Rocky Ford enterprise., 1893-10-12
Telegrnphio BrevitioA
There is cholera at Liverpool.

piOn, beat Frank q. Ives in the 10000 point
game at New York by about 900 points.
The American yacht Yigilant won the first
race with the Valkyrle at New York on the
Tth by six minutes. The wind was light.
Harry Tyler has broken the bicyle record
for standing start. He made a mile in
/ 2:0l s. 5, at Springfield, Massachusetts, on the
9th.
Pallas, the anarchist, who attempted to kill
General Campos with bomb, was executed
at Barcelona on the 9th by being shot In the
back.
The city Of Mobile was partially inundated
west we gale. An enormous amount Of damage
was done.
Three thousand miners in Wales collieries
have struck work because forty men en-
ployed in the collieries were not members of
the union.
The first yacht race between the Valkyrie
| and Vigilant at New York the 9th was q
| failure, AZ there was not wind enough to get
| them over the course.
The Cunardcr Lucania has beaten the rec
| ord of the City of Paris, BY running from
| Queenstown to New York in FIVE days, thir-
teen hours and twenty-nine minutes.
| The monetary conference of the Latin
states will meet In Paris October9. Italy will
be represented by senor Dere MIR, the Italian
minister at Brussels, and by Deputy Zepu.
A special meeting Of representatives of
newspapers interested In the Associated Press
was held at Chicago on the 4th. 1t was de-
cided TO increase the capital stock to Sl0O 900
| for the purpose of extending the scope OF the
| organization.
| The Nebraska democratic state convention
| met on the 4th at Lincoln. After hot fight,
a resolution asking for the repeal OF tho
Sherman law was passed, and, as result,
Congressman Bryan announced his with
| drawal from the party.
| Acting upon the advice Of diplomatic corps
| the Brazilian government has ordered the re-
moval of all batteries recently erected in Rio
de Janeiro. This, 1t is thought, will remove
| all the objections of the foreign admirals in
regard to the Intervention In case the insurg-
| ent fleet resumed the bombardment Of the
| city.
Ten persons, three OF them children, were
killed. and large number INJURED by panic
resulting from fire In a church at Pnranga-
| r!ento, state of Michoacan, Mexico. Sunday.
| The people were attending religious festi-
| val, when a rocket set fire to the roof. Some
| one rang the bell, starting the panic, and the
unfortunates were crushed to death.
| Owing to the advance Of the Matabele i'm
pls in South Africa, Colonel Jamison has de-
| termined to attack them. Consequently col
umns OF colonial troops, fully equipped, Will
| start Immediately from Forts Victoria and
| Charter, with the intention of meeting the
enemy. 1t is believed u bloody engagement
may be looked forward to in the near future.
| According TO a treasury statement issued
| by Mr.. Carlisle, the total amount of money In
| circulation in the United States October was
| 81, 10l ,939,g1S The average circulation per
capita, estimating the population at61, ,3O6, 600,
is, therefore, S26.29. The net increase in cir
culatlon during September was s2l 377,27,
| the greatest Item OF increase being gold coin,
viz: 81, ,429,741.
| A. L. New, collector Of internal revenue,
| has received a letter from Acting Commits
sioner Wilson relative to the recently raised
| question Us to taxes on national bank certiii-
Gates. The decision is that obligations of
| the national banks are free from the 10 per
cent tax, though the certificates of state
| banks and kindred institutions are subject to
| 1t.
| New Orleans has raised relief fund Of
| about SIS, 900 In all, and steamers, luggers,
| skiifs and trains have been sent In every
| direction to extend relief. The only new de-
| velopment Is the intelligence from Bayou
| Sandress, leading from Grand Isle district,
that there are 500 deaths along that section,
| making about 600 deaths between Cheniere
| and Bayou Cook.
Throughout Warwickshire and Worcester
shire, Eugland, the effects of the coal famine
become more acute daily. Factories are clos
cient coal to keep their furnaces going, and
| thousands of men are being thrown out of
work In this way. The supplies OF the gas
| companies can last only few days longer:
| Even the farmers are suffering, and many Of
| them have been compelled to stop thrcshing.
| 1t Is now charged that there was great
| deal Of corruption In settling the Cherokee
| Strip. It is alleged that with tho aid Of the
soldiers certain government officials and dep
| uty marshals stole whole blocks OF valuable
lots in Perry, on which they have been al
| lowed 10 settle. 1t is now charged that at
| Perry the bribery and corruption In the line
| waiting to file was open aud unblushing, and
| was not interfered with oy the officers OF the
| land Office.
| A Panama special to New York paper
| says: Sacna advices report that Chilli Is send
| ing 400 cavalry horses, krupp guns and
10000 Mannlicher guns TO Bolivia. This is
| taken to indicate an alliance hostile to Peru,
the two countries, Chilli and Bolivia believ-
ing that in her present straits Brazil could
not lend helping hand 10 Peru. Nothing Is
known Of the attitude Ecuador would assume
should the report prove true
The United States ship Ranger, which ar
| rived Sunday from Oonaaska, brought news
government Indian schools at Cape Prince OF
Wales, has been murdered by EsquImaux.
Mr.. Thornton accused Captain Healey, conf
mander of the revenue cutter Bear, of conniv-
TO the authorities at Washington. Thornton
was called from his house at night and shot
by three young Indians who had been ex-
PEELED from the missionary school for m'sbe-
| hayior, The murderers fed, but were pur-
sued by friendly Indians, who killed two Of
them, the third escaping.
Further dispatches from the scene Of de-
| etrucJion on the south coast of Louisiana
state the storm was, beyond any doubt, the
worst that has been experienced In the south,
|
its destruction of property and sacrifice of
human life by any storm confined to as lin
tied an area Of country. On Cheniere Island
it reached q climax of horror. They have al
ready buried in the rude graves on the island
$50 persons, and there are yet more to be In
TERED. In the rear of the island hundreds OF
little mounds marked the resting places OF
those who were killed In the terrible storm.
There were many burial parties. Men, wo-
men and children Joined In the search for the
dead With poles and hooks and ropes they
drew the corpses from the water, or dragged
them from the debris that strews the Island,
and buried them. The number of children
lost is very large. OF the 8S2 dead whose
names are known, 1876 we're children. Ship
ping has suffered to an extent that is almost
incredible, that would be incredible II the up
turned crafts aud stark bodies did not bear
ample evidence thereto. Hardly less than
$50 crafts were wrecked aud in many cases
all of their crews were lost. More than 200
sailors have been lost at different ports, SAIL
ors who were on their vessels when the storm
burst In all its fury.
The separate coach law enacted by the last
Kentucky legislature providing that all the
railroads running through the state shall
have prov. .ded separate cars for the white and
colored passengers became operative on the
1st While all Of the roads have not yet COM
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