Rocky Ford enterprise., 1899-10-19
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arr not IN the scErisr OF the State.
fiy" baitieship-. one cruiser. one
cnd.t trimming ship and twenty -hve tor
p-io hoais and torpedo boat destroy
rrs will comprise the new construction
completed and added TO the navy with
In tile next year. ~. ...H
p-nnsyivania's footbaii team sus.
tnih'-d u crushing defeat NJ the hands
OF the Sarllsi- Indian team. the rrorr
nj the conclusion at the game h'iu. ~
To ). From the beginning the tcni'sys-
Nanin Team Was Vutplnycd.
Thcrc Is runor nfioai Ia market cir'
cics that Armour X Co. Swift 4 Co.
nnd other ,infgr western packers arr
,cnsns.d Ia an effort tn corucr the pouI.
Try market. .Ndvics- from the West
iiriNai- ihat ki-sr Arms have placed
large orders FOR poultry.
: An explosion Of mine sas occurred at
the Shenandoah city coiiicry. by which
twenty-five men were cntombcd. Al
OF them wcrr rescued alive. Int sew
crnl arr seriously injured. The firr
has t-cn cxtlnEuislrd. The coliicry Is
one of the largest ~ the Philadelphia
4 Reading Coal and Iron comiany's
operations.
The NEWSPAPER rairin ut Manila Inns
been suppressed and Its editor. Scnor
ttor. n Spaniard. placed under arrest
ON Charge of printing aud puhiishin.
ss-iitious documents. For some time
th- rafria had been hostile to the
Americans. Recently pamphlets nt-
lacking the Americans and the friend
ly Fiiipinos. have been circulated. and
the police believe tlint rtor wrote and
printed them.
In some quarters In Paris Il n b.
iicvcd that frunco-Gcrman under
the wur In Africa. Several OF the lead
Ing coniinenIni' Journals outside Of
France develop ilHr same idea. the rsa-
son given h'inH tiihf The Germans must
d. strong enough Jo meet the United
States and England. -who could easily
destroy the German navy"
The SIKH ariaicrs batteries sin-
toned at Honolulu have lost between
twenty and thirty men In the last few
days by dcscrtion. All the soldiers here
arc anxious to bc sent to Manila. The
men think they can steal aboard
transport and ou arrival report to the
officers OF u,e 50 y, Manila and cs-
c.ipc with -hgnt punishment. The .soi-
dicrs are willing to stnnd thirty days
In the guard house for the sake Of get
ting tn the scene OF the war.
The government Of Spain has dc.
clarcd martial law In barcelona. the
entire city being vehement In support
OF Dr. Robert. the reform mayor who
has just resigned rather than aid In the
collection by force OF oppressive taxes.
The government finds II hard to ,liscov
cr u successor for the popular and pub
lic-spiritc1 alcaldc. and IL IL further
perp'cNcd In face OF an Identical re-
volt on the part OF the merchants and
manufacturers OF Valencia.
The executive council OF the Amcri-
can Federation OF Labor has dis
cusscd the decision OF the Supreme
Court OF Colorado that the hour
law OF that state X unconstitutional.
and concluded to open correspondence
with organized labor In that state with
view OF nsccrtaining the ndvisability
OF taking an appeal from the decision
to the United States Supreme Court.
the federation TO assist In making this
appeal should II he deemed advantage
oiis to the workers OF Colorado.
The German steamer Kaiser. from
Hamburg. is discmbarking ut the en-
trance OF the Sucz canal 1000 pieces OF
ammunition consigned to the Trans
vanl This step is taken in order to
avoid seizure in the Red sea by British
cruisers. The ammunition will prob
ably he re-cmbarked for Hamburg.
The Kaiser wns slladowed by the Brit
ish second class cruiser Thetis through
the Mediterranean. 1t is reported that
several German officers are on board
the Kaiser. bound for the TrInsvnal.
The most serious fire in the history OF
Knightstown. Pa, broke out at I: 30
o'clock Tuesday morning. Three lives
were lost. and property worth 100000
or more was destroyed. The dend are:
Truman Rhodes. Charles Scuttcr md
Don Davey. The men killed were
members of the volunteer fire depart
mcnt and We're fighting the fire when
the front wall of Il thrcc-story build
ing. fell outward. They were caught
hy the falling bricks and crushed to
death. and It is believed that mt least
two others met with the same fate.
The Schlcsiche Zeitung of Berlin an
nounccs that Il new proposal has been
nut forward regarding the Samoan
question. England has offered Ger
nouy compensation if she will re-
nounce Tpolu The ngrurinn organ
| adds that II is not impossible that Ger
many will accept the proposal. prOvid-
cd that very high indemnity is pnid.
The foreign office intmates that the re-
nor, in the Schlesschr Ieitung IL an
indiscretions is not quite exact. 1t
is true that England made the proposal
in question. but 1t was declined.
One life is believed to have been lost
I'm n fire tonight in the factory OF w.
G. Ritchie Paper BOX Company, at Chi
cngo. Two hundred persons were mt
work in the building when the fire oc-
cured 1t is believed everybody es-
cnpcd. with the exception Of Alcxnn-
der McAIastcr, the superintendent. He
was last seen making his way from the
sixth TO the third floor. Laura Thrill.
Nora Koske and another girl. named