The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1892-02-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Inc Japanese parliament has vote,
Sooo,ooO for the worlds fair display.
Search for the missing in the ruins o
the Hotel Royal fire at New York wal
completed on the 18th. The chief of the
nre department says no more bodies art
I'D The ruins, but Meares. proprietor o.
the hotel. expresses the opinion thai
there are still three bodies there. Sew
enteen bodies in all have been taken out
OF which seven have been identified.
The treasury balance Sunday was re-
ported to be s2S,94O,947, the lowest point
reached for many years. This amount
includes s13,374,211 on deposit with ma
tlonal banks, S14,673673 in subsidiary
coin and s4O2,442 in minor coin. The
reduced balance is due to the recent
heavy disbursements, including s1,OOo,-
OOO on account of pensions and s1,OOO,-
600 on account of refund of direct tax to
Kentucky and Maryland.
Bernard j. Schmidt, a well known
farmer Of Atchison county, Kansas,
went to Germany last November to visit
his old home and was Immediately ar
rested on charge of deserting from the
German army thirty years before. Ell
forts for his release proved fruitless un-
til the emperors birthday, January =,
when Emperor William received letter
from Schmidt's 11year-old daughter
here, begging for her fathers release.
The emperor was touched by the petit
tion and the man was pardoned.
An Ottawa, Ontario, dispatch says:
The Northern Pacific railroad has decided
to extend it's system from Washington to
Vancouver City, the Pacific coast termi-
nus of the Canadian Pacific railway.
The line from the international boun-
Diary to the city Of Vancouver, if built,
will be constructed under a charter
granted by the provincial legislature last
yCdI W uHC DuIIdu IHloU ~ l. IdoCl dilCy
Railroad company. 1t is understood
that negotiations for placing a certain
amount of the bonds of the company in
London have been recently completed.
The house committee on immigration
has agreed to report favorably the bill
absolutely prohibiting Chinese immigra-
tion. The bill agreed upon by the com
mittee is that introduced by Stump,
chairman of the committee, with some
the provisions of the
bill have been published. The report
presented with the bill says in part:
"The presence here OF Chinese is mimi
cal to our institutions and deemed in
furious and source of danger. Re
Gently the Pacific was a new country
and Chinese might have been a neces-
sity at one time, but our own people are
fast filling up and developing the rich
and highly favored land, and American
citizens will not and cannot afford to
stand idly by and see this undesirable
race carry away the fruits Of labor which
Justly belong to thenl.' ~
The San Francisco Chronicle says that
Sarah Althea Terry is hopelessly insane.
She is the woman who acquired such
for her suit against the late
William Sharon, whose wife
she claimed to be. She. afterward mar
ried Judge Terry, who had been her
counsel in the Sharon case, and Terry
was killed by Deputy United States
Nagle while attacking Judge
Stephen J. Field, who decided suit
against Mrs. Terry. Mrs. Terry sits up
ia bed, and with handkerchief folded
TO resemble a speaking trumpet held to
1er mouth holds imaginary converse
ions with spirits. Friday night, while
lnguarded, she nearly escaped from the
house without any clothes on. She sat
our hours perched upon the bureau
;alking to spirits. To Chronicle re-
porter VINO saw her she told what tie
spirits said. She is attended by DR.. A.
4. Gilmore, who says there is no doubt
# her insanity.
New York special: Francis Newton,
,on of Rev. DR.. r. Heber Newton, rector
If All Souls church, who lives at 781
Madison avenue, appears as complain
mt at the Yorkville police court Satur-
lay afternoon against crank who, since
asst June, has repeatedly called at the
church and at DR.. Newton's house, and
mas annoyed the rector and the congre-
cation. The crank is short, gaunt man
With wild look in his eyes and a weeks
growth of beard. He proves to be Rich
ard A. e. Gaebler, a barber of Butte
City, Mont, who on November l, 1889,
was buncoed out of $500 by green
goods men in this city and played the
detective and captured the swindlers
himself after long search, when he saw
that the police were doing nothing in
The matter. He was brought bandcuffed
to court. 1t is believed that he sent
postal card delivered to DR.. Newton a
few days ago threatening him with death
and signed, "Peter Buell., crank No. l."
He was sent to the island.
The ways and means committee of the
house will be petitioned to prepare
bill invoking the paternal condemnation
of the government upon the cigarette
habit. Representatives Cochran, Cum
mings and Stahlnecker, all of New York,
have in their possession bills which they
have been petitioned to introduce pro-
viding for the suppression of cigarette
by imposing an internal
revenue tax of SO pei. thousand on all
imported and domestic cigarettes sold In
this country. Accompanying the me-
mortal is statement to the effect that
the United States during
the past year there had been about 100