The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1891-10-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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y alderman Evans has been elected
succeed Savory as lord mayor of Londo
Inc president has appointed Charl'
WORKMAN, OF Kentucky, United State
T. consul at Stockholm.
Dlstlnct earthquake shocks were fe
throughout Indiana. Illinois and Mi
!; sour Saturday night. Vibrations wei
from north to south.
The earnings of the Northern Paciti
ior the first eighteen days of Septembe
exceed those Of the same period las
year to the amount Of s96,12l.
Y. W. Williams has accepted tn
proposition to match Allerton and Ne
son at Grand Rapids, Mich, for purs
OF $4,000, the winner to take all. Th
|: race is to take place October 6.
The most death dealing sentence il
the legal annals of South Carolina, ex
cept IN case Of insurrection, was passes
at Laurels on the 25th, when ten negr
ZEN were sentenced to be hanged Oct
23rd for the murder of another negro.
Recent windstorms are reported t
have wrought havoc with the forests o
northern Minnesota. One estimat,
places the amount Of timber blowl
down at 8O,OOO,OOO feet. In some local.
ties the forests present scene of terri
BILE devastation.
The liabilities Of S. V. White & Co.
New York brokers, are now placed a
100000. with comparatively small as
sets. 1t is said Jay Gould has insisted
upon putting up whatever finances the
house lacks, and the firm will resume
business within week or ten days.
The republican state convention OF
Nebraska, session at Lincoln on the
24th, nominated the following ticket
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court
A. M. Post, of Crete; Regents of the
University, Senator H. Shumway, OF
Dawson county, and Charles Marsh, OF
Douglas county.
A WilllaMsport, N. D., dispatch of the
2sth says: George w. johnson and his
son, who live near Beaver creek, we're
burned to death in prairie fire. Mr..
Taboria, living near here, will probably
die from the effects of burns. No
further news can be learned from the
Holland settlement, thirty-five miles
south of here. Three men are known to
have perished there. The loss there is
estimated at $4,000. At Winona,
twenty miles from here, one man lost
forty y-three head, of steers, which were
overtaken by the fire and burned to
death.
Sunday evening at Fargo, North Da-
kota, an oil car standing on side track
was set in motion by switching train
and starting down grade collidsd with
the engine of an incoming stock train
with terrible force. In an instant the
oil was ablaze and the engine plowed
through tie flaming mass. Engineer J..
j. Curtis, Fireman Dodge and Brake
man Benton were instantly enveloped
in flames. All jumped and tried to
smother the flames in the grass. Dodge
was literally roasted to death, while
Curtis died shortly afterward. Benton
was badly burned, losing both eyes.
A big blaze at Minneapolis on the oath
destroyed the block Of frame and brick
stories on Washington avenue, the yards
of the Millwood company and the Kan
sas City Grain and Feed company's
store house, and several smaller struct-
ures were badly damaged before the fire
was gotten under control. The Empire
Elevator company who operated the
''C' estimates the loss on the
and contents at 100000, in
surance $4,000. The Moore company's
loss is $4,000; insurance $1,000. The
total loss is placed at $4,000, with an
insurance of 100000. A
score of firemen were badly burned, and
several will probably die.
A dispatch to the London Standard
from San Sebastian says: 1t is report
ed that Seymout Lucas and Maurice
Long, the latter British Vice Consul at
Malaga, were killed in the railroad col
lision near Burgois on the Oath. Several
entire families perished, including the
Judge OF Victoria and his wife and
daughter. Most Of the passengers were
asleep at the time of the collision.
Twenty dead and twenty-three injured,
four of whom have since died, we're
teken from the debris. Many children
were killed. When the Queen received
the news of the disaster she stopped the
fete in honor of her daughters birth
day and requested the Minister of JUS
tice to send all details.
The report Of Commissioner Carter
has been made public. It shows that at
the close of the fiscal year there were
found to be 83O5S final entries pending
in the Office, against 2O8,O4 at the close
Of the previous fiscal year. Railroad Sc
lections amounting to 28,846,577 acres
we're pending July l, 1891, which is de-
crease of 93O,O78 as compared with the
asst preceding fiscal year. The follow
ng shows the vacant public lands in
acres in the several public land states
md territories: Arizona; 55,O61 OO5;
q, 299, ,499; Idaho, 23,7S1, ,851;
74,372, 1863; Nevada, 53,6s9,524,
Oregon, 1920, ISL; Utah, 35,42S,9S7;
Washington, 2O,4Ol SOL; Wyoming, 5O,-
|42,434
About s16,OOO,OOO is the sum the navy
department. will ask for in its annual es-
innate for continuing work on the new
lavy. This does not include anything
or new vessels-it is simply the amount |
equired for meeting payments under
'xisting contracts, which will be due
turing the fiacal wear ending 1893 The |