The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1890-01-11

Thomas Williams, Montreal brick
layer, while insane, cut his wife's throat
with a razor and then committed sui
eide
The weekly bank statement shows q
decrease IN reserve of 5265,675. Banks
now hold 517O,5OO in excess Of the 25 per
cent rule.
Four of the largest paper manufactur-
ing concerns in New York, with a capital
of S5O0O,OOO, have been contracted for by
an English syndicate.
No lives were lost by the stranding of
the italian steamer Persia on the island
of Corsica. The vessel is still aground
with the crew on board.
Four loggers we're burned to death at
Beebe's camp, on the Tennessee river,
Thursday night, the cabin taking fire.
It is supposed all were intoxicated.
May Il Waugh, New York wholesale
grocers, have made concession of their
property to their creditors. Their as
sets are $4,000 and their liabilities
s155,OOO.
| Wardner, the principal town in the
Ceur d Alene mining district, was al
most blotted out of existence by fire on
Saturday. The loss will reach fully
100000.
At Cuicherri, Sonora, in Mexico,
band of Yaqui Indians were overtaken
by the Eleventh Mexican cavalry. An
encounter took place and the Indians
lost several dead and wounded.
James Lee was taken to Prescott, Ari,
on Friday from Apache county, where
he has been arrested by the sheriff of
that county for train robbery. Lee is
the noted desperate whom the sheriff
has been trying to secure for long time.
The fifth span of the iron bridge being
built between Holyoke and South Had
ley Falls, Mass, was blown down Satur-
day morning, carrying down three men
distance of seventy feet into the river.
One man was killed and the others we're
seriously hurt. Twenty other workmen
were warned in time to escape.
For the past forty eight hours rain has
been pouring in torrents all over Texas,
and every railroad has suffered from
washouts. Water is over the tracks Of
the Southern Pacific in several places,
but no damage has yet resulted. Fears
are entertained, as the rivers are still
rising, that much damage will result.
There was a washout on the Houston,
East e. West Texas on Thursday.
The steamer Harlow, from the west
coast of Newfoundland, reports that
while at Bonne bay messenger arrived
from Flowers cove, straits of Belle Isle,
informing the government that 130 fam
lilies were in starving condition, and
that unless relief reached them death
would certainly occur from starvation.
A steamer was dispatched, but owing to
ice failed to reach the destitute harbor.
There is possibility Of reaching the
place via the west coast.
The Railway Age in it's forthcoming
issue will say that the year 1889 makes
a very much less favorable showing in
respect to the foreclosure sales than it's
immediate predecessor, although on the
other hand it's record is much less dis
couraging than the three years preced-
ing 1888. A table is appended showing
that during 1889 twenty-five roads we're
sold under foreclosure, having an aggre-
gate mileage of 1880 miles, and total
funded debt and capital stock of S137,
715OOO.
The British minister at Washington
has received petition from the Rev. T.
NJ. Joiner, of Holly Springs, N. c., for
redress of injuries received by himself
and wife at the hands of mob last
month. He says he is British subject,
although he has been preaching in North
Carolina since 1869. He and his wife
giving religious and other instructions
to the negroes. which SO incensed some
of his neighbors that they broke into his
house and assaulted and maltreated
himself and wife. He has been unable
to get any satisfaction from local or state
authorities.
The Richmond Va.) Dispatch yester-
day published letter written by j.
Wilkes Booth the day he assassinated
President Lincoln. In it he says:
"Right or wrong, God Judge, not man,
for be my motive good or bad, of one
thing I am sure. the lasting condemna-
ton of the north. | loved peace more
than life." He discussed secession, and
enough, the race problem, re-
garding which he says: "This country
was formed for the white man, not for
the black" He signs himself, "a con-
federate doing duty on his own respon-
Frank B. Hooper Of Dayton, Ohio, has
brought suit against the Northern Pa
cifc railway company for $4,000 dam
ages. On Saturday night, a frightfully
stormy one, Mr.. Hooper mounted train
at Glynden, MINI. In travelling he al
ways gets on at the front end of train,
be AYERS, as he is selling cash registers,
which are delicate piece OF mechanism
and require his personal care to keep
them from being roughly handled. He
jumped on the train at Glyndon between
the first coach and the baggage car. He
carried two grips. He tried to get in
the first door of the passenger coach, but
The conductor, after trying to open it for
! moment, declared it locked and leis-
lrely strolled away down the car aisle,
Hooper begged to be taken
n, as the wind was blowing at q fu-
.ious rate and it was very cold. By
his time the train was going at high
.naod Hooner tried tO keen hia feet NV