Rocky Ford enterprise., 1893-10-05
TcIexraphio Brevitisa

Prince Bismarck continues Ill with little
prospect for improvement.
The Vienna police have unearthed q plot to
blow up the Austrian parliament.
Governor Russell, of Massachusetts, has
been re-nominnted by the Democrats.
The amount of New York clearing house
| certificates has been reduced to S25, 900, ,OOO
The employees on the Big Four have decided
not to strike In consequence Of q cut in wages
A strike has been commenced by the rail-
road men at Memphis and may prove serious
| The roreIgn adnirals NJ Rio de JaneIro
have persuaded De Mellas not to bombard the
| city again.
| 'orce, II necessary, to compel Slam 10 comply
at once with the conditions Of the treaty,
A dispatch received on the Goth from Brazil
! says Santn Catharina, an important fortified
island OF Brazil, surrendered to the rebels.
st. Joseph, Missouri, suffered from 81 ,OOO,-
900 fire on the 25th, and the fire department
| had to work hard to save The business portion
| OF the city.
A party of Bohemians tried to jump cow
boys claim In the Cherokee Strip Friday and
| he Killed two OF them. The settlers then
turned out and lynched another.
Baron Hrsch has sold Italian rentes to the
amount OF FL ,0OO,0OO and has invested the
| money In American railroad securities, In
cluding some low-priced stocks which pay no
dividends.
| Governor West, OF Utah, hns declined the
| invitation to send delegates to the meeting of
the Pan-American Blmetallic Association to
| be held at St. Louis He thinks 1t might do
more harm than good.
Advices from al! parts Of England Indicate
that the keenest distress exists among the
striking coal InlnerS and their families. A
further stoppage Of many large mills has oc-
CURED owing to u lack OF fuel
1t is learned the donor OF $1,000 to Har-
Sard University year ago. to build, equip
and maintain reading room, the identity Of
whom has created good deal Of speculation,
was the late Frederick l.. Ames
James J!Corbett, the pugilst, signed the
formal articles OF agreement mt Asbury park
Monday morning to fight Charles Mitchell,
the English champion, before the Coney Is
land club sometime In December. Mitchell
had already signed the articles.
John M. Washburn, treasurer of the Old
Colony railroad, with headquarters in Boston,
| has been found to be a defaulter In large
sum. He has been stealing for several years
In order to speculate. He has been treasurer
Of the company for thirty years.
Colonel Bill Root has left Laramie with
carload of fine elk for England They are for
the magnificent estate OF Sir Peter Walker
near London. The elk are from the plains OF
wyoming, md 1t 10 the biggest herd that hns
ever been seen In captivity in this part of the
country.
The Chicago Terminal Railway Co mpany
has been purchasing a site for a tremendous
uuiou ucFOt III tnhL Guy wnlCn Will ACcOmmO-
date 500 trains per day: Thirteen big roads
have already agreed to use It. The tracks
leading to 1t through the city will be elevated
above the streets.
Too liberal appropriations have drained the
Texas state treasury and tho state has only
half enough money to meet Its obligations
maturing October l. Governor Hogg has
suggested that state employees do not take
their pay for sixty days and has requested
county and district officials to withhold their
demands for a like period
The scheme planned by the Cherokee al
lottees and E. P. McCabe, the colored cx-
secretary Of state OF Kansas. to establish n
negro town at Liberty, in the Cherokee Strip,
veyed, and Mr.. MoCabe has sent delegation
Of colored ex-Methodist ministers and dea-
cons into the Southern states to proselyte for
him.
Miss Lizzie Gallagher, q oomely and we'll
known young lady, who is stopping on
taking strychnine, but by the prompt appli-
cation Of emetlcs her life was saved She 10
still In very critical condition, but will
probably recover. A love affair is supposed
trouble.
In tho District court at Wichita, Kansas,
Judge Reed has declared the eight our law
unconstitutional. Judge Reed is tho first dis
trict judge to pass on this act. He holds the
law contrary to both the state and federal
constitutions, and declares 1t q restraint upon
the liberty Of action. Claims aggregating
hundreds Of thousands Of dollars for overtime
under this act are pending in every county
and city In the state.
Governor Mcconnell Of Idaho will not ap-
point delegates to the Pan-American b.
Metallic Convention at st. Louis for the rea-
son that the object of the meeting Is not In
accordance with his ideas Of true American
ism. In his opinion the meeting is a division
Of the United States Into trade districts or an
array of the South and West against the East,
and he thinks the country has had enough Of
sectionalism.
sent by the Gillian government to its minis
ter in Washington, directing him to'find out
what the United States government thinks Of
the idea Of calling convention Of the South
America republics and the United States to
consider the silver question. Chili's sugges-
tion Is to have such q convention take action
as to the future course Of the countries inter-
ested relative to the coinage and use of silver.
An official of the Lake Shore road says the
authorities Of Noble county, Indiana, are In
John Connors and Eva Flint, who were ar
rested at Kendallville last Wednesday In con-
nection with the Lake Shore robbery, were
two Of the participants In the distribution OF
the booty. Eva Flint made several trips
from Elkhart to Chicago with large quanti-
ties OF bullion, specie and gold, part of the
proceeds Of the robbery.
disastrous prairie fire occurred In the
day, and scores of settlers lost their property
and narrowly escaped with their lives. Mrs
j. 8. Kennedy and two children were badly
burned. John Baker and Mr.. Thomas and
family were burned to death. Two children
of Mrs. George Harrison are missing and 1t 10
feared that they also perished. Mrs. Thomp-
son and two children were fatally burned.
Most Of the men were absent at the land Of
flee to file on the claims, and the women and
children struggled against the fire alone.
The annual report of Governor w. T.
Thornton, OF New Mexico, states that the
population Of New Mexico has not materially
changed during the past year. The total
territorial Indebtedness is $9l1, ,7l2, and the
cash balance In the treasury is 1921 600
stock-raising has decreased as a result Of
fourteen years continuous drought. Many
mineahavc closed on account Of the decrease
In silver value and the money market strin-
gency. The annual product OF precious
stones is rapidly increasing. Governor
Thornton recommends the approval by Con-
gress Of the legislative act of theter ritory
providing for county court where the county
has population of 1000 or more.
Ex-President Pellierini, OF the Argentine
Republic, has been captured by the revolu-
tionists, and will doubtless be shot. An ex-
citing skirmish took place Tuesday In the
outer roads at Buenos Ayers between the tor
pedo boats that have Joined the revolutionists
and the Argentine feet The attack was
matle by the fornedo hoats but the men-of-