Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-05-02
T"irgr~phic Brsyit,e,

uoheu loTty cOnNlctS IuurSudy.
Forest fires are again raging in Wis
consin. The loss will be immense.
AT chicken fight at Leon, Mexico,
the amphitheater collapsed, killing six
men.
The noted outlaw, Bill Cook, has
been taken to Albany for imprison-
ment.
Colonel Franklin Fairbanks, the
great scales man is dead at st. Johns
burg, Vt
Mrs. Della Parnell, who was at
tackled on the street, Is In dangerous
condition.
Evictions Of Pullman tenants will be-
gin May 4. Two hundred notices have
been served.
Mgr. Satolli Sunday laid the corner
stone of a new school in POttsville,
Pennsylvania.
General Ballington Booth of the Sal
walton army, is going to become an
American citizen.
Stringent license laws are closing So
looms and reducing the sales OF cigar
cites in Indiana.
The hearing of evidence in the Car
son mint shortage case continues De-
hind closed doors.
G. P. Huntington, president OF the
Southern Pacific railroad has been ar
rested for issuing pass.
Ex-County Treasurer NJ. w. Stewart
Of Wyandotte county, Missouri, Is saiu
to be $2S,275 short in his accounts.
Methodist Episcopal bishops OF the
whole world are now in session at car
Isle, Pa. Their conferences are secret.
Madelkzs Pollard, of Breckenridge
Pollard fame, is going to Europe as u
travelling companion to wealthy iaay.
The Hearst School for Girls at Wash
ington City, for which Mrs. PhoeDe
Hearst donated $175,OOO, will begin TO
be erected this summer.
The New Foundland Legislature has
voted Its disapproval Of the terms on
which Canada will allow that country
to enter the federation.
Henry Piper Of San Francisco has
been arrested on charge Of stealing
gold and silver from the Carson mint.
st. Marks church, New York city,
Sunday celebrated the Tooth anniver-
sary Of the laying Of the cornerstone.
The doings of messiah" George
Jacob Schweinfurth, are being investi-
gated by the grand jury at Rockford,
Ill.
The attorney general has decided
that nominations of naval cadets made
by Congress after noon of March 4, are
void.
At Falls Of Schuylkill, Pa, the carpet
and plush mills Of James DObson have
shut down because the employees de-
manded an Increase of wages.
John L. Sullivan distinguished him
self the other day by going to the aid
of q woman whose clothes had caught
fire. Notwithstanding his efforts she
was fatally burned.
Secretary Gresham has given an opin-
ion that American merchant ships IN
foreign waters cannot afford asylum to
persons against the demands OF regular
officers with warrants.
The bill to remove the police magis-
trates Of New York city has been
passed by the Senate, yeas 20, nays L.
The bill now goes to the Assembly for
concurrence in the amendments.
An explosion Of Photographic mate
rails in Washington caused slight
fire in the basement of the patent office.
A. l.. Flint, an employe, was quite Sc
verely burned, and had to be taken to
the hospital.
Judge Thomas, the assistant attorney
general for the postoftice department,
says that the new lottery law has been
a complete success, and that 1t has
practically exterminated the evil In
this country.
The body recently found in Cuba,
thought to be that Of General Maceo,
the insurgent leader, turns out to have
been that of his brother, subordinate
officer. The Spanish still claim 1t to be
the general himself.
The Russian government has Issued
an ukase forbidding Nine. Modjeska
to appear in the Russian theaters on
account of a speech which she deliver
ed at the Worlds Fair, attacking the
government on it's attitude toward
Poland.
The Dime Savings bank at Whitman
tic, Connecticut, closed on the 2}rd.
The last bank commissioners report of
this state shows that the savings bank
had on October 1, 2,S77 depositors,
$626, ,391 on deposit and surplus of
about $23, 700.
The first bimetallic league has been
formed in Cincinnati, to be indepen-
dent of any political party, its princi-
pal object being to secure the free and
unlimited coinage of gold and silver
without waiting for the action of any
other government.
A QlSpatCu u tuC 1iucS lTVIu AOUe
saws that on April IT and IA flfty-eight
transports left Ujinilla for Telien Wan
with 10000 Japanese troops. 1t is be-
lieved that these troops are destined to
make a descent upon 'raku and Shan
hi-wan directly the armistice shall ex.
pire.
The government of Japan has issued
a statement denying that 1t has con-
cluded an offensive and defensive al
lance with China and declaring that
the commercial advantages secured by
Japan under the terms of the treaty
will be enjoyed by the other powers
under the most favored nation"
treaty.
A dispatch from Montreal says: The
town Of st. Jerome, about forty miles
from this city, is completely flooded,
the worst damage being done in the vi
cinity Of the big paper mills The flood
was caused by the overflow Of the river
Abez. owing to an immense ice gorge.
There is fully five feet Of water in the
main street. Communication is pos
sible only In boats.
John L. Waller, formerly American
consul at Tamatave, was brought to
Marseilles on the steamer Djemmah,
after having been tried by a French
court martial and sentenced to twenty
years Imprisonment on the charge Of
having been n spy in the interest Of