The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1891-04-11
Denver, Colorado, Wednesday elected
democratic mayor. the first in the his
tory of the city.

Denver, Colorado, Wednesday electt
democratic mayor. the first in the hi
he tory of the city.
C. The great Snowman, P. T. Barnur
Ia died Tuesday evening at his residence
IN Bridgeport, Connecticut, after an illne
70 OF twenty-one weeks. Barnum leave
re an estate of over s5,OOO.OOO, by vii
largely to his legal heirs.
IS Tuesday, AS shown from the latest r,
m turns, indicate that majority of office
Is and towns were carried by the repul
m licans. With the exceptions Of Kansa
y City, Topeka and Leavenworth tn
woman vote was very light.
'r w. O. Jones, for twenty years pos
y trader at the United States militar
J. garrison at Columbus, Ohio, was foun
Y, dead in his store Saturday. The secre
n tary Of war abolished the position ther
J. last week and this so worried him h
> died of broken heart. He was the las
post trader in the United States army
The war department Wednesday sen
: an order to General Ruger, commanding
department of Dakota, assigning him tt
q the command OF the division of the
s Pacific, with headquarters at San Fran
Q cisco. Ruger will assume command or
Q the Goth inst, on which date Genera
Gibbons retires.
a All over Nebraska the municipal elec
. tions Tuesday were held under the Aus
tralian plan of voting. Returns so fal
show the resumption of power by the
republicans where party lines were
3 drawn. In most of the towns the ques
+. ticn was between license and no license
and the vote mainly resulted in favor of
/. license.
The New Orleans grand jury is again
Investigating the lynching of the eleven
Italians. Among the witnesses examin-
ed were w. D. Parkerson, leader of the
mob, and the Italian Consul, Pasquale
Corte, and his secretary. 1t is under
stood the original list of the committee
OF safety, that made the call for the
meeting at the Clay statue, is filed with
the grand jury.
The celebration intended to commem-
crate the one hundredth anniversary of
the establishment of the American pat
ent system began in Washington We'd
nesday. The exhibition of models, ETC.,
will take place in the patent Office, which
has been elaborately decorated in honor
OF the occasion. President Harrison
will preside. The celebration will last
three days.
The federal grand jury at Chicago
Thursday morning began an investiga-
ton into the charges against George J.
Gibson, OF Peoria, secretary of the
whisky trust of conspiracy to destroy
the distillery of H. Fl. Shufeldt of that
city, which firm declined to enter the
trust. A number of witnesses from
Peoria were examined, including some
OF the whisky trust
The jury in the case of Charles Kin
caid, the newspaper correspondent on
trial IN Washington for the shooting of
ex Representative Taulbee of Kentucky,
in February, 1890, after being out nearly
three hours returned verdict of mot
guilty" When the foreman of the jury
announced the verdict Kincaid heartily |
shook the hand of each juror, thanking
them for the verdict. His friends warm
ly congratulated him on the happy ter
mination of the trial.
A. j. Lester, government alien labor in
spector, says the alien contract labor
law has been violated in many instances
of d !ate -sS aaat 10 put the law in force against
the violaters He declines to give any |
names. Lester, it is said, will soon be
called upon to make exhaustive re
searches among the Italian colonies of
the south, and report upon the number
of Italians not citizens who are working
here under contract.
Returns from last weeks election, in
Rhode Island shows the vote for gov
ernor as follows: Burton nationalist, 384;
Davis, democrat, 22,249; Ladd, repub-
lican, 2O,995; Larry, prohibitionist, 829.
These figures show that Davis plurality
over Ladd was 1,254, but he lacked $50
votes of the majority necessary to elect.
The complexion of the legislature shows:
Senate twenty-five republicans, seven
democrats, one independent, and six to
be chosen; house, thirty-four repub-
licans. nineteen democrats, and nineteen
to be chosen, which will give the repub-
licans on joint ballot majority of one
with their present strength.
suite arrived in Washingtonsfrom Paris
on the 4th. A reporter called at the
legation and, as the minister could not
be seen, called the attention of Mr. Ho
to telegram from San Francisco pub
llshed in the evening papers, to the ef
feet that Chinese merchants in San
Francisco would forward to Washington
a protest against the appointment of
Senator Blair as minister to China. HO,
evidently speaking by authority, said no
information regarding such protest
had been received, aud he was confident
should it arrive the minister would not
present it to the president. He believed
Senator Blair would be acceptable to
the people and government of China.
Negotiation has been resumed be-
tween United States Munster Phelps
and Chancellor Won Caprivi on the ques-
ton of the withdrawal OF the prohibi-
tion against American pork products,
and there are more hopeful prospects
of early and successful issue than recent
reports have led the public to believe.
An important indiction of the govern
ment's intentions is given in the North
German Gazette. Commenting upon an
American dispatch published in Berlin
papers headed "No pig, no beet-root
sugar. the Gazette says: Contrary to
the adverse views expressed in the dis
patch, the American government, in en-
deavoring to take measures of sanitary
reform to put an end to the German en-
barge upon American pork, has adopted
the best and only means to lead to the
desired arrangement. Public satisfact-
ion over the admission of American cat
tie increases as the quality of the i'm
ports becomes recognized. Hamberg
official returns for March show that dur
ing the month 811 American cattle were
imported. If a lot of 596, brought late
in February by the steamship Amalifi,
be added, the five weeks total promises
a rapid expansion of trade.
Dominick G. O'Malley, the notorious
detective charged with having attempt
ed to pack the jury in the Hennessy
case, and who mysteriously disappeared,
created sensation by surrendering him
self to the New Orleans authorities.
He was admitted to bail. O'Malley ,
looks we'll, though rather pale. He says /
he will make statement. He would !
not tell whether he left the city or not. {
A friend of his says he has been there all ;
the time. O'Malley said, when he got {
ready to give his statement. it would |