Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-12-12
TELEGRAPHIc RREvITIEs.
Durrants attorneys are arguing for a
naw trial

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new trial.
Comptroller Eckels reports forty-thret
national banks organized during las
year.
The wholesale district of indianapolis
suffered loss of half million by fire
on the 3d.
The employees at Ellis Island are
| charged with immoral conduct toward
the immigrants
Japan is reported to have bought one
of the transatlantic liners to be convert
ed into a cruiser.
David B. Hill of New York has aban-
doned his lecture tour in the northwest.
as his audiences were too small
James Stewart, mail carrier between
Sheridan and Shell, Wyoming, has been
arrested for robbing registered letters.
President Cleveland has nominated
Rufus II. Peckham of Albany, New
York, for justice of the Supreme court.
The strike of printers at Guthrie, Okla
homa, was declared off after twenty-four
hours, an agreement having peeh
reached.
A test of the Chicago fire department
the other day showed that the water
could be forced to the top of the Masonic
Temple-323 feet.
L. G. Benedict a close personal friend
of Mr.. Cleveland, says the president Will
soon make statement declining to run
for president again.
1t is reported that the 5000 Knights
of Labor in Canada intend to seced"
from the general assembly and form =
purely Canadian order
Margaret Mather. who three years ago
married the son of Pabst. the millionaire
brewer, has agreed to a.divorce, and will
receive 100000 alimony.
The English newspapers do not ap-
prove of President Cleveland's attitude
on the Venezuelan question. though they
like his ideas on finance.
The case of Zella Nicolaus against
George J. Gould for $4,000 check has
been compromised, she getting $4,000
with which to pay her lawyers -r 3.
An investigation at Washington dis.
closes the fact that the signatures OF
many great men have been cut out OF
public documents by autograph fiends.
The Northern Pacific Steamship COM
pany has not yet received any tidings
from the missing steamer Strathnev.s,
now forty-eight days out from Tacoma.
1t Is reported that all questions be-
tween Argentine and Chile have been
settled and that the two countries will
sign an agreement to restrict their arma-
ments.
The foreign missionary society has re-
ceived cable from the Island of NADIA
gascar saying that two of the missionar-
les at Antananarivo have been murdered
there during riot. Er f...g..
The proposition to- have a big celebra-
tin in 1898, OIL the semi-centenuial ami
yersary of the admission Of Wisconsin to
statehood has been received with general
favor all over the state.
The Spanish colony at Brownsville,
Texas. headed by Simon Celaya, consu-
lai representative of Spain, has raised
over $1,000 to be sent to the mother
country to aid in quelling the Cuban in
surrectiOn. .srs ~. ..i.l.lH -
Prominent Chicago Democrats charge
that three-quarters of million dollars
have been stolen from the Cook county
campaign fund within two years by
those in charge of 1t.
At negro cake-walk on the Rosebor
ough place, near B;rley, Texas, the
negroes ate good portion of 4 hog that
had been stopped by Its owner on
strychnine. Twelve have died.
A measure is to be introduced In the
Legislature of New York state during
the coming session whereby expert med.
cal testimony will be abolished in a trial
case.
The agricultural board of London has
notified Canada that as a result of tho
Of
landed In London from Canadian ports
all sheep must in future be slaughtered
at the port of debhrkation. ..-
Two ranchmen named Adams and
Anderson while driving home from
Cerillos were attacked by negro wifi
an ak and Adams will probably die. Tho
negro, was after money, but failed te
get it. He was captured the next day.
The report that Baron Won Koehler
the Pruss:an minister of the Interior had
been dismissed on account of the recen
strong measures he has instituted
against the socialists, ordering the clos
ing of their clubs and the searching ot
their residences. is confirmed.
J. NJ. Robb, the conductor of train No
80, which collided with the Santa r,
limited near Shoemaker, died at til,
company's hospital in Las Vegas at II
o'clock Tuesday. He was found Il
have been badly scalded, and death re
suited from this cause and inhalation o.
| steam.
Owing to locusts the sugar crop il
Zambesi will be almost a total failure
this year. according to the report Of q. 5
Consul Hollis, Mozambique. The pea
nut crop Is very short from the sam,
cause and great distress exists anon,
the natives, who are emigrating TO othe
sections.
Judge William r. Kelly has been Of
ficiany appointed general solicitor of th'
Union Pacific Railway company, to. sllc
ceed John NJ. Thurston, who resigned IL
/ order to take his seat in the United
States Senate. Judge Kelly has beer
| assistant general soncitor for the I'nlor
| Pacific for a number of years,
Rio Janeiro dispatch says the Bra
lillian council Of ministers has decided i
refuse to submit either the Trinidad dis
pute with England or the Amapa dis
| pute with France to arbitration. TIL
Trinidad dispute relates to the sovereign
ty of the little island of Trinidad am
the Amapa dispute to the boundary lin
Of French Guiana. UlH 60
The announcement from Washington