The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1891-05-16
NEWS OF THE EEK.


The Belding Motor Manufacturing
company of Chicago has assigned. Lii
abilities S175,OOO.
: The census in France shows an IN
; crease in population of 600 yearly, al
, compared with an increase of ES.ON
yearly in Germany.
Forest fires in the copper district o.
Michigan have burned vast amount
of timber and DESTROYED railroad bridges
and telegraph lines.
The steamship Empress of India saileC
from Vancouver, B. c., Saturday morn
ing. She carried the first English mail
for Japan and China. George Francis
Train expected 10 get on board off Vic
toria. He is now on his second globe
circling tour
Mrs. Emma r., wife of William Henry
Smith, general manager of the Assocl
ated Press, died of paralysis at Mont
clair, n. j., Monday morning. Mrs
Smith has been great sufferer from
heart disease for several years and made
two trips to Europe seeking relief.
The question raised as to the consti
tutionality of electrocution as punish
ment for capital offenses has been finally
disposed Of, the supreme court having
sustained the judgment of the state
court in the cases of four murderers un-
der sentence of death in New York.
The queen regent of Spain, having
been appointed umpire in the dispute
between Columbia and Venezuela over
the boundary lines between those repub-
lies, has rendered decision in favor OF
Columbia. It gives Columbia the whole
of Goajoro, San Faustino and Arauga
territories.
A Madrid dispatch says: AS a mark
of good will, the United States govern
ment has notified the Spanish govern
ment it will favor the introduction Of a
bill for the modification of the McKin-
ley tariff law in the next congress SO as
to facilitate the importation of Havana
tobaccos into the United States.
The surplus in the treasury has been
gradually creeping up, and at the close
of business Tuesday the net surplus was
s15,OOO.OOO. The treasury officials say
no doubt it will increase by June to
an amount sufficient to meet the pen
sion draft of S5O,OOO,OOO without the ne
cessity of withdrawing the government
deposits from the national banks de-
pOsitOries
The decree suspending the expulsion
of Jews from Moscow allows a years
grace to the Jews who do not own real
property and two years grace to those
who do own real property. AS the sus-
pension Of the expulsion decree is not
not likely to have any effect upon busi-
ness inconvenience attending expulsion,
it is believed the expulsion is merely a
forerunner of the resembling Of the ex-
pulsion decree.
| Commissioner Raum has written a
letter to Secretary Noble calling his at
/ tention to the very material decrease in
the payments on account of pensions
during the present fiscal year. The en-
tire payments for army pensions during
the fiscal year will not exceed S116,OOO,-
GOO. The total appropriation was $l35,-
| 169,O95, and now it seems probable that
there will be left on this appropriation
at the end Of the fiscal year s9,696,OOO.
Following out the instructions of the
president that no stone be left unturned
to discover the soldiers who participated
in lynching citizen who killed fellow
soldier at Fort Waila Walla last week,
the acting secretary has appointed the
following court of inquiry to investigate
the affair: Brigadier General Kautz,
Colonel Carlin of the Fourth infantry
and Captain Mcclure of the Eighth in
fantry. The court convened at Walla
Walla on the 18th instant.
1t is understood that Pasquale Corte,
the Italian consul at New Orleans, has
been recalled by his government and
that the functions Of his Office will be
exercised by another italian consular
officer now in the United States. This
action is not inspired by the government
of the United States, and is probably
taken by the Italian government either
because it was felt the consul has been
indiscreet in his public utterance or that
his usefulness is impaired.
A special from Tacoma. Wash, says:
The steamer Lucy Law has foundered
in the straits of Juan de Fuca with
fifty colonists on board. The party,
numbering fifty-six, left Tacoma April
q to settle on land near the mouth of
the Guestapes river, but were taken
back by high seas and became short of
food. John NJ Grant of Tacoma, the
only survivor, returned here yesterday.
He believes the entire party has been
lost. A searching party is being fitted
out.
The military authorities at Fort Walla
Walla have arrested eight enlisted men
charged with being accessories to the
lynching of Hunt, April "A. When it
became known that the arrests had been
made six other men deserted. A pro-
vost guard Is now in search of them. It
is rumored that number of other ar
rests will be made. The state grand
jury is still in session, and it is stated
that number of soldiers will be in
dicted. Corporal Arnold is under arrest
for having unlocked the arms racks and
giving the men their arms on the night
Of the lynching.
A Pioneer Press special from Aber-
deem, S. D., says the Western Farm
Mortgage company, one Of the Oldest
loaning companies in that vicinity, has
assigned to it's secretary and treasurer,
J. L. Brown, of Aberdeen. The COM
pany's authorized capital is S25O,OOO,
over $4,000 of which was paid in.
President Wilson said: ''Our assets are
greater than our liabilities, and every
dollar will be paid. We guaranteed the
mortgage holders their interest, and
have been advancing money for the last
two years. Everything has been kept
up until the first of the coming month,
but we cannot do it any longer"
Destructive and fatal timber fires
we're prevalent in portions of Pennsyl-
vania the first of the week. A dispatch
from Conder's Point says: A train, con-
tanning 100 men to fight forest fires in
Potter county, was wrecked in the midst
of the burning woods and the engine
and cars were destroyed. Eighty or
more of the men were burned to death.
A special from Austin, Pa, tells of the
wreck of train in the southern part of |
the county and says seventy-five men
we're seriously and perhaps fatally |
burned. Superintendent Badger of the
S. " road and three or four men are
still missing. This entire part of the
country has been swept by flames.
The fact is no longer a secret, even in
the official naval circles, that the cruiser
Charleston is now off on a hot chase af-
ter the Chilian transport Itata, which
left San Diego while under arrest. The
Chilian steamer Esmeralda is believed
to be lying off Cape San Lucas, the
point of land in Lower Cal
;fnrnso awaifipO tho cuDrl;os <ho< a., |