Rocky Ford enterprise., 1893-08-31
Topographic Brsvisiss
The cholera is spreading In Russia.
Cholera has cared af Anfwerr

The Illinois Steel Company is to close
! down.
ispendcd.
Josiah Quincy, assistant secretary OF state,
has resigned,
{, The mayor of Chicago has Issued an order
prohibiting any more parades,
The attendance at the World's Fair last
week footed up over million.
The cath was Illinois day at the World's
Fair aud 26y,08l people attended,
The hotels at Long Branch were badly dam
aged by grent storm on the cath.
The Cherokee Strip will be opened to set
tlcment on the 10th Of September.
Large numbers OF vessels We're driven ashore
on the Atlantic cohst by the storm OF the 24th.
, The Duke OF SaHe-Coburg died on the 23rd.
lie is sacceeded by the English duke OF Edin-
, burgh.
. /: Geo. G. Cribb an extensive implement deal
7 fr of Milwaukee, has failed. Liabilities
; ss00,000.
The strikes In nearly all the Kansas coal
mines have been settled and the men have re-
turned to work.
! Serious charges OF corruption are made
against Mr.. Mercer, worlds fair commission
cr from Wyoming.
i A parade of unemployed Glashed with the
Chicago police Saturday and the result was a
number Of cracked skulls.
= The lower Atlantic coast was swept by a
| hurricane Monday and a great deal OF pro-
! perty and many lives lost.
The cholera is slowly but surely spreading
In the great centers Of population In Ga!icia
and Hungary, where II is difficult to eradicate
It,
The disagreement between the Union Pa
: cifc and the Western Passenger Association
4 has not been settled and there Is liable to be a
rate war yet.
| Unemployed Poles raided market house
! In Buffalo Thursday and helped themselves to
everything tley wanted. A strong force Of
police finally drove them oil.
+, A sensation has been caused at Chicago by
sudden Wholesale Indictment OF gamblers
/ AT the instance Of States Attorney Kern
eghty-seven indictments we're found
Tho Santa Fc management has decided to
! close the Topeka car shops temporarily on
| The Hrst of September. Only enough employees
will be retained to make the necessary re-
! pairs.
The rush of homcseekers to the Cherokee
! Strip, which will be opened to settlement Sep
, tember is, has begun, and hundred of men,
women and children are arriving on every
I Santa Fc and Missouri Pacific train.
| Mohler of the Kansas Board of Agriculture
has issued an appeal for seed whent and mon
cy with which to buy II for farmers In West
ern Kansas. The appeal states that the crop
is A total failure In that portion Of the state.
| State Bank Commissioner. Breldenthal Of
: Kansas announces that he will not consider as
available assets of Kansas banks any money
| they may have on deposit In New York as the
New York banks refuse to honor drafts with
cash.
| There was a great meeting for silver at
Cooper Union, New York on the Gath. 1t
were delivered by John g. Boyd, General
! Weaver, Congressman Bartine and Bryan.
Strong resolutions we're adapted favoring free
| coinage.
|
Mayor Harrison Of Chicago will take unto
himself a bride some time In September. The
lady is Miss Howard of New Orleans. She Is
about 30 years old and worth about $1,000
600. Mayor Harrison is 6S years old and this
will be his third marriage. He has three
children older than his intended wife.
| The treasury department has begun paying
o,it gold on all checks presented. Redemp-
tion of paper money is made in the same class
Of money. The reason for this Is large ex-
penditures have exhausted the paper money
The gold reserve is now $97 900 900, the re-
serve being used In paying debts Of the gov
ernmcnt
! There have been serious disturbances In
Milwaukee lately. On Wednesday q large
number OF Poles attacked party of laborers
Mt work on street contract and demanded
that they dcsist work. lively encounter en-
suea, but nobody was seriously injured. The
police soon appeared on the scene and dis
persed the mob after making two arrests.
! Ten million dollars in gold, packed In can
VAS sacks, passed through Kansas City FRI
/ dny morning on the Santa Fe train from San
United States deputy marshals armed with
Winchester rifles. The gold Is from the sub
treasury ut San Francisco and is being sent to
the sub-treasury at New York.
I The popular ferment in Italy arising from
the Aigues-Morles affair shows no signs of
of The island Of Sicily, mob paraded the
streets and acted in most disordcrly manner.
The rioters attacked the French consulate,
and smashed every window in the building.
The escutcheon of France over the doorway
was torn down and taken possession Of by
some of the mob. An attempt was.then
made to burn it, but the police arrived and
drove the rioters off, and the officers recap
h tured the pscutcheon..
! The beautiful white buildings of tho
, Worlds Fair are to be sold as junk. They
are soon to be advertised and knocked down
/. to the highest bidder About the only thing
of future use In them are the iron and steel
= arches md timbers. 1t is thought that not
auction. The most expensive buildings will
probably bring the least money. The manu-
facturers' and liberal arts building, which
cost 81 600, ,0OO and which has $500, 900 in
arches alone, will, of necessity, 1t is believed,
be given to the man who will tear 1t down
and carry the debris away
The Democrats of Iowa have re-nominated
Governor Buies for third term. In regard to
silver coinage the platform says: 1--WE hold
to the use of both gold and silver rs the
standard money Of the country and the coin.
I age Of both gold and silver without discriu-
mating against either metal or charge for
mIntagc, but the dollar unit of coinage of
both metals must be of equal intrinsic and
exchangeable value, to be adjusted through
. international agreement or by such safe
guards of legislation shall insure the main
tenancc Of the parity Of the two metals and
the equal power Of every dollar at all times
In the markets and In payment Of debts, and
g. we demand that all paper currency shall be
kept at par with and redeemable In such
coin"
Colorado.
Fire has broken out In the King mine Mt
Como.
A "Bland Club" has been organized at