The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1891-05-23
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

lHelsc iucnoS OF SHOW Iell dt SIlei
man. Wyoming, on the 10Th.
The forest fires in Michigan are est
mated to have entailed loss of 49,, ,OCO
600 Hundreds of families have bee
left destitute.
The Northern Pacific directors, in ses
sion at New York Thursday, declared
regular quarterly dividend of l per cen
on preferred stock.
Justice Brewer of the United State
ror to be issued in the case of the con
tested governorship of Nebraska.
At the convention of the Order o
Railway Conductors, held in st. Louis
last week. it was decided by an almos
unanimous vote to join the federation o
railway employees.
The Kentucky state democratic con
vention nominated John Young Brow.
of Henderson for governor on the Thrift
eth ballot. L. c. Afford of Lewisburs
was nominated for lieutenant governor
A platform was adopted favoring free
trade and silver coinage.
A Winnipeg dispatch says: 1t now
seems absolutely certain that the Cana
dian Pacific has purchased the Northern
Pacific lines in Manitoba. 1t was conf
IDENTITY asserted today that the deal be-
tween the roads had been completed
The Canadian Pacific takes all the Man
itoba lines and terminals of the North
ern Pacific almost Immediately.
Muskegon, Michigan, was visited by a
disastrous contlagration on the 18th.
Twenty-Five squares of business build
ings and dwellings were swept away.
The 100000 court house was Quilted.
but the records were saved. No less
than $50 residences, some of the finest
in the city, are in ashes Conservative
estimates place the loss at over half a
million dollars.
A Denver special says the grand jury
have handed in their indictments in the
Barnaby case. One is against DR..
Graves and another is supposed to be
against his wife. The authorities re-
fused to say either that it is or is not
The third is against some one unknown,
even more secrecy being kept as to it's
object than in the case of the second
The officials refuse to say whether or
not it is against Sallie Hanley, who has
figured in the case.
The latest number of the Buenos
Ayers Standard, referring to the politi
cal situation in the Argentine Republic,
says that everything seems to indicate
that General Miltre will be elected pres
ident. 1t is admitted by foreigners and
Argentines alike that if any man can
save the republic it is General Miltre.
The task before him, however, is much
more arduous than ever fell to any
mo fnf0
financial condition is exceedingly bad.
While Henry M. Stanley was deliver
ing lecture at Sheffield Friday evening
the hall was invaded by gang of So
cialists, who began selling through the
audience pamphlets attacking the ex-
plorer. The pamphlet was freely bought
under the belief that it contained re-
port on Stanley's lectures When the
fraud was discovered there was great
commotion and the venders we're vio-
lently expelled. The gang tried to mob
Stanley as he left the hall, but his
friends gathered around him and with
the assistance of the police kept off his
assailants until he drove off in cab.
Letters and papers received by the
last mail from South America contain
interesting facts concerning the trouble
in Chill. There seems to be no proba-
bility Of an immediate ending of the war.
In Valparaiso business is at a standstill |
Many leading families are leaving Santi-
ago for Buenos Ayres to avoid prosecu-
tion at the hands of the dictator. The
principal business portion of Iqulque
was destroyed, but the remainder of the
town escaped serious damage. The dan
ger OF famine is now over. Balmaceda's |
army is said to consist at present of 30
900 men. The Chilian soldiers are being
driven into foreign territory. They are
found in the Argentine Republic. Peru
and Bolivia.
At Des Moines, Iowa, Judge Shirts of
the federal court has rendered an i'm
portant decision under the inter state
law. The plaintiffs in the
case were grain shippers of Carroll,
Iowa, and the defendant was the Chi
cago & Northwestern Railway company.
The plaintiffs claimed they were charged
10 cents per 100 pounds on grain ship
ments to Chicago. while shippers at
Blair, Neb., had an 11-cent rate for the
same distance haul. The Judge ruled
that the rate was violation of the IN
ter-state law and the plaintiffs have a
right to recover the difference between
paid in excess of the Nebraska rate. A
arge number of similar cases are still
pending.
An Atlanta, Georgia, special says:
Rev. Sam Small, who is now in Toronto,
1as addressed a circular to the people of
America concerning his trouble with ;
5he Ogden, (Utah) university, of which
1e is president. He says the kilograms
him are sent out by that in
amous liar Rev. J. Wesley Hill, of the
First Methodist church at Ogden He
,oes on to say that the Ogden university
scheme was "A private snap speculation
md that the aforesaid Hill lives
louble life.' Small is equally severe on
he board OF directors, boldly charging ,
hem with getting up bogus subscrip-
ion lists and robbing Salt Lake of the ,
Institution. He concludes: up to this I
lour l have stood between the church l !
owe and the exposure of this whole !
Utah situation, but now l :
must let the truth be known"
Superintendent Weber has determined
o ascertain whether 1t is possible to en- !
OICO uU UlC ANOW AOIh n pOIU UuuU blOu
# the immigration laws which prohibits :
he importation of alien contract labor.
Monday last he detained eleven Aus 3
rian emlgrants of that kind who. ac- T
ording to their own statements have !
'een brought here under contract to .
york for two companies in Chicago. q
heir passages to this country had been r
aid by the agent or contractor, who r
ad agreed with them that they should q
ct certain fixed rate Of daily wages in \
,hicago. AS in these cases there seemed 9
0 be clear violation of the law, Weber j
ave orders for the detention of the !,
len. They were not shipped back to 8
Austrla at once. The secretary of the il
reasury was notified of their arrival, !,
nd the advlsability of keeping them
ere as witnesses in suit to be brought
gainst viOlators OF the alien contract la
or law is being considered.
Mayor Shakespeare of New Orleans a
as addressed letter to Governor Mich J
lis OF Louisiana, in which he calls at 81
sntion to the course of Consul Corte q