Rocky Ford enterprise., 1903-05-15
ohoRT TELeoRAMs.

| tahauiah NofthNesls mas Dech toilewed
by numerous smaller slides
Louis Rsep. of West BAY City. Mich
igan. died May 4th at the age OF i0T
years IL is said that he MAS in the
Battle OF Waterloo under Blaeher.
Charles n. sehWab MAS reelected
president OF the United States Steel
Corporation al meeting OF the board
OF directors held iE New York on the
9Th inst.
The Illinois Legislature has passed
the Mueller municipal bill. which gives
the city of chieago the right to con-
s,rue'. own. operate and lease street
railways.
General Baden-P0geli. who has just
returned 10 England after a short visit
TO this country dsnies that he criticised
the United States cavalry as has been
reported.
An explosion at the cresson Powder
Works in Pennsylvania April 5oth. re-
suited in the death of nine employees
Superintendent Harry TaEEart OF
fi,tsburg Was fatally injured.
Secretary Shaw. accompanied by
Mrs. shaw. his tNo daughters and son.
will sail for EnEOpe July tth. The
s-ereiaTy's trip will he brief. but his
family will remain abroad until aa'
tumn.
Eishiy-ssvsn msmhsEs of the Lon
don Stock Exchange started in n walk
Ing match of tity-INo and one-auaEter
miles May LIST. =. y. Broad was the
winner in nine hours and thIFty-nye
ininWes.
a serious nr. vas prevented by tho
bravery Of q soldier ON the transport
/ Thomas AT San Francisco "a few days
. a. so Il. NENuN0 ~
lin. which had caught iire. and threw
IL overheard.
Cornelius Hin. chief of the Oneida
Indians. last survivors OF the famous
Six Nations of NeW York State. will be
ordained ms a priest OF the Episcopal
Church June etih on the reservation
near Green hay. Wisconsin.
The Copenhagen correspondent OF
tho London Mail says that King Ed
ward will visit 81. Petersburg In July.
| stopping three days In Berlin ON his
return. The correspondent says that
his majesty will also visit Copenhagen.
The controversy between the opera
uscs and cotton mill managers ~
Lowell. Massachusetts. involving 49,
90 hands. entered upon Its sixth week
I May ith. with little prospects of an I'm
mcdiat. change. An estimate places
the loHs In wages at nearly sSco.Vco.
The Grand Trunk Pan-Amcricnn
nycr from Chicago ran into n crowd
OF i.oco people nj Detroit May 5rd. at
$3.50 y. IN. killing at least seven men
and rcriounly lnJuFins about thirty
more. Tho crowd WAS made up of
Polandcra just returned from holiday
excursion TO Toledo.
With the danger block set against
/ Panhandle. tfnIu Nh hnunA for
| Cincinnati. on the Little Miami diyis-
lon. struck the dcTa!l nj the Baltimore
4 Ohio crossing on the West Side Mt
Columbus. Ohio. and was ditchcd. The
baltimore & Ohio passenger train
whixxcd by n moment later.
Judge a. T.. Maxwell. who. except cS
Senator Vest. was the last survivor OF
the Confederate Senate. died Mt Chip
icy. Florida. May 9th. Judge Maxwell
was n member Of Congress from 1858
| TO 1857: was Confederate States SEN
ator from iS6: till 1865. and was chief
justice OF Florida from 1887 to 1891.
The Northern Securities Company on
| May 18th issued n statement OF Its In
come account from November u. 1901.
to December u. 1902. showing diyi-
dcnds received on stocks owned TO be
si5.36i.25i. and surplus after pay
mcnt OF expenses. dividends. interest.
taxes. etc. OF sI5s,llI.
Princess Louise OF Saxony gave birth
to n daughter at Lindau, Bavaria, on
May ith. The princess deserted her
| family Mt Salzburg last December and
ciopcd with NJ. Giron. the tutor OF her
| children. Orders have been given by
! the King of Saxony to bring the prin-
| cess and child to Dresden three weeks
after Its birth.
A strange fight took place in the
| Sclavonic Roman Catholic Church on
| Sunday May 3rd there being 1000 men.
women and children in the building.
| Church members fought with their
lists and pieces of furniture. Women
threw books Bloody faces were nu-
merous. When the fight was over no
one could find out just how 1t started
| or what 1t was about.
A Honolulu dispatch says that the
Pacific Gable Board is said to be con-
ducting negotiations with Marconi for
a series OF wireless telegraphic expert
| ments between Honolulu and the Fam
ming island cable station, which is the
present southern terminus OF the Brit
| ish Pacific cable that will eventually
| be laid to Australia. The distance be-
| tween Honolulu and Tanning island is
| about 1,OOO miles.
Professor John A. Brashear. of Alle-
| gheny. Pennsylvania, announces that
| the astronomical instrument just COM
peted for the Smithsonian Institution
| at Washington will shortly be sent to
ST. Louis. where the government Will
have it mounted for exhibition at the
big fair. 1t is the largest and most
perfect instrument of its kind ever
constructed. and will be used primarily
for the study of solar phenomena.
| At Jackson. Kentucky. on May
4th, just after he had finished
| filing papers reopening the con-
, tested election cases of Breathitt
county, James B. Marcum was shot
and killed by an unknown assassin. He
| fell in his tracks at the front entrance
of the court house. Marcum was coun-
sci for the Fusionists who are contest
ing for the offices of county judge.
sheriff, and other places, now held by
| Democrats
The District Court at Washington