The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1891-08-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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!. dlcted for publishing an account of the
recent Sing Sing electrocution.
collision occurred between excurs
i ION tralns at ST Maude. France, Sunday
e ~hlch 1orty-nine persons were Killed
ana one hundred injured.
: Inc Gross earnings Of the Northern
raclnc Tor the past year ending June ~
we're 80, ,lO6, l12, an increase of S2,i9o,-
olo over the previous year.
. =, In the free-for all pace at Cleveland
) wednesday Hal Pointer broke the track
record for PAGERS (2:11L) aud made the
!nree fastest heats ever paced in race.
nolo Maid was second and Dallas third.
lime, 2:1Os4, 2:1Oa4, 2:1O4.
c Samuel Sands died Tuesday at Balti-
more, Maryland, at the age Of 81 years.
lie was probably the oldest living
printer, as his apprenticeship began in
ioIl, and he published the American
Farmer, the first agricultural paper
started in this country.
An accident occurred on the Cincin-
natl, Hamilton & Dayton road at Mid
dletown, Ohio, on the 25th, by which
three cars of an excursion train were
badly wrecked, seven persons injured
and number seriously injured. The
wreck was caused by freight train
running into the rear Of the excursion
train.
Shipments Of currency to the west to
move the crops have opened up lively,
S55S,OOO in small notes being shipped
from the treasury to Cincinnati and Chi
cago in exchange for deposits at New
York. According to present indications
the demand will be unusually large this
year, one official estimating it at 49,
100000
At Monongahela City, Penn, on the
24th, Harry Boyd and John Myford
fought with bare knuckles. Three ter
rible rounds we're fought and in the
fourth Boyd struck Myford - terrible
blow just over the jugular vein. Myford
staggered back few steps, fell to the
ground insensible and died an hour later
Boyd surrendered to the authorities
According to a letter received at
Omaha a well known citizen, S. Gerber,
who has lived in Omaha for the past
five years, has been exiled to Siberia for
five years by the Russian authorities.
Gerber went last March to his native
town in Poland for the purpose of bring
ing his family, who had remained in the
old country. The only charge against
him was running away to America"
At a crowded meeting in London, at
which Bishop Bedford presided, reso-
lutions were adopted protesting against
the unrestricted influx Of destitute
aliens into England and demanding that |
the government take such measures as
will prevent the entrance into the coun-
try Of such undesirable persons. The
resolutions were supported by number
OF prominent members of the house Of
commons who were present.
At New York Monday Charles O'Con-
nor Hennessy pleaded guilty to an in
dictment charging him with misde-
meanor by the publication in the Even
ing News Of details of the execution of
Slocum and Smller and others recently
put to death by electricity at Sing Sing.
The counsel handed up demurrer
claiming the statute under which the
indictment was found was unconstitu-
tiOnal, inasmuch as it restrained the
liberty OF the press guaranteed to it by :
the constitution.
The bureau of American republics is
informed that an association called the
American Colored Mems Mexican Colon
ization company is planning to establish
colony of negro farmers, coming chiefly
from Mississippi and Tennessee, IN the
state Of Sonora, Mexico, and it has ar
ranged for the purchase of tract OF
100000 acres about twenty-five miles
south of Yuma, Arizona, on the South
ern Pacific railroad, at place where
the remains of the Lardo colony, founded
by M. Andrade, of San Francisco, still
remain.
Postmaster General Wanamaker has
informed the postmaster general of New
Zealand that under recent act of con-
gress to provide for ocean mail service
between the United States and foreign
ports, limiting the compensation to out
ward voyages, he is endeavoring to ar
range for fortnightly service between
San Francisco and Australia, via New
Zealand, to call alternately at Yelling
ton and Auckland. 1t says he transmits
this information in order that the post
master general of New Zealand, if he
thinks best, may cooperate in securing
quicker communication and regulating
return voyages in the interest of his
country.
Governor Boies of Iowa has revoked
the suspension OF sentence against
"Stormy" Jordan of Ottumwa. He is
notorious character against whom at
one time and another $4,000 fines has
been assessed for liquor violations. Two
years ago Governor Larabee suspended
all fines and Jail sentences against him
on condition he would not go into busi-
ness again. When Governor Larabee
went out and Governor Boies came into
power, Jordan returned to Iowa and has
since been running saloon at Ottumwa.
1t is reported that number of similar
decisions will be revoked; at any rate it
is decided departure which is upset
ting political calculations.
A new reciprocity treaty has been
negotiated between the United States
and San Domingo, under terms of the
Mckinley tariff act which will be pro-
claimed in both countries at an early
date. The Cuban reciprocity with
SPAN will also be proclaimed about the
same time 1t is said that the terms of
the treaty are similar to those in con-
nection with Brazil and was secured
through the efforts OF John w. Foster,
special United States commissioner. !
No confirmation or denial Of the reported
signing of the reciprocity agreement be-
tween the United States and San Do ,,
mingo, June 4, can be obtained from
the president, who, when approached
upon the subject, stated that all such
information must come from the state
A Des Moines, Iowa, dispatch says +
well-laid plan to kill the cashier of the
American Savings bank and rob the
vault of $5OO,OOO was discovered in that :
city Sunday. The robbery was ar
ranged TO take place Monday morning at >
$40. the hour II which the vault is reg !
ularly opened by Cashier Elliott. The :
scheme was for one man to engage the !;
cashier in conversation, another to enter v
BY side door, slip up behind and sand i
bag, or stab him if necessary, while :
third fellow should take the rolls Vt !
money from the vault. Two Of the men, :
James Dimmitt, a colored tough, and
Sam Cooper, real estate swindler, are