The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1891-09-05
NEWS OF THE EEK.

The great Futurity race at Sheeps-
mead Saturday was won by Hlghness'
iorkville Belle second and Dagonet
thlrd. Time, 1:15 1-5.
Mrs. Julia Fillmore Harris, the last
survivor of eight brothers and SISTERS
one of whom was Millard Fillmore, thlr-
teenth president of the United States,
died Sunday night at the residence OF
her son in San Francisco.
| 1t is estimated at the treasury depart
ment that there has been an increase OF
over S6,OOO,OCO in cash holdings since
August l, representing decrease OF the
public debt to that amount: according
to the old form of debt Statement.
The town of Winnemucka, Nevada,
was almost completely destroyed by fire
Sunday. The water works failing every
building in the line of the fire was
burned, including stores, the newspaper
office and gas works. The losses aggre-
gate Sl9O,C0O; insurance 100000.
The gross earnings of the Northern
Pacific for July, 1891, on 5,202 miles Of
road were S2,392,O OBJ, as compared with
the gross earnings of s2,499,O4G in the
the same month of last year, decrease
of SlO7,O15. The mileage has increased
ZIG miles, being 1896 in July, 1890.
All the northwestern portion of Faulk
county, S. d., was burned over Friday
night by fire twenty miles wide and
extending from Faulkton fifty miles
northwest. Many farmers are ruined.
For a space of twenty miles no grass was
left for stock. The damage cannot be
estimated.
An Austin, Texas, dispatch says ex-
United States Senator Reagan has been
offered the vacant place on the inter
state commerce commission. 1t is un-
derstood that Judge Reagan will not ac-
cept the office, but will remain in his
present position at the head of the Texas
idilWdy COiilllllSSlOH.
A Rutland, Vt, special to the Mail
and Express says: General William
Wells of Burlington, VT. will be the sue
cessor Of Hon. Redfeld Proctor as secre-
tary of war; The news that the presi-
dent intends to make this appointment
comes from a source of reliability which
cannot be questioned,
The stockholders of the Freeman's
Journal company carried the motion of
F. Dwyer Gray changing the compost
tlon Of the board Of directors. The lat
ter, who were mainly supporters of Par
nell, resigned, and hereafter the Free
mans Journal will be published in the
interests of the opponents of Parnell.
A passenger train was wrecked near
Statesyille, n. G., on the 29th and
twenty-five passengers killed outright,
nine seriously injured and twenty 9th
ers badly hurt. The accident occurred
by the spreading Of the rails, permitting
the entire train to So into the creek,
which had been swollen by heavy rains.
A dispatch to Eslafette froM Vienna
says the Austrian empress shows symp-
toms Of insanity. She is very eccentric,
among other things desiring bizarre cos
Gumes in whicn To appear In public.
Medical experts called by the emperor
have pronounced the case a grave one,
being associated with hereditary NAL
ady.
Judge G. w. Schofield died Sunday at
his home in Warren, Pa, Of heart dis
case, aged n years. He was member
of the Thirty eighth, Thirty ty-ninth, For
tieth, Forty first, Forty-second and For
ty-third congresses, register of the treas
ury under President Hayes and was an-
pointed Judge of the court of claims by
President Garfield, retiring last July.
Paul Conrad, president, and number
of officers and employees of the Louisiana
State lottery, have been held in $500
bonds for hearing on the charge Of
violating the anti-lottery postal law by
causing to be mailed circulars contain
ing report of the state supreme court
ON the lostery revenue case. The post
office department decided that it was an
advertisement of the lottery,
Census Agent Petroff has returned
from Alaska, having completed the GEN.
sus of that territory. The following fig
ures closely represent the population in
1890: Aleuts, 900; Indians, 5000; Els
eulmauk, $4,000; Chinese, 1890; whites,
1890; total, 31,C0O. This is decrease
of 1900 in ten years, but during that
time the white and Chinese population
increased largely and this really repre-
ssnts decrease of 5000 in the native
population. Petroff says the natives
have learned the use of liquor from the
whalers and it is killing them off rap
idly.
Professor Hogan, the balloonist, at the
exposition grounds at Detroit, fell from
his balloon and was instantly killed Sat-
urday afternoon. He had ascended
nearly a mile and was preparing to cut
loose his parachute and descend, when
he lost his hold and fell to the ground.
His body was mangled beyond recogni-
ton, every bone being broken. Thirty
thousand people witnessed the catas-
trophe. Hogan was brother Of the
Hogan who made an ascension in Camp
BELLS air ship in New York some years
ago and was lost.
Seven men held up the east bound
Denver & Rio Grande train Monday
night near Cotopaxi The highwaymen
compelled the flagnan at Texas Creek
to give up all the torpedoes in his pos
session and also forced him to flag the
train. AS soon as it slapped the engi-
neer and fireman were held up at the
point of rifles. The fireman was relieved
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