Rocky Ford enterprise., 1893-11-30
Toiegraphio Brevitioh
California's Chinese wish to register.
Silver was quoted at 69L on the 25th.

England will complete ten new battle ships
in 1894.
There Is Q violent influenza epidemic In
Bavaria.
The governor and lieutenant governor Of
Kansas are both quite sick.
A convention Of enthusiastic advocates OF
irrigation mot at Wichita, Kansas, on tho
23rd.
An unknown person attempted to burn the
museum OF fine arts In Copley Square, Boston,
but failed.
The United States Supreme Court has de-
cided that the great lakes arc covered by tho
term 'high seas"
Chicago crank attempted to extort
$4,000 from . capitalist, but was kicked
down stairs and arrested for his palma.
The war of recrimnatlon between Powder
| ly and Hayes Is said to have been very bitter
| during the convention of the Knights of
| Labor.
| The assistant attorney general OF the post
| office department has held that bond invest
ment schemes ought not 10 be permitted to
| use the mails.
Half n dozen men attempted to kIdnap a 12-
| year-oid girl ut New Albany, Indiana, on the
goth, but the father shot one and the others
were captured
| The building in which the Henrietta thcater
Is located, at Columbus, Ohio, was burned on
the oath. Ono life was lost. Tho loss will
reach 100000.
Statements continue to be made In Wash
| ington that at least the moral force OF the
| United States will be used to restore Liliouka-
| lanl to her throne.
| A large sum Of pension money has been
paid to fraudulent claimants at Buffalo. The
pension bureau Is getting Mt the facts and ex-
poets to arrest the frauds.
Although the 23rd was designated rs day
| OF thanksgiving by the governor Of Washing
| ton, 1t was not observed ns such except by the
state officials and commercial institutions.
Tho Home Market Club OF Boston gave
. banquet on the night OF the cath which
waka ddresscd by Governor Mckinley, Con-
gresham Reed, Senator Hoar and other
prominent Republicans.
The future location of tho bureau OF awards
at the Worlds Fair has, It is said, been finally
settled by determination to remove 1t to
| Washington, md quarters have already been
engaged In the Pncifc building.
Secretary Carlisle has ordered the release OF
| the Russian convIcts picked up Mt sea and
| landed at San Francisco. 1t is understood
that the Russian minister will endcavor to
have them rearrcsted aud extradited.
| Another favorable notc from the Sultan OF
| Morocco has been received by the Spanish
! government. 1t Is reported that the sultan
offers further indemnity to Spain, and Will
give further guarantees OF the strict obscrv-
ance OF treaty lights.
The eldest son OF Count d. Eu, Prince Pedro,
| who is said TO have been proclaimed emperor
| OF Brazil by Admiral dc Mello, has started for
| st. Nnziere, q seaport near Nantes, where II
is stated, he will start for Brazil, accompanied
by suite Of twenty persons.
Secretary Gresham has given to the press
the report Of Commissioner Blount on Ha-
waiian affairs. Tho report Is substantially
as stated by the papers which got hold OF 1t n
few days before. 1t states that the revolution
was encouraged by Minister Stevens.
Tho fishing tug Oggel, belonging to the
sandusky Fishing Company, was seized near
Pole island, Lake Eric, by Canadian authors
ties. The boat ana crew of six we're taken TO
Amhcrstburg whero they are held on the
charge OF fishing in Canadian waters More
seizures will follow.
| 1t has been learned from official sources
that the reason Of Admiral Skerrctps recall
from Honolulu was because he personally at
tended ball given by tho Annexation club
to the officers of the United States steamer
Boston ns n farewell, and to the officers OF the
United States steamer Philadelphia as a well
| come.
General Carlin's son and party Of hunters,
| who have been snow bound In the Bitter Root
mountains, have been located mt Hot Springs,
| on the Middle Fork OF the Clcarw ntcr, well
provlsloned for the winter. Tho party which
went In search for them Is now in distress,
| and requires assistance to get out OF the
| mountains.
BY the burning of a hotel at Merrill Penn
| sylvanin, seven men lost their lives. There
were thirty-iivc boarders sleeping On tue tcc-
| ond and third floors, many of whom jumped
|
bruised and burned. The fire was doubtless
of inccndiary origin, but no motive for the
| crime is known.
Yokohama advicca of November say the
| anti mixed residence movement continues TO
spread. 1t 10 rumored 100000 people Of Ku-
| mamoto alone have signed petitions against
mixed residence. 1t is alleged that hostile
feeling in that locality is so great that the
| government advised the missionaries 10 leave
their residences.
The strike on the Lchigh railroad is still
| on, and the road has been able to send out
few trains. 1t is reported that large num-
Der OF old Burlington trainmen nre going
east to secure work on the Lehigh. They arc
| disposed to do this because the Lehigh men
took their places In tho memorable strike on
the Burlington.
| AT Wednesdays session Of the general ns-
scmbly, knights of Labor, all the ofcep were
declared vacant and n new election ordered.
| T. v. Powderly, Labor Commissioner Sover-
cIgn, of Iowa, and T. Mcguire, Of this city,
were the nominees for general master work.
man. The result Of the ballot was: Powdcrly
25, Sovereign 10, Mcguire l.
Three young ladies Of Xcn!a sallle and 3D.
phia kelso daughters of +. NJ. Kclso, teller
in the Xenia National bank, and Lena Nc
Dill, daughter Of Mr.. David McDill, prolcs-
nesday afternoon by q west-bound Panhandle
train at the edge Of that city, while on their
way home from visit 10 a sick girl.
Premier Rhodes telegraphs from Cape
| Town that King Lobengula Is trying to cs-
cape In a wagon drawn by natives, his oxen
| being exhausted. DIR. Jameson says the
whole matter is absolutely over, aud ex-
pressed the hope that Major Forbes, who Is
accompanied by two hundred Europeans, will
capture King Lobcngula ut any moment.
One Of the worst fires that Detroit has tx
| perlenccd In many years occurred on the 23rd,
| completely destroying the fye-story building
| at the corner Of jefferson avenue and Bates
street, occupied by Edison, Moore & Co.,
Wholesale dry goods, and damaged many nd-
| jacent buildings, causing n loss Of S700,000.
| Three men employed by the dry goods firm
| lost their lives In the flames, and 1ye others
| who nre missing are also supposed to have
| perished.
The suit Of tho Gillian government against
| the Royal Mall Steamship Company, claim
| ing ownership of :3S silver bars, valued at
| g130,000, which were conveyed from Chill to
| the Montevideo branch of the River Plate
bank by tho British warship E-picSlc, Mt
| President Balmaceda's request, during the
| late civil war in Chill, has commenced. Sir
Richard Webster opened the case for tho
Chilan government.
The spread OF cholera is increasing Mt Con-
| stantnople, and the average recently WAS
thirty new cases and twenty deaths day.
A dangerous agitation Is evident among the
lower classes owing to the malevo.cnt reports
that the governments doctors pionounc all