The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1891-07-18
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

% National Editorial association convene
in St. Paul Tuesday. About six hun
dred were in attendance.
: = A large landslide at the North Pacifi
cannery at Skeena river, B. c., on tn
18th inst destroyed nine houses will
their occupants, including one woman
}. and forty Indians.
8 The department of agriculture has de
cided to send a specialist to Investigate
the grasshoppers wherever they may be
Prof. Osborne, of the Iowa State uni
versty, was selected to visit the wes
c and investigate.
n Mrs. Josie Armstrong died in Chicago
Friday afternoon at the age of 10 years
Mrs. Armstrong is said to be the colore(
/ woman who nursed Abraham Lincoln's
wife, and it is alleged her son played
: with little Abe before the latter haC
learned the art of splitting rails.
In the school election in Salt Lake
|, Monday the Mormons and their allies
made desperate effort to capture the
board of education, but the liberals car
ried precincts heretofore carried by the
Mormons. The liberals retain six of the
, ten members Of the board and carry the
city by 700 majority.
) The state department has selected
Profs. T. S. Mendenhall and G. Hart
Lerriman as American commissioners to
examine the condition of seal fisheries in
: Behring sea. They will sail from Port
Townsend, Wash, on the United States
steamer Marion as soon as she receives
her final instructions to revenue cutters
and naval vessels now in the sea.
A reporter Of the Topeka Democrat,
who was sent to investigate the reports
that grasshoppers were swarming in
eastern Colorado. telegraphs that paper
there has been no exaggeratiOn OF the
facts. Grasshoppers are swarming in
great numbers over the eastern part Of
the state, destroying all vegetation and
seriously delaying the running of trains.
Assistant Secretary Nettleton has in
structed the acting superintendent of
immigration at New York, in view of the
published fact in foreign newspapers
that destitute Russian Jews are being
sent to the United States at the instance
of the officials of foreign governments,
to exercise especial care in their examin-
alton. The matter, he intimates, may
become the subject of diplomatic cor
respondence.
| The state convention of that section
OF the Farmers alliance opposed to the
sub-treasury scheme was held at Fort
| Worth, Texas, on the 11th. f. w. Bragg
presided. In his address he said if any
delegates were present who favored the
sub treasury scheme or the formation
OF third party, those delegates would
find more congenial political companion
ship in some other fold. There senti-
ments were heartily applauded and all
the delegates remained in the hall.
A letter has been received at govern
ment offices from man at Norfolk, Va,
who states one Captain Arnott has been
engaged at Norfolk in shipping men for
a treasure hunt in Mexican waters. The
writer is informed he has shipped over
200 men and is secretly taking large
quantity of arms and ammunition at
some port on Long Island Sound. It
looks much as though some fillibuster-
ing expedition is on foot, and it may be
meant to aid a revolution in Hayti or
Mexico.
In the National Editorial association
convention at st. Paul, President Ste
vens paid a glowing tribute to the north
west. "The northwest" he said, 'is
distinctly representative of the cosmo-
pOlitan genius of our civilization. 1t H.
Illustrates the possibilities OF our people
when divested of sectionalism. The
population which wrought the marvel
Gus progress in this section IN the last |
twenty years has been drawn from all
sections of the world and is typical of
that spirit which, ignoring differences Of
every kind, seeks the material and in
teIlectual advancement of all"
A dispatch from Rome says that the
villagers in the slope of Mount Vesuvius
are abandoning their homes and their
vineyards, fearing that one of the great
est eruptions in the history of the noun
tain is impending. The earthquake
shocks that have always preceded des-
tructve outbursts of the volcano in the
past have been felt in several parts of
Italy, and OF late in close proximity to
the mountain. It is the opinion of Ital-
ian scientists that the earthquake affiict
ing the peninsula will increase in vio-
lence until Vesuvius breaks out in a
serious eruption, and then the earth
quakes will for the present subside.
The farmers alliance of Kansas are
working up scheme to redeem farm
A committee consisting of
A. P. Collins and F. G. Newell was ap
pointed to ascertain the number of the
mortgages on farms owned by alliance
men in Kansas, to lump them in whole
and to go east and negotiate with one or
more corporations or companies of capi-
talists for their renewal or payment at
low rate. The object of this action is to [
dispel the idea that the farmers of Kan {
sas are in favor of reputation and to
also do away with agents and middle {
men, who filch from both capitalists and ,
farmers, in charging exorbitant interest {
and commissions. It is believed that t
this plan will reduce the rate of interest {
70 6 per cent.
A Press Washington special says the /
oostoffice department is about to have a
,yclonic reorganization. In the first q
place, the appointment division will be
aiken from the office of the first assist v
mt postmaster general and delivered g
,ver bodily to the fourth assistant, r
whose Office was created by law, to take il
,ffect July l. The first assistant must r
% acting postmaster general great 8
leal of the time, and IN order to do this,
le must be freed from the drudgery and b
oil of examining fourth class postoffice
'ases for appointment, changes Of site, n
ight and clerk hire, etc. The chief n
Jerk of the department will report to t
he first assistant upon all matters of 8
business, instead of as a
heretofore, taking up the time of the
ostmaster-general with matters of pet n
y detail. Other changes will occur in n
he Offices of the second and third assist c
Mt postmaster general, which, taken as b
7hole, will make an almost entirely new Il
apartment of that executive branch of o.
he government. "
A Chicago dispatch of the 18th says: n
inal steps we're taken today in the for b
nation Of mining and smelling trust, b
\ which foreign capital is interested tt
nd members of the Standard Oil and b
.ead trust are said also to be interested. hi
or several days Manager Franklin, of cl
he Niagara Mining and Smelling COM p'
any, has been here in telegraphic COM ri
with the promoters of the
reject, which is the union of all lead,
liver and gold producing mines in the
Ftah belt. Among the hackers are said ao