Rocky Ford enterprise., 1899-02-02
rELEoRAPHlc HREvlr,Es.

Chinese rebels nre reported to have
killed 1900 regular soldiers.
Several cases of the bubonic plague
have appeared in the island of Manri-
tins.
PARIS bank, London. was robbed
of 100000 recently and then re-
turned S2OO,OOO of 1t, which was In big
bills. by mail.
A company has been organized at
Peoria to run n line of motor busses
in opposition to the street car line.
The busses will run from the center of
the city to all the suburbs. t..-
The American Missionary Associa-
tiOn. which works for the negro race.
has issued an appeal to the Congrega-
tional churches OF the United States
to observe February 18th rs Lincoln
.strt,
The secretary of the Porto Rican
treasury estimates that the Spanish
made away with between
100000 and 100000 pesos of trust
funds that We're deposited In the treas
ury here. I.-.l!, -
The Wisconsin senatorial deadlock
was broken on the 3Oth. Joseph V.
Quarlcs of Milwaukee, was nominated
in the Republican caucus to succeed
John II. Mitchell. whose term expires
on the 18th of March.
A fatal snowslidc occurred on the
main line of the Canadian Pacific rail-
foad ut Rogers pass. on the summit
nf Sclkirks. The round-lousc and sta
ton were swept away. seven lives
were lost and two persons injured.
The United States steamship Ranger
will be prepared to 20 into commission.
She has been detailed to make deep
sea soundings between Honolulu and
Guam and Guam and MANILA, the OBJ
ject in view being the survey Of n
suitable cable route.
The Madrid correspondent OF the
Standard says that. owing to the re-
cent development OF the Carlist ngita-
tion. the government has decided to
retain the state OF siege and the sus-
pension Of the constitutional guaran-
tees for some time longer.
The great record OF freight move.
n,ent made January 18th on the Penn
sylvnnia railroad when elghty-ninc
trains passed eastward through Altoo-
M was broken Saturday when ninety
one trains passed eastward. At the
seventy wcst-b0und trains to he looked
after. besides clearing FOR thirty-iivc
passenger trains.
Governor McAIillin of Tennessee has
vetoed the bill authorizing Memphis
to issue bonds for park purposes, be.
cause the bill allowed the municipal
government OF Memphis to issue for
park purposes gold bonds. with inter
L., tt, To. la, I,t.
veto that he will not sanction lcgisla-
tion discriminating against United
States legal tender coins.
Private ndviccs received mt Seattle
state that the government will send
three dctachmcnis of soldiers into the
Copper river district OF Alaska next
spring to lay out n mail route TO the
Yukon river and establish posts. The
purpose Is to establish an nll-American
route to the Yukon. II will extend
from the mouth of Copper river to Ea-
gle City, sixty miles below Dawson.
President Mckinley is understood to
have empowered Robert +. Porter to
arrange for the disbursement of 3d.
900, 1000 among the Cuban soldiers. Mr..
Porter will probably go with Scnor
Gonzales de Qucsada to Remedies to
suadc the Cuban commandcr-in-chicf
to disband his forces and lend his inhu-
cncc to the United States military ad-
There has been marked Increase
during the past year In the use of nuto-
in the city OF Paris not only
as pleasure vehicles, but for practical
application as public cabs and for bus
iness purposes ns delivery wagons. II
Is announced that soon there will he
100 motor cabs driven by electricity
In the streets OF Paris and. II
the experiment he successful. the cabs
will be Increased to 1000.
The Postoilice Department has
placed on sale ut all the first class
postoiiiccs In the country all the left
over newspaper and periodical postage
whose use was discontinued
July 1st. There nrc 10000 sets of
these awaiting philatelists. Their
practical postage value having gone.
Ihcsc sets of twelve stamps each will
he kept on sale at So n set for private
uses until December 31stA next.
Reports reach Moscow from Hong
kong that the insurgents I'm central
China are still sweeping everything
before them. From the v!ct;ry mt Ky
Yong they are said TO have gone over
to the southeast. Into the northern
part of Quang-Tung province. There
they nre said to have stormed and
captured the city Of Chow-Choo, and.
leaving 1t under garrison. to have pro-
recdcd northeast TO lay siege to Kan
rloo. in the province OF Kiang-Si.
According to n dispatch Just received
from Iloilo. capital of the island of Pa
nay. mt the election held January 18th,
senior Ramon Mellizn was chosen pres.
dent of the so-called federation for n
erm of two years. his predecessor,
General. Lopez, being appointed COM
of the forces of the
government. Senor Mel |
liza is kindly disposed TO the Aemri. |