The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1891-09-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Senator Tabor has sold the Poormar
mine at Caribou to Leonard Cow .,
Glasgow for s65O,oOo.
The record for trotting stations was
again broken the past week when Aller.
ton trotted mile in 2:lO fiat on the
track at Independence, Iowa. Direct
covered mile in 2:O6. braak;no tho
worlds record for both trotters and
PAGERS.
The worlds record for pacing stall
ions was broken last week at the fall
meeting OF the Decatur Trotting associ-
alton by Roy Wilkes. The time by
quarters was 324, 32a4, 34L; for the
mile, 2:l4A. The exhibition was made
with running mate, the driver being
L. II. Davies, the owner of Roy Wilkes
John S. Durham has been appointed
minister and resident consul at Havt;
to succeed Frederick Douglass. Mr..
Durham Is now consul at St. Domingo
He is colored man of education and
general capacity. 1t was necessary TO
have some one appointed at once IN view
of the present state of affairs in the
black republic.
The comptroller of the currency has
sent notice to the cashier of those na-
tional banks which have AZ per
cent. bonds on deposit with the
United States treasurer as basis for
circulation, on which interest has ceased.
asking them to either renew the bonds
at 2 per cent or substitute some other
bonds as security.
Postotfice Inspector Maynard of the
New Orleans district, reporting on the
lottery cases, says he thinks the power
of the Louisiana company is broken.
and the business is reduced to such q
point that, although they advertise a
capital prize of 100000, yet they do not
sell more than half of any ticket so # ia
impossible for the full capital prize to
be drawn.
A Galveston special tells of the or
ganization of colored cotton pickers,
who have agreed to pick no cotton after
a certain date for less than 81 per 100
pounds. A board of organization has
been perfected through the medium of
the colored alliance and now numbers
more than half million. Iti learned
secret circular has been mailed to all
pickers throughout the cotton belt fix
ing date for Inauguration of the strike.
The City of New York arrived at
Queenstown Tuesday afternoon at
o'clock, having crossed the Atlantic in
five days, twenty-five hours and fifty
minutes, equaling the best previous
eastward passage. The City of New
York had on board mails of the Cana
dian Pacific steamship Empress of ia
pan, which mails left Yokohama on Au-
gust 10. They have thus reached
Queenstown in twenty days from Yoko-
hama.
The department of state telegraphec
to Minister Egan September 4th that il
government had been formed by the
congressional party acceptable to the
people, he should recognize it and open
communication with it's head. Monday
7th inst, the department received tele-
gram from Egan stating that provis-
ional government had been established
on the 4th inst. with Jorge Montt as
president, and that he (Egan) was in
very cordial communication with it.
While conducting experiments with a
view Of determining how weak a solu-
ton of cocaine would prove efficacious
as local anesthetic, DR.. E. G. Sleigh OF
Berlin is reported to have made rather
remarkable discovery. He found that
simple water injection under the skin
with syringe renders the flesh at that
point insensible to pain, and the effect
of water is to create a slight swelling
resembling that caused by the sting of
| gnat. The space marked by the swell
| ing remains insensible to pain for some
minutes, so that incisions cam be made
without causing the slightest pain.
Black Bear, chief of Indians on exhi
bition at Fisk's garden, Denver, filled uI
with ''Rrs water" Saturday night anc
whipped his squaw. When the Other
Indians demonstrated the chief took an
other pull at the flask and started te
clean out the aboriginies. He made FOL
Bear Robe in regular Indian fashion
raised a terrible war whoop, and that
Indian. not caring for personal en-
counter, drew a six shooter and firet
three shots at Black Bear, two taking
effect. The chief will not allow the doc
tors to examine him, but it is thought
one bullet will prove fatal.
A special to the St. Louis Republic
from Parkersburg, w. Va, says: Gen
T. M. Harris, of Ritcnie county, men
Der of the oourt-martial which invest
| igated the death of Lincoln and con
denned Mrs. Surratt, has just finished
history Of the assassination OF Preslden
Lincoln. The history was commutet
from stenographer's notes in Gen
Harris possession. In the book Harri
boldly asserts that Jefferson Davis ant
| certain members of his cabinet were in
terested in and encouraged the assassin
alton of Lincoln. He fortifies the state
ment by large amount OF document
ary evidence. The book will create
sensation.
The worlds fair board OF lady mana
gers Saturday, by score OF 90 70 30
adonted resolution declaring IN 1avo'