Rocky Ford enterprise., 1899-03-09
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tic const Oh the Iih.
Germany is said to have renewed
the negotiations for the purchase OF
the Caroline islands.
A college. school and other property,
valued at 100000, burned ut West
Point, Mississippi, Monday.
Queen Victoria is going to France
and the French papers are not giving
her n very cordial welcome.
In the apportionmcnt of second lieu.
tenants under the army reorganization
bill Colorado is allowed one.
Secretary Algcr is reported to have
offered TO resign II the President VIII
allow him TO name his successor.
Bishop Warren Is reported rs bein-:
seriously i'll at Buenos Ayrcs. He has
been operated on for appendicitis.
Sensational charges of bribery are be-
Ing made ut Harrisburg. in connection
with the consideration of jury bill.
Colonel w. ]. Bryan states that he
will be in the next Democratic national
convention and Will make Il fight for bl'
metallism.
John Gilbert, farmer living near
Emroria. Kansas. killed his wife and
apparent reason.
William Rockefeller, whose property
at Mount Pleasant, New York. was
assessed at S901 .469 has secured from
the courts Il reduction to S13I,5lO.
Josephine Kipling, the G-ycar-ol,l
daughter of Rudyard kipling, and the
oldest of his three children. died Mon
day of pneumonia. Her father is gain
Ing.
Preparations are quietly being made
by the War Department to ship to Cuba
the S3,O00.000 for the payment of the
cuban troops. The distribution of the
money will be under the direction OF
General Brooke.
The Gillian war office and the mill
tcry authorities have definitely decided
10 reduce the army by 1000 men. The
government, 1t is rumored. contem'
plates II sale of several cruisers to the
United States and Ecuador.
Steel billets advanced Tuesday and
sold as high as S2350 per ton. 1t is an
nounced that practically the entire prod.
uct of the National Steel Company Will
be acid Bessemer steel, Il single eXcep'
tion being that of the Buhl Steel Com
pany, which produces basic open
hearth steel.
Inspector General ROlon estimates
the total number of the Cuban army at
10000. of whom $4,000 are ailicers 0i
officials holding commissions and en-.
titled to officers pay. The cubans them.
selves express astonishment ut the pro-
portion, although admitting that they
would not be surprised IL 1t was one
to three.
Colonel Taskcr II. Bliss, the secre'
tary of the Treasury Department nj
Havana. has issued Il statement that
the United States consular agents are
unable to obtain recognition or protec.
tion in foreign ports for the blue ana
white flag recently designed for Cuban
shipping and he warns Cuban snip
masters not to proceed to foreign ports
flying this flag.
Governor Tanner of Illinois has
signed the Alling street railway bill. II
repeals the Allen law. passed two years
ago, which provided for fifty-year
franchise extensions. and re-enacts the
old horse and dummy act. with an
amendment making 1t applicable Ia
electric or cable roads. Under the All.
ing bill no franchise or extension for
more than twenty years can be granted.
The transport steamer Valencia has
sailed for Manila via Honolulu. She
carried about $50 recruits for the in
fantry, artillery and hospital corps.
and was laden with supplies of all
kinds for the troops in Hawaii and the
Philippines. The most important item
OF her cargo was 81 100000 In coin,
under the charge of Major Eugene
Coffin, paymaster United States army.
This vast sum will be used for the
payment of soldiers, and all but IL
fraction of it will be disbursed at
Manila.
The purpose of the Administration to
send large reinforcements to General
Otis at Manila presents serious prob.
lem of transportation to the officers OF
the Quartermnster's Department
About 1900 troops are under orders to
prepare for Transportation to Manila, by
way of San Francisco, and the Paciilc
ocean. The only troop ships available
for the service are the Arizona, Sean
landia. H'he last mentioned is the only
one at San Francisco, all the others be-
ing in the Orient.
An assay of black sand found in the
Kotalinqun river, Alaska, made by DR..
willis II. Everette of the Smithsonian
Institution, is said to show that one
ton of 1t contains $7T6 worth of
platinum besides iron oxide, gold worth
S1O2.S4. two pounds of tin, two pounds
of copper and one troy ounce of iridos-
mine. The great value is said to be
in its yield of platinum, which Is eX-
tcnsively used in electrical construc.
ton and dentistry. Platinum is found
principally in the Ural mountains of
Russia. from which 1t is exported to
this and other countries.
A special to the St. Louis Republic
from San Antonio. Texas. says:
dispatch from San Diego says that
prairie fires are raging in Nuess, starr
and Duval counties. 1t has not rained
In this section for more than six
months, and the dry. dead grass burns
like tinder. Fires are burning at half
a dozen points along the Texas-MeXl-