Rocky Ford enterprise., 1898-05-19
TELEoRAPHrc sREvIrIEs.

Russia is buying gold again in large
amounts.
Senor Sagasta formed n new Cabinet
on the 18th.
England is fortifying st. Johns
Newfoundland.
The price of bread at New York has
gone up one cent n loaf.
Willard Young son of Brigham, Is
to be made n colonel of engineers.
A Spanish plot to nssassinnte Gen
eral Lee has been discovered in Phila-
delphia.
Edouard Rcmenyi. the noted Hursar.
Ian violinist, died at San Francisco on
the 18th.
Studebaker Brothers have furnished
the government with 1000 wagons for
army use.
Five men were killed by the collapse
of partially completed building in
New York.
By the burning of n big Chicago elc-
vator the other day, Armour and 9TH
ers lost S1,O0O,0O0.
The insurance companies talk of es-
tablishing a hospital for policy holders
W ho bt III 'ii' "tis
President Mckinley sent his first
veto message TO the House Monday. 1t
was against suit in the Court Of
Claims.
The Newlands resolution for the an
neNation of Hawaii was favorably re-
ported by the House committee on
foreign affairs on the 18th.
William ]. Bryan has been author
lied by Governor Holcomb of Ncbras-
ka to raise Il regiment of volunteers
to be ready for another call for troops.
Senator Sewall of New Jersey has de-
clined appointment as major general of
volunteers. presumably because he
would have TO forfeit his seat in the
Senate.
n package containing over 10000
francs in securities and gold was stolen
from n car on the Paris. Lyons and
Mediterranean railroad. There Is no
clue of the thieves.
About 1000 members of the Wood
Workers Union OF Oshkosh. struck on
the 10th. The strikers are very order
ly. Each striker will receive SO Il week
from the national union and claim they
will stay out all summer If necessary.
terrible cyclone has destroyed n great
part of Bima. seaport town of the is
land of Sumbawa. Malay Archipelago.
The shores of Sumbawa bay are COW
cred with bodies of thousands OF vic
Tins
In Asiatic waters the great powers
have the following ships: Great Bri-
sain. thirty-one; Germany. eight: Rus
sia, Twenty-Five: France, eleven. The
fleet of Great Britain is, however.
more powerful in tons and guns
than all the others put together.
There now seems no doubt that Il
vast regular plot has been concoctcd
against the italian monarchy. 1t was
directed. some say, from Switzerland
some from Paris, some from London.
Action was to be confined to Rcpubli-
cans. Socialists and Anarchists. while
the Clericals We're to help 1t on with
their influence.
Rev. Thomas Ewing Sherman of the
Society of Jesus, connected with st.
Ignatius. Chicago. has been appointed
chaplain of the Fourth regiment of the
Missouri National Guard. Colonel Cor
bin commanding. Almost all the men
of the regiment are Catholics. Father
Sherman Is the son of w. Il. Sherman,
md is enthusiastic over his appoint
mcnt.
August Ryburg. of Rock Springs.
Wyoming, who went to the Klondi!ie
last summer. writes his family from
Dawson City under date of March
2lth that he has secured two valuable
claims and will soon be II wealthy
man. as his claims are both pannin'g
out rich returns. He located his first
rlaim on November 24th and had to
travel twenty miles through deep snow
with the thermometer sixty degrees
below zero. The other Rock Springs
men who Went TO the Klontlikc with
Ryburg are doing well.