Rocky Ford enterprise. (Rocky Ford, Colo.) 1887-1950, 1902-07-18
SHORT TeLeoRAMs.

John ~. Burke has given the c,ty OF
New York &t.ODUD to establish
home for convales.rats.
Corn for delivery In July has been
bid up to % cents In III. Chicago mar
ket.
During the hrst six months OF this
year 3iG.7ii immigrants landed AT FL
lis island. port Of New York.
Thomas Mast. the earioonIst. has
sailed To take up his duties as United
States consii at Guayaduii. Ecuador.
An immense amount OF damage was
done by a terrific rain storm that
swept over western New York July
9th.
Eleven ears loaded with hermcticaiiy
sealed lars OF butter rrc-atiy left To-
pekn, Kansas. for the eastern navy
yards
Foreigners Will not bc allowed To rid.
over the Siberian railway without rpc-
cini authorization from the Russian
government
st. Patrick's Catholic Church nj
JancsvIiic. Wisconsin. was struck by
lightning and destroyed on III. night
OF July 9th.
John w. Greeley. a cousin Of Horace
sEsttty. uieu ~ "hh''s ~"
Hampshire. on the 7th instant nt the
aIc OF ci.ht-six.
A severe earthquake shock wa- felt
nt Salonicn. European Turkey. on the
night OF July Ith. Many lives arc re-
ported TO have been lost.
Twenty-Five candidates from the
Andovcr Theological Seminary have
been refused admission To the univcr-
sity mt Princeton. New Jersey. for crib
bling.
Charles n. Schwab will built n 81
100000 residence next to that being
erected for Andrew Carnegie near XIV.
crsIdc drive and Seventy fourth street.
New York.
War Secretary Broicrick says that
Irish. Americans who wcrc made pri-.
oncrs In the Bocs war will bc released
! on the same lines as other prisoners
| similarly situated.
y. Il. Cady. editor Of the Augusta.
Kansas. Journal, was to-day fined $40
for contempt OF court for having cru.
ciscd Judge Aikmnn for not granting
n change OF venue for Jessie Morrison.
q. W. Bradley. ninciy.four years old.
n native OF Lynchburr. virginia. is the
Oldest living Confederate veteran. He
walks with two canes. one OF which
wns once the property OF Daniel Boone.
The cotton crisis In Lancashire, Eng.
land, is CROWN. more acute and the
trade regards heavy reduction OF the
output being Its only salvation. Spec
ulators are said 10 have secured pos
session OF the cotton supply.
The Spanish minister OF foreign nj.
fairs. the Duke OF Almodovar. has
been authorized to sign treaty OF
commerce with the United States,
which Will then be sent TO Washington
for the approval OF tho Senate.
Mark Twain's "Huckicbcrry Finn"
will he produced on the stage next No
vcmbcr. the first performance to be
given mt Hartford. Connecticut The
stage version is being prepared by Lee
Arthur, n young Louisiana lawyer.
Judge Herbert J. Davis OF Chicago.
who was recently appointed n judge of
the Court OF First Instance In the
Philippines. has resigned his position
and will remain In the United States.
The resignation Is result OF III health.
Major General Lloyd Wheaton. u. $.
A.. has arrived In Chicago from Ma
Mia. He will retire from active SER
vice upon reaching the age limit of
1
tends to stny In Chicago with his
family.
Chicago's postofYIcc has done busl-
ness twenty per cent. greater during
| the year ending June 1st than during
f, last year. The salaries OF 1,4OO clerks
have been raised 500 each and fifty
new carriers Will be Sdded to the pres
cnt force.
The British punitive expedition un-
ded Colonel Swan, sent to Somalilnnd.
East Africa. against the Mad Mullnl.
reports that the Mullnh is indulging in
der to terrify the rest and put stop
to desertions.
At meeting of the Hudson's Bay
| Company Lord Strathcona expressed
the opinion. cables the London CORE
spondent of the Tribune. that in an
other decade Canada would be able to
supply the whole foodstuffs of the
United Kingdom.
William Clark, the great thread man.
ufacturer of Passaic, New Jersey, and
Paisley. Scotland. died in England on
July Tth ut the age of sixty-one. His
name was on so many spools of thrend
that it became II household word in
all parts Of the world.
The sultan of Bacolod, Mindanao,
has sent an insultingly worded letter
to the commander of the American cX-
pedition to Lake Lanao, Mindanao, in
which he threatens to begin operations
In August. The sultan is ut present
strengthening his position.
Mrs. Ann Eliza Walsh of Brooklyn.
whose donations for educational and
charitable purposes have reached
nearly SSOO,OOO, has given the sum of
S45O,OOO to establish fund for the
| education of candidates for priesthood
in the Roman Catholic Church.
President o. Il. Miller and Secretary
II. G. Davis of st. Luke's Sanitarium,
in Chicago, who were held responsible
by the coroner's jury for the loss of
life in the fire that destroyed the san
| itarium, were not indicted by the grand
jury which Investigated the case.
Sarah Bernhnrdt, according to n
Manchester, England, dispatch, has an
nounced that arrangements have been
practically completed for Maude
| Adams to play Juliet to Nine. Bern
hardt's Romeo during the visit of the
| French actress to America in 1903.
The wholesale market and office of
Swift & Co. at the Chicago stock yards
was burned on the night of July 9TH.