Rocky Ford enterprise., 1899-08-24
TELEGRAPH ITEMS.

MAJOR l.nsscil Harrison, inspector
general. il critically III HE Santiago
with yellow fever. I'll. dIscass. has
prosf~ns.ri for ihr'" days, although not
pronounced yellow fever AT firsi.
The ruc. for Ill. Canada cup I..,Secn
the American yacht E-nrs.e and the
Canadian yacht Beaver. held on the
-.ni. WAS Won by III. E.n.sre by one
minute nnd twenty s.~onds.
General Juan JimIncz. the San DO
mtnso nilhuSt.F.r. was arrested the
other day NJ he WIS leaving cula for
snn Domingo. II. was afterwards re-
leased aud " planning nm Invasion.
\ special frum I.rshoFn. Italy. says
nv" men iray" been arrested tlcr- on
the charge ur attacking aud wonnding
some sailors who had cum. aShurc
from the United States cruiser niy mp.
Ia
\ hcnh'cni collision i.rrw.en two
trolley ears occurred on the Norris.
town. Chestnut iilii Il itoSioroush
railway. In Plymouth township. Penn
sSlSahia. Thirty persons wcr- injured.
four fatally.
Tie ~. Paul German Catholic church
at Cincinnati was huTn-i nni several
adjoining buildings damaged on III.
18th. Tile total loss 1. estimated Mt
Sis,ur. I'll" church was b"ins NJ
modelled nni the iir" started frUm the
supplies of the wortInrn.
out "f 1850 men who went into the
E"iEchu- country last fall. over per
"rni. hav" dl.'i Trnm scurvy. or met
tragic deaths. This l. the statement Of
j. Il. Jones of Sycamore. Illinois. who.
with 'hirIy.iivc m"n afflicted with dis.
Al.
While u r-cpnnoitcFIn. party of the
Twcniy.fourth Infantry. under Captain
Crane. was crossing the MariIuina riv-
err. near Manila. on rnfi. the hnwscrS
hrokc. The current. swift nj that
point. caused the raft 10 .aI,-iLr.
, drowning nine enlisted men.
Th. Naniyck festival is Mt Its
hcleh, Mt Antwerp. Thn'c hundred
thousand visitors entered Antwerp IN
iwchty.four hours To- witness the pro.
c"sS!on from tit" cathedral In honor of
the Virgin aud the vnndyck historical
cort"gr. Hundreds OF Americans arc
arriving daily.
Two disastrous fires brrk. ont In 81.
Petersburg Monday. In the first I'll.
military npo'hccary headquarters AMI
sanitary warehouses were destroyed.
Gromofr'- iimbcr wharf and lumber
/ yards. the largest IN Russia. also
caught fire. The loss in this case also
Will run Into the millions OF rublcs.
Negotiations are In progress FOR ear.
ryin. the Washington volunteers from
San Francisco to Seattle In n body nf-
ter their muster out at the former
place. Two steamers will probably lie
I chartered. Levi Ankcny. the well.
I known banker Of Walla wnlla. hns
offered io bear the entire cNpcns" OF
the vessels charter. which will amount
! to about Si0.UDD.
II is said In London That there IL no
, longer any doubt that President krii-
ger has refused to submit to the de
mand Of Mr.. Chamberlain for the aI-
pointmcnt OF Il court Of inquiry. lie
may have done 80 Automatically or
hedginrly. But. that his answer IL
regarded by the Eritish government as
tantamount To positive refusal Is now
/ IN established fact. War appears 10
I he inevitable.
Major Ross. head OF the malnrial cX-
| pcdition sent out by the Liverpool
School Of Tropical Diseases. cnhlcd
| from Sicrrc Leone: '''rhc mHlarial mos
quito has been found The .majo
! went to West Africa on the theory that
malaria Is disseminated by the swamp
frcUucnting mosquitoes. The British
government will be asked TO send n sci
cntitic force to work in conjunction
. with Major Ross.
A large portion of northern New
York. including the counties OF .Jcffcr-
son. st. Lawrence and Lewis. Is being
swept by fierce forest fires that have
4. - =.
lars worth of valuable timber land
and threaten to do more serious dam
age unless uucnchcd by Il heavy rain.
At Antwerp Copley's big woods are
on fire and dwelling houses on the out
skirts of the village are in danger OF
destruction. Many families have
moved out. Thousands of farmers are
fighting the flames.
White cappcrs are tcrrorizing the
negroes In Greenwood county and in
the vicinity of Phoenix. South Caro-
lima. where race riots occurred last No
vcmber. and from where the Tolhcrts
were banishcd. \ strong posse has
been organized to enforce the law.
Hundreds of people are involved in
nightly raids oil negro houses. Fifty
families have been visited. threa tened.
whipped and otherwise terrorizcd. Two
night on the streets of Greenwood.
fearing to stay ut their homes. Large
land owners are making their tenants
sleep in plantation barns for protec-
tion. Work is suspended over n large
section of country.
The board appointed to examine into
the causes of the grounding of the
United States cable ship - Hooker,
which recently went ashore near the
mouth of Corregidor harbor Mt the en-
trance Of Manila bay. finds that the
accident occurred In daylight on n
reef shown on the chart and that there
were evidences of cnrclessness on the
part of the navigator of the vessel.
The cable instruments and other prop
crty have been removed from the
Hooker and the cable is now being re-
moved If no storm intcrvenes hopes
nrc entertained that the vessel may be
,..,a1 nN and rpna irpI lIpr hnll hnS