Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-07-05
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The contract has at last been let for 10.
building the Union depot at Denver.
A fearful windstorm almost destroyed ths
village of Keighly, Kansas, on the 25th.
The British minister at Berlin has resigned
because Of rupture with the emperor.
Franklin McVeagh for United States senator.
The receivers closea Ine Gogebio Range
mine at Ironwood, Michigan, throwing out
1850 men.
A Newfoundland nshing schooner 10 report.
ed to have struck an iceberg aud sunk.
Twelve men were drowned.
The funeral Of President Carnot will be
held In Paris on the 1st, and his remains VIII
be deposited In the Pantheon.
The men In two Of the Homestead steel
works have struck because the gangs were re-
duced from ten 70 six men each.
Emperor William, TO chow his sympathy on
the death of Carnot pardoned two French
spies, who were In prison at Leipsc.
Every possible precaution against the spread
the Galveston harbor is being taken.
Two hundred families were evicted from
company houses at the Panhandle mines,
Painters Run, Pennsylvania, Monday.
Miss Emma Juch, the prima donna. and
Francis L. Wellman, assistant district attor-
ney Of New York, have been married.
Mrs. Lease has recovered from her recent
lecture and look after an Inheritance
There was a 81 900, 900 fire In Brooklyn on
the Goth. Several warehouses were burned
and two men were killed by falling walls.
Judge Ross of Los Angeles has decided that
zoe, 600 acres Of the Atlantic & Pacific rail-
road grant is forfeited to the government.
Colonel Vinette and fifty commonwealers
arrived at Armourdale, near Kansas City,
Monday. He says the other 200 are coming.
Three men tried to rob the house of Judge
Gutierres near Albuquerque the other night.
He shot and killed one, and the Others were
captured the next day.
The boycott of the American Railway Union
against Pullman cars was inaugurated on the
Goth. 1t is yet uncertain how effective the
boycott will prove 10 be.
A passenger train on the Savannah, Florida
g. Western rail road was held up near Homer
vile, Georgia, on the goth, and the express
car was robbed of 81 ,222.
NJ Berdeau has declined the task of form
ing a cabinet. In consequence President
Casimir-Perier has asked NJ. Dupuy TO recon-
slider his decision to resign.
Portions of the Union Pacific track between
Portland and Bonneville are now out OF water
and being repaired. In some places an entire
new track viii be necessary.
The Taylor brothers, charged with the
murder Of tho Mecks family ut Browning,
Missouri, have been captured In Arkansas.
They declare their innocense.
The temperance people of Haverhill, Massa-
chusetts, have opened saloon where liquors
will be sold at cost for the purpose OF
breaking up the other saloons.
A self appointed committee of knights Of
Labor are about to commence proceedings In
court against John w. Hayes, secretary-treas-
urer for misappropriation of funds.
A receiver has been appointed for the Har.
English stockholders, who claim that they
are being sWindled by Its officers.
lit is officially announced that Sir Charles
Russell, formerly attorney general, has been
appointed to succeed Lord Coleridge, who
died June 14th last, as lord chief Justice OF
England.
1t is reported that China llas sent twenty
oattalions of Chinese troops to sail immedi-
ately for Corea, as there Is little hope OF an
agreement being reached with Japan in re-
gard to that country.
The Scottish Chamber of Husbandry have
adopted a resolution to the effect that the
present financial depression is due TO the
monetary change Of 1872, and they have de-
cided to petition Parliament in favor OF bi-
metallism.
A special dispatch from Shanghai says the
Japan government is sending more troops
to Coren, and that she refuses to withdraw
from that country except under conditions
which China cannot accept. The dispatch
adds the situation is critical.
Since Carnot's death all members Of the
royal family of England are protected by de-
tectIves. very close watch Is kept to pre-.
vent any attempt being made on the life OF
the czarewitch, who is at present In England,
visiting Princess Alexis of Hessc.
To avoid a hot passenger rate war the rail-
roads have decided to extend the time for re-
turning from tho East on excursion tickets to
the educational convention, Christian En-
deavor and Epworth League conventions.
Passengers can remain until Septemer LIST.
A dispatch from Shanghai, China, says
that Japan, preferring foreign to civil wal, re-
fuses to evacuate Korea, consequently China Is
active operations. A dispatch from shang-
hal says the war between China and Japan Is
imminent.
The plans of the Pullman strike: The work
men at st. Louis and Ludlow, Kentucky, are
to be called out. Switchmen Will refuse 10
handle Pullman cars and trainmen will refuse
to pull trains attached to Pnllmans: II they
are discharged for this strike will be order
ed of all classes Of the roads employees.
It looked on the eth as though the A. r.
U. boycott on Pullman cars would cause n
general railroad tie-up. AT Chicago eleven
Pacific is In trouble and the Santa Fe Is SER
Iolsly embarrassed. Tho railroad men are
not content to refuse TO switch the Pullmans,
but cut them off from trains.
A dispatch from Uniontown, Pennsylvania,
says: The coal strike bids fair to outrlval all
is thought to aggregate 81 ,OOO, O0O; OF this
sum the men have lost in wages s5S4, COO, and
the operators nearly half n million more In
the pay of deputies, loss OF stock and importa-
tion Of men. The backbone of the strike Is
believed to be broken and n general resump-
tion is expected in a short time.
The Union Theological Seminary has
changed It's constitution so as to give the
board OF directors the power to employ others
than ordained ministers ns members OF the
faculty. The change was made at the meet
ing of the board Just before the general as
sembly opened at Saratoga. The seminary is
thus restored to an independent basis. Should
the general assembly depose DIR. Briggs from
the ministry he could still be retained at
Union.
Nearly all the fruit Gamers OF California
have organized Il trust, which will incorporate
as the California Cnnneries Company, with n
capital stock of s5O0,000, of which 300 1000
has been subscribed and paid up. The ex-
pressed intention is to stop cut-throat opposi-
tiop, TO maintain prices at profitable figures
and reduce expenses. Tho new company VIII
control five-cighths of the entire output OF
the canned fruits of the state, and 1t is ex,
peeted that the percentage will be Increased
before very long.
The mileage of railroads built during the
first six months OF 1894 is as follows: Arl-
zona, %; Arkansas, 10 California. 13 Colorado,
4S; Florida, SO; Georgia. s; Illinois, 4; Lo'iis-
lana, 8; Michigan, q; Minnesota, .; Missouri
6; New Jersey, 35; New York, 2; North Caro-
linn 10. Ohio Ar. penusylyania, 30, South