Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-10-24
TELE0RAPHiC BREvITIES.
'he Chilian cabinet has resigned.

lne tOWn OF blHucudFuS onlO, WdS
nearly wiped out by fire the other night.
The lemon crop in the Palmero dis
trict this year is at least twice as large
as last years crop.
John w. Mackay, Jr., was killed at
his home near Paris recently by being
thrown from n vicious colt.
Twelve fishermen were drowned dur
Ing a severe storm off the coast OF Brit
ish Columbia by the foundering OF
smack.
The Odessa correspondent of the
Times says cholera Is gradually increas-
ing in intensity throughout Southern
Russia.
Thirty persons were seriously injured
at New Orleans by the breaking down of
a pontoon bridge upon which they were
standing.
All the mines but three along the
Youghiogheney river In Pennsylvania
are closed by a strike against rsduc-
ton in wages.
An Odessa dispatch to the Times says
the Black sea Russian fleet has been
hastily ordered to cruise near the mouth
of the Bosphorus.
One hundred buildings in Algiers,
suburb of New Orleans, were destroyed
by fire. Some of them were built In
1912. Loss, $15O,OOO.
The government of Venezuela has pro-
vlded itself with modern armament and
among other supplies has ordered ten
Improved Maxim guns.
The largest swinging bell In the world
is to be cast in Cincinnati, Ohio, for st.
Frances de Sales church. The clapper
will weigh $40 pounds.
The naval ordnance bureau Is about to
begin at once the manufacture OF about
a hundred three-inch field guns at the
Washington gun factory.
A special dispatch from Buenos Ayres
says that the Brazilian Senate has ap-
proved the first reading of the restricted
amnesty bill of the House.
j. 8. Rhodes, a secondhand goods
dealer of Topeka, Kansas, bought
stove from Robert Giles and found Sc.
creted in 1t 81 600 in greenbacks.
The Spanish government has appro-
priated $4,000 pesetos about $6O,OOO
for the purchase of astronomical instru-
ments for the Madrid observatory.
The pay car on the Grand Rapids &
Indiana road was wrecked near CeylOn,
Indiana, and John Mallet, James Gil
son and William Browne were killed.
An open switch did the business.
The North German Lloyd Steamship
company has ordered from a ship build
ing firm at Govan, a suburb Of Glasgow,
two steamships whose dimensions will
exceed those Of the Campania and the
Lucania.
Two new gunboats for the United
States navy were launched at Newport
News on the 10th. They were chris
tened the Nashville and Wilmington. in
honor of the cities Of those names In Tell
nessee and Delaware.
A Vienna dispatch to the London
Chronicle says the sugar trust, compris-
ing all but two of the Austro- Hungarian
refineries, has been formed to limit the
yearly output OF sugar for two years 10
quarter of million tons.
1t is reported that the Russian minis
ter has protested against the maladmin-
istration Of state affairs in COrea by the
Tai Won Kun, the father Of the king.
and has demanded that the king should
administer affairs. 1t is believed that
IL the protest is ignored an ultmatum
will follow.
As the French advanced upon the cap
ital Of Madagascar, the anh-European
feeling became intense. mob muir
dered and mutlated French prisoners,
and 1t was only the appearance Of the
French troops on the heights that pre-
vented the massacre of the English in
the mission hospital.
A special to the Herald from st. Pc
tersburg says: Russia at present Is in
clined to allow Japan a free hand in
Corea in connection with the present
outbreaks. As sign Of pacific inten-
tions, the governor of the Amoor, Cell
eral Doukhovsky, has been granted
leave of absence to come to st. Peters
burg.
The Paris correspondent of the Times
says the heart of Kosciusko, the Polish
patriot, enveloped in Polish flags, has
been deposited in the Rapperswljl cha
teau by the wives and daughters Of the
Polish exIles. Hundreds of kilograms
of congratulation were received, depu-
tations were present and stirring ad-
dresses were made. 1t was an impress
sIve ceremony.
The Switchmen's Union of North
America was in session at Omaha last
week and elected the following officers:
Grand Master, D. d. Sweeney, Jersey
CITY (re-elected); vice grand master.
John e. Wilson. La Crosse, Wisconsin;
grand secretary and treasurer, John
Daugherty, Kansas City, Kansas (re-
elected. The next convention will be
held at Pittsburg.
Ex-senator Manderson Of Nebraska
will be given hearing by Secretary
Carlisle on the question raised by him
In the sugar bounty cases as to the jur-
isdiction of the comptroller Of the treas
ury. After Comptroller Bowler's decis
lon to send the cases to the court Of
claims, Secretary Carlisle promised the
sugar men that he would hear them If
they desired on this question. Mr.. Man.
derson thinks that he will win.
The corrected official speed made by
the United States ship Indiana on her
trial trip has been reported to Secretary
Herbert. 1t shows the speed to have
been 15.547 knots per hour The con-
tract for the construction Of the ship
called for a speed of fifteen knots. The
Cramps, under the contract. are to re-
ceive bonus of So, ,OOO for each quar-
ter knot made above contract require
ments. She is the fastest ship of her
class in the world.
Considerable excitement prevails In
the Lebanon district Of Syria, owing to