Rocky Ford enterprise., 1904-09-16
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There we're 5000 msa In the Labor
Day parade ~ Boston and o.00o turned
out st Cleveland.
King Edward has approved the ap-
pointment Of Earl Grey a. governor
general Of Canada In succession u The
Earl of Nialo.
Mount vesuyius y again in activity.
Flames. ashes and stones are rising
from IL TO . Considerable height and .
wide stream Of lava is issuing from the
crater.
The Republicans Of Hawaii have re-
nominated Jonah x kaianianaois for
delegate TO Congress- The platform In
dorses Governor Carter and the ma
uouAi ticket.
Mrs. Imogene W. Eddy. the Oldest
daughter OF Nathaniel +. Willis. the
poet, lost her iife in an elevator aeei-
dent In Boston on the 9Th inst She was
sixty years old.
There have been . number OF cases Of
Texas fever amonE cattle received ~
Lancaster. Pennsylvania. from the
West and purchased by farmers The
outbreak will be Investigated By The
national authorities
The Associated Press states on high
authority that Russia will decline TO
enter into tho negotiations proposed
By tho United States August sist In
regard to the unrestricted recognition
OF American passports
Carroll D. Wright. commissioner Of
the Bureau Of Labor. II reported To
have said that he would resign from Of
nee at tho end Of tho pscsrat year. lie
viii devote his aiienttttou To his duties
In connection with tho presidency OF
Clark College.
woadeii Miller. t~eive-ycar-old son
oe George W. Miller. president OF Rus
Q suburb OF Chicago. WAS killed ON La
Dor Day BY foul hall that hit him on
tho head while ho was watching the
base hall game Al that place.
Thcso is the greatest demand for cot
ton pickcss In the cotton region OF
Texas known In twenty years. and In
many ciucs and towns druymcu. duliv-
cry boys. cooks and even hotel hclpOo
hAve been induced BY tho high prices
paid for picking 10 60 To tho ncldA-
James d. Haxicy. . prominent poll
tician. committed suicide at Detroit,
Michigan. August 3lst. by taking
strychniuc. The deed IL attributed To
rcmorso for having shot and killed his
brother April u. 1909. Al that ume
ho was cxoucrated on tho ground OF
solf-dofcnsc.
The Worlds Fair attendance at 81.
Louis up to September eth was ~ fol-
lows: April. ono day. lS7.733: May.
tvcnty-six days. l.oo5.:31: June. tweu-
ty-six days. :.i:t.s5S: July. twenty
seven days. :.3is.557: August, twenty
eight days. 3.0ss.7s3: September. three
days. S73.33G. Total. S.llS.5S6.
The monthly coinage statement
shows q total coinage executed Mt tho
mints Of tho United States during Aug
ust, 1905. exclusive OF c.255. 900 pesos
for tho Philippine government. was So
49,. .020. a. follows: Gold. Si.3s5. 900:
half doilas. 3G72.00o: quarter dollars.
S676.0 dimes. $4,000: minor coins,
S206. .o20.
Fire in tho Wholesale district Al
Memphis. Tennessee. on the 3rd inst.
destroyed property approximnting In
value $S00.000. including that OF the
Olivcr-Finnc Grocery Company. John
Denies Sons. lime: the Memphis Paper
Company. W. C. Early & Co.. wholesale
commission merchants. and J. T. Fer
guson 4 Co.
Three thousand or moro Smiths
gathered at Peapack. New York. Sep
tember 1st, to cciegrate the annual re-
union OF that famous family. Every
county in the state was represented
and there were visiting Smiths present
from many other states. Tho custom
of holding the family reunions was In
augurnted In 1900.
According to q decision rendered by
Judge Chytraus Of the SuperiorC court Of
Chicago. Board Of Trade operators who
succeed In engineering q "corner" in
wheat, corn Of other commodities have
NO right to compel payment Of the ma
nipulated price instead Of the actual
value of the commodity at the time set
for settling Of the trades.
At the closing session of the conven-
ton Of the Society for the Promotion OF
Engineering at St. Louis on the 3rd
inst, T. N. McNair. president OF Michi-
gan College Of Mines. Houghton, Mich
igan. was elected president; Prof. Ell
wood Mead, University Of California,
first vice president, and Prof. NJ. s.
Ketchman. University OF Colorado. sec
retary.
Two new steamships to be built by
the Cunard company are to be 760 feet
long, or thirty-five feet longer than tho
Baltic, and eighty-eight feet on the
beam. and they will displace about 81
200 tons Of water. They are designed
to attain a speed of twenty-five knots,
Q knot and a fraction faster than the
record Of the German steamship Kaiser
Wilhelm II. rr. -4
An imperial ukase has been published
at st. Petersburg. making provisional
amendments pending general revision
of the whole legislation concerning
Jews, The amendments grant greatly