Rocky Ford enterprise., 1900-12-28
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Helen Keller. the celebrated deaf.
learning to speak.
Richard Croker. the Tammany politi-
clan. has bought a fine residence near
Vantage In England.
The Fowler Bicycle and Carriage
works nj Chicago were burned on the
18th instant. Loss. SsO.Opo.
A seat on the New York Stock Ex-
change was sold few days ago for
S30OO. the highest prise on record.
The annual football game between
Oxford and Cambrldgc was won this
year by oxford by Two goals to goal
and n try.
A sneak thief put his hand into one
OF the stamp windows at the Chicago
posiofiicc. grabbed $1,000 worth Of
stamps and disappeared In the crowd.
\ bill has been prepared for submis.
sion to the next Mincs1 Legislature
releasing the Younger brothers from
the pcnitentIary OF that state ON parole.
The American Forestry Association.
Ia session nj Washington. adopted .
resolution favoring purchase OF = re-
serve containing the California big
trees.
Selma Schnapka. he woman who At
tempted to Kill Emperor william No
vcmbcr 18th. by throwing a hatchct at
him. has been placed In nh Insane nsy-
lum.
The corporation OF Limerick has con.
fcrrcd tho freedom of the city upon
Mr.. Kruger. The two members who
opposed the proposal were howled
down.
Fire OH the 18th instant almost com.
plctcly destroyed the Stewart Pump
and Piow works nt Carnegie. Pcnnsyl-
vanin. Loss. SlI5.O0O. The plant will
be rebuilt.
The Senate of the United States has
agreed TO give Its adhesion to tho con.
vcntion TO regulate the Importation Of
intoxicating liquors into certain re-
gions OF Africa.
The Koktcik viaduct. on the Shnn
hills. In British BurinMh. the highest
railroad bridge In the world. has been
successfully completed by the Pcnnsyl.
vanin Steel Company.
A dispatch TO thr London Daily Ex-
press from Vienna reports recent Mos
| lem cxccsscs against the Christian pop.
ulation In the central provinces Of Tur.
key. where 200 Christians have been
Killed. y =
In the House OF Commons Mr..
| Chamberlain said Great Britain pro.
posed to establish cheaper postage
with the United States, but Washing.
ton was not prepared TO entertain the
matter.
An earthquake shock lasting nearly
n minute occurred ut I:i5 OH the morn.
Ing Of December 15th at Joplin. Mis-.
souri,. The motion was from north to
south and OF a puivcring nature. No
damage is reported.
The work of purifying Paris, to
which the police are giving special nt-
tention, in view OF the abnormal crimi-
nal conditions following the close Of
the exposition, continues and there
have been $50 new arrests.
Commencing January 1st. the Calu-
mcnt 4 Iccla Mining Company will in
crease the wages of its 1000 employees
two and onc-half per cent. Last
March the company raised the wages
OF its employees ten per cent.
In the House OF Commons. Powell
williams. former financial secretary OF
the war office. said 1S2, AGO horses and
mules had been landed in South Africa
during the war. He ignored the ques-
tiOn rs 10 HOW Hnuhy ass'S hau oSSAA
sent there.
Hon. W, ]. Bryan. who will be the
principal speaker Mt the annual BAN
uuet mt the Jacksonian Club. In Omaha.
Monday evening, January 7th, has an
nounccd that he will on this occasion
talk about the future policy of the
Democratic party.
The official report of the finances Of
| L oil n IngQ
. 600, 900 francs. The total Of expendi-
lures is 116.5OO.OO francs. The receipts
amounted to 114.5o0,OOO francs. The
loss is less than in the case of either OF
the preceding eNpositions.
Private letters from China received
In Berlin assert that the reason the
empress hates Emperor Kwang Su is
that the latter has actually become II
Christian, having been converted by
british and American missionary books
that came under his eye.
The Oregon Historical Society at its
recent annual meeting adopted resolu-
tions recommending that n northwest
ern Industrial exposition be held at
Portland in 1905 to commemorate the
centennial anniversary of the Lewis
and Clark expedition to the Pacific
coast.
The vice president of the Federal
Council, Ernest Brenncr Of Bale. has
been elected president of Switzerland
for 1901 in succession to Walter Haus-
or of Zurich. DR.. ]. Zemp of Lucerne.
who was chief of the department OF
posts and railroads, was elected vice
president.
Micael G. Mulhall, the statistician,
,s dead. He was born In 1886, and
founded in 1861 the Buenos Ayres
Standard, the first English daily paper
printed in. South America. HIS prin,
rinoI works were the Dictionary of
Statistics" the Progress Of the
World" and the Industries and
Wealth of Nations"
The New York Board of Trade and
TRANSFORMATION has adopted resolu-
tions asking Congress to make the vol
umn of currency more responsive to