Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-08-02
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Price county, Wisconsin, Is being swept by
forest fires. Several towns are In danger
The coke strikers at Scottdale, Pennsyl-
ranta, have surrendered their firearms TO the
eherin.
The annual convention Of the Baptist
Young Peoples Union was held at toronto
last week.
An effort is to be made TO cut down the
wages Of Santa Fc employees and big strike
may result.
Eight hundred Union Pacific employees in
Wyoming have lost their Jobs as q result oil
the late strike.
A party of Hawaiian royalis,s Is on its way
to Washington with some important com
munication from the ex-queen.
Carl Browne and seventy commonwenlcrs
have left Washington for New York. They
will interview the Wall Street magnntes.
The executors of the late President Carnot
find that he had very little property and that
Mrs. Curnots income Will be only 81 ,OOO per
year.
The stables of the Knox Transfer Company
at Washington were burned on the 25th. Six
firemen lost their lives, being crushed by
falling wall.
Debs and his fellow prisoners have given
bail and been released from jail They were
led to do this by the fact that their trial has
been postponed until September 5th.
The commonwealers at Washington have
appealed to Congress for aid In getting back
to the West They state that their leaders,
Coxey, Kelly and Frye had deserted them.
The Senate committee on territories has
ordered favorable reports on the bills ad-
mitting New Mexico and Arizona to state
hood. These bills have passed the House.
An attempt was made after midnight FRI
day night to wreck Burlington engine by
exploding a dynamite bomb under the wheels
OF the locomotive. Two men were seriously
injured.
H.; 4
24th stated that Corean troops had attacked
japanese fort and had been repulsed.
Japanese cruiser had also sunk Chinese
transport
Eight hundred and twenty men went 10
work In the shops at Sacramento Monday and
LOCO applications were received. The boiler
and moulder shops were opened for the first
time since the strike.
The king Of Corea is n prisoner In his pal
ace at Seoul where he Is guarded by Japanese
soldiers. Reports OF fights at sea have been
received. Both China and Japon are making
hasty preparations for war.
A Kentucky man who has just returned
from Japan says that "Honcst Dick" Tate,
the absconding state treasurer, is living in
Japan. lie is in bad health. His shortage
has been paid by his bondsmen.
Bring, Magoun & Co. shipped to Europe
s5Co,oO0 in gold last Monday. This, with The
Sl,t0J,00 taken from the gold reserve last
+ IiJay reduces 1t to the lowest point in its
lis;ury, something over SGO, 500, ,0JO.
The troubles at Enid and Pond Creek,
Oklahoma, arc now probably over, ns the
Rock Island road has at last consented TO
build depots there and give train service
which for so long they have denied the peo-
pie.
Mrs. Warren Springer, the wifc OF tho
Chicago millionaire, has been held to the
grand jury in bonds OF S5, 0GO on II charge of
jury bribng. Mrs. Springer is accused OF at
tempting TO bribc two jurors. through their
families, in a condemnation suit in which
her husband was interested.
Internal revenue officers have seized an al
legged Illicit distillery at Nos. 400 and 4O2
East Sixty-lhird Street, New York. The bus
iness ostcnsiby conducted was the manuiac-
ture Of yeast and vinegar, and was owned by
o company calling itself the New York Com.
pressed Yeast Company. The capacity OF
the still was 800 gallons day.
The A. r. u. of West Oakland, California,
have declared the strike oil. A resolution TO
that end was passed on the 2Ith after long
and heated debate, the vote standing lo7
for and l46 against. The meeting lasted un-
til midnight and was very stormy in charnc-
ter. Both sides battled with energy and de-
termination, and rs 4 result some i'll feeling
was aroused.
The trouble with mutinous convlcts at
Tracey City, Tennessee, ended by the con-
yIcts surrenderlng and coming out of the
mines. They were conducted to the stockade
where all the convicts arc now safely guarded.
The free miners did not interfere In any way
In the affair. Pete Hamilton, the convict
who was killed Friday, planned the mutlny.
as we'll as one n year ago. When he was shot
the backbone of the mutiny was broken.
Debs and the other officers Of the American
Railway Union met a decided reverse In their
fight against the prosecution for contempt In
the United States court The court decided
that the answer filed by the defen dants is not
a suH charge
and the motion Of their attorneys that they
be discharged was overruled. The court Will
now hear the evidence of the government to
sustain the contempt charge and the defend
ants will be given the opportunity to produce
evidence in their defense.
Dispatches received on the Goth state that
on the Chinese transport that was sunk by
Japanese cruiser there were 2,O0O Chinese
soldiers. Nearly all of them were drowned
The Japanese have also captured n Chinese
war vessel The army and navy reserves of
Japan have been called out for service. Chi
uese are leaving Japan. A large body OF
Chinese troops crossed the boundary into
Corea on the 25th. Corea is said to be In
condition bordering on anarchy. China lie
buying war materials as rapidly rs possible.
A prominent steamship agent says "the cx-
odus to Europe which began IN the early
spring still continues and increases Nothing
like it has been known before. 1t Is not con-
fined to steerngc passengers. The increase
steerage business Every line will be taxed
TO its utmost during the present summer.
When you come to telling how many people
are going abroad, 1t is not easy to do 3d. For
. rough calculation would say there were
10 lines, each carrying 500 stecrage passen-
gers. From thai at n mere guess l would say
ihat there were 90, 600 or 10000 stecrage pas
,eugers leaving this country every month.
As to the character of these passengers, they
are the best class of mechanics and working
people,"
The President has appointed John d. Eer-
nan of New York and Nicholas f. Worthing-
ton of Peoria, Illinois, to act with Labor
Commissioner Carroll d. Wright in tho pres
idential commission to investigate the Chica-
20 strike. MIR. Herman is well-known law
Yer in Utica, New York, and son Of ex-United
States Senator Herman. He has been par
ticular and thorough student Of labor qucs-
tions and has written several important con-
tributions to the literature on this subject.
He was chosen because of his undoubted
thorough understanding OF the subject, and
his well known sympathy with laboring
classes. Nicholas E. Worthington is now
Judge Of the Illinois Circuit Court. He rep
resented the Peoria district in Congress about
eight years ago
A special from Phillips, Wisconsin, says
that three thousand people have been made
homeless there by the forest fires. Not
building is left standing in the town. and
property valued at between 81, SOC, 900 and
g., ,0O0, 900 has been swept away. All day
Friday the flames surrounded the village.
Hundreds of men battled with the fire, but