The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1892-01-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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At Denver, Monday morning, Judge
f'islngs denied the motion of DR.. Graves
coohsei Tor rest of Judgment and sen
fenced the conden ned man to be hung
within two weeks, beginning January
}1st.
The Iowa Legislature convened Mon
DAY afternoon. The house is republl-
can by 1our majority. The democrats
nave twenty i've in the senate and the
republicans twenty four. with one indie
pendent.
passenger train on the Monon road
ran on the track and down an embank-
ment near Charlottesville. Ind, on the
eth INST, killing two persons and in ur-
ing thirty seven others, fifteen of whom
will die
The New York World has been polling
the New York legislature on its presi-
den tial preferences. There we're S}
democrats interviewed and - repubil-
cans. OF these g favored Hill 30 Blaine,
g Harrison, Cleveland, | DepeW, L
Flower; 70 democrats were non-commlt-
tai and Il republicans refused to vote
a Washington special asserts Presl-
dent Harrison has grown weary OF the
Chilan delay, and within the past forty
eight hours Egan has been instructed
to notify the ChiIian foreign office that
not only do we want a speedy reply as
to its purposes but still insist upon full
reparation being made to us for the out
rage upon the Baltimore's sailors. 1t is
understood Egan replied that something
definite from Chill may be expected in a
few days
A Denver dispatch of the 9th says:
Judge Rising this morning refused DR..
Graves a new trial and also denied
motion for a continuance. A motion for
arrest Of judgment was then filed. 1t
will be heard on Monday. and if that
tiS' ID 1tSIiiCI Stntt11Ct VI GCdli " III wv
Immediately passed After the decision
Dr. Graves was permitted to visit his
wife, accompanied by two deputies.
Mrs. Graves is better today and his
mo thcr has returned east.
Adyices from St. Petersburg show that,
though the ear may declare there is no
famine in his dominions, already the sum
Of $1,000 coo roubes has been appropri
ated by the imperial treasury for the
purpose of providing the absolute nee
essares of life to be distributed among
the suffering poor. All this money has
been expended in addition to the large
sums spent through the central famine
and through private indiyid-
uals, yet the wants of the distressed peas
ants are supplied to only limited extent.
There is hardly any doubt that some
further and larger sums will be necessary
to tide the people over during the long
winter season.
A bill was INTRODUCED by Bland Of Mis-
souri,, chairman of the house coinage
committee, Monday for the free coinage
of silver, provided that the unit of value
shall be dollar Of 4l2l5 grains standard
silver, or 25l8 grains of standard gold.
Any holder of gold or silver bullion of
the value of 500 or more of standard
fineness, shall be entitled to have the
same coined free of charge. 1t further
provides for the use Of coin notes and
their redemption. The coinage acts Of
1879 and July, 1880 are repealed. AS
soon as France reopens her mints to the
free coinage ratio of - per cent. to one
the president shall make proclamation
of the fact, whereupon the ratio shall
be the legal tender in the United States,
and thereafter standard silver dollar
shall consist OF 400 grains of standard
silver.
A special from Bridgeport, Conn,
says. "A SltGu ucdi vi uioCuSSioI Has
been excited here by the report that P.
L. Barnum's body was not in the casket
which the townspeople followed to the
cemetery last April. but chat it was
dummy of cloth and stones over which
Rev. DIR. Collier preached the funeral
1ration The story at first gained little
but now it is alleged it has
been authenticated by the admission Of
a very near friend of the family. The
story is that the body was concealed in
Mr.. Barnum's house uutil a few days
after the funeral, when it was buried in
the cemetery in spot known to Mrs.
Barnum and her friends only, and year
Or two hence, when all danger from
ghouls is passed, it will be placed in the
family plat beneath the granite slab
which is now supposed to mark the
grave.
The New York Herald's Valparaiso
correspondent is informed that Chilian
Montt, at Washington. has sent
his government a dispatch to the effect
that while fully aware that the United
States could not demand a salvo con-
ducto for the refugees in the American
legation, still he advised that they be al
low ed to leave the country as conces-
sion to the United States Jose Carrera,
one of the refugees escorted from Santl-
ago to Valparaiso by Minister Egan, was
to have sailed for the north on the Ger
man steamer Abydos, but on reflection
he decided not to do so. He is afraid
he might be taken off by the Chilian
government at some northern port. So
he remained on the Yorktown, which
will land him and William and Juan
McKenna at Peruvian port.
A Pittsburg dispatch of the 9th says:
First Lieutenant Rorke of the Second
cavalry, was a passenger on the eastern
express this morning bound for Wash
ington. He came direct from the Pine