Rocky Ford enterprise., 1893-10-26
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NJ an end.
Prairie fires arc causing great losses In
South Dakota.
Marshal MacMahon, the great French SOL
dier, died on the 18th.
Mrs. Lucy Stone, an original woman's suf-
frage advocate, is dead.
Mrs. Lease and some of the other Kansas
woman suffragists are having quarrel OF
some magnitude.
W. q. Rippey, the man who attem pied 10
Kill j. w. Mackay, has been foun guilty OF
assault to murder.
The extensive wall paper house OF William
Campbell a. Co. In New York City burned on
the 18th involving loss of four million dol
lars.
The main building OF the South Dakota
State University burned Sunday morning, en-
failing loss of 100000 or more without in
Burance.
The twenty fifth anniversary of the promo
tion OF Cardinal Gibbon. to the ep!scopacy
was celebrated at Baltimore with great pomp
this week.
Last Saturday was Manhattan Day at the
Fair and It is estimated that 5000 New
Workers were on the grounds. The total
paid attendance was little short Of 300, 600.
The people of Paris seem to have gone
crazy over the officers OF the Russian fleet now
the guests OF that city. In the excess OF their
demonstrations they are making themselves
ridiculous.
The steamer Wocokcn has gone down OF
Long Point In Lake Superior, and out OF her
crew of sixteen people three are saved and
thirteen drowned. 1t was caught In the great
storm Of the l4th.
The attendance at the Columbian Exposi-
tion on the 9th-Chicngo Dny.-was 75l, ops,
which beats the records Of all Worlds fairs.
The crush of people was dreadful and hun
drCds were injured In various ways.
Inf cou,oa from, voIporoiso (,hIlJ
OF the marriage Of Miss Amelia Rokas to
Francis +. Egan. The groom Is the eldest
son of Hon. Patrick Egan, formerly United
States minister to Chilli. The BRIDES family
are very wealthy.
A terrific storm ragged over the eastern part
OF the country on the 18th. Great damage
was done to shipping on the Atlantic coast
and the great lakes. Along the South ATTAIN
tic coast towns suffered and wires all through
the East were blown down.
Secretary Lamont has received the annual
report of Brigadier General X. Brookes, com
Speaking OF the Indian as . soldier, Brookes
says the greatest difficulty seems to be the
Indians do not speak English.
Secretary Gresham has received the follow
ing cable from Minister Young to Guatemala:
"The president Of Guatemala this day de-
clared himself dictator, dissolved the extra
session of congress, assumed control Of the
government and ordered new electIon.''
At the National W. c. T. U. convention
the following officers were elected: Presi-
dent, Mrs. Frances Z. Willard, Illinois; Sec
Rotary, Mrs. Mary A: Woodbridge, Ohio; re-
cordlng secretary, Mrs. L. N. Stevens, Mlchi-
gan; treasurer, Mrs II. N. Barker, North
Dakota.
There was still further reduction in the ma
tional reserve OF the treasury on the 7th, the
amount being $50, 49,, ,258 about q half mil
lion lower than 1t was in June last, when 1t
touched the lowest point In Its history to that
s%s no1ss. The n aooS Sa,n1Ss IL
The American Express Company has lost
$50 600 intrusted to 1t by New York bank
for transmission to New Orleans via St. Louis.
The money was placed In a strong box In New
York with Special Guard Korsendorfcr In
charge. Just where 1t new the track not even
the detectives Mt work upon the case seem
able to learn.
place on the 11th Inst. near Fifty-Two Spring,
Indian Territory, terminated more fatally
than was at first reported. Lou Thompson
and Joe sofsk were both found dead on the
prairie next day. The officers knew that the
outlaws were wounded but their wounds were
not considered serious.
Tho Senate has passed Congressman Bells
house bill suapending during 1888 the opera
tions of the mining laws requiring 500 worth
Of work to be annually performed on mining
claims, with an amendment eubmitted by
Senator Pettigrew restricting the same to &C.
tual residents and citizens. The bill now
goes back to the House for concurrence In the
amennment.
A dispatch has been received In Berlin from
DR.. Peters, the great German explorer of Az
rlca, who was recently visiting the United
States and Canada, In which the doctor says
seen in America. he adds, however: "Still
1t is not Europe. America keeps in culture
and civilization about the middle between
Africa and Europe"
The cattle killing record of the world has
been broken at Armour's packing house in
Kansas City, where 8, 1ls cattle were slaught-
cred in eleven hours. The slaughter began nj
o'clock, was interrupted half hour at noon
and ended At 9 80 o'clock. The average was
five steers slaughtered every minute. No
packing house In the world has ever killed
the same number Of cattle In the same time.
The Indian agent at Puyallup, Washington,
has submitted his report to the interior de-
partment. He says intoIication Is the pre-
dominant evil among the Indians. The evil
will grow, he thinks, because Of the decision
Of the courts that an Indian holding patent
10 land is citizen. He recommends on ac-
that when q patent 10 given 1t shall not con.
fer citizenship upon the Indian.
BY the premature explosion of dynamite at
Emington, Illinois, on the 18th five persons
were killed and five injured, two Of whom
cannot live. Wyllie Bros. OF Emington, well
dIggers, were sinking well for the ,ity OF
Emington. At depth Of 3O5 feet their drill
broke and they were unable TO 20 any further;
hence they engaged Eyer Brothers Of Dwight,
Illinois, TO use dynamite In order TO further
their work. The latter had flled q piece OF
piping with dynamite and were capping it
when the tube exploded. The killed and in
jured were thrown over fifty, feet by the
shock. They were dead and mangled SO
badly that Identification was almost impossi-
BILE.
A dispatch from Guthrie, Oklahoma, says:
Every town in the territory is filling up with
people from III Cherokee Strip, who come in
hungry, cold and without cent Of money.
they are all willing to work, but the crowd IL
80 great there 10 NO work for them, and those
who will not work are suffering from hunger.
AT Perry, Oscar Kestler Of Columbus, Ohio.
was found nearly dead from hunger and cx-
posture, and was sent to his home, while
number Of other men who are sick and penni.
less are being cared for by charitable institu-
tions. Every day brings news Of the death Of
one or more of the unfortunate settlers, and
the suffering among the improvident people
who rushed into the Strip with no money and
no means of making . livelihood, will be ter
rlblc this winter.
The coroner's jury which has been investl-
eating the Michigan Central wreck that oc-
Cured last Friday, returned verdict at mid.
night. 1t finds the Michigan Central rail-
road guilty of gross negligence In not com