Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-05-23
TELEGRAPHIC BREvIrIES

held May 23
Earthquake shocks at Athens,
Greece frightened the residents Of that
city badly Friday.
Fourteen mad dogs were killed Sat
urday In st. Joseph, Missouri. Several
little boys We're bitten.
Fire destroyed the Wisconsin paper
and pulp mill at Stevens Point Wis
consin. Loss $15O'OOO.
Ii Tfen Fang, son of Ii Hung Chang,
has been appointed to hand over the
island Of Formosa to Japan.
French troops near Maravoay, NADIA
gascar, defeated large body of HOvas,
leaving sixty dead on the field.
Billy Sunday, formerly favorite
league baseball player, Is holding mar
velous revival meetings In Ottumwa,
Iowa.
The Chinese national debt aggregates
only f1O,OOO.OOO with interest ranging
from 10 to Z per cent, the last rate be-
ing paid on the amount borrowed just
before the war.
Reuters telegram agency of London
has obtained Judgment on a libel
suit recently brought against the New
York Sun.
The exports of gold last week
dry goods, 81 ,6G7 ,223; general merchan-
disc, $7,49S,67G.
New York and Denver parties have
bought eight mines on the Colorado
river, in Arizona, and will Immediately
erect stamp mills.
Rev. Minot J. Savage, Of Boston, Sun
day uttered a stirring protest against
the treatment of Armenian subjects by
the Turkish government
New Foundland despairs Of con-
federation. England declines to assume
one-third of the debt of the railway
and Canada refuses to assume the
whole.
Thirty persons We're burned to death
and the town completely destroyed by
n fire that broke out at Brest-Kitewis-
XII, Russian Poland, Saturday after
noon.
Pressure Is being brought to bear on
the Canadian government to prevent II
possible, the construction of Il canal by
Americans from Lake Michigan to the
Ohio river.
A terrible accident occurred on the
new river steamer Unique, in Lake st.
Clair. which caused the death Of two
men and probably third. 1t was due
to burst in the boiler.
The budget estimates of the French
premier and minister of finance, NJ. RI
bot, for 1896, propose several Increases
in taxation in order to provide for
deficit of 55,O0O,OOO francs.
A collision of some Catholic societies
with the liberal associations occurred
at Antwerp Sunday afternoon and the
police We're obliged to charge the mob.
Many arrests were made.
1t is said that State Senator House
holder Of Kansas is insane from the
effects of the Mary Ellen Lease inves-
tigatiOn. He has been taken home
from Topeka to Columbus.
A boarding house at Muncie, Indiana,
was blown up by dynamite yesterday
afternoon, and six boarders were hurt.
The husband and son Of the landlady
have been arrested on suspicion.
President William ii. Thompson of
the st. Louis Bank of Commerce, has
issued an order forbidding every en-
ploye of the bank from attending horse
races. under penalty of dismissal.
Mrs. Frank Leslie is going to Eng
land to visit her X-mOther-in-law, Lady
Wilde, and to do what she can to COM
fort that lady in her trouble in the dis
graceful scandal in which her eldest
son, Oscar Wilde, has cut so prominent
figure.
Ex-Presdent Harrison says regard
ing the report that he has permanently
retired from law practice, that 1t Is
mistake. He will not engage in any
more jury trials away from home and
will confne mainly his practice to ar
guments before the courts.
1t is stated that China has asked ia
pan for an extension of the time in
which the former country Is to hand
over the island Of Formosa to the
Japanese, pending consideration of
further proposals. Japan, 1T Is said,
has declined the proposition.
The grand division Order of Railway
Conductors has voted $4,000 of their
100000 cash resources to conductors
who participated in the Lehigh Valley
strike in November, 1893. OF 400 in
the strike only 1S0 are benefciaries Of
the fund. They have not been rein
stated
J. Villegas, a Mexican wool buyer,
has purchased 100000 pounds Of the
Texas wool clip which he has shipped
to Mexico. He is buying large quand-
ties for shipment, and this being the
first time that wool has been sold to
Mexico, the opening of the new market
will be closely watched. Eastern buy
ers are operating very carefully.
The governments $15,OOO,OOO suit
against the estate of the late Leland
Stanford, will be tried in the United
States court early in June. An agree
ment to this effect has been reached be-
tween counsel. The agreement was
made because of Mrs. Stanford's anx-
iety to have the case out Of the way, for
1t stands over her as perpetual men-
ace, and hampers the fulfillment of the
purposes specified in her husbands will.
r. G. Dun & Co.'S weekly review Of
trade shows a steady enlargement in
domestic trade. Wheat has risen five
cents, corn has advanced slightly, cot
ton is stronger and there is no notice
able change in. wool Bessemer iron
has risen and good news of the week
is the advancing of wages ten per cent.
In the Carnegie Iron Weeks and other
concerns. The severe cold snap has
done great damage to fruits, but not
injured the larger crops.
The coal strike in the Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania, district has been broken
by the voluntary return of the miners
to work at the old prices. The miners
agree to give up the labor organiZa-
tions.
During 1894 the United States pro-