Rocky Ford enterprise., 1899-05-04
rELr0RAPHic sREvlTIEs.

IuSy nhNt lnt HllsSinS men VI 'he Suh-
boat Yorktown and are holding them
ms prisoners.
A consolidation OF the peanut Indus
try OF the country. under the control
OF u single company, with II capital OF
S5.0C0.tsD, Is about to be effected.
The conductors. engineers. ilremcn
and brakcmcn of the Santa Fe Pacific
threaten to go out In n body because
Of the new schedule OF wages, which
cuts them 30 per cent.
Itudyard KIplIng Will snIl for Eng
land on May 9th. Mr.. Kipling and
family ut present are at Lakewood.
New Jersey: where the author IL recu-
pcrnting after II long serious illness.
Major General Otis and Admiral
Dewey, at II second conference with
fhc ins,irgcnt commission Saturday
morning. decided to grant an armisticc.
This decision is universally com
mcnded.
News comes through the Ottoman
sanitary authorities that the plague
has broken out mt Muscat. the capital
of Oman. Arabia. and II IL necessary
.thnt precautionary measures bc taken
ut Port Said and SueZ. ...
Mayor Noonnn of Kirksvillr. Missouri,
has sent message to Governor Stcph-
ems tonight asking lin to issue II
proclamation In behalf of the storm
sufferers. Twenty-Five thousand dol
lars Will be needed during the next
two weeks to prevent suffering.
The New York Mutual Gas Light
Company has given notice that the
price Of gas to nll its customers had
been reduced from S1.lO to G5 cents
per 1000 feet. The Consolidated Gas
Company also announced II similar re-
duction. and the fight will be II hot one.
a report from st. Petersburg says
TINT the AnglO-Itussian railway agree
ment has been signed. BY the terms
of the agreement Russia contracts not
to obtain or to assist any other power
to obtain Il railway concession In the
Ynngtsc valley, while Great Britain
similarly contracts in regard to the
Manchuria.
Specials from South Dakota to the
Journal state that prairie fires have
done much damage In that state. Ncnr-
ly one-third of Brule county has been
burned over. many buildings lost ana
much stock burned. Near Parker con-
siderable damage has been done and
the town itself had close call from
destruction.
According to II dispatch from st.
Petersburg the Shah of Persia has
signed seventy-yenr concession TO a
Russian mining company covering the
whole province of Ozorbaijan. having
m area of 10000 square miles. The
province contains rich copper deposits
and the company will exploit the tract
for metals and gems and construct
railways: roads and harDors.
4 proclamation has been issued by
General Gomez which announces the
formation of a juntn of Cuban gener-
ais who will advise him concerning the
disbandment of the army and all other
matters relative to the establishment
of an Independent democratic repub-
lie. The junta of Cuban generals met
yesterday and decided to send conf
mlssioners to all the provinces to eX-
pedte the army disbandment.
Regarding the conference soon to be
held in Brussels to discuss the ques-
ton of Introducing alcohol into Africa.
France has already nominated dele
gates, and it Is believed here that an
understanding will be reached on the
general subject. but that the applica-
ton of the terms agreed upon will be
very difficult 1t is impossible TO es-
tablish regular custom houses and
smuggling is sure to be prncticed on a
| vast scale.
The insurgents have an insurrection
on their own hands. the Maccabbees,
traditional foes of the Tagals, are ris-
ing in the north. while the burden of
thousands of hungry and discontented
people who fed before the American
| army and who are camping behind the
Filipino lines. multiplies the troubles
Of the Filipino government. the head
quarters of which are now at San
Isidoro, having been removed north
ward when Calumpit fell.
Yale carried off the honors at the
| annual carnival of relay races held by
the University of Pennsylvania last
week. the wearers of the blue winning
the one mile, two-mile and follr-mile
championship relay races. Although
PENNSYLVANIA was disappointed in the
outcome of these events. she Is happy
because one of her men now holds the
American broad jump record. A. G.
| KraepZeline, who Is also the American
championship hurdler. jumped "a feet
AZ inches, breaking the American rec
ord of % feet SIs inches, held by Myer
Prinstcin of Syracuse University.
| General Polaviejn. minister of war.
| has made public letter which he has
|. lust dispatched to General Weyler. in
| which he threatens. without excess or
| circumlocution. to shoot the former
| encouragement of Cuba. General
| Polavieja declares that he knows all
| about General Weyler's absurd con-
| spiracies. and adds: II know that you
are incapable" Without risking your
own hide you excite the passions of
civilians. who are ignorant of your
weaknesses: but | am disposed to
shoot generals. If need be, as If they
were common soldiers