The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1891-03-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

| ted at Rochester, New York, Tuesday,
Inspector Byrnes of New York has re
} fused to accept the decoration sent t,
l, him last week by King Humbert af It
! ally.
DIR. Blanc of New York is authorit,
for the statement that twenty-five fully
developed cases of persons affected with
leprosy are roaming unrestrained the
streets of that city.
Col. w. W. Gates, the Oldest journal
ist in Tennessee, died at jackson Sun
day, aged 76. In 1S42 he founded the
west tennessee Whig, and is the last 81
the celebrated leaders Of the whig party
in the south.
The treasury department on Tuesda,
paid out S9,5OO,OOO for pensions, com
pleting the S9O,OOO,OOO required ON that
account for the quarter ending Wednes
day. The treasury surplus has accord
ingly been reduced to s15,OOO,OOO.
In the United States district court in
Minneapolis Tuesday, the cases of the
Minneapolis census conspirators came
up. Beaudett and Stevens pleaded
guilty to one count each and will be
sentenced. Dickey's case was nolle
pressed.
The Second National bank of McPher-
son, Kansas, has closed it's doors, posting
notice that the inability to collect
forced temporary suspension. just be-
fore the bank closed it's doors President
J. C. Hoggelund shot and fatally wound
ed himself, whether by accident or 9th
erwise is not known.
At Chicago Saturday the grand jury
returned two indictments against Geo.
Gibson, ex-secretary of the whisky trust,
and two against him jointly with other
persons whose names were suppressed.
In all the cases the charges were for at
tempting to commit criminal arson and
feloniously procuring gun powder and
dynamite for unlawful purposes.
President Hill of the Great Northern
railway arrived from Europe on the
North German steamer Spree Friday.
During the few weeks in London he
completed financial arrangements that
will enable him to push his road (the
old Manitoba) through to the Pacific
ocean in very short order. His trip, his
friends say, was very successful.
The supreme court of the United
States on Monday affirmed the decision
of the United States circuit court for
Minnesota in the case of the st. Paul &
Pacific road against the Northern Pa
cific. The case involved the ownership
of many thousand acres of land along
the line of the Northern Pacific in Min
nesota, which under the decision remain
with the Northern Pacific.
The Philadelphia Press says: Chas.
B. Wright has purchased from George
w. Hunt of Walla Walla, Washington, a
number of railroads known as the "Hunt
SYSTEM" which penetrates the great
wheat folds of eastern Washington and
Oregon south of the Columbia river
The first payment on this transaction,
which involves s3,OOOOOO, was made
Wednesday,.
At Lynn, Mass, Master Workman
John Mccarthy, of the National Trade
Assembly, Knights of Labor, which en-
braces all organizations of leather work
ers in this country, has been arrested
by the police for an alleged attempt
with other persons to "conspire, COM
bine, confederate and agree" to unlaw-
fully molest and intimidate the non
union workmen employed in the mo-
rocco factories of Donaldson & Son and
J. T. Moulton.
The direct tax bill which was passed
by congress last week provides, In sub
stance, that the secretary of the treas
ury shall credit each state and territory
3 sum equal to all collections by set-off,
or otherwise, made under the terms of
the direct tax act of 1861. All moneys
still due the United States under that
act are remitted. A sufficient sum of
money is appropriated to be paid when
various legislatures shall have accepted
the sums in full satisfaction of all claims
against the United States on account of
the direct tax levy. The money appro-
priated to meet individual claims is to
be held in trust by state authorities, six
years being allowed for the reception OF
these claims.
A Wilkesbarre, Pa, dispatch says:
The rumor that Anna Dickinson's mind
1ad become deranged and friends found
t necessary to remove her to an insane
asylum, created a sensation. The gifted
adv has resided for years with her Sis
er. Susan Dickinson, in the quiet little
yillaee of West Pittston. For some time
,ast her health has been in precarious
condition because of insomnia. A con-
ultation of physicians decided that a
hanre of scene and absolute quiet fur
lished the only hope of her recovery.
accordingly she was removed quietly
rom her home, but where she has been
aken her friends decline to say. They
mphatically deny, however, that she
'as been taken to an insane asylum or
hat her mind is unbalanced.
Tuesday, while the Dublin mail train
,as nearing Castlereagh, a passenger
AIMED Gavan suddenly drew knife
nd commenced slashing and hacking at
hose about him, at the same time yell
u at the top Of his voice. The car was
'aded with passengers, and all were
,rown into panic by the ferocious on
aught of the man. Gavan badly
ounded five of his fellow passengers
nd only desisted from his bloody work 6
hen both blades OF the knife were bro Y
On and the weapon rendered harmless. q