The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1891-07-25

the story which Senator Carey has t.
i, say Of all the states Of the great west.
A resolution in favor of unrestricted
reciprocity between the United State,
7, and Canada has been adopted by th'
|, provincial legislature of Prince Ed
wards island
William H. Pope, the embezzlint
2 democratic state treasurer of Tennessee
J, has been arrested in the City Of Mexico
and is held awaiting the action OF tht
. Tennessee authorities.
The department of state has tele
graphed the United States consul at st
Stephen, N. B., instructions to investi
gate and report on the alleged seizure o
American fishing vessels by Canadian
cruisers.
The sheriff of Fayette county, Texas
} has been indicted by the United States
grand jury for unlawful interference
} with the mails. It has been the custom
of the sheriff to open all the mail matter
Of persons in his charge.
A movement for the continuance OF
the four and one-half Ger cent. bonds at
two per cent. is steadily growing in i'm
portance. Papers covering about one
third of S25,OOO,OOO of bonds held by
national banks have perfected and re-
issues are being made as rapidly as pos
sible.
The prosecution of the Jews in Russia
has been somewhat relaxed. The de-
cree for the expulsion of Jewish artisans
from st. Petersburg has been indef-
nitely postponed and renewed orders
have been sent to the press to refrain
from publishing articles likely to excite
animosity against the Jews.
Sam Small, the evangelist, has decided
to reform and return to journalism. Old
friends at Atlanta, Georgia, have raised
a fund for the establishment of daily
evening paper in that city to be known
as the Herald, Of which Small has ac-
cepted the managing editorship.
Engineer Swaine of the Southern Pa
cific, has returned to Los Angeles, and
reports that about twenty miles south
and east Of Flowing Wells his party
came to a stream which supplies the
desert lake at Salton and which flows at
this point north and south. Swaine
considers the railroad tracks in no dan
ger. He thinks the stream from the
| Colorado is permanent one. There is
good deal of country near the Mexi-
can line which will be rendered valuable
by the availability of water for irriga-
ton.
Tuesday the house of commons voted
the sum of $4,000 for the relief of the
suffering poor in Ireland. Chief Secre-
tary Balfour stated the government in
tended the expenditure should be per-
manent means of promoting the welfare
of the inhabitants. He approved the
suggestion made to establish an agricul-
tural department for giving instructions
in farming to the youths of afflicted dis
tricts, saying that he hoped to be able to
as list the Irish land commission with
money to continue the work already be-
gun.
Seattle dispatch: A letter has been
received from Lieutenant Glover who,
with Jack Dalton, started from here last
summer to explore the interior of Alas
ka. They have found trail by which |
pack horses can be taken into the in
terror, and Lieutenant Glover says he
finds the interior, from the position
where he writes, an immense valley
thickly clothed with luxuriant grasses,
containing deep, swift streams and lakes
we'll stocked with fish. Fine pasture
lands and wild fruits abound. The win
ter is seyere. but not so terrible as gen.
orally supposed.
A disgracefuI scene occurred at box
ing exhibition in the theatre in Liver
pool Wednesday evening. In the course
Of the match, Slaven, who rolled about
hardly able to stand, jestingly said
Mitchell could not hit him in hundred
years. Mitchell, angered, knocked Sla-
vim about the stage and finally over
among the audience. During the row
Slavin fell several times aud Mitchell
continued striking him even while he
was on his knees, trying to rise. Blood
poured from his nose and mouth. When
Slavin regained the stage the curtain
was lowered and the fight proceeded be-
hind the scenes until with great diff
Guilty the men were separated.
At meeting of the trades and labor
representing the various
trades unions of Chicago, delegates de-
cided to ask all affiliated labor organiza-
tions to refuse to indorse Samuel Comp
ers, president of the American FEEDER
alton OF Labor, as a candidate for the
office of president at the next annual
Gompers resides at New
York, and has been president for the
last q light years. They expressed the
opinion that the president has lost
touch with the labor movement during
his prolonged tenure in Office. They
will press for an amendment to the con-
limiting the officeholding abili-
ty of any one man to three consecutive
terms at the outside.
The new American, steel steamer,
Charles Wetmore, which sailed from
Duluth, Minn., the latter part of June,
arrived at Liverpool Tuesday. The
Wetmore is an inland built steamer, and
her cargo, consisting of 5000 bushels of
grain, is the finest cargo shipped from
lake port direct to Liverpool without
being rehandled. The route was down
the lakes from Duluth, through the
Welland canal, down the St. Lawrence
river and across the Atlantic. The sue
cess of the voyage is evidence that the
to establish direct commu-
between European and other
ports and Chicago is entirely feasible.
A West Point, Miss, special says:
Ninety mine years ago Robert Edwards,
then a large real estate owner of New
York city, leased to the city for term
of ninety nine years considerable
Of real estate on which Broad
way and several adjacent streets for
some distance are new located. The
lease specified that at the end of that
time the property, with all it's improve
ments, should revert to the Edwards /,
heirs. The lease having just expired (
suit is to be brought at once to recover
possession Of the property. Colonel H.
Clay King Of Memphis, and T. G. King
Of this city, his brother, are among the
heirs, and the latter is taking active
steps to secure power of attorney from {
all known members of the Edwards fam
ily. Mr.. King claims to possess all the
documents necessary to prove clear (
title to the property in question.
Employment Agent in Limbo.
Herald: Marshal Sims returned
from Butte, that Mecca of evil I
doers, where he went to secure r. L.
Johnson, who had been arrested by Off
GERS there at the request of the marshal. 9
Johnson came to Helena about a year G
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