Rocky Ford enterprise., 1899-01-12
rELEoRAPHIc sREvlrIEs.

| EN-GOVernOr oSieSOy Oi tiiuois -
dangerously sick with the grip.
Admiral Dewey will soon have a
fleet OF thirty ships under his COM
| mand.
The volunteer troops now nt Ma
nlla are not likely to be ordered home
| for some time.
The railroads having lines west OF
Chicago are making very fast time In
an effort to get the mail contracts.
A tremendous landslide In British
Columbia damned the bed OF the
Fraser river and changed Its course,
Archbishop Ireland has been sum-
moned TO Rome for the purpose. 1t Is
| supposed, OF advising the Pope about
the Philippine situation.
Governor Smith of Vermont has np-
pointed Benjamin +. Fiiield Of Mont
pcller us successor to the late Senator
Justin $. Morrill,.
Nurses In one of the division hos
pitals near Havana complain strongly
against the lack OF comforts which
they and their patients suffer.
Mr.. Bryan delivered addresses be-
| fore Democratic clubs mt Cleveland
and Chicago last week, In which he
urged the dangers of expansion.
A closely contested twenty-four hour
bicycle race at New York was won by
Louis GImm OF Pittsburg, who COW
cred 40 miles. He ended only II wheel
length ahead of the second man.
1t Is said that Senator Teller may
withdraw from the ways and means
committee OF the silver parties, owing
| to ill-health and other duties. G. A.
| Towne of Minnesota will take his
place.
1t Is announced by the American
Steel and Wire Company officials that
the various steel and wire interests In
| this country are to be consolidated In
to new corporation, to be known rs
| the American Steel and Wire Com
pany Of New Jersey.
The tin plate combine hns announced
| an advance of % cents on each stand
ard 1OO-pound box, and the jobbers
hive put prices up 30 cents, thus
| jumping from $40 to $40 within
twenty-four hours. 1t is believed quo
tatlons will advance until $4.0O is
reached
General Ludlow, military governor
| of Havana, will soon issue n decree
against vagrancy. 1t is the intention
of the authorities to use the old bar
IuChS VI lAe oEueh Ill SOupO-
sela street rs n prison for vngfnnts,
who will be compelled to work at
cleaning the streets.
News has just been received from
Leopoldville, Congo Free State. that
the revolted Betetela tribe defeated
the Congo forces at Sungaln November
4th, killing 200 native soldiers and n
number of Belgian. Swiss and Danish
| officers. Ten days later the mutineers
captured the town of Kirumba, in the
Upper Ubanghi.
The Chinese government has just
concluded defining the limits of the
Russian concession in Hankow, and
| has included in the area property
owned by British subjects. The latter
have received notice to quit, but they
have refused to leave. and have pro-
| tested against the governments action.
| calling on the British authorities to
support them.
| The statistics of emigration by way
of Bremen. now the chief port of em-
barkation in Germany for that class
| of travel, which have Just been made
| public. show that 1,2S0 emigrants sail
ed from that port for America during
1S9S. as against 44.177 in the year pre-
vious. OF this number one-sixth were
ueTIHuuS lne
Austrians and Russians.
| DR.. Kraus. a German traveller in AZ
| rica, has caused IL sensation here by
his memorial address to the rechstag.
charging the imperial officers manag-
ing the German colony of Togo. south
west Africa. with conniving at slave
dealing on the coast. In three days, he
says, he saw more than 5000 slaves
| sold in the town of Kete alone. These
sensational charges lie mainly against
| Governor Jesko Won Puttkamer who
has been involved in other colonial
| scandals. -
Secretary Long on the 3rd cabled Or
| ders to Commander X. NJ. Berry of
| the gunboat Castine at Havana to
start as soon as possible to join Ad-
miral Dewey nt Manila, proceeding by
way of the Suez canal. This makes
the fifth vessel selected for duty in
the Philippines by the Navy Depart
ment in the last few weeks. When
the vessels already ordered to the
Asiatic station reach their destination
Admiral Dewey will command the
largest squadron in the American
navy, consisting of twenty-seven ships.
The Pullman Palace Car Company
has accepted the decision of the Su-
preme Court of Illinois and has in
structed its attorneys to close the suit
defending the town. The streets of
Pullman will be given over to the au-
thorities of the city of Chicago and
the water works also will pass into
the control of the city. Its property
will no longer figure on the assessors
books as 1850 acres with the improve
ments thereon" In the scheme Of dis
posing of the vast and multiplied in
terest of the company, preference will
De given to the employees If they wish
to purchase the homes which they now
| occupy.