Rocky Ford enterprise., 1899-04-06
TELEoRAPHlc eREvlTlEs.

eleven deaths had occurred IN Tnlnln
AMI one In TaikOku. bringing the total
nuini~r OF deaths since January LIST
up to Do.
According to mall ndvices brought
from the Orient by the steamer En-
press OF japan. H Chinese We're killed
and 12i wounded by the Russian SOL
diers In the recent riot nt Tnlien Wan,
China. a Russian interpreter was
killed by the Chinese.
The charities founded In Austria by
Baron Maurice de Hirsch. and carried
on since his death In 1906 by the late
baroness. will benefit under her will
to the extent OF f2sO.OOO. Both the
adopted sons receive large legncies. IN
Guiding the splendid Moravian estates.
Hector Ieubtow OF Milwaukee,. has
sued the twelve jurymen who convict
ed him OF conspiracy six years ago for
FL, 600. The Oldest lawyer mt the bnr
does not remember n similar instance
where the jurymen have been sued Tor
damages because OF their vriict.
A wealthy gentleman named Tourret
was shot dead In Paris OH the BOis de
BoulOgne. by II man who mistook Ills
victim for President I.oubet. to whom
NJ. Touret bore II striking resemblance.
The murderer whose name IL OZouf.
and who Is II years old. is thought to
he insane.
The greatest clenrances OF bonded to-
baccO on record have just been made
In Liverpool. Not far short OF 81 .OO0.-
600 has been paid for duties. one firm
nlOne drawing one check for S425.OO,
thus beating Sir Thomas Lipton's
S:sS5.OOO check for customs duty on
bonded tea.
A dispatch from Gothenburg says
that the Norwegian government has liz
sued nm order prohibiting swedish Off
GERS from inspecting forts or Witness
ing the drill OF the troops In Norway
and hns also decided to use OH forts
and war material certain moneys bor-
rowed for railways.
Nine persons were severely injured.
and It is feared that two We're drowned
In II collision between an ocean going
tug and one Of the Brooklyn ferry
bonts In the East river Saturday. The
ferry-boat was struck In mid-strenm
by the tug Argus and so badly dam
aged that II was with difficulty that
she reached her Brooklyn slip. The
tug was uninjured.
The British Parliament has grappled
with the telephone monopoly of Eng
land and passed law authorizing the
postOfiice department to construct n
system Of lines In connection with the
telegraph service, which already be-
longs 10 the government. and do all
London city and long-distance business
In competition with the Bell company,
ut much reduced rates.
Attorney General Davis OF Arkansas
has filed 126 suits against the sixty
three fire insurance companies doing
business In Arkansas. and ns u conse-
quence every foreign company has sus.
pended business in that state. These
suits nre brought under new anti
trust law which was passed recently
by the Legislature. 1t Is one Of the
most sweeping and fur-reaching meas
ures OF the kind ever enacted.
Consul Brush at Clifton informs the
State Department that the Canadian
government has decided to construct
telegraph line between Lake Bennett
and Dawson City at once. and that it
has also decided to estn blish telegraph
connections between British Columbia
and the Yukon territory. He says the
Dominion authorities regard the fran
chise for this telegraph line as too I'm
portant from the standpoint of the ma
tiOnal safety to permit 1t to go outside
of government control.
A special from Juncnu. Alaska. con-
tains the report of the murder of six
teen prospectOrs from Kentucky. No
details are at hand. but the story Is
TINT the gold-seekers were killed while
asleep by Indians, who wanted their
kits and supplies. The crime Is said
to have been committed some months
ago while the prospectors We're near
the mouth of the Kuskowkim river,
which. though reported rich In MINER
ais, had never been explored by
white men.
Th secretaries of the Baptist and
Presbyterian Home Missionary Socie-
ties. the Missionary Society of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. and the
American Missionary Association, rep
resenting the Congregntionalisfs, ar
ranged for cooperation In Porto Rico
and other Islands and territories. The
societies agree not to duplicate forces
in the same community beyond mani
fest necessity. They have also ar
ranged for the opening of evnngelIstic
work in Porto Rico.
So much objection has been raised to
the plan of the New York clearing
house of charging for the collection of
out of town checks that many prOpo-
sitions have been made by merchants
doing mail order business to take their
accounts from national and state
banks and plnce them with trust COM
panies. John Brlsben Walker proposes
the organization OF the National
Clearing House Bank" to be modelled
on the lines of an institution conduct
ed by the government of Autria-Hun-
gary. which has for many years been
in successful operation in that empire.
President Mckinley, by an order
made public recently, has taken the
first step toward purely Cuban mer-
chant marine. He has directed that
all registry fees imposed for the docu-
menting of foreign vessels in Cuba be |
abolished. The old Spanish rate for
vessels wns So per ton, as shown by