Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-05-09
TELEoRAPHIc BREviriEs.

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sion of powder mill at South Acton,
Mass.
Three new steamers will be placed in
service between Hong Kong and IA
coma.
Theodore Roosevelt has accepted the
Office of police commissioner in New
York City.
The trial Of Oscar Wilde for heinous
onenses resulted in a hung jury, and
another trial will ensue.
Mrs. Parnell is recovering from tho
enects of the murderous assault maoe
upon her a short time since.
The Tennessee Legislature has de-
clared Turney, Democrat. elected gov
ernor. Majority, 13 on Joint ballot.
After cloud-burst yesterday in Win
ona, Minnesota, one and sixty-two one
hundredths of an inch OF rain fell.
Henry Willard, ex-Northern Pacific
roiroad magnate, bought $4,000 worth
Of property from the Tacoma Land
company.
A congress Of tho women Of the Mis-
sissippi valley was held at st. Louis
last week to discuss various subjects
Of interest.
President Cleveland has written an
other letter denouncing silver. 1t was
addressed to Governor Stone Of Mis-
sissippi.
Wednesdays statement Of the condi-
ton Of the treasury shows: Available
cash balances, $1S2, 400 ,69S; gold re-
serve, SOL ,2S9, ,1O4.
In the Flat Top coal region, virginia.
1900 miners have gone out on strike
duction In their wages.
Tho Trnfe t,onk c1Oan6
Thursday. Assets $4,000; no liabili-
ties. 1t Is a voluntary suspension. ow-
ing to dull business.
Captain Beck has abandoned his in.
tention Of evicting tenants from the
Omaha Indian reservation, until tho
courts settle the matter.
Six hundred coal miners employed by
the Laurel Coal association, Kentucky,
struck yesterday for 70 cents ton In
stead Of IS cents ton.
Two thousand miners in the Yorkville
and Wheeling and Lake Erie mines,
Ohio, struck yesterday. pending the
signing Of scale of wages.
Half a dozen persons are dying at
Hiattville, Kansas, from poison put up
on their gums by travelling woman
dentist giving her name as DR.. Alberta
Oberlin.
During q severe storm Friday night.
Rudolph Schwerdefeger was killed by
lightning near Sutherland, Iowa. Peter
Stirmer, q farmer near Laurens, was
also killed In his house by lightning.
At Tacoma, WASH, the sale of land In
the Puyallup Indian reservation was
begun yesterday despite protests from
the Indians, who threaten to make
trouble IL any of the purchasers take
possession.
The Chickamauga Park commission
has completed the purchase of Gener Al
Sherman's battle ground at the north
end Of Missionary Ridge, Chattanooga,
and 1t now becomes a part Of the ma
tional military park.
The official report of the Investigation
concerning the alleged forgeries of
Chinese certificates issued at Boise
City, declares that an organized money
making conspiracy has existed for sew
eral years.
Norton Reed lies In the morgue at
Hartford as a result of the "Trilby"
craze, having committed suicide by ar
senic while harboring the hallucination
that he was under the hypnotic infiu-
ence of Svengali, the bad man Of Du
Maurier's novel.
A dispatch to the Standard from Ber-
lin says that Germany has concluded
contracts with leading German ship
ping companies for ten steamers to act
as cruisers In time of war. Among the
vessels there are the best line Of steam
ers running to New York.
There was a contest before Commis-
sioner Seymour Friday as to the owner
ship of patent for a cigarette-making
machine that is warranted to make five
miles Of cigarettes per day. The tobac-
co Is run out In an endless rope and fit
ted into an endless roll of paper and Is
then cut into the proper lengths.
John Hun, who Is said to have fallen
Easthoff, wealthy Californian, in
1893, has died at Matawan, New Jer-
sey. Hun nursed Eastoff twenty
years ago through an attack Of ty-
phoid fever when no one else would
60 near him, and the entire estate has
been his reward.
Princeton defeated Yale in their first
joint debate. The question debated
was: Resolved that under the circum.
stances the income tax Of 1894 was JUS
tifable." Yale took the negative. 1t
was decided that r. NJ. McElroy, Of
Princeton. presented the best argument
Of the evening, and that Frank Rail-, of
Yale. made the wittiest speech.
AVeWS DtCA EcCelFcu nOu1dk
Island, Alaska, on steamer Alki, that
the steamer George r. White of Sc
attic was wrecked in a gale on April
IA. Seventeen of the crew were either
drowned or frozen to death. Eight
reached shore and still survive. The
schooner Kodiak was also wrecked in
the same gale near the same place. but
no lives were lost.
A dispatch to the Times from Pekin
says: No decision has yet been reached
in regard to he ratification Of the treaty
of peace. Ii Hung Chang, the senior
Chinese peace envoy, has arrived in
Pekin and been given an audience by
the emperor, but what action was
agreed upon, If any, is a court secret.
No edict has yet been published cen
corning the result of the delibcratior
1t is officially announced in Lan,:,n
that the British government has agreed
IL the Nicaraguan government ad-
dresses q note to Rear Admiral Ste
phenson, accepting the terms of the
British ultimatum and undertaking un-
der the guarantee of the republic Of Sal
vador that the indemnity be paid in
London within fortnight, that the
British squadron will be withdrawn
from Nicaraguan waters.
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