Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-03-15
rs,sgraphts Btsxitisa


plicity in the murder Of DR.. Cronin.
4 Australia wants to join the United States
In laying cable between the two countries.
Tho Republicans are trying to have the
Bland bill taken up in the Senate 20 rs to de-
lay the tariff bill.
Of their fight with the Santa Fe and wants to
arbitrate their differences.
An election riot occurred at Troy, New
York, on the 9Th, whereby one man was
killed and his brother fatally Injured.
The executive board Of the United Mine
Workers OF America have Issued . circular
Advising miners to declare all strikes on
Foreigners at Rio Janeiro complain that
the vessels Of tine United States are the only
ones which afford any aid or protection to
them.
The crusade against saloons and houses OF
nl-repute has begun at Huron, South Dakota,
BY citizens. The mayor refuses to enforce
the laws.
The suit OF Miss Pollard against Congress-
man Breckenridge for S25, 900 for breach Of
promise and seduction began at Washington
on the Sth. 1t will be long and bitter con-
test.
The 100, 900 pounds Of silver which were
sent from Chill by Balmaceda, and which has
been lying in the bank Of England, must be
sold within few days. This will probably
cause another drop in the price.
Mr.. George Armistead, to whose residence
at Blackeraig castle, In Scotland, Mr.. Glad
stone paid q visit last fall, has declined Mr..
Gladstons's offer of peerasc.. Mr.. Armi-
tead will acc6mpahy Mr.. Gladstone to
Brighton.
The strikers IN west Virginia are getting
desperate. They arc determined to do dam
age u the mine owners, especially Wyant
The local authorities appear to side with them
III their attempts TO break the law. The MI
litia is preserving the peace.
.. c. Gregory, assistant cashier Of the Dex-
ter Savings bank, has confessed to Detective
Baker OF Detroit that he himself stole the
%, 200 from The vault of the bank last Thurs
day md that his story Of being attacked and
slugged by masked robbers was purely fc-
ton.
The contract for raising the wrecked United
States ship Kearsage has been awarded to the
to receive s45 900 II susccssful In delivering
tho ship at Norfolk navF yard, and II unsuc-
cessful is 10 be paid but $1,000.
According to the Frankfort Zeitang, which
Ia Understood 10 have basis Of fact, Premier
CrIspi OF Italy promises TO remove about half
liabilities apd to repay loan Of 2.OOO, 600
sterling 10 London bahkers This gold will
probably lind its way TO Vienna and thus re-
Iievc other gold markets, Fresh notes Will
he created to balance the gold hbstractcd
from the Italian banks.
The Woman's Christian Temperance Union
of Chicago has begun crusade against drug
glsts who indulge In the illegal sale OF narcot-
les and stimula nts Of all descriptions. Visits
BILE, purchase:of morphine, laudonum, ch,oro-
form, cocaine, choral and other drugs will be
made with out physIcian's prescription.
Wherever druggist is found who is willing
10 sell under such circumstances, bis arrest
and prosecution will follow.
Mrs. Lease, the reform agtator and orator,
has just received word from DundAlk. Ire
land, that BY a will made " an aunt OF hers
nineteen years ago, she is mn heress 10 large
fortune, which has been accumulating in In
terest ever since. The irish relatives did not
know what became of the ClInes. one Of
whom Mrs. Lease is till her fatne spread over
this continent and fe-cchoed back In the
county Of Louth, In which her aunt and old
neighb bors lived. The amount OF the fortune
is not stated.
A decision of the I.Sooner'' question just
received frcm the general land office, causes
CONSERVATION among the thousands Of claim
holders In Oklahoma and the Cherokee strip.
The decision is in Payne county contest,
and Is that II the man crossed the country
prior to the opening, and even though he did
not select claim, nor pass near the claim he
afterwards took, the fact of crossing nny por-
ton of the land made him "Sooner," and
he consequently loses his rights to take
homestead.
TO command the commerce Of the Pacific
Ocean, illustrated by her designs upon Homo
lulu and proposed Canadian Australian cable,
Great Britain has resolved upon the expendi-
Esquimaut. The work will occupy two
years and the Notifications of Cronstadt will
sink into insigniicance beside them. Their
great novelty will consist in the fact that
they will be to great extent underground.
An investigation into the condition of the
Hebrew colonies in New Jersey which has
just been concluded develops the fact that
they are In so fourishing condition that ar
rangemcnts will at onco be made for bring
ing over In the spring large number OF re-
criits. The Investigation shows that the
hard times have had little or no effect upon
the colonies that the cloak, willow ware and
other factories are running on full time, aud
furnishing ample employment, and that there
the Baron Hirsch trust fund for the relief OF
distress.
Ex-President HarrIson's Introductory lee
ture at the Stanford University was delivered
on the 7th to AT audience composed OF the
students and faculty of the Stanford Univer-
sity and few invited guests. The lecture
was repealed before the students and tho
public. The speaker held the close atten-
tion Of the audience for an hour while he out
lined the development Of the national consti-
tuition. The constitution was not q discovery.
q revelation or work struck on at given
time, but ripe experience General uarri-
son then contrasted the constitutions OF Eng
land and the United States.
An enOrt Is pclnR maze 10 riu Omanh oi
gamblers aud prostitutes. For over year
the law and order element haa been making .
determined fight on th sc two classes Of the
community, which have been running wide
open for eighteen months under city ordi-
nance by which keepers are fined mouthly
for conducting disorderly houses. The fight
Of the Law and order people finally became so
formidable that Chief of Police Seavy was
compelled to recognize 1t, aud, accordingly,
two weeks ago an order was issued notifying
the owners and managers Of all gambling
houses, dIsorderly houses and policy shops to
close up their business under threat that every
state law and city ordinance against them
would thereafter he enforced.
Chairman Caldwell, Of the Western Passen.
ger Association, has refused the request of
the Atchison, Topeka a. Santa Fe road that
boycott be levied against the Southern Pa
cific. This will drive the Atchison from the
association, and Assistant Passenger and
Traffic Manager Byrne will send formal no.
tIcc that the Atchison road will withdraw.
1t will then, unless the matter is now settled
by arbitration. promptly proceed to make Its
fight on California rates from Chicago In
rtead of the Missouri river, and the prospect
for come low rates to California ls very prom
ising. The Atchison, once out OF the assocla-
tion, will remain out until the Union Pacific
agrees to become . member.
The decrease In the nun Der Of claims re-
ceived daily at the pension bureau Is shown
in a statement prepared at the department.