Rocky Ford enterprise., 1902-10-17
SHORT rgLEoRAMs.

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Andrew Carnegie has donated $500
to the union Tor women students OF St.
Andrews University. OF which tnstitu.
ton he is rector.
The Peru chamber OF deputies has
confirmed the grant Of $4,000 already
sanctioned by the Senate. provided for
tho representation OF Peru at the 1t.
Louis exposition.
Tho Muitonomah. Oregon. Typo
graphical Union has levied an assess.
ment OF five per cent. on all members
for tho beneft OF the striking coal min
ers Of Pennsylvania.
William ID. Huber OF Philadelphia
was reelected president OF the United
brotherhood Of Carpenters and Joiners
OF the United States and Canada at
the Atlanta meeting.
Toistoi's home at Yasnaia Poliana,
In the government OF Toula. had mar.
row escape from bein. totally do
stroycd by fre September Esd. Tho
upper part Of the house was dc
str,yed.
After having made exhaustive trials
OF American and British built locomo-
uves on the government railways.
tho New Zealand ofaciais report that
with tho former.
A dispatch from Odessa. Russia,
snys that the failure OF tho great met
niiurgical works of kurtsch for So.
900. 900 has caused n iiuttcr on the
stock markets, and has. resulted In
making idle 5000 men.
A regular steamship limo will noon ba
innugurnt.d between Pensacola and
hA
monthly. II is raid tho main object OF
tho limo will be tho transportation Of
live stock for the Bocr farms.
Tho initial surveys for . proposed
now ditch. to supply tho plantations
In tho center OF tho island Of Maui.
Hawaii. with water from Sahiku. havo
been commenced. Tho ncG ditch will
bc forty.iivc miles In length.
Efforts nrc being made to form .
$40. .000. 900 combination Of manufac.
turcrH and sellers Of patented railway
supplies. Tho proposed company is
to include tho manufacturers OF car
roofs. springs. doors. brake shoes and
beams.
A telegram from ST. Johns. N. F..
OF October 7th. says tho whole coast
Of Labrador has been swept by a fear
full gale. Eighteen fishing vessels were
driven ashore and wrecked. One steam
cr brought In l39 shipwrcckcd fisher
men.
The Philippine insuiar government
has appropriated $4,000 to fight chol.
crn In tho province OF lioiio. Panay.
Although tho number Of cholera cnsca
In this province has decreased. there
Is still an average OF thousand cascs
. day.
John u. Goodwin. grand secretary OF
tho Independent Order Of Odd Eel.
lows. has announced the appointment
Of Mai. Gen. N. J. Rainey. department
commander OF Iowa. TO be commander
Of tho Pntrinrchs Militant throughout
tho world.
At Minneapolis. October I'd. Judge
Brooks sentenced former Superintend.
ont of Police Frederick W. Amcs to
six years and half in tho pcnitenu.
nry for accepting n bribc. stay OF
fifty days In which TO movo for n new
trial was granted.
A new limo Of freight steamers will
be put on the route connecting San
Francisco with Now York by tho Luck-
enbachs. of New York. well known In
shipping circles on the Atlantic coast.
The line will give Its whole attention
70 inc ITclRnI UubiHess.
The amount Of sugar shipped from
Hawaii to the United States during tho
past two fiscal years is as follows:
July /. 1900. TO June 30. 1901. 690.s77.-
93i pounds; July !, 1901. to June 80.
1909. 720.553.337 pounds. valued at
}23.520.113.
A charter has been granted to the
Tennessee. Georgia & South Carolina
h,,lt to
lire from Blue Ridge. Georgia, to
Charleston, Tennessee. a distance Of
200 miles. The road will be branch
Of the Louisville & Nashville.
The Japanese government within the
next six years will build four battle
ships, six first-class cruisers and va
rious lesser craft, ut q cost OF &c.,;
600, 900 annually for the six years. The
battleships are to be built in England,
and the cruisers in England, France
and Germany.
Preliminary steps have been taken
for the organization OF the Episcopal
church OF an order of Paulist fathers.
to consist OF priests and deacons in
that church who shall pledge them
selves to the work Of missionaries
while earning their livelihood by Sec
ular work, without receiving any COM
pensation for their ministrations.
The governments $5.O0O,000 appro-
priation will soon become available to
the st. Louis Exposition Company.
The city OF st. Louis has deposited all
of its $5,000.O00 and subscribers to the
s5,OO0,O0 of exposition company stock
are paying their obligations SO rapid
" that all of the SIS 100000 will soon
be in the treasury Of the company.
Members OF the board Of govern.
ment Of the Catholic Total Abstinence
Union Of America, at n recent meet
ing in New York. mapped out q cam
paign in the interests of temperance.
1t was agreed to cut up the national
union into six districts, comprising
almost every state in the Union. with
an executive member at the head Of
each section.
After a service of twenty years as
a United States district judge and
twelve years previously as chief JUS
tice of the Supreme Court of Nevada,
Thomas p. Hawley is preparing to re-
tire from the bench. Judge Hawley is
over seventy years of age. He some
time ago announced his candidacy for
the United States Senate to succeed
Senator John p. Jones Of Nevada.
The Belfast correspondent Of the