Rocky Ford enterprise., 1894-06-28
I.,ssr.ph,o Brevlsis.

The national prison congress will be held
In Denver next year.
The contract has at last been let for re.
building the Union depot at Denver
Erastus Wiman has been sentenced to Sing
Sing for fivo years and six months.
Bishop W. Perkins, ex-senator from Kansas,
died on the 10th Of cholera morbus.
The grand lodge OF Elks has split. Two
organizations will probably result.
Four men lost their lives in burning mine
At Birmingham, Alabama on the 10Th.
Tho British minister at Berlin has resigned
because Of rupture with the emperor.
Bill Dalton, the noted OUTLAW, is reported
killed by posse In the Indian Territory.
Judge Ross at Los Angelica has sentenced
ITO commonwealers to jail for train stealing
The Nebraska institution for the blind is In
trouble, rs the teachers have struck because
OF reduction In salary.
The banks Of New York have agreed to
furnish all the gold needed for export. This
will relieve the treasury.
comany has been formed at St. Joseph to
build the Williams sleeping cars. They Will
compete with the Pullmans.
The annual meeting OF Sangcrfcst societies
opened at New York on the 22rd. AscrIes OF
hne concerts will be given.
A Newfoundland fishing schooner Is report
cd to have struck an Iceberg aud sunk.
Twelve men were drowned.
The boat IN wnlcn party OF harvesters
were going from ireland to Scotland was cap
sized and thirty Of them were drowned.
Striking Huns at Walston, Pennsylvania,
arc arming, and an attempt to start work In
the coke works is sure to result In bloodshcd.
The Atchison road has Withdrawn from
the summer excursion agreement, as 1t
charges that the other roads arc violating 1t.
The Santa Fe road has been obliged to
abandon its track between Atohison and st.
Joseph on account Of encroachments by the
Missouri river.
The only Gun Wa-otherwise w. II. Hale
-is under arrest at New York and will be
brought to Denver for trial for fraudulent use
of the mails.
The largest and most costly organ in the
United States, II not In the world, the gift Of
Edward +. Searles to Grnce Episcopal church,
San Francisco, was dedicated last week.
The American Railway Union delegates
defeated the proposition to admit negroes to
tho organization by vote of lis 10 102.
President Debs was with the minority. Chi
cago will be the headquarters In the future.
Louisville, New Albany and Je1ersonville
have quarantlned against "General" Keily's
army of industrlals. As soon the "gen-
erar' 10 sighted he will be notified that he
must give Louisville awide berth.
Bad floods arc reported from Hungary. Sev-
eral lives were lost. Tho damage amounts to
many millions Of forlns The rivers are full
Of carcasses Of cattle and household property
The Sanders army was convicted OF having
obstructed the mails. They will be confined
at jails In several towns in Eastern Kansas
When the news was received by the army the
men made break for liberty and forty es-
capped.
A big convention of silver Democrats was
held at Omaha on the 21st, attended by 1000
delegates. Congressman Bryan voiced the
sentiment Of the convention In q speech urg-
ing the free coinage Of silver regardless Of
what other countries might do.
The Sons Of the American RevolutI on are
trying to persuade Postmaster General Bissell
to put picture Of the United States flag upon
the two-cent postage stamps. They even
threaten to go 70 Congress and have law
passed to make that permanent des Ign.
There have been indications OF serious
trouble at Walston, PennsylvanIa, owing to
the threats made by striking Huns and Poles.
They were arming and driving English.speak-
ing men from the town. The militia wA
sent to the place and the Huns became more
peaceable.
A mob at Round Pond, Oklahoma, blew up
the bridge OF the Rock Island with dynamite.
Just outside the corporate limits. The sheriff
is powerless. When tho train passed the city
short time before without stopping, accord
ing to ordinance, the engineer was shot at
twice.
Later dispatches from Hong Kong and Cam
ton confirm former reports OF the terrible eff
fects Of the black plague now raging there.
Hundreds OF Chinese die daily and the at
tempts Of the authorities to stamp out the dis
ease arc opposed by the ignorant natives. The
sanitary condition Of the cities Is terrible and
the results Of tho plague are certain TO be ap-
palling.
At the prison congress last Tuesday the
committee on criminal law reform reported.
It strongly criticised the sentence of prison
ers to fixed terms as vindictlve and barbarous,
. relic Of the dark ages, and recommended
sentences to depend on good conduct. In
corrigibles should be con fined for life re-
gardless Of the degree OF crimes. Prlson
discipline should be therapeutic and not vim
dictive. The old prison system has failed to
repress crime. The new prison science is
the hope OF the future.
The commonwcalers who were incarceFated
at Fort Sidney, Nebraska, attempted to es-
cape on the 10Th. According to n prenrranRed
plan deputies sent among the prisoners to get
the cooking utensils were overpowercd and q
rush made for the doors. but Marshal Lid
diard and Captain Cormack had their men on
the spot In a moment and the Coxcyitcs were
subdued. Several werc badly clubbcd. Tho
ringleadcrs were placed In the guard house.
Another sensational witness was before the
Lexow Police Investigating committee at New
York Tuesday. Frank Clark, bunco ateerer
and gambler, told how the, faro banks paid
running. and how the exclusive right to work
bunco In the Fourth ward was given to Ed.
Parmley on condition that an equal division
of the proceeds be made with the police.
Clark's story was explicit and strnightfor-
ward. He mentioned Police Justice Patrick
Divvcrs' saloon as the place where money
payments were made every week by bunco
men.
The Cree sun dance has just been conclud-
ed at Havre, Montana, after going on for
three days. Three braves were hung up by
thongs thrust into slits In their breasts, and
slashed by Little Eggs, the chief. All tainted
before the ordeal was over. A young buck
had slits cut in his shoulders, and to the In
serted thongs were tied four buffalo skulls,
which he dragged after him. Eighty pieces
of flesh were cut from his arms to be kept rs
tokens. Every sheriff In the state has been
instructed to prevent the dance In future.
Arrangements have been practically COM
pleted for an alliance Of the American Rail-
way Union, the Knights Of Labor and the
Farmers Alliance. A meeting to perfect the
organization will be held at Springfield, ILL
nois, on July End. The three organizations
represent ], 800, 900 men.
Driven from Indian Territory.
The United States troops are putting out Of
the Indian territory people who have no oc-
cupation or have refused to take ont permits.
II is estimated at least fifty prominent men
of McAllister, who have been classcd MS in
truders, will be transported to the Arkansas
tpa nd N rn