The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1891-01-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The Union Pacific has given notice
an advance in rates of 81 per ton on O
shipments from Ceur d Alene to Omaf
and Denver to take effect on January
Miners are very indignant over u
RAISE. The old rate was S14.
A statement prepared at the pensio
olnce shows up to December 20 claim
iiied under the act of June q, 1890, {
follows: Original valid claims, 174,4O;
original widows, 55,63l; additional claim
70 others on file, 3O1, 1863; total, 531, 500.
The miners of the central Pennsy
vanla coal regions have served notice O
the operators demanding 50 cents for
net instead of SO cents a gross ton G
coal and new working scale of prices.
the demands are not granted the men t
the number of $1,000 will quit work.
John Prentiss Matthews, recently ap
pointed postmaster at Carrollton, Mis-
slsslppl' was killed at that place on tn
29th by young druggist nance
fTlde. Matthews was the first republi
can postmaster at Carrollton in mum
Der OF years, and it had been freely sale
that no republican should hold the Of
| fee.
The Official census of Germany re-
Gently completed gives Berlin popula
ton of 1,574,4s5, an increase of 759, 900 in
five years. The next city is Hamburg
with population of 57O,545, an increase
Of 1854 since 1885. Leipsic, which has
1922 inhabitants, had only 15o,5OO in
1885, This is the greatest increase in
any city, being 80 per cent.
At Troy, New York, John J. Reed in
dicted with the tampering of the switch
es Of the New York Central & Hudson
Eiver road during the big strike, was
sentenced this morning to seven years
imprisonment in the Clinton prison.
Thomas L. Cain and Arthur Buett, also
l,ader Indictment for the same offiense.
were given shorter terms.
A dispatch from Pine Ridge agency.
dated the 2Sth ult., says: Big Foot and
his band of hostiles have been captured
by the Seventh cavalry, under Capt.
Whitesides. The capture was made on
Porcupine creek without conflict. All
the other Indians in the Bad Lands
have decided to come in, and the prob
abilities are the trouble is ended.
The action of Secretary Rusk of the
of agriculture at Washing
Ton, closing certain Vermont ports for
,he entry of Canadian cattle into the
United States, owing to the alleged ex
stance of pleuro-pneumonia in the
dominion is much criticised at Ottawa.
The Canadian officials assert that not a
ingle case of disease exists in the dom
Mon.
Statistics compiled by the Railway
Age show the construction during 1890
mounted to about 6,O80 miles as against
200 last year. Over 1000 miles of this
ears construction are in the southern
Z ates; and over 1000 in the southwest
rn states. The northwestern group
hows ,O57 miles, due largely to active
uilding operations of the Northern
'acitic and the Great Northern roads,
Further advices from China as to the
urnlng OF the steamship Shanghai, near
Voc Hoo, show that the disaster was
luch more serious than at first report
/. Earlier advices received stated that
1e crew of sixty natives, with several
uropean officers, we're supposed to have
et their death either in the flames or
y drowning. It now seems the number
lives lost is over 200, ali by drowning.
Secretary Noble has requested the Sec
tary OF war to station a company of
VARY IN the Sequoia national park,
ID another in the Yosemite park, to
event depredations on the mammoth
ee groves. 1t is stated the so-called
ellamy colonists, who have in part per-
cted title to the lands on which these
ses stand, have expressed their pur-
se to hold their CLAIMS in spite of all
position. {
1t has been discovered that spurious -.
ltatlon OF Koch's lymph is being man !
actured in Berlin anda number of !
yes are reported in which foreign
'dlcal mon have been deceived into ,
rchasing it. The manufacturers have !,
yet been discovered. The medical pro- .
sion throughout the empirei is grow =
more and more indignant over the
nner in which the lymph is distribut- 6
and Koch's secrecy regarding it's . .
'duction. .
resident McGrath of the Farmers !,
ance, in an interview, said that at the a
citing of the legislative committee of "
national alliance in Washington. n
le time in February, the third party Ia
Vement will he one Of the principal u
1gs to be acted upon. 'This move h,
It," said McGrath, will eventually
'race all the labor organizations in r,
United statoe. In fact, about all Of &c
n are committed to it now, except III
Grange, and most of the graneers Ii
members of the Farmers alliance 81
is stated that new silver dollar tn
be created by the Pan-American da
etary conference which met in Wash tn
on this week. It will be a dollar sic
Hated not merely in the United is
es, but throughout the republics of pr
new world. What it will be like re-
ls to be determined by the confer tn
but there is very little doubt on tn
point. In all probability it will re- pr
'le somewhat the United States sill. tn;
dollar, with the portrait of Colum- Ha
o take the place of the Goddess of sec
ny ON the one side, the diverse va pas