Rocky Ford enterprise., 1896-02-20
TELEGRAPHIc BREvlTIEs

Grand Rapids suffered a loss of $780,
600 by fire on the 18th.
The bituminous coal men of the East
are trying to organize u pool.
Senator Quays friends announce
that he will be candidate for presi-
dent.
Five children and three adults were
burned to death in a tenement house
fire In London.
London is skeptical concerning the
report that DR.. Nansen has discov.
cred the North pole.
Sir John Millais will succeed the hate
Lord Leighton as president of the Roy
al academy at London.
President Dole of Hawaii reports
that the people Of all the islands Of the
republic seem perfectly contented.
The hull of the steamship st. Paul
was found to be practically uninjured
~ Its experience In the sands Of New
Jersey.
DR.. Carleton Simon of New York
claims to have discovered a method for
photographing the brain without the
use Of X rays.
Amelie Rives Chanler, the novelist,
Is to marry a Polish prince of some
note in the literary world-Prince
Tranbetzkoi.
The story of an English vessel TAX
Ing soundings at the mouth Of the ORR
noco provokes much warlike comment
In Venezuela.
Debate In the British Parliament on
the 18th showed a strong feeling In IA
vor Of arbitrating disputes with the
United States.
Governor and Mrs. Morton gave a
dinner Saturday night to twenty-eight
guests at the executive mansion In Al.
bany, New York.
The 100 soldiers of Fort Omaha who
are said to have engaged In or wit.
messed the prize fight in Sarpy county,
Nebraska, will be arrested.
Queen Victoria has issued a letter
thanking her subjects for their sym.
pathy In her grief over the loss Of
Prince Henry Of Battenburg.
Edwin A. Abbey, the American artist
who has resided In England for many
years, has been elected an associate
member of the Royal academy. e.
At Delaware. Ohio. Friday. the sen.
iors and Juniors In the college engaged
In disgraceful riot, In which several
girls and boys were severely injured.
A strike is talked OF among the EN-.
ployes Of Eastern shoe manufacturers.
The Prohibition convention at Lin
coin. Nebraska, adjourned after indors-
Ing the Bimetalllc league.
Another story Of alleged traffic In the
scalps OF wolves and foxes comes from
the Dakotns, and the officials of those
states are said to be trying to locate
the source Of supply In Chicago.
According to advices received from
Alaska. the bank OF Juneau, Alaska,
has failed, owing depositors about $15..
COO. There are no assets. The cashier
has been arrested for embezzlement.
Owing to the rapidity with which the
work OF constructing naval vessels Il
being pushed. no less than eight ships
Will be added to the naval lists aud be
ready for commission before the frst
Of next July.
Abraham White. Boston clerk with.
out any money. secured an option on
100000 Of the bond issue and has
made over $4,000 profit by selling one
to make S15O,OOO.
The United States mints at San
Philadelphia and New Or
sVSs"S ube 1T Woth CtIuIuE
yer. and II is expected that they will
not stop until from $4,000. 600 to $40.
OOO.O has been coined.
The proposed pool Of the white pine
men Of Minnesota. by which II wns
hoped TO bring about curtaiiment Of
the cut. Is now said to be impossible, |
owing to the refusal Of the Menomonie
to cooperate.
In New York the executive commit
tee Of the Tammany organization has
indorsed the appointment
Or John @. Sheehan ns chairman OF the
finance committee. which carries with
It the leadership OF Tammany.
Edward II. Mastcrson was killed at
New Brunswick. New Jersey. on the
lith. He tried to restrain man from
the railroad track In front Of
4 locomotive. and the man In his anger
showed Masterson upon tie track.
The British and Foreign Arbitration |
has delegated one Of its
vice presidents to visit the United
States In order TO obtain matter for n
report to the association upon the Ven
,zuclan boundary dispute and It's out.
,omc.
The coroncr's Jury In the case OF |
Pearl Bryan. sitting Mt Newport, Ken
lucky. have decided that she was muir
Tered in that place. and Jackson and
will he taken there. though
Cincinnati officials nre inclined to op-
pose II.
The London Times suggests that.
England appoint strong aud indc.
pendent commission to investigate
dispute for the enlighten.
nent Of Parliament and the public. as
'arly as the Washington commission
,hnll report.
II is rumorcd that there Is convincing
,vidence that the jameson raid was
wholly instigatcd and the expenses de-
'rayed by six well-known iinanciers,
German subjects, and with.
,ut the knowledge OF the South Afri.
an company.
The convention between the govern.
nent of the United States and that Of
ircnt Britain for arbitration OF the
'lnims for damages made on account
II the Bering sea sealing vessel seiz-
Tres was received by the Senate In ex-
cutive session Wednesday.
The Palisades OF the Hudson nre to
Nc preserved. The bill prepared by
he commissions appointed by the gov.
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