Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-10-10
rELEoRAPHic sREvirIEs.

The Texas Legislature has adjourned.
Ex-senator Malone was reported dy-
Ing on the 9th.
The next place of meeting for the Els
teddfod will be Denver.
The number of deaths from cholera
in Morocco are reported as 700.
AT Pemberville. Ohio, three men were
asphyXiated in a well which they We're
excavating.
Two thousand volunteers for service
IN Cuba yesterday presented themselves
at Madrid.
An employe of the geological gardens
at st. Louis was killed by a vicious elk
few days ago.
Crops in New Jersey are damaged
and in some instances wholly lost by
the water famine.
A poll of the Texas legislators indi-
Gates that they will pass a strong law
against prize fighting.
Cholera is still raging in Yokohama
and the death rate has not been dimin-
ished In northern Japan.
Ex-Governor Waite will spend
week in Kansas making speeches in
support of the Populist ticket
Secretary Morton has issued an order
that all beef offered for expectation
shall be accompanied by an inspectors
certificate
| William X. Hearst of the San F'ran
cisco Examiner has bought the Morn
ing Journal and will Immediately take
charge Of it.
| 1t is announced that China has ac-
corded full satisfaction to France for
the recent attack made upon the French
missions in China.
The Des Moines City Water Com
pany, after a long fight In court. has
surrendered to the city, which will re-
duce rates 40 per cent.
The government Of San Domingo has
placed an order at Glasgow for gun
boat which is to carry nine quick-tiring
guns and to have a speed of fourteen
knots.
At the invitation of Secretary Herbert
| Miss Ida Schieren, daughter of the
mayor of Brooklyn, will christen the
new cruiser Brooklyn when 1t is
launched.
In Emporia. Kan. Judge Randolph,
Of the District court. handed down all
important homestead decision, holding
that homestead once properly acquired
can be held by single man.
Judge Hanford has cited Receiver
Payne and his associates to appear and
show cause why they should not be
punished for contempt for not obeying
an order to report to the court.
President Cleveland will probably
leave Gray Gables for Washington
some time during the present week.
Mrs. Cleveland and the three children
will remain for week or two longer.
The Cheyenneand Arapahoe indians
| on hn tor, 0f I
r.. have become ugly and are holding
war dances and disregarding the agents
orders to keep on the reservation.
The Asiatic squadron, which has been
concentrated at Chez Foo, has dis
persed. The flagship Baltimore has
gone to Nagasaki, the Yorktown TO
Chemulpo and the Concord to Shanghai.
Emperor William has sent an auto
graph letter to the czar Of Russia. Al
though the contents Of the letter are
unknown, the sending Of it is regarded
as an act of great political Importance.
A japanese syndicate is soon to put
on steamship line between Japan AMI
some point on the north Pacific coast.
and Seattle is making strong effort
to secure the American terminus of
the line.
Illinois miners Of the Springfield dis
| trict met in convention on the 30th. 1t
was decided by unanimous vote to de-
mand 60 cents per ton gross weight
after October 5. The present price IS
30 cents.
The major generals from whom the
| selection to succeed Gen. Schofield
might have been made are Gen. Miles,
! zen. Thomas II. Ruger and Gen. Wes-
ley Merritt. or these Gen. Miles was
| the ranking officer.
The Armenian patriarch In Constan-
tinOple has received list of the names
of 400 Armenians who have been miss
ing since last Monday. exclusive of
| ninety-two bodies which have been sent
TO the Armenian hospital.
Joel Mcdonald was knocked down
| mine shaft at Wellington, Michigan. by
Cyrus w. Slater and sustained injuries
from which he cannot recover The
men had been quarreling over money.
Slater is said to be Denver man.
Senator Blackburn in an interview
denounced the press Of Kentucky for
| its misrepresentation of the silver
cause. According to Mr.. Blackburn
silver Is the only issue now before the
country and will be the only issue next
year.
The executive committee of the Gu
ban sympathetic mass meeting, held in
| Chicago Monday night. has, by circular.
urged every city and town in the corn-
| try to call national mass meetings,
| Thursday. October 81. to evoke sympa
thy for the struggling patriots.
| The special state committee of anti
woman suffragists, headed by Mrs.
John V. Pruyn of New York City. has
issued an address to the electors Of the
state of New York urging them not to
vote for members for the Legislature
who favor woman suffrage.
A syndicate of paper manufacturers
of New York expects to buy all the
mills of the trade in New England and
| New York on a basis of $1S.OOO.OOO al
lowing S17,OO0.OOO for timber tracts.
! franchises and other rights, capitaliz
ing the monopoly at $50, 100000.
| Eastern Pennsylvania and New Ter
sey are suffering from a water famine,
rivers and small streams having be-
come dry. The result is paralysis of
the manufacturing interests at Pitts
burg eleven trainloads Of water going
| there daily from Altoona, the only town
in Central Pennsylvania having su-
perabundant supply.
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