The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1891-03-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

:, { New York closed ITS doors Tuesday.
Charles F. Chickering, whose name
familiar wherever planes are in use, die
at his home in New York Tuesday.
John Mackey, the actor, died of pner
# monia at the Burnett house, Cincinnati
II Monday. He had been i'll only fe,
n n days.
. Ex-senator Blair has accepted tn
y Chinese mission and has arranged t
), sail from San Francisco for the Flower
d Kingdom May 1st.
Lawrence Barrett, Americas repre-
sentative tragedian, died on the 2Otl
inst. at the Windsor hotel in New Yorl
e City, Of heart failure.
e house of s. A. Kean & Co., has been in
4 dicted by the grand jury at Chicago fo
= = defrauding creditors in connection will
the banks failures.
: The home where General Sherman
t died is to pass out Of the Sherman fam
lily. P. T. Sherman, the veterans young
est son, has been invested with full au
thority by the heirs to dispose of the
house.
A dispatch from Chill says that there
has been severe fighting near Valparaiso
recently and that 200 insurgents had
been taken prisoners, tied together and
shot with cannon and muskets by the
government troops.
: The Oxford Cambridge boat race took
place Saturday morning on the Thames
and was won by Oxford by bare quar-
ter of length. The distance was four
and one-quarter miles. Oxford's time
was twenty-five minutes.
The Keystone National bank of Phila-
delphia has closed it's doors. The largest
depositor is the city of Philadelphia,
which had about 100000 on deposit.
The authorized capital is S5OO,OOO, and a
surplus of 100000 is claimed.
The committee which has been in
vestigating the shortage of Elk Treasurer
Woodruff of Arkansas have finally COM
pleted their labors. The total amount,
including state and school scrip, to be
explained and accounted for is $685.
74683
A call signed by Samuel Gompers,
president of the American Federation of
Labor unions of America, urges the
necessity of immediate contribution of
funds for 10000 coal miners whose
struggle for an eight hour-day is to be-
gin May l.
A special telegram to the New York
Herald from Puerto Cobello says 1.-THE
first fight has taken place between the
Venezuelans and the English on the
frontier of British Guiana. The dispute
relates 10 the boundary line between
Venezuela and British Guiana
Billy Manning of California, once the
champion lightweight of the Pacific
coast, and Charley johnson of Mime
apolis, fought Tuesday night at the
Twin City Athletic club, in Minneapolis,
for purse of $3.50. Manning was knock
ed out in the twentieth round.
The London News Paris correspond
ent says he learns that the italian gov
ernment, without discussing the status
of the New Orleans prisoners, maintains
that as prisoners they we're entitled to
be defended. The Italian government
formally demands punishment of the
mob's leaders and indemnity for the
families of the men slain.
The war department is taking advant-
age Of the cessation of hostilties among
the Indians Of Dakota, and has been en-
gagged in gathering information as to the
P-oAsbalitioa nf another outbreak this
spring. Careful investigation has been
made by officers serving as agents at
Pine Ridge and Rosebud agencies, and
their reports are not altogether reassur-
ing.
The British government has formally
notified James G. Blaine, United States
secretary of state, that Great Britain ac-
cepts President Harrison's invitation to |
take part in the Worlds Fair at Chicago
in 1898. A special commission will be
appointed to assist the British mer-
chants in exhibiting the products of the |
British industries at the fair and to fur
ther British interests there.
The committee appointed to investi-
gate the charges of bribery in connec-
tion with the senatorial contest in the
California legislature reported to the
senate Wednesday, finding that mon
ey had come from the Southern Pacific |
company and within Ii hours after it |
had arrived it was in the state Ii
brary, hut who handled it or for what |
purpose it was handled the committee
did not determine.
At Mondays meeting of the Methodist
Ministers association, held in Chicago,
a long report of the Malta lynching in
New Orleans was presented, in which
the Malta and unrestricted immigration
were denounced. A resolution accom-
panying it sympathized with New Or
leans in the impotency of it's legal ma
chinery against the Malta, but declared
mob law un-christian and un-American.
After brief but heated discussion the
matter was laid on the table.
A Goshen, Indiana, dispatch says:
Miss Mary E. Dewey, well-to-do spin
ster of this city, who moved here from
Canton, Ohio, twelve years ago, and has
since moved in the best society, has ap-
piled for pension, claiming that she
served as man throughout the war in
the Twenty-sixth Ohio volunteers, under
the alias Of Charles Dewey, and that
during an engagement she received
gunshot wound in the left leg, which
forms the basis of her claim. The proofs
she brings forward are genuine and con-
vincing.
At Chicago Charles Button, repairer
in the employ of the fire alarm telegraph
service, entered an italian barber shop
Sunday night, and sitting himself in a
|
Malta to give him shave. He also an
that he had hand in settling
the New Orleans trouble. The Italians,
upon hearing this, fell upon Button en-
masse and beat him so badly with pokers
and chairs that he will probably die.
Three of the BARRIERS have been arrested
Button, it is believed, was not in New
Orleans at all, and was simply trying to
be funny.
Governor Toole has offered the follow
ing rewards: Five hundred dollars re-
ward is hereby offered for the apprehen-
sion and delivery to the sheriff of Fer
gus county, Montana, of one AL. III.
Baker, charged with the murder of
Samuel Krobol, in Fergus county, on or
about February 16, 1891. Five hundred
dollars reward Being satisfied that
William Edwards of Missoula county
was foully murdered on or about August ,
Is, 1890, and being desirous of bringing
the guilty party or parties to justice, ,
hereby offer reward of $500 for the ap- l
prehension and conviction of the guilty
party or parties.
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