The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1891-01-31
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

dSSetS SIo,UVU.
Congressman Hansbrough of Nor
Dakota has been elected United Stat
senator to succeed Gilbert A. Pierce.
Fifty-two miners were killed by {
explosion at the Hibernia colliery
Gilsenkershen, Germany, on Saturday
The president has appointed David
Benjamin commissioner of the World
Fair for Wisconsin, vice j. r. Mitche
resigned.
The house committee on CONNER,
has reported favorably the bill allowir
railroad companies to make special rat,
and give reduced rates to commerce,
travellers.
The legislature of Missouri has r.
solved that not penny should be sper
by that state for an exhibit at til
Worlds Fair should the elections bi
become law.
Among the pension bills reported an
placed on the calendar in the senate Wa
one for Mrs. Mary Ann Doherty, the bi
for whose relief was vetoed by Cleyelan
two years ago.
The vote for United States senator i
| the Kansas legislature Wednesday re
suited in the election of William Alfre
Pfeffer, alliance candidate, to succee
John j. Ingalls,.
A resolution was introduced in tn
general assembly of New York, providin
that if the elections bill Is passed by cor
gress New York will make no appropria
tion for nor take any part in the World
Fair.
1t is said the slayer of Lieutenan
Casey is graduate of the Carlisle pa
Indian school. The Indians say the
will turn him over to the authorities j
the slayer of Few Tails is also turne,
over and both hanged together.
Denver is showed under Telegraph,
communication with the east is com
pletely demoralized. Reports from Lead
vile, Pueblo and Colorado Springs indi
cate that the weather is very cold an(
the snow from four to ten inches il
depth.
The president has appointed the com
missioners to test the mints for the cal
endar year 1890. Among them are Con
gresham Thomas H. Carter, Frank A
Leach of Oakland, Cal, G. r. Metten OF
Helena, and G.. w. Moore of Boise City
Idaho.
Secretary Proctor has instructed Ad-
jItant General Keller to select about
ten young officers of the engineer corps
of the army for duty in connection with
the proposed nter-continental railway
as provided by the act creating an inter
continental railway commission.
The match between Steinitz and
Gunsberg for the chess championship OF
the world was definitely decided in
favor of Steinitz by the nineteenth game
in New York The game was
a draw. 1t left the score, Steinltz 6,
Gunsberg 4, drawn 8, leaving no oppor-
tunity for Gunsberg to catch up.
The democratic majority in the Wis
consin house, under a suspension of
rules, passed bill repeating the Ben
nett school law, the chief issue in the
last campaign, and rejected the republ-
can substitute, which retained the clause
requiring instruction in the English
language.
While the Irish leaders have been
quarreling vita each other their plan of
has collapsed. Many of the
tenants, VINO have made terms
with their landlords for rent, allege the
funds which they placed in the hands
Of the managers of the campaign have
been swallowed up by demands of the
leaders.
A motion was made Monday in the su-
preme court by Solicitor General Taft
TO advance for argument about 81 cases
Of Chinese who, it is alleged, flood the
at San Francisco, in the viola
lion of the Chinese exclusion act. The
Cinnamon are at large, and cases come
rom the United States circuit court for
the northern district of California.
The president has sent the senate a
etter from Secretary Noble recommend
ng favorable consideration of the bill
appropriating $4,000 to compensate
,he Grow Creek Indians, in South Da-
kota, for loss sustained in receiving less
and per capita in their diminished
than is received by Indians
other diminished reservations.
The sheep killing industry at the Chi
ago stock yards is at standstill and
100 men are out of work owing to
trike of butchers at the packing house
# Armour, Swift & Morris. The men
demand pay by the piece instead of the
,er diem rate. The relations of the
trikers with the laborers in the yards
re very friendly, and it is possible the
trike may become a general one.
The Atlantic coast states were swept
~ severe snow storm and blizzard on
donday. The damage done to property
" the storm is large. Throughout
Jew Jersey trains were obliged to feel
heir way, as the telegraph poles and
7ires we're all down. It will take days
o repair the damage. The mails are
rom one to ten hours late. The great
ST. delay and damage is near the coast.
Governor Taylor, of Tennessee, who
7ent out of Office on Monday, has earned
he title of the "Pardon Governor" Last |
aturday he pardoned eighteen men,
he records show that Gov. Taylor has,
uring his four years in office, pardoned |
)l men, under sentences ranging from
cath down to ten days imprisonment
nd $50 fine. The list Of offenses of
hich they were convicted includes
very crime in the calendar.
The army appropriation bill, which
as reported to the senate from the ap-
committee, carries with it a
'tal appropriation of s24, ,578 O29, being
reduction of $4,000 from the amount
the house bill. The committee struck
1T the provision that land grant rail
'ads shall not charge the government
IF transportation more than so per
mt of the rates paid by private parties
the companies for like services.
1t is probable that one of the many
fractions of Chicago during the worlds
ir will be the small nation of Sioux In
ans encamped at Fort Sheridan. Gen.
lies, who is expected to arrive in
1icago soon from the Pine Ridge
encey, proposes to bring from their res
walton about 200 Sioux warriors, enlist
EN- in the United States army and
alton them at Fort Sheridan. They [
II be drilled the same as white enlist
regulars and reserved for use in pos !
Die future Indian wars. E
The supreme court has announced {
cision reversing the judgment of the I
urt OF claims awarding the Central I
Icific railroad S19S62l in it's suit c
ainst the United States The ques- I
N upon which the case turned was t
lether or not, under the Thurman act, I