Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-09-12
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William Henry Hurlbut died In Ital
an the 9th

William Henry Hurlbut died In Italy
on the 9th.
Extensive transfers Of troops are be-
ing made In the West.
Mr.. Bland is speaking at various
points In Kansas and Oklahoma.
Six men were injured in the smash
Ing up of Wild West show train in
Arkansas, Friday.
A jury has been secured to try the
Durrant case at San Francisco and the
trial opened on the Bird.
Governor Altgeld of Illinois has been
subpoenaed to testify before the grand
Jury at Springfield of legislative corrup-
ton.
A commission of Cubans has been
sent to Peru to induce the latter coun-
try to recognize the insurgent govern
ment.
Pillsbury, the American, has won the
International chess tournament at Hast
lngs, England, over all the crack play
ers Of the world.
1t is expected that Contractor Bee
mer, to whom was awarded a lease OF
the Nebraska state penitentiary, will
have difficulty in getting possession.
The annual convention of mail car
riers opened at Philadelphia on Mon
day. Postmaster General Wilson de-
uNeTeu all uuuTeSS. rive lhouStuu Ciir-
riers were in the procession.
There have recently been several pet
ty quarrels between the rival parties
Of Samoans and there is danger of Il
most serious outbreak. Business in
the capital, Apia, is almost entirely sus-
pended.
Archbishop William II. Goss has un.
frocked and suspended from the priest.
hood Father NJ. J. Kelly, for slanderins
the Rev. Mother William, in charge of
a refugee home for women located In
Portland, Oregon.
Judge Bellinger at Portland, Oregon,
has sentenced ex-Collector of Customs
James Lotan, convicted of conspiring
to Illegally land Chinese. to pay fine
of $4,000. Seid Back, the Chinese mer-
chant who was convicted with Lotan
was fined $1,000.
Electric locomotive No. II, on the
Baltimore & Ohio railroad attained n
speed of sixty-one miles an hour in the
Baltimore tunnel Friday. The burst
of speed was made on the heavy grade
Of the tunnel and the engineers said 1t
was equivalent to seventy-five miles an
hour on level track.
The steamer New York arrived at
New York Friday night, bringing 400
cabin passengers, among whom are
many distinguished people, including
Sir Henry Irving, and Miss Ellen Ter
ry, Speaker Crisp, Senator Smith of
New Jersey and Senator Aldrich of
Rhode Island.
The Spanish government has yielded
| to the representations of the United
States in the matter of the place of
payment of the money in satisfaction
I of the Mora claim and will pay 1t in
Washington on the date agreed on, tho
1 18th instant. Forty per cent. of the
/, 81, 100000 will go to the lawyers.
Another supposed Jack-the-R Ripper
murder was discovered In London, at
Kensal Green. The victim was an un-
| fortunate woman of the outcast class,
and her throat was cut from ear to ear
and her head fearfully battered with a
stone. No trace has been discovered of
the murderer.
At Fayetteville, Tennessee, Thursday
night, Doc King, colored, arrested on
the charge of attempting to criminnlly
| assault Mrs. Charles Jones, near Fay
etteville, was taken from Jail by a
mob of 200 men and hanged. King
| protested his innocence, but he was
| identified by Mrs. Jones and her sister
as the guilty man.
By the decision of Judge Gilbert, con-
, Cured in by Judge Hanford, Receivers
| Oakes, Payne and Rouse must appear
| in the United States court for the
Northern District of Washington, in
Seattle, October 2, and defend them
selves against the charges of malad-
| ministration brought by Brayton Ives,
president of the Northern Pacific.
The French minister of the interior.
intimidated by the violence of the pop
ulation of Southern France, has made
a compromise on the question of allow
| ing the bull fights and has issued or
! ders to permit the bull fights In Pro-
venco, but on condition that the bulls
must not be killed in the Spanish man.
| ner.
The steamship Tacoma arrived at TIA.
| coma from the Orient, bringing 3,50t
tons of cargo, including 5000 tons OF
tea and 1000 bales Of silk. Her officer.
say that the cholera scare from Japar
is greatly exaggerated, and that tn,
scare there has not assumed the pro
portions indicated by some of the re
| ports.
In the municipal court at Boston
| Judge Ely, in the O'Brien- Walcott case
| held both men in $1,000 bond for the
Superior court on the charge of prize
| fighting. In his decision the judge de
clared that although the men did not
meet to contest for prize, they were
, fighting for n part of the gate receipts,
the contest took place according to q
previous arrangement, and each man
endeavored to knock out the other.
A dispatch from Madrid says that
Maragua, the former Spanish minister
at Washington, who resigned, has made
a public statement that he handed in
his resignation because he had proof
that the Conde de yendito was justified
when she fired at the Alliance, that the
American steamer carried contraband
goods, and was but mile and half
from the Cuban coast. He would not
consent that Spain should be put in the
wrong.
The $4,000 damage suit which Ber-
nard Murray Of Colorado brought
against ex-Congressman w. A. Harris
of Linwood, Kansas, for alternating the
affections of the formers wife, has
been settled by the payment to Mr..
Murray of $1,000 and the assumption
by Mr. Harris of all attorneys fees.
Mr.. Harris was very attentive to Mrs.
Murray and when his wife died a year
ago, he married Mrs. Murray, the latter
having secured divorce in the mean
time.
A call for non-political state con-
vention to take action to further the