Rocky Ford enterprise., 1896-07-16
TELEoRAPHlc sREvlrlEs.

iord. Maine, Is threatened unless the
agents for tie companies arrange u
settlement.
The House of Commons has decided
that the government OF India will have
to bear tie expense OF sending Indian
troops to the Nile expedition against
the Dcrvlshes.
The city auditors of Pittsburg have
finished an examination OF the books
Of ex.City Attorney Moreland and AS
sistant House. and report that So97 900
is unaccounted for
Two Americans. whose names are
unknown, were drowned in lake near
Bergen. Norway. There Is poss!bil!-
ty that they were Mr.. and Mrs. YOU
mans of New York.
Another expedition has been landed
safely on Cuban soil. 1t consists Of
sixty-four men and they had with them
100000 rounds OF ammunition. dyna-
mite. electric batteries, etc.
Cholera is still raging In Fayoum
province and elsewhere In Egypt.
There have been twenty-seven cases of
the disease. with nine deaths from It
among the Egyptian troops at Wady-
halfa.
Ex-Congressman Jerry Simpson, who
delivered the Fourth OF July grafton at
Fort Dodge, Kansas, was paid in sill
yer dollars, which required two sacks
to hold them, there being 200. Mr..
Simpson did not demur.
The CREAMS have elected provision
al government, decided to proclaim the
union of the island with Greece and ex-
pressed the hope that autonomy would
be granted the island under the sur
yeillance of the powers.
Last Sunday the Central Labor
union OF New York suspended Typo
GRAPHICAL union No. @ because the ma
chinists caring for the typesettinG ma
chimes refused to remain In the Inter-
national Machinists' union.
The bolt Of about 200 silver Republi-
cans, at Topeka, Kansas. from the st.
Louis platform, has resulted In the
gold standard men circulating petitions
pledsing slSners to vote for no one who
is not uncompromisingly for gold.
Fourteen desperate characters In Jail
at Guthrie. Oklahoma. Sunday night
overpowered the guards and escaped.
among whom were the two survivors
of the Dalton gang, Dynamite Dick
and Bill Doolin. A posse is after them.
A cloud burst at wegee creek. Ohio.
drowned Jamer Berey. wife and child.
md destroyed the Be.laire, GAINESVILLE
and Cincinnati railway bridge. tho
trestle on the Pittsburg & Ohio Valley
railroad. Presbyterian church and
OTHER buildings.
About $4,000 delegates to the Inter-
national Christian Endeavor are cx-
pectcd in the capital this week. Three
large tents have been pitched on va
cant lots just south Of the presidents
mansion. A large hall and several
churches will also be used.
The natural gas production in the
United States for 1905 is reviewed in
report of the geologist survey COM
piled by Expert Joseph d. Weeks. The
total value was $13,OOG.65O, against
S13,045,4OO In 1904. the value being
that of coal or wood displaced by gas.
AT Adairville. kentucky, on the
Fourth, Dick Younger. being drunk,
shot his pistol rather promiscuously,
and Marshal II. Fl. Harmon started at.
ter him, and both were found dead
about a mile from town shortly after
wards. each having cmpticd one cham-
bcr Of his revolver.
A dispatch from Madrid says that in
the Spanish Senate on Saturday Gen.
erals Gallcja and Pando were very Bit
ter in their expressions against the
United States. The former gentleman
declared that the conduct of the Unit
ed States in protecting the Cuban rt.-
els was most treacherous.
Captain W. s. J. Wiborg. Of the
steamer Horsa has surrendered him
self to complete the serving out of his
sentence OF one year and four months
imposed by Judge Bittler at Philadcl-
phia, for carrying on military cxpedi-
tion to take men and arms to Cuba to
aid the war against Spain.
The Arkansas convention Of the
newly elected national party. which
met at Little Rock, on Saturday, split
the Prohibition forces in that state by
agreeing to support Bently of Nebras-
ka for president, and nominating pres
idential electors and n full state ticket.
T. w. Miller Of Arkadelphia being pre-
scnted for governor. The new party
desires prohibition and free coinage
In the recent congressional election
held in Oregon, Thomas II. Tongue
the Republican candidate in the First
district, was elected by plurality OF
sixty-three over the Populist candidate
and in the Second district the silver
Republican candidate, w. r. Ellis, re-
ceiyed plurality of 37S over the Pop
ullst nominee. 1t Is estimated that the
silver majority in this state VIII be
about 10000.
The most remarkable pigeon flying
record ever made in the world was ac-
complished Saturday by bird belong