Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-07-26
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tho 18th.
Tho A. r. U. at St. Louis has declared the
strike oil.
! Several trains were wrecked In tho vicinity
| OF Chicago last Friday.
| The A. r. u. ut Hammond, Indiana, have
voted to return to work.
Fierce forest fires have been raging In New
Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Over !, 500 cases of cholera have appeared
In st. Petersburg since July l.
Great numbers of Italians and other for
eigners arc leaving America for Europe.
Governor Tillman says that the dlspensary
law will soon be enforced In South Carolina.
Napoleon B. Laughlin has been confirmed
associate Justice of the territory OF New Mex
leo.
A loss OF $50, 900 was incurred by the burn
more.
1t 10 reported that steamer sank on Ster-
litaAk, Russia, and that 100 persons were
drowned.
The new cruiser Columbia has been ordered
| to Bluefelds on account Of reports of rumorcd
trouble there.
| The business mon Of Chicago protested
! against the removal Of the United States SOL
diers from the city.
Outlaws In the Indian Territory arc becom-
Ing active again. A station agent was rob-
| bed few nights ago.
The strike of the employees of the National
Tube Works at McKecsport, Pennsylvania,
| has been declared oil.
A Republic was proclaimed in the Hawaii
Islands on July 4, with Sanford b. Dole as
| the provisional president.
The Pullman Palace Car Company has de-
clared their regular quarterly dividend Of
per cent, payable August Is.
It is reported that the rebels and loyal
troops In Brazil do not hesitate to murder the
prisoners that fall into their hands.
Congressman Breckenridge Of Arkansas has
been appointed minister to Russia. He failed
to receive denomination to Congress.
The Senate sugar trust Investigating COM
nittee has decided 70 investigate the new
charges of sugar speculation by senators.
Archbishop Satolli has endorsed tho action
of Bishop Watterson In for5idding Ca tholic
societies from electing liquor dealers as their
fofiicers.
Extreme caution is still to be used in rum
| ming trains in California. as several attempts
| to wreck engines and trains have been dis
| covered.
Mgr. Satolli has rendered decision con-
demning the liquor traffic, ard approving the
expulsion Of liquor dealers from Catholic So
| oieties.
:; Tho elections In New South Wales have re.
suited in the defeat of the government and
| the return OF IS free trade, B0 projection aud
8S labor members.
Governor Altgeld and Mayor Hopkins en-
deavored to have General Miles withdraw the
| regulars Tuesday, but the latter did not be-
| lieve the time had come yet.
John Howarth and Engineer Martin Kelly
were found guilty of contempt OF court by
Judge Ross ut Los Angeles and each sem
tenccd to eight months in jail.
A passenger train was wrecked at Battle
| Creek, Michigan, on the 18th, resulting In
the death of the fireman and injuries to
others. 1t was caused by the removal Of
spikes.
4The officials of the Union Pacific road have
decided to keep the shops in wyoming and
Idaho closed for some time, as they are not
needed. This will throw 800 men out OF en-
ployment.
| f. II. Leonard, who was postmaster of
Boise City, Idaho, for four months past, and
who disappeared mysterlously June 25. is
known to be q defaulter in the sum OF 81. 800.
| He had been in trouble of q similar kind be-
fore.
A cablegram received at the marine hos
pital bureau from Surgeon Fairfax Irwin, In
| Berlin, says that the cholera situation In st.
! Petersburg Is serious. On Monday there
were 2lS cases and more than IL 500 cases have
appeared since July l.
A resolution indofsing the action Of Debs
| In the Pullmen strike, and inviting him TO go
to Indiana and become candidate for gov
ernor, was passed by three majority at the
session Of the Independent Federation Of
| Trades Labor unions.
| THE engagement ia announced Of the eldest
daughter of the late Rt Hon. Arthur We'll
lesley Peel, ut one time speaker OF the House
| of Commons, to Ferdinand j. de Rothschids,
| member of Parliament for the Mileebury
| division of Duckinghamshire.
BY an explosion of 200 sticks OF dynamite
| In the Stockton colliery near Hazelton, Penn
sylvania, on the 18th, dozen miners wero
blown In pieces. The explosion took place
while the dynamite was being distributed to
the miners, but how 1t was caused is not
known.
Charles W. Bartlett, confeetioner, who was
prosecuted under the Sunday law at Cam
bridge, Massa chusetts, for delivering ice
| cream on Sunday, has been acquitted, the
| court ruling that the ordinance under which
| the complaint was made Is illegal and inoper-
ative.
The federal troops moved out Of Chicago
| on the 10Th. The Ninth regiment from Madl-
| son barracks, Sacketts harbor, New York, left
on special train over the Lake Shore. All
| of the other troops marched to Fort Sheridan.
| The troops going to Fort Sheridan include the
| Fifteenth regiment and the details from Forts
Riley, Brady, Leavenworth and Niobrara
Refugees arriving at Panama from Port
Limon report reign of terror on the Mos
| quito coast since the Nicaraguans took charge
! Of affairs there. The settlers, both Ameri-
cans and British, are said to be encouraging
the Indians TO drive out the Nicaraguans and
the trouble is not over yet.
The Kansas Pacific bondbolders committee,
of which Silas p. butcher is chairman, has
entered suit In the United States circuit court
for New York in the name Of John Quincy
Adams against Russell Sage and the estate Of
Jay Gould to recover $11 100000, being tho
proceeds of securities alleged to have been
taken from the trust.
Eugene v. Debs, George W. Howard, L.
W. Rogers and Sylvester Keliher, the officers
Of the American Railway Union, were COM
mitted to Jail Tuesday by Judge Seaman in
the United States court for alleged violation
of the Injunction issued by Judges Wood and
Grosscup. The four leaders of the strike in
reality went to Jail in default Of bail, for the
court offered them their liberty until next
Monday, when they will have hearing on
the charge of contempt. Their bail was fixed
At e., 900 each, but the men refused to give 1t,
and the court committed them.
A caisson of Battery F, secor' Artillery,
U. 8. A., exploded with terrible st Mon-
day afternoon at Grand and Boule-
Yards, Chicago. Two artillet '~r nd one
trooper were Instantly killed score
of other pcrsons-troopers ddeE, in the
vicinity and passcrs-by-wer. INJURED, some
of them fatally. The explosion occurred as
the troop were out exercising. 1t was proba-
bly, caused by a leakage of powder which was
exploded by jolting. Two Of the men were
blown to pieces. All the windows In the
vicinity were broken The houses were pep