Rocky Ford enterprise., 1895-01-24
TeleRraphic Brevitles.

Henry Schieffer has been appointed
postmaster at Durango.
A special from Mexico City, Mexico
says: Negotiations between Mexico
and Guatemala are positively declared
off.
The city marshal of Crawford, Ne
braska, shot and killed farmer named
Harris without provocation last Thurs
day.
The steamship La Normandie, which
sailed for Europe Saturday, carried
$3,5OO,OOO in gold, and the Umbria
$3.50, 900.
Avalanches in the canton of TIcino,
Switzerland, have caused great de-
struction of property. and loss of life.
All traffic is completely disorganized.
In the House of the Idaho legislature
a resolution to submit woman suf-
frage amendment to voters at the next
general election passed. 1t will be
signed at once by the governor.
The Duke Of Argyle, who tainted on
Tuesday night while speaking Mt Glas-
gov, has announced his retirement
from public life and in so doing has
cancelled all his engagements
The registrar of vital statistics for
New York reports that there were four
teen deaths from grippe for the twen-
ty-four hours ending Thursday morn
ing.
Mr.. McGarr, our charge at Santiago.
Chile, has Informed the state depart
ment that a new ministry was anounc-
ed there on the 7th of December and
has since been Installed. The cabinet
is Liberal.
All of the insurance managers In San
Francisco but two have signed the new
compact with the board or underwrit-
ers which went to pieces recently when
IA out of 1S managers withdrew. A
new and simpler constitution has been
adopted.
1t is officially announced that on the
morning of Jan. II, 1000 Chinese
troops from Lao Yang encountered the
Japanese to the northwest of Hal
Ching. The Chinese were repulsed by
sundown. Only one Japanese soldier
was killed and 40 were wounded.
A telegram from Syracuse says the
grand jury of Onondaigua county has
returned an Indictment of manslaugh-
ter in the first degree against Pugilist
Robert FitZsimmons for the killing of
his sparring partner, Con Riordan, In
an exhibition at the Jacobs opera
house, that city. Nov. IT.
The coal miners in st. Clair county,
Illinois, are again uneasy, and are talk
ing of striking for higher wages. The
Glen Carbon miners are dissatisfied and
f. w. Wilson and J. J. Flynn of that
place have been in Belleville the past
week urging the miners to take a de-
cided stand for increased wages.
1t Is believed steps are about to be
taken by our government to secure
England's consent to q modification of
the Paris awards having for Its object
the total suspension for specified
number of years of pelagic sealing
within the Behring sea. No measure
less heroic than this, 1t Is said, can pre-
vent the ultimate extinction of seal life
in these Northern waters.
The railroad authorities in San Fran
cisco have received information regard
Ing the derailment of the train in which
a brakeman was killed and other train
men, injured, convincing them that the
smash-up was the result Of deliber-
ate attempt to wreck the train. An
iron rod had been placed beneath the
switch keeping the rail out of place
and ensuring the accident.
The Sultan has issued an order ex-
empting the young ladies Of the Ameri-
can college at Scutari from all taxes
forever. The American legation has
obtained this concession after three
years of insistance. The United States
minister, Mr.. Terrill, has also obtained
the grand visier's orders that all letters
from American citizens in Asia Minor
are to be transmitted without interfer-
ence.