Rocky Ford enterprise., 1898-06-02
TELEoRApHic sREviTIEs.

| KANSAS IL 10 ScIu u cutioHu VI 'Hh'
celled mortgages to the Omaha expo
sition ms Its exhibit.
Spain is trying to borrow 21oWo,oOo
pcsetas In France, giving her tobacco
monopoly as security.
There was n great demonstration In
favor OF the Anglo.American alliance
ut Toronto on the 10Th.
Rumors are thick IN Washington
that the Austrian minister Is aiding
Spain In her spy work In this country.
Our government is Investigating the
report that Germany has allowed III"
shipment Of cannon to Spain recently.
The Presbyterian general assembly
at Winona Lake. Indiana. adjourned
to meet next year nt Minneapolis,
| Minnesota.
Two men robbed the bank at Spring
vile, Utah. Saturday. but We're pur-
sued promptly, one being caught and
the other killed.
Speaker Reed says the attempt to
annex Hawaii will result in II debate
which Will prolong the session of Con-
grcss indefinitely.
The Society of the Daughters of ~"
Revolution are to raise n large sum of
Z
and soldiers families.
The offices Of the Peace Union have
been removed from Independence hall.
Philadelphia. because of The recent at
tempt TO placatc Spain.
Governor McI.aurin OF Mississippi
has appointed Congressman william
v Sullivan to the United States Sen
atc to succeed the late Senator Wal
tha!l.
l.. A. Slack. editor and publisher
of the Cheyenne Sun-Lcader. has been
nominated for the position of receiver
Of public moneys In the Cheyenne
land office.
Governor stephens of Missouri has
offered To appoint W. J. Bryan colonel
of II Missouri regiment. but Bryan de-
clIncd. An arrangement may be made
so that he can 20 at the head OF
Nebraska regiment.
Fire destroyed the Portland cement
works In Salt Lake. en,ailing loss
of $4,000: insurance Is S2Jooo. y
spark from n smokcstack ignitcd the
roof of the boiler house. Only tile
warehouse was saved of all the build
ings.
The new Italian ministry will not
consider Il change i'll the country's
, neutral attitude toward the principals
in the Ilispano-Amcrcan war. This
policy has the appreciation of King
IIumbert. Span's note to the powers
will he ignored MS far as Italy Is con
ccrncd.
Scdgmnn Bros. of London have been
designated rs the financial agents OF
| the United States government Mt Ma
nila. and through them will be trans
! Hal . IONS ln
government may desire after that city
| has come, into the possession of the
| United States.
Paymastcr General Stanton of the
army has directed that Sl.OoO,OOO be
placed to the credit of the representa-
tive of his office nj San Francisco 10
| pay the officers and men who are TO
| 20 to Manila one months wages in ad-
| vance. This action Is taken because of
| the authority conferred in Il recent act
| of Congress.
Commander Booth-Tucker. head of
the Salvation Army in America. an
nounccs that the army has purchased
| n tract of fine farm land of 30 acres
near Mentor, n few miles east of
Cleveland. The property is to be used
as Il colonization farm. to be divided
| into sections of five acres each. which
needy people stranded in the big cit
| les will be given an opportunity to
buy on time and become comfortably
sclf-supporting.
| The Canadian negotiations which
| have been in progress mt Washington
| have been concluded. y definite ar
rangcment was reached for the cren-
tiOn of n commission which shall con-
slider all the subjects of controversy
| ,,t tho ITpitnI rnl ('npnlu
and frame n treaty between the i'm
pcrial government and the United
States for the complete adjustment of
their controversies. The agreement Is
now to he submitted to the British
government for its-approvnl. and when
this is given. the organization of the
commission will he completed.
The United States marshal at Guth-
ric has under arrest Il young Seminole
Indian named Kinder II. IIargo. who
has confessed to being the murderer
of Mrs. Laird. for whose death young
Sampson and McGcisy We're burned to
death by Il white mob hear Newark.
o. T.. last January. The government
has all along maintained that the two
Indians burned to death We're inno-
cent. and will now prove it. Hargo
was captured in the Chckasaw nation.
| after an exciting chase of twenty-five
days. Nearly n hundred men are un-
der Indictment for participation in the
burning of Sampson and McGeiSy.
The United States and France have
concluded the first commercial agree
ment entered into under section > of
the Dinglcy tariff law. The negOtia-
tiOns have been pending for the last
eight months. 1t makes important
changes in the tariff rates on II num-
Der of articles constituting the chief
| trade between this country and
France. The particular advantages Sc
cured by the United States are on
meat products and lard compounds.
| France reducing her rates onc-half on
meat products and about one-third on