Rocky Ford enterprise., 1898-09-01
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TO pay on troops.
i. Bismarck's estate Is said to aggre.
gate about 100000.
The American Bar Association met at
Saratoga on the 18th.
Naval reserves returning to Detroit
were given rousing welcome.
The President and Cabinet will re.
view Skaters army at Montauk Point.
Seven men were killed by falling
earth In railroad tunnel near Pitts
burg.
Spanish soldiers are reported to have
killed many defenseless people In Porto
Rico.
Fully 125,OOO New Workers. went to
Staten Island Sunday to see the war
ships.
Printers of the country threaten to
strike for nine.hour work day in Oc-
tober.
The first coaches for the Alaskan
railway were shipped from Seattle Sat
urday.
President Mckinley has cabled his
congratulations to Admiral Dewey and
General Merritt.
Miss Clara Barton has gone to Ha-
vana to investigate the needs of the
Cubans whereabouts.
Minstrel Manager Haverly has be-
come bankrupt again, this time with
liabilities at $327,749.
Fighting is reported in remote por-
tons Of the Philippine Islands betweeS
Spaniards and insurgents.
Miss Helen Gould has given $4,000
to purchase food and delicacies for the
Ill and wounded soldiers In Camp
Wikoff.
Five sons Of farmer. living near
Minneapolis who were sleeping In the
barn We're burned to death by fire
started by lightning.
The new torpedo boat destroyer.
Farragut, just launched by the Union
Iron Works ut San Francisco, made
thirty knots an hour.
The British government hns directed
the governor of Hong Kong to accept
Admiral Dewey's application for per-
mission 70 dock and clean his ships ut
Hong Kong.
The Pullman Car Company Is report
ed to have offered the government
good price for the Fort Russell reser
walton, near Cheyenne. for use as
site iOE iuise ShE iepuiE ohpps.
The firm of Solomon & Koppel OF
Bogota are financicriny the payment Of
the unsettled portion OF the Cerruti
claim, the arrangements to eliminate
Mt the expiration Of eight months.
The President has promoted Captain
Charles ID. Sigsbec. u. s. n, now COM
manding the st. Paul, by advancing
him three numbers on the list Of cap
tains In the navy for extraordinary
heroism."
London advices on the 22nd showed
that silver was very strong OH re-
newed demand from Spain. The New
York quotation accordingly advanced
over Saturday from 59h to 59s.. a
continued upward movement Is looked
for.
1t is tho opinion of the officials OF the
Treasury Department that there will be
no necessity for another bond issue
growing out OF the war, and that the
present revenue law, with possibly
slight notifications, should be retained
on the statute books for an indefinite
period.
The attorney general has rendered IN
opinion In which he holds that word
goods In the new war revenue meas
ures, us applied to packages sent by
express or freight, includes packages
of money, and. therefore. the bill Of
lading given the sender must have
revenue stamp affixed thereto.
A New York dispatch says that Ted.
dy Roosevelt will be the Republican
nominee for governor this fall. This
was practically decided upon Mt
meeting of the leaders OF the Plat ma.
chine Monday afternoon. 1t wns n hard
dose for Mr.. Plat, but Roosevelt is
regarded us the only Republican who
can win.
The largest American flag In the
country, Its dimensions being sixty by
100 feet, was flung TO the breeze at Ty.
rome. Pennsylvania, last week. In the
presence OF vast concourse. The flag
floats fifty feet above Juninta river,
suspended between two mountain tops
from n galvanized wire cable, half an
inch thick, stretched from peak to
peak, $500 feet.
Two private soldiers of Battery X.
Seventh United States artillery. were
instantly killed and two others serious
ly injured by having their heads
crushed against the iron Orders OF the
railway bridge Mt the Ridge Avenue
crossing of the Pennsylvania railroad
in. Philadelphia. The men were wav-
Ing adieus to the crowds, and leaning
far out of the car windows.
A London paper says that the Rus
sian government Is providing thou
sands Of Moujiks who have completed
their three years military service, with
Inducements of free passage. nm outfit
such as horse. cows, oxen and imple-
ments and n loan, repayable on easy
installments, to emigratc to China and
form colonies. thus forming n splendid
available fighting contingent IL neces-
sary.
Colncident with the West Indian
sugnr conference to assemble Mt Bar.
BADGES ON September Bird. for the pur.
Dose of nrnfestinr nrninsf n sncriflcn