The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1892-04-02
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

senator Stewart gave notice in tn
senate Tuesday that on Monday next h
will call up his free coinage bill in tn
senate.
The Canadian Pacific company an,
+ striking employees have accepted tn
compromise proposed by the commission
OF engineers, which is as follows: Tina
days work shall consist of eleven hours
$3.50 per hundred miles; q cents al
hour for conductors and Il cents 70
brakemen for overtime. .-.
A call has been issued for nationa
convention OF the railroad commissioner!
to be held at the Office of the interstate
commerce commission in Washington
April l3, 80. The railroad commission
ers OF all states and state officers charged
with any duty connected with railroads
are requested to attend The associ
alton of American Railway counting of
ticers is also invited
The house committee on territories
has decided to report favorably on the
Caine bill to give local government to
Utah with an amendment striking out
the section relating to the sale of public
lands for school purposes, the commit
tee deeming it best to have a separate
measure covering this point The vote
was party one, the democrats favoring
and the republicans opposing the bill.
A Washington special says: Tilden,
formerly chemist Of the National Med
ical museum, says that Guiteau, Presi-
dent Gartields assassin, was drunk when
hanged, the doctors having given HIM a
big dose Of brandy to keep him from col
lapsing. The assassin's body was taken
to the boiler room of the museum, where
it was boiled until the flesh came off,
and the bones were then bleached. The
SHELTON will probably be placed among
the museums exhibits some day.
A peculiar disease is reported to be
creating havoc among the horses Of
Idaho. 1t is said to resemble what in
human beings is called la grippe. 1t is
very deadly, the stricken animals dying
in from four to twenty hours after the
appearance of the disorder. 1t possesses
none Of the characteristics of the CLAN
ders, and no one can tell whether or not
it is contagious. 1t is certainly epidemic.
The disorder first appears in the throat
OF the horse, and the animal is soon
choked SO badly that it cannot stand
The malady then spreads to the lungs,
and eruption appearing upon the outer
skin, and death soon follows.
AtChicago Saturday Alderman Bowles
and Nichaelson were indicated by the
grand jury, making nine Of the city faith
ers in all who must defend themselves
before a judge and jury or don the
striped clothes. The specific charge
against Bowles is that he attempted to
mulct real estate owners to the extent
of ten thousand dollars for putting
through the street car ordinance on Mil
waukee avenue; that of Nichaelson, is
that he tried to bleed the coal merchants
who wanted permission from the city
council to lay switching track.
During the transfer Of cargo of pc
troleum at Barcelona Monday matches
were accidently dropped on barrel of
oil. The Lighter was instantly ablaze,
and the men barely had time to escape
before vessel alongside was also in
flames. The timbers of the hull soon
broke away and the blazing petroleum
the water of the harbor into
sea of fire. Many vessels escaped, but
seven were encircled by the flames and
destroyed. They were the Theyra, Cas-
silla, Kabano, Waller, Piscon, the man.
of-war Lepante and the launch Ciaman.
The loss is enormous. No personal in
jury is reported. The spectacle from the
shore was one of terrible grandeur
The sundry civil appropriation is $685.
157, ,787, being s13,237, ,574 less than the
last bill. Among the important items
are: Chickamauga national park, $780,
600; enforcement of the Chinese exclus-
ion act, $4,000; claims for back pay and
bounty, $4,000; propagation of food
fishes, S243,OOO; soldiers homes, $685.
851; aid to state and territorial homes,
S5OO,OOO; interstate commerce commits
sion, S225,OOO; life saving service, s1,O54,-
875; construction of public buildings,
81 ,375, 500; river and harbor work author
lied by law, sS14,OOO; statue to General
Sherman in Washington, $4,000; ex-
penses of United States Courts, $780,
800; Yellowstone Park, $4,000; for ex
penses of agents, food and clothing for |
natives of Alaska seal islands, 1900.
The Melbourne, Australia, Argus an
nounces that Deeming, the man recently
arrested at that place, has confessed to
the murder of his wife and four children
at bingham Villa, Rain Hill, near Liver
pool, and that he has also confessed to
the murder and mutilation of the last
two women whose bodies were found in
the purlleus Of Whitechapel. Deeming's
appearance closely talles with the des-
cription gwen of the Whitechapel fiend,
sack the Ripper and although he does
not admit killing other Whitechapel
it is believed that when he finds
all hope of escape from the clutches OF
the law cut off he will confess, not only
these murders, but others which the |
police know nothing Of. It transpires
that the unfortunate woman whose
body was found together with her four
children under the floor of residence,
was not Deeming's first wife. Some
years ago a sensation was created in |
Australia by the mysterious disappear
ance Of the wife and two. chill --ren of a |
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