barbed wire one cent per pound.
Clerk Mcpherson, of the house of re-
presentatlves, has just had printed an
unofficial list of the members-elec of
the next house, showing SS republicans,
234 democrats and eight Farmers al
lance. One district, the 2Sth of New
York, is set down as uncertain, and one,
the second Rhode Island, is marked
vacant
The banking house of Delamater &
Co., at Meadville, Pa, of which the re-
Gently defeated governor of that state is
the senior member, has failed. The liza
bilities will reach 100000. Nothing
positively is known of the assets, but
the most sanguine do not hope that they
are more than fifty cents on the dollar.
The secretary of the treasury has is
sued circular inviting proposals for
sale to the government of s5OOOOOO of 4
per cent bonds. During the week end
ing December IL, s21, ,OOOOOOwill be paid
out on account of pensions. This, to-
gether with s5,OOO.OOO to be paid for
bonds under the above call will make
SB,OOO,OOO to be put into circulation
within the next week or ten days.
Lieutenant Governor Fletcher con-
firms the reports of destitution in South
Dakota and declares that the boomers
are trying to conceal the facts. He says
that in seven counties, on account of
The loss of crops through drought the
past three years, the farmers are desti-
ute and will starve unless aided. Aid
being contributed by the citizens of
;he state, but he thinks general ap-
)eal should be made.
Fred G. Cooke, night operator for the
Northern Pacific at Northern Pacific
JUNCTION, Minnesota, has been sentenc-
ID to prison for stealing over $4,000
worth of through tickets over the st.
Paul & Duluth and Northern Pacific .
ines, making them out to San Francisco,
Portland and other points, and disposing
# them to scalpers. Cooke confessed I,
lis guilt. The crime was only discover
ID yesterday afternoon. He was inn
aediately taken before the grand jury,
indicted and sentenced.
In the house Monday the ways and t
means committee filed a report, without +
mendment, Of the bill authorizing the i
ecretary of the treasury to refund SO v
1uch of the tax collected on tobacco .
'hich shall be in the hands of dealers .
nd manufacturers January LIST as was l.
bolished by the recent tariff act. The !.
ommittee also voted to report resolu-
on declaring that nothing in the tariff !.
ct should be construed to impair the y =
rovisions Of the Hawaiian treaty. r.
The annual report of the interstate r
commission was presented e,
congress Thursday. 1t states the a,
w is presistently violated, either n,
'cretly or openly. In great number r.
cases the commission finds it impos- of
ble to bring artion to prevent its vio- h,
ton owing to the immense number M
cases, the great extent of country ~
i'd mileage, the number of railroads r.,
ID the unwillingness of railroads to ba
in the prosecution OF one against nj,
other. 20
meeting of the executive committee ed
the national silver committee was held |
Washington on Wednesday. After be
informal discussion, Gen. A. j. War mi