Rocky Ford enterprise., 1899-02-16
TELE0RAPHic BREvIriEs.

New York. on the 18th.
A six-story building at Chicago
burned on the l4th, causing loss Of
S7SO.OOO.
A lieutenant was severely wounded
In fight at Admission. Alabama. be-
tween officers OF the Fourth Kentucky
regiment.
Rev. James Monroe Taylor. presI-
den of Nassar College. has been unan-
lm0usly elected president of Brown
University.
No Cuban generals attended General
Calixto Garcia's funeral at Havana be-
cause they We're angry at some Of Gen
ernl Brookes orders.
Six cases Of yellow fever have devel-
oped among the soldiers belonging to
the Two Hundred and Second New
York regiment at Guannjuay, Cuba.
The Moore Bros. OF Chicago are
working on paper bag combine which
will include all the large plants In the
United States. The combine will be
capitalized with $27,OOO.OOO.
Late dispatches from Iloilo show the
capture of the town to have been n very
tame AFFAIR. The Chinese and native
quarters were burned, but the better
, section of the town was saved.
The secretary OF war has given or
ders for the mastering out of the Third
regiment OF immunes, now stationed Mt
Santiago and vicinity. This regiment
was recruited by Coloncy Ray, u rcgu-
lar army officer.
1t is stated In official CIRCLES Mt Ber-
lin that Prince Herbert bismarck may
be appointed ambassador to Washing
ton. 1t is supposed to be Il movement
toward the establishment of the most
friendly relations with America.
Paris papers assert that the negotia-
tiOns which have been In progress be-
tween the French and British govern.
| ment regarding the Bahr- FL GhnZel
basin, west Of the White Nile. are OH
the eve of satisfactory settlement.
In response to the plteous cries for
aid that went up from many sections
Of the city, Governor Roosevelt has or
dered the opening Of the armories of
the Eighth. Ninth, Twelfth, Sixty
ninth and Seventy-first regiments for
the shelter Of such portions Of the
homeless poor as might take refuge
there.
The missionary steamer Morning
Star Is coalIng mt San Francisco for
nine months cruise in the South seas,
where she acts us u transport for the
missionaries between the islands Of the
Marshal. Caroline and Gilbert groups.
and as trading ship in the interests
OF the Congregational Foreign Mission
nry Society.
Disastrous confugrations have Oc-
Cured in the mountains northwest of
| Oveido, Spain. The villages Of Villar,
Murias, DAMAGES and Casavide have
been wiped out. Hany herds of cattle
have perished and other villages are
threatened. All efforts to quench the
fires have been futile. The people are
panic stricken and are fleeing to places
Of safety.
The wholesale and retail book estab-
iishment Of A. c. McClurg 4 Co. ut
Chicago, was totally destroyed by n fire
which broke out at 10 o'clock on the
morning of the 18th, and which spread
rapidly through the five-story brick
structure occupied by the firm. The
stock was probably the largest In the
country and the financial loss will prob
ably aggregate $5OOOOO.
Since the adjournment Of the Paris
Peace Commission, the Filipinos have
had agents in Hong Kong, busiiy en-
gagged in fitting out filibustering expe-
ditions from that port. The Hong Kong
government Is using every effort to pre-
vent such expeditions from leaving the
place, and English naval officers have
received orders to search all vessels
suspected of having arms aboard.
A dispatch from General Rios, COM
mander of the Spanish troops In the
Philippines, says that the steamers
Christina and Uruguay are about to
leave for Spain with seven battalions,
l.,fv 1ayffI hall In rya
guns and ammunition. Generals Mo-
nett and Butt will sail with these
troops. Part Of the expense for the
transportation of these soldiers Is to be
paid by the United States.
The British tank steamer Weehawk-
en-, Captain Tazey. from Philadelphia.
January 9th, for Hull, has arrived Mt
the Azores with twenty-five women
and children passengers from the Ham,
burg American liner Bulgaria., Captain
Schmidt, from New York, January 2Sth
for Hamburg. The Weehnwken re-
ports the Bulgaria drifting helplessly
500 miles from the Azores. Nothing is
known us to the fate of the other pas
sengers, of whom 1t is understood that
the Bulgaria carries ninety. q
A decision which experienced lawyers
say is of far-reaching Importance in
fixing the rights Of minority stockhold-
erse in their relations with corporation
officials has been handed down by
Judge Tuley of the Circuit Court at
Chicago. Judge Tuley has dissolved
the Injunction issued in January re-
straining Lewis B. Perrin, stockhold-
err of the Rodger Ballast Car Company,
from bringing mandamus proceedings
against the company to compel the di--
rectory to allow him to examine the
corporation records.
The United States transport Grant,
bound for Manila, having on board
General Lawton and staff, has arrived
at Suez. General Lawton has tele-
graphed the United States consular
agent that fifty members of the expe-