Rocky Ford enterprise., 1899-07-06
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church Is seriously i'll.
Yellow fever has broken out among
the troops m Santiago.
trust has secured a large part of
the tobacco land of Nircin!a.
England is shipping immense guam
titles of war material to South Africa.
Robert +. Porter, who has spent
much time in Cuba, favois nnneXa-
tlon.
Drcyfuss was landed in France Sun
day. His physical condition Is said to
be bad.
Governor Jones OF Arkansas has
ordered Il sheriff to keep out imported
negro miners.
1t Is believed General Otis will need
at least 10000 soldiers to restore order
In the Philippians.
Professor George Harris of Andover
Seminary has been chosen president
OF Amherst College.
The fight between the Croker and
SheeHan factions of Tammany hall
has become very bitter.
About $4,000 commercial travellers
have been thrown out of employment
by the Organization of trusts.
Horrible stories of enforced canni-
bnlism continue to come from the Kot-
zcbue Sound region In Alaska.
A New York man rode II bicycle n
mile In :57 ~ seconds the other day.
He was paced by n locomotive.
a persistent mob nt Brussels. op-
posed to the franchise law. was dis
a. nI ht- 1N. ,atI Iry las.
The Nebraska. Pennsylvania and
Utah troops which have been on duty
In the Philippines have started on their
homeward journey.
The secretary of state of New Jersey
received $S3.33S In fees during June
from the various corporations (mostly
trusts organized during last month.
The Venezuela arbitrators Mt Paris
have been listening to the historical
argument of Sir Richard Webster on
behalf of England. 1t occupied n
week.
Captain Coghlan. L. S. ~. appeared
before the Winfield UNansas) Chau.
tauuua and his lecture on THE Battle
of Manila was listened to by over
5000 persons. He was received with
marked enthusiasm.
Fifty-two cases of yellow fever have
developed in Panama thus far in the
month of June. and twenty-four cases
have resulted fatally. The first vic
tins We're six Augustine friars. who
recently arrived from Manila. No
Americans have died.
The coal miners strike. looked for
by the Westphalian operators. has
broken out. The men In several of the
mines In the province have refused to
go TO work without an increase in
wages to correspond with the greater
price at which the operators are sell
Ing coal. and 1t is feared that the strike
may become general.
General HOratio G. Wright. who
made brilliant record In the late war,
serving at Gettysburg and the cam-
pnign in the Wilderness and around
Richmond. died Sunday after an ILL
ness of three months. Besides his fine
war record, General Wright achieved
cmincnce as an engineer. serving as
chief of the United Stats army engi-
neers from 1879 until his retirement in
1884
At the meeting of the general pas
senger agents of forty-four roads in
that until further notice agents should
receive liberal commissions for selling
tickets over foreign or connecting
lines. These commissions will run
from % cents to 81 per ticket, the
average being about 81. Between 1000
and 5000 agents will be benefited by
the action of the passenger managers.
Companies NJ and l. of the Twenty
nd nf m u n
fantry passed through Winnemucca.
Nevada, Thursday, Major Noble in
command on the way to San Fran
cisco. from whence they will go to
Manila. The train stopped and Il
party of the negroes. the companies
being cOlored sailors. raided saloon
near the station. They wrecked the
bar and shot the bartender. Chris
Deiss. 1t is feared that Deiss will die.
Senor Gomez. the civil governor of
Santa Clara province, is at Havana
with a committee of farmers from
that province to urge that General
Brooke take prompt measures to aid
the farmers in this section. There Is
great destitution in Santa Clara PROV
ince owing to lack of implements with
which TO work. In some parts of the
province there is actual starvation.
General Brooke has promised Gomez
that steps will be taken to relieve the
distress.
In n recent interview at Chicago.
Mr.. Bryan expressed himself as fol-
lows regarding trusts: TRUSTS he
said, will form more important feat-
ure in the next campaign than ever for
the reason that there are more trusts
and combines of greater Importance.
The Democratic party believes the
trusts should be annililated. The trusts
are so indefcnsible that no better illus
traton of their absolute indefensibility
can be offered than the fact that the
Ohio Republican convention, of which
Mark Hanna was the manager. was
compelled to denounce them. If the
Republican party goes into the cam
paign denouncing trusts it will labor
under the disadvantage Of having tol-
Grated the formation of more trusts un-
der the present administration than