The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1892-05-21
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

nd destructive floods are repOrte
1hroughoutthee entire Mississippi vale
= curing the past week
Secretary Elkins has directed the new
military post at Helena, Montana, to b
r named Sort Harrison
q Az Mondays session of the Methods
Episcopal general conference at Omaht
tne recommendation that no more bish
1e ops be elected at present was adopted.
s Payments of sugar bounty for thu
present year amounted to 81 ,5OO,O 600, anC
= the payment is practically completed
" Inc estimate for the ensuing year is
n slO,OOO,OOO.
Inc senate committee on commerce
mas reported back the river and harbol
= OIL with amendments increasing the to-
l. tai OF the house bill by one million, two
hundred and thirteen thousand net.
John B. Barbour United States senator
+ from Virginia, died suddenly Saturday
&c morning Of heart failure He experience
h ed no previous illness and had occupied
= seat in the senate the previous day.
: The court Of claims has awarded to
e the heirs of General Robert E. Lee S2l7,-
= OOO damages for Timber cut off his Ra-
e venwold, Va, estate during the war.
: Congress has yet to pass upon the find
ing.
: The Omaha banks and railroads have
: refused to subscribe to the fund for
a the peoples party national convention
: to be held in that city on the ground
ho LOTT Of Io
is inimical to their interests.
"A freight and passenger train on the
Big -Four railroad crashed into each
, other near Cleves, Ohio, Sunday morn
ing. Five persons we're killed and about
thirty-ti others severely injured, sew
eral OF whom cannot survive.
A successful Jail break was made at
Lander, Wyoming, Monday night, by
which all the prisoners escaped. A dep
uty sheriff who attempted to recapture
them was fatally injured. Among the
escaped prisoners are Bliss and Collins,
two OF the most notorious horse thieves
of the west.
a lockout Of granite cutters through
out the New England states was de-
clared Monday, throwing 10000 to 10000
men out OF emplo, ment At the same
time number of strikes were ordered
in sympathy with the stone cutters. It
is estimated that fully $4,000 men EN-
ployed in quarrying and stone building
works are now out:
A terrible cyclone swept over Green
county, Texas, Sunday. It swept Tur
key valley from one end to the other,
literally demolishing everything in it's
path. Even dugouts were unroofed and
people were lifted out of them. The ex-
tent of the loss of life cannot vet be as
certained. Five are known to have been
killed and ten probably fatally hurt. |
Hardley person in the valley escaped |
without injury Of some kind.
President Harrison has RECEIVED from
Italy and Austria acce eptances of the
Invitation to particiate in an interna-
tional monetary conference. The ac-
ceptance OF Italy is especially pleasing
to the administration, as on account of
its position as the head of the Latin
union, 1t will influence the remaining
nations to join the conference. Invita-
tions were forwarded to all European
powers with the exceptance of Turkey.
The replies from the remaining nations
will probably be RECEIVED shortly, and
it is the belief that the conference will
convene ABOUT July !.
It is stated on authority of Soc
Eetary Blaine that Mr.. Harlan of the
United States supreme court and Hon.
John Morgan, United States senator
from Alabama, have been selected by
the president as arbitrators on the part
Of the United States in the Behring sea
arbitration. England will now appoint
two arhitrators and there are three 9th.
ers to be appointed, one by the king of
Sweden, one by the president of the Re
public Of France and one by the king of
Italy, making seven arhitrators in ALL
Hon. +. ]. Phelps, United States min
lister to England, has been selected as
chief counsel on behalf of the United
States before the arbitration commits
sion.
A New York dispatch of the l4th says:
The will Of VIM. B. Astor, the provisions
OF which have been practically stated in
these dispatches was filed for probate
today. Neither Drayton nor his wife
will be able to touch penny of the es-
tate. Henry Astor, the testator's only
surviving brother, is effectually cut off
by provision which says: 1T is my
will and intention that neither my
brother, Henry Astor, nor his issue shall,
as heirs at-law or next of kin, receive .
any portion Of my estate Henry As !.
tor is the brother who married pretty
country girl displeasing to his family. !,
He was cut off by his father with small
patrimony and has been living happily
up in Columbia county ever since.
Washington dispatch In Senator
Kyle's list of senators who will vote for /,
the free coinage of silver he has the
name Ct David B. Hill, and the list is
said to have been verified. German is !
also claimed on that side. The north
western members in the free silver list {
include Pettigrew, Dubois, Kyle, Pow S
ers, Sanders, Shoup, Squiers and Allen.
N ills also stands with the silver advo-
Gates Brioe and Carlisle are classified s
as doubtful. Hansbrough and Casey, /
the Minnesota senators, Perkins, Stan
ford, Wilson, Warren, Sawyer, Villas, Al S
lison, Carey and Stanford are counted
against the silver bill. The death of
Mr.. Barbour leaves the silver men with
43 votes in the senate against 80 oppos- S
ing and five doubtful. j
Washington dispatch: Senator Hill t
ttoo OICulOA COluAOUiOu III pOlltlCdl CIT
cles by claiming that the electoral col {
lege cannot be Increased to 444 this year. i
He says the "a votes which are to be ad a
aed to the old states cannot properly be n
counted in the electoral college till the a
new congressional apportionment takes
effect. He holds that the number Of e
delegates to the national conventions V
should be based upon the old apportion- I
nept: Messrs: Brice and German op- S
pose this view, but many senator's admit
that there is weight in Hills argument.
# Mr.. Hill's position is found to be cor I
rect, the republican party will be the F
;hief loser, for majority of the addi- O
sional votes of the electoral college are G
in republican states. It may take su- Il
preme court DECISION to determine this v
question. f
The officials oe the Worlds FAIR have
laid before the house committee a new
relative to the loan to the