The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1891-05-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Rear Admiral Carter, retired, died in
ashinptOn Yuasday.


the cause.
Judge John Hollenback, reputed t
be the Oldest Mason in the world, die
at Burlington, Vermont, on the 25tl
aged 30 years.
Fifty four votes were cast in joint ses
sion of the Florida legislature Tuesda
for Uni,ed States senator, OF which Cal
received 81. He was declared elected.
The president will take part in tn,
Memorial Day exercises at Philadelphia
today He will leave Washington earl,
in the morning and return in the even
ing.
A lockout Of London carpenters be
gan Tuesday. Fifteen thousand men
are idle. Employers threaten to lock
out men in other branches of the build
ing trades.
a London dispatch states that the de
cree in the divorce case of Captain and
Mrs. O'Shea has been made absolute by
the court, and that the marriage of Mr.
Parnell and Mrs. O'Shea will shortly be
announced.
The directors of the California Ath-
letic club have offered to give purse
and Corbett. Jackson expressed will
ingness to fight again, but Corbett re-
fused the offer
All trains on the Milwaukee road were
delayed seven hours by a caterpillar
plague near Mankato, Mimi, Friday of
last week. When ground upon the rails
their remains made the wheels slide as
though the rails were creased.
Secretary Foster has appointed COM
mission composed of Congressman
Grosvenor, Ohio; DR.. Waller Kempster,
the noted expert on insanity, and r.
Powderly, brother of r. V. Powderly, to
proceed to Europe and investigate the
immigration problem.
During April last S5,OO1 immigrants
arrived in this country against 64,211 in
April, 1890. OF the immigrants arriving
last month, Germany furnished 22,755;
Italy, 1928; Ireland, 9.8O2; England and
Wales, 5,513; Austria Hungary, 500;
Sweden and Norway, S,5O2, and Russia,
4,272
1t is stated cargo of 100000 pounds
of opium, brought from China on the
yacht Halcyon, has been smuggled into
this country in devious way. With
duty on opium at SO a pound. the
smuggling ring made profit of $780,
600 The Halcyon is now lying in Bare
lay Sound, B. c.. while her owner is in
San Francisco.
The members of the Rhode Island
legislature were sworn in Wednesday.
The republicans, who have large ma
jority, elected the following state officers:
Governor, Herbert Land; lieutenant gov
ernor, Henry A. Stearns; secretary of
state, George II. Utter; attorney general,
Robert W. Burbank; general treasurer,
| Samuel Clark.
The treasury circular in regard to the
four and one-half per cent. loan will |
probably not be issued before next Mon
day. In it the department will give /
notice Of its readiness to redeem on the
first of September, the S5O,OOO,OOO, four
and one-half per cents. outstanding in
all cases where the holders are not will
ling to extend them at the interest rate
of 3 per cent.
The New Orleans grand jury found an
indictment against McCrystal and
Cooney, two of O'Malley's assistants, for
attempting to bribe The jurors are not
in pleasant frame of mind, for after in
vestigating the bribery charges for over
week, they have made the discovery
there is no law to punish the offenders.
The bribery act covering the matter has
no penal clause.
A Boise City, Idaho, dispatch of the
oath says: A cloud burst occurred last
evening in Culver gulch. A volume of
water ten feet high gathered in the deep
and narrow bed of the old creek and
in{n ho
great portion of it with several feet of
water. Considerable damage was done
the United States government building
and the parade grounds. The city loses
heavily.
James Burns of Lynn, Mass, who was
knocked out in a battle with Harry
Tracy of Cambridge Monday evening, ,
died Tuesday morning The Knockout
blow broke a blood vessel in his brain
and he never recovered consciousness.
Tracy has been arrested on the charge
of manslaughter. The arrest of referee,
seconds and the management Of the
Lynn Athletic club, before which the i
fight took place, will follow.
Replying to query from the Salt J
Lake land office the commissioner sent t
the following order, which will be of in
terest to public land states: "Parties
may commute timber culture entries at {
S1.25 per acre under the act of March 3,
1891, whether within railroad limits or
not, on proof Of compliance with the
law for four years, when the entry is
valid and not forfeited by subsequent l
entry to comply with law"
The republican state convention of
Kentucky nominated the following !
ticket: For governor, T. A. Wood; at I
torney general, L. J. Crawford; treas
urer, Eli Farme; superintendent of pub
lie instruction, L. V. Dodge; register of !,
the land office, w. J. Ardine; clerk of
the court of appeals, E. r. Blaine, Lex d
ington. The resolutions adopted en-
dorse Harrison's administration and
party in congress and ask for an election
law that will give every American citi- t
zen equal rights at the polls. t
At meeting of Northern Pacific di- .
rectors on the 21st an agreement was en-
tered into by which the Baltimore & 6
Ohio railroad ill use the terminal fa- u
cilities of the Chicago & Northern Pacific $
as it's Chicago entrance. These !, ~
terms, it is stated, will provide for the :
payment by the Baltimore & Ohio of G
sum equal to about 2 per cent on Chi G
,ago & Northern Pacific bonds The .
contract will be formally approved by e
,he Chicago & Northern Pacific direct q
,rs and the Baltimore & Ohio will begin 8,
Using the facilities at once u
At the Omaha, Nebraska, fair grounds d
Sunday, 10000 people paid 80 cents each a
% witness the fight of the Chicago air e.
ships. After the crowd had gotten in Ia
ide, Professors Bush and Dodd Of Chi II
ago securely locked the gates, SO that Ia
heir air ship audience could not get Of
,ut, raked the pile Of money into sack,
md jumping on horses already arranged Il
or their escape, were out of the city be i
ore their fight was discovered. When W
he crowd discovered the deceit the case Il
to contain the air ship was 81
orn to pieces and only old paper was II
discovered. ~
The announcement is made from d;
Washington that Secretary Foster an 81
icipates no difficulty in meeting the s,
mansion pavmopfc apOroraf | n,