The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1892-02-06
NEWS OF THE WEEK.


= Mrs. George Cramer and three chill
:, oren We're burned to death in their home
3. near bralnerd, Minnesota, on the 3Oth.
r Inc husband was away, but saw the fire
and found the burned bodies around the
: stove
e Ihe New York Tribune says: Chi
: cago has sold 100000 of it's s6,OOO,OOO
: worlds fair bonds, and the force of men
= : engaged at the worlds fair grounds Will
: be largely increased at once. The bonds
were purchased by Blair & Co., of this
city, and Brewster, Cobb & Co., of Bos-
> ton.
Representative Davis, alliance mem
Der from Kansas, has introduced bill
authorizing the erection of postoffce
buildings in places of more than 1900
inhabitants, and in places of less popu-
latlon, where such place is in county
seat, the buildings to cost not less than
$1,000 nor more than $4,000 In the
shall be public libraries.
Railway men representing every state
and territory in the union met in New
York Sunday. They are representatives
OF all the railroad organizations. One
object of the meeting is to effect
consolidation of the various or
ders. Another is to secure legislation
for their betterment. The latter object
includes limiting the hours Of service,
better provisions against accidents, the
prevention Of the employment of Pink
ertons by railway corporations and the
equipment of freight trains with auto
matte couplers and air brakes.
The Bulletin of San Francisco, reports
the decision of the United States circuit
court in the case of the Northern Pacific
Railroad company VS.. JuEius G.. San
ders, Wilbur F. Sanders, James U. San
ders and Serepta Sanders. In the opin-
ion OF the court Justice Hanford held
that Congress intended to and did ex-
cept and reserve out of the land grant
lands not owned in fee by the United
States; lands reserved; lands sold; lands
granted to parties other than the North
ern Pacific Railroad company; lands
otherwise appropriated; lands subject to
pre- emption claims; lands subject to
claims other than pre-emption claims;
lands subject to e-emption rights;
lands subject to rights other than pre-
emption rights; lands containing miner
ais other than iron and coal.''
The supreme court of Colorado has
granted a supersedeas in the Graves
case. DIR. Graves will be released on
bail. The writ presented by Graves
lawyers took exceptions to Judge Ris-
ings instructions to the jury in the
lower court, claiming that the Judge
erred in iEstructing the jury. They also
took exception to the testimony Of sew
eral witnesses whom the defense allowed
to 60 out Of their way to testify against
the doctor. The doctor has been mott
fed by telegraph of his good luck in Sc
curing stay Of proceedings. He con-
versed cheerfully concerning the case
and gave it as his opinion that he would
soon be granted a new trial and &C
quilted. On account Of the large amount
of business before the supreme court it
cannot be said when the Graves case
will be reached.
Rev. Charles H. Spurgeon, the great
London preacher, died on the 31st at
Mentone, French watering place to
which he had gone in the hope of recov-
ering his health. Once or twice during
his last hours Mr.. Spurgeon recovered
for few moments and
his wife. During all the mo-
ments when conscious he constantly
thought Of his wife, and twice expressed .
himself as anxious to send message to
his congregation. His friends had been
confident he would recover because the
asst attack was milder than the previ- i,
ous one, but the gout reached his head
and the congestion of the kidneys re- ;
turned. The body was taken to Eng +,
and for burial. His wife, DR.. Fitzhenry \,
md Mrs. Thorne were present at the !,
bedside Of the dying man and remained
here until he breathed his last.
A dispatch to the st. Louis Post Of ,
he Goth says: Charley Mitchell has !;
challenged John L. Sullivan to meet =
lin. This is the outgrowth of the dec
aration of Sullivan in Butte City that :
le would like to get Mitchell in a tw elve- !
oot ring. On reading this the English :
ooxer telegraphed President Fulda of !
he California Athletic club he would
light Sullivan in small ring before the >
,lub if it would offer purse, and he :
would put up stake Of $1,000 on the .
outside that he would win. Manager !
Thompson, to whom Mitchell and Sla- :
vin are under contract, is authority for =
he above, and states that Mitchell has y
eceived reply from President Fulda of ;,
he California Athletic club, and that it .
will offer for the contest the largest :
,urse ever given by an athletic club for !,
| fight. Manager Thompson now re- =
yards the fight as made.
A terrific explosion Of dynamite oc- h
,urred at Honey Brook, Pa, on the 18th. n
Twenty Hungarian miners employed in a
coal mine we're sitting around stove I
n workman's shanty eating their +
unches, when several sticks of dyna- f
mite near the stove exploded, blowing +
;he inmates in all directions. Two men, O
Adam Bornyk and John Slavitzki, we're 3
killed, their bodies being =
mutilated. OF the others =
,ot one escaped injury. The men were
ying around in every direction, some
With fhoiv armc op1 L.. .lI