The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1891-09-26
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A grain and feed establishment on the
west side in Chicago burned Monday
night and twenty horses stabbed ia the
basement pershed in the flames
The fire which swept over the Sioux
reservation Saturday proves to have
burned everything in the shape of hay,
wheat in stacks and the range from Can
non Ball river to Moreau river
The chairman of the republican and
democratic state committees have ar
ranged Joint debate between Major
Mckinley and Governor Campbell at
Ada, October 8. Campbell has the open
ing and closing of the debate.
Captain John Lightfoot died at
Bloomington, Illinois, Wednesday night
aged -. He was one of the five men
who originated the Grand Army of the
Republic at Decatur, Illinois, in 1866.
He was native of Kentucky and cap
tain of company A, One Hundred and
First Illinois.
At the meeting of the republican
league clubs of Pennsylvania, held at
Scranton Thursday, Senator Robinson
was chosen president. The platform
adopted endorses the principles of the
republican party as enunciated in the
platform of 1888; commends the work of
the national administration; 1.-The pure,
patriotic and able services of President
Harrison, and the brilliant foreign policy
of that great leader, Secretary OF State
James G. Blaine His brilliant triumphs
at the head of the department have
made the uplifted power and displayed
the flag of the republic as synonym
for strength and stability in all corners
of the world" The platform also pledges
the support of the clubs to the party
candidate
Simultaneously with the arrival Of the
time appointed, the homeseekers gath
cred on the border of the newly ceded
Indian reservations in Oklahoma terri
tory and made headlong rush over the
line and into the coveted country and
onto the quarter sections upon which
their eyes had been fastening for some
days and others for weeks and months.
| The rush was mad one and was made
so by the fact that the number OF home
seekers greatly exceeded the number of
quarter sections available for settle
ment. There was room in the lands for
about 5000 settlers, allowing l6O acres
for each. There were on the border
waiting to claim the available land fully
1900 people, so that there were three
people for each quarter section. 1t was
no wonder that the rush was mad one.
Like scenes we're never witnessed be-
fore, except in Oklahoma two years ago.
Ex-President Balmaceda of Chill shot
himself through the temple in his room
at the Argentine legation in Santiago
Saturday morning. 1t seems that the
story that BalMaceda escaped on the
United States steamer San Francisco
) was erroneous. Instead, he left Satiago
August 3 in the hope of escaping from
the country, but finding every avenue OF
egress closed returned to the city on
September and went directly to the
Argentine legation. Since then he has
been extremely nervous. No one save
the Argentine minister and one other
man, devoted to Balmaceda, was per-
m itted to see him. About o'clock
Saturday morning pistol shot was
heard in Balmaceda's room, and Senior
U. r. Riburia rushing in found that the
OK president had just put a bullet into
his brain. The junta was notified, and
committee Immediately went to the
house and viewed the body. AS the
news spread crowds of people gathered
around the Argentine legation. They
cheered, hooted and nearly went into a
frenzy over the death of their late en-
emy. Above all were heard shouts con-
graduating him that in taking his own
life he had escaped worse fate at the
hands of the junta. Balmaceda's body
was removed to the general cemetery,
accompanied by members of his family
and friends.