The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1891-07-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

located at Natalie, Pa, was destroyed b,
a cyclone on the 26th and five person
killed.
Mark w. Harrington, editor of tn
American Meteorological Journal ant
professor at Ann Arbor, Mich, has beel
appointed chief of the weather bureau
Jack Slavin, brother of Frank, knocked
out Billy Smith in forty eight rounds a
the Occidental club, San Francisco
Tuesday night. Both are Australian
heavy weights.
Troops of the Fifth Cavalry, reinforced
by company of Cheyenne IndiaI
scouts, has been ordered into the Chero
kee strip to eject trespassing cattlemer
and their herds
The director of the mint on Wednes
day resumed the purchase of silver
Five hundred and seventy thousand
ounces were bought at prices ranging
from lOl25 to 1.O225.
Jno. Bardsley, the defaulting ex-city
treasurer of Philadelphia was sentenced
to fifteen years. imprisonment by Judge
Wilson on Thursday. The entire amount
Of his defalcation is s5,OOO,O0O.
The London Official Gazette an
nounces that by order of Her Majesty
the name of Sir William Gordon Cum
ming has been stricken off the list OF
deputy lieutenants of Elginshire, Scot
land
At the Christian church of Brushton
N. T., Saturday night last, forty three
persons were poisoned by eating ice
cream. The pastor of the church and
two ladies have died and the others are
in a critical condition.
The Pixies Peak railway is now in sue
cessful operation. The first passenger
train reached the summit Tuesday. The
lower terminus of the line is 8,4OO feet
above sea level and the upper 14,l47.
The length of the line is nine miles.
McClain, United States consul at Mas
sau, West Indies, reports that the fol-
lowing articles have been added to the
free list OF importations into that col
ony: Tallow, resin, caustic soap, pot
ash, palm oil, crude petroleum and
metal roofing. On all kerosene oil used
as fuel in the working of steam engines
draw back Of 80 per cent will be allowed
on proof of such consumption.
There are prospects of big strike at
the Kansas City Smelling and Refining
company. The management have given
notice to pot pushers OF reduction in
the hours of labor from Ii to 8 and in
wages from S1.8O per day to Sl.25. The
men have offered to work eight hours
for S1.5O per day, and if that is not
granted they will strike on Monday.
There may be strike of other work
men.
A destructive cyclone passed over the
country 25 miles east of Denver Thurs
day night. Houses were blown away,
trees uprooted and carried away and
crops for many miles completely ruined.
A dozen persons were injured, but none
seriously. At Qlark's ranch hail fell for
twenty minutes and killed about $50
sheep. Mrs. j. Adams, living two miles
northwest of Deer Trail, says the hail
stones killed innumerable chickens and
ducks.
The treasury department has received
letter from Captain Healy, commander
Of the revenue steamer Bear, dated Sit
ka. Alaska, June 8, saying that Lieuten-
ant Robinson, who was drowned in Icy
Ody % Oul lou az olUhd Ol UIlO CUIl
inst with military honors, and that Sea
man Anderson was buried at the scene
Of the accident. The bodies of the 9th
ers drowned were not recovered up to
the time OF writing.
A San Francisco dispatch says that
detective who has been in that city
working on the Barnaby case left for
Denver Sunday. He has been inquiring
into the condition of Mrs. Barnaby while
here and finds that she was enjoying
good health. He stated that he had
discovered where the whisky was pur-
chased and has traced 1t to the door of
DIR. Graves. He has been working up
evidence for the prosecution and claims
to have discovered some startling facts.
Acting Secretary Grant Tuesday
signed an order disoharging 1852 en-
ployes of the signal service now engaged
in weather bureau work. Under the
law the secretary OF agriculture is bound
to give preference to these men in max
ing appointments to the force of the new
weather bureau, and with the exception
of few men who were elected to remain
in what will hereafter be purely the mil
itary branch of the signal service, all OF
the employees are likely to be reap
pointed.
A special from Yuma, Arizona, says
that the Colorado desert basin at Sal
ton, sixty miles west of Yuma, is rapidly
filling up with fresh water. from some
passage, believed to be
with the Colorado river. At
last advices the desert was being con-
verted into an immense lake, and If the
water continues to rise the Southern Pa
cific tracks will be submerged for dis
tance of 100 miles and the Salton salt
works be compelled to close up. The
there is very high, the
registering 145 degrees.
The sixteenth annual four mile, eight
cared, straight away race between the
Yale and Harvard university crews was
rowed on the 26th over the Thames
course from Winthrop Point to Gates
Ferry and won by Harvard by eleven
lengths. Time, 21:23; Yale, 21:52. Har-
wards victory was the biggest surprise
in college athletics for many years.
Good judges of rowing conceded the
race to Yale almost to a man, and so
strong was this sentiment in favor Of
1ale that stacks OF money left at the
pool rooms went uncovered, even at odds
Of 500 to S6O
The republican state convention of
Iowa, in session at Cedar Rapids We'd
nesday, nominated Hiram G. Wheeler of
Odelbolt, for governor, and Gen. Van
Houten for lieutenant governor. The
was presided over by John
Y. Stone, who in the course of his speech
praised the administration of President
Harrison. He said: Call past peace ad-
can be safely challenged.
No presidents record of the first two
and one-half years that will rival this.
Great applause.] But one other can
1ere be mentioned right arm and
oyal friend of his chief, the fearless and
Incompatible Blaine. At the mention
If the secretary's name the convention
vent wild with enthusiasm. He is the
irst citizen Of the republic and he is its
greatest civic heru."
At Terre Haute, Ind, Wednesday the
supreme council of the Federation of |
Railway employees took up the applica-
ion of the Order of Railway Conductors
or admission. While discussing the
proceedings, however, the conductors