Rocky Ford enterprise., 1899-06-22
TELEGRaPAiC sREViTlES.


Nearly 1000 enlisted n.cn and officers
Will sail from San Francisco this week
for the Philippines.
Moses Fowler Chase. aged twenty
one years. alleged to be mentally in-
competent and rcputed to be worth
S6W.O00, WAS abducted from the Hotel
Cadillac. Detroit last Sunday night.
Judge Simonton of the County Court
Mt Harrisburg. Pennsylvania. has de-
cided that cnn.Cens for the sale Of
liquor to soldiers cannot he carried on
without n regular license from the
courts.
n native diver. while getting metal
from the wreck of the sunkcn Spanish
cruiser Almlruntc Oqucndo Off SANTA.
go, found n bag containing $1,000. half
coin. and the other half in Spanish pa
per money of little value.
Miners are being engaged in the zinc
mining district of Missouri to he sent
to Idaho to take the places of the sirik-
ing miners of the Coeur TAlene mines.
The company engaging the miners
agree to pay $3.50 IL day and railroad
fare.
A dispatch from Foo Chow says:
Anti-forcign troubles have occurred NJ
Kieng- -Ning-Fu. province of Ngan-
Hwai. The church and mission have
been burned. but the missionaries cs-
capped 10 Ning-Whai on their way 10
Foo Chow.
Non-unlon colorcd miners who wcr"
being brought into Evansville. lndipnn.
to take strikers places. We're frc'i
upon by unknown parties June ?lst
Six men We're shot, three probably
l..t lam all
Moore. m operator.
Allen Bros Wholesale grocery build
ing at Omaha WAS partly burned on
the 18th. During the fire n magazine
Of powder. which the iircmcn We're AT
tempting TO remove. exploded. lnjurinS
eleven iircmen. including the chief.
Damage TO stock and building. SID
| 900.
The United States Smokclcss Powder
Company's factory. situated on Point
San Pedro. California. WAS the scene
of a disastrous explosion on the l9ti.
Four cmrio?cs were killed. and three
seriously injured. while six BUILDINGS
were demolished by the shock and the
| resultant ilames.
BIasc Patric. n railroad section hant
at Cleveland. Ohio. was killed on tue
an from being run down by LAX"
Shore train. The woman. Mrs. Jennie
Price. was riding wheel AMI fell III
front of the train. She was badly in
! jurcd and will die.
, 1t Is announced iha. rs Governor
! Stephens has signed the street railway
bill. the negotiations for n general
| consolidation of all the street railroads
OF st. Louis. which have been In prog
ress for some time. are now practically
i'complcted. and Il consumma;iOn Is only
n matter OF n few days.
! The government of Trinidad has de
cided to adopt the AInroni system Of
| wireless tclcgraphy for communication
with the dependency of Tobago. To-
bngo Is an island In the Windward
group Of the British West Indies.
thirty-twO miles long by twelve wide.
and Is twcnty-four miles northeast OF
Trinidad.
| Chicag0's population, according to
Chief of Police Ripley. has finally pass.
cd the 2.0oO.OO mark. and is now
2.0SS.Oi3, The figures are the result Of
the yearly census taken by the police
force. Sergeant -. Il. Long Of the Po-
lice Department. who has charge Of the
work. does not claim that the figures
| are exact.
A reciprocity treaty between the
/ United States and Great Britain In re-
lntion to trade between this country
and the British colony of Barbadoes
has been signed by the representatives
| of the two governments. Ii Is the iii'St
treaty framed under the Dingley law
and the first of the series of treaties
which the British colonies to the south
of this country are seeking to effect.
A diamond now in the possession Of
| Judge Tuthill of Chicago IL said to
he mart of the bribc which Daniel
Couglln Is charged with having of
fercd to Juror Taylor TO influence Il
verdict for the Illinois Central In II
land damage suit. The gem. II Is
claimed. was accepted by the juror.
after consultation with the judge.
Taylor's home is only Il door or two
north of where DR.. Cronin lived.
Special Plcnipotentiary Kasson has
lust received an authenticated copy
from Belgium of the decree recently
/ enacted by the Belgian government
raising the prohibition on the importn-
tion into Belgium of American cattle.
; The decree rccitcS the preceding de-
| crcps prohibiting importatiOns of cattle
I
veterinarians that American meat
| cattle and swine can now he imported
into Belgium under the terms of the
| decree of 1897. prescribing the places
where they may be landed and slaugl-
| tered.
The steamer Wnrrimno brings II scn
saiional tale of starvation and prob
i able loss of life on the upper Murray
river in Australia. The tale. told by
. II woman. is that she left Melbourne,
accompanied by her husband. and
made for Tomgroggin. near Murray
river After being in camp II few days
the man got lost and the woman went
| in search. hut failed TO find him. She
then wandered for eight days. subsist-
ing on nettles. fern roots and raw
/ oposs,m flesh. While travelling sla
encountered II mob of wild dogs AMI
had to take refuge in tree. The ami
| mails crowded around the tree for sew