Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-06-21
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Jerry Simpson 10 getting we'll.

| on tho 10th.
Lord Chief Justice Coleridge died at Lon-
don on the 18th.
Governor Mckinley has sent militia to
various points In Ohio.
The Oxford Yale athletic contest has been
nxed upon for July 16.
German day was the most largely attended
Of any at the Midwinter Fair.
Tho trial of Erastus WIman for forgery was
begun in New York on the 11th.
From 100000 to e5,OOO, 900 In gold is
shipped to Europe every week.
A big abattoir at Brooklyn was burned
down on the 10th. Loss, 81, 900, 900.
Senator Quay says that he has speculAted
In sugar stocks and will do 1t again.
Bill Dalton, the noted outlaw, IL reported
killed by posse in the Indian Territory.
A Now York Jury has found Erastus WI
man guilty Of forgery in the second degree.
Judge Ross at Los Angeles has sentenced
l10 commonwealers to jail for train stealing.
A negro who assaulted young white wo-
man In Georgia was skinned nlive by ayenga
ers.
A large quantity of counterfeit American
bank notes have been discovered at Hamburg
by the police.
William Walter Phelps, formerly minister
to Germany, died on the 10th. He was worth
10000, 200.
Coal strikers in Ohio arc blowing up or
from being hauled to market.
Tho Kansas Republicans are in favor of tn c
Tree coinage of the American silver product
and tax On imported silver.
The boat IN which party OF harvesters
were going from Ireland to Scotland was cap
sized and thirty Of them were drowned.
The Atchison road has withdrawn from
the summer excursion agreement, as it
charges that the other roads are violating It,
Justice Harlan has granted a supercedeas
In the case Of the Collin brothers, and thog
will be released temporarily from the Indiana
penitentlary.
General Basil Duke of Louisville, a proml-
ncnt Democrat, says he will support the Re.
publican candidate II Breckinridgo is re-
nominated.
Lose Rosebcry has presented to the son Of
Thomas Bayard, the United States ambassa-
dor, the plates which Lndas wore while run
ming the Derby.
conimonwcalers In North Dakota met with
serious resistance. Several men on both
sides were injured.
Coal miners at Massillon, Ohio, asked
Governor Mckinley for contribution, but
when he sent SO returned 1t because he had
called out the militia.
John J. Ingalls, has received an offer to be-
como edltor-in-chcf of an important maga-
zine publication in New York. He will con-
fer with the management.
President Mcbride of the Miners Union
| says that he had TO make a compromise with
the operators, owing to number of causes
that were crippling the miners.
The Omaha police board has discharged a
large number OF the police and flremen who
were CT tholics or A. p. A. men, because Of
the bitter feud exciting between them. 1t
was disorgnnizing the force.
There is great opposition from Pcnnsy ylvania
miners to tho compromise agreement with
the operators. These miners insist upon 10
cents instead Of SO. Some of the operators
also refuse 10 endorse the agreement.
Congress Is resorting to a new method of
compelling persons called before q committee
TO testify. Their names are presented TO the
grand jury for Indictment. Tho Senate's
! sugar committee has rcsortcd to this method.
There arc signs of renewed activity from
the anarchist element In New York, and Us a
result Instructions have been issued to the
police 10 keep close watch on the leaders.
Johan Most is making nightly epecches in
different parts of the city.
Two hundred and forty of General Carter's
commonwenlers have been corralcd by deputy
marshals Mt Big Springs, Nebraska, and
for their disposal from Judge Dundy. He
finally decided 10 send the men to Omaha.
1t was reported on Wall Street on the 18th
that the national banks will In the near fI-
ture furnish all the gold for expectation. The
$500, 600 shipped on the 10th was from one Of
BY the banks was during the month of April.
An Egan, S. D., dispatch reports valuable
find in n mound at that point. A tomb has
been uncovered lined with cement. In the
tombs compartments wefe tAenty-two skele-
tons, averaging eight feet in height. rude
altar and many bronze utensils were cx-
posed.
Western members Of the House are
holding caucuses to map out a plan
Of campaign on the irrigation question.
They will spare no labor to Sc
cure action by this Congress. Repre- senta-
lives OF 10 Western states and territories, in
Guiding members Of all parties, are partici-
pating.
The SIS round trip rate from Kansas City
to Colorado points, announced some weeks
ngo, will stand The Western Passenger asso-
citation has approved 1t. Tho Central Traffic
association has made n rate of one fare for
the round trip from all Eastern points to the
Missouri river for people who buy through
tickets.
Secretary Morton Of the agricultural de-
pnrtmcnt, with the advice Of the president,
has decided not to expcnd much money
directly 10 the eradicating of tuberculosis
lmong cattle, but will use the appropriation
In making experiments and furnishing gen.
eral information about methods OF stamping
1t out.
Sir David Balfour, formerly finance minis
ter for India, delivered q lecture In London
on the 18th In which he said he believed that
the complete md permanent exclusion of
silver from the monetary standards of the
world was absolutely impossible. II it could
be obtained 1t would prove one Of the great
est disasters that ever befel humanity.
A profound sensation has been created in
government and social circles of Mexico by
the secretary OF the treasury preferring
charges against fifty Of the prominent ofIi-
cials of bis department. The charges are
that the employees wilfuly destroyed certain
documents belonging to the department with
view Of concealing serious oIensc.
The Kansas Populists In convention have
renominatcd Governor Lcwelling by acclama-
tion despite previous predictions to the con-
trary. woman's suffrage plank was adopt
ed after hot discussion by a vote of 337 to
269. Susan b. Anthony and several other
noted sutfragists were present and enjoyed in
n Jubilee with the convention. A resolution
dcnoun cling the A. 2. A. was adopted.
Judge Dundy has decided that the $50 CONF
monwcalers captured at Ogalalla shall be
taken to Fort sidney, recently abandoned,
and kept until tried, and II convicted COM
PEELED to serve sentence there. Omaha 1ails
would not hold $50 men. The cost Will be
much less for the court to go to Fort sidney
for trial than to bring the men to Omaha.
Last Sunday St. Bernard dog went mad
and ran amuck at Dallas, Texas. Passing
through the city he killed two dogs and three