The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1891-04-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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prescribed oath and entered upon hi
: duties as commissioner of the gener;
land Office Tuesday morning.
. Pennsylvania was visited by heav
f snowstorm Saturday. In some localitie
, the ground is reported to have bee
covered to depth of nearly three feet.
Jacob Schaetfer has accepted Eugen
Carter's challenge to match game {
billiards, 800 points, balk line, to
. played in Chicago for the champion shi
of the world and purse of $500
Gen. Charles A. johnson, a retire
! army officer, who served in the Mexica
and civil wars, committed suicide Tues
day by shooting himself in the LEI
breast. He was descendant of job
Quincy Adams.
There were 200 deaths reported at tn
Chicago health office Tuesday. TIL
grippe, pneumonia and kindred disease
were the principal causes. It is one o
the largest records for single day tn
Office has ever received.
Owing to the heavy disbursement
during March it is estimated there hat
been little if any decrease in the publ,
debt. The expenditures we're mainly OF
account of refunding the direct tax, tn,
settlement of the French spollatiol
claims, the tobacco rebate claims, etc.
i A letter dated Pine Ridge agency
from Rev. Father Craft, the Indian mis-
sionary who predicted the recent Indiar
trouble, earnestly points out the danger
of more serious trouble unless the Indi
ans are placed under the control of the
| l0ro ri lnnloro, ho I'd:
ans are being robbed and misused by
politicians under the present arrange
ment.f
Charles Arbuckle, the millionaire cof
fee merchant, is dead. His remains will
be cremated in Pittsburg. Mr.. Arbuckle
was SO years of age. He gained consid-
cradle notoriety in breach of promise
SUIT in which Miss Clara Campbell of
Ironton, Ohio, recovered verdict OF
$4,000. The letters will be remembered
in which Arbuckle was called "Baby
Bunting" and Miss Campbell "Bunnie" T"
The great glove contest between CAL
Mccarthy of Jersey City and George
Dixon of Boston came off Tuesday night
at Troy, N. Y, and was won by the Bos-
ton colored lad. The fight was for the
featherweight championship and 81, C 10.
Twenty-Five rounds were fought, in
which Dixon was the favorite from start
to finish. It is believed that fully
$4,000 changed hands upon the result.
The engineering News publishes a
statement OF progress in the equipment
of freight cars with automatic couplers
and with automatic air brakes. Rail
road companies owning over 100000
freight cars report that they have
equipped over $4,000 cars with such
couplers. Up to the first of this year
the statement says about 10000 freight
cars have been equipped with automatic
air brakes.
News has come from Zanzibar of an
outbreak in the Comoro Islands, in the
Mozambique channel, about $50 miles
northwest of the Madagascar coast on
the island of Injouam. The natives, af-
ter the death of Sultan Abdullah, sup
piled themselves with arms and spread
over the country, massacreing 800 people
and carrying destruction far and wide
The war vessels of the French squadron
have been directed to put down the in
surrection.
Rev. DR.. Howard Crosby, the eminent
~ lC0OuOIS ulCO Ill ANcW 1Ol n dU OtO Dull
day evening. His end was peaceful. AS
the bells were ringing for the vesper
service OF Easter day he asked, by sign,
for paper and wrote few lines to his
loved ones, to his absent son, to his
daughter in Egypt and to three mem
bers of his family at home. The first
words of this, his last writing, were: II
know have to CO." Howard Crosby
was born in New York City, February
9th, 1926.
The London Times correspondent at
Rome says the excitement caused by TIE
lynching at New Orleans has completely
subsided. The government fully appre-
ciated the difficulties under which tho
American government labors, and it is
not likely any pressure will be brought
to bear upon the latter. It is convinced
that the American government will
readily make that compensation which
justice demands. Public opinion goes
to show that there is no sympathy for
the lynched members of the Malta.
Many Italians say it would be we'll if
other members of the Malta were treat
ed in the same way.
A Herald's Ottawa special says: A
meeting of the cabinet has been held in
connection with the proposed visit of
Canadian commissioners to Washing |
ton, but no decision as to the date of de-
parture was reached. For several days |
past correspondence has been passing |
between them and the dominion govern
ment regarding important preliminaries
which Secretary Blaine insists upon be-
ing definitely settled before he will re-
ceive the dominion representatives. It |
is learned by a Herald correspondent
that Tupper and his colleagues are
Secretary Blaine intimates that he is
ready for conference.
At Cork, Ireland, on the 9th, while
the judge was summing up in the case
IF the government against O'Brien, Dal-
ton and others, the court house was set
IN fire, and but for the GOODNESS of the
police and judge many people would
nave been injured. AS it was, in spite
If the panic. all were gotten out safely.
The police are investigating the affair.
The flames spread rapidly and the court
house, including the principal chamber
md city and county Offices, was totally
destroyed. Some of the archives were
saved, but many documents, some of
hem dating back for a century, were
destroyed. When the flagstaff which
the building burned away
md the union jack fell into the flames,
he onlookers set up great cheer.
The commissioner of internal revenue
las prepared series of regulations for
he enforcement of the provisions of the
tariff act in regard to the
county on sugar Of domestic production.
They prescribe that all producers of
ugar who intend to apply for bounty on
ugar produced during the fiscal year
'nding June 80, 1892, must file notice
md make application for license within
he year beginning April 1st, giving full
md detailed information of machinery,
apparatus and capacity. A proper bond
must also be executed by every person
r firm intending to manufacture sugar.
Full instructions are given in regard to
o the books producers shall keep, etc.
The bounty will be paid from year to .
ear. |:
The New York Sun says that Presi
dent Van Horne has concluded an ar. -,