Rocky Ford enterprise., 1905-07-21
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The population OF Chicago 10 2.272.-
H60. according to the city directory
for 1905, which has Just been com.
pleted.
Mrs. James Brown Potter. tho Amer.
lean actress. has gone Into bankruptcy
and had q receiver appointed ON her
own petition In London.
Tho late Baron Alphonse De Roths-
child left 100000 to be expended In
charities OF various kinds without dis.
tinction Of religion.
The 1C.e00.ton battleship Kansas will
DO launched, at, the yard Of the New
York Shipbuilding Company At Cam.
den. New Jersey. August Sth.
Among the oficers elected by tho
members OF the American Microscope.
cal Society at Sandusky. was first vice
president. A. M Holmes. Denver.
Tho 500 theatrical agencies In New
York City have been reduced to tho
status ..of common employment bu-
reaus by the appellate division OF the
Supreme Court. which ordered them 70
take out licenses.
Lou Dillon and Major Delmar. the
only twominute trotters In tho world.
will be seen In a match race during
tho Blue Ribbon meeting at Detroit.
tho opening of the grand circui. July
2tth TO 2sth.
Returns from the frst month during
which tho new stock transfer tax has
been In operation In New York indi.
cate m annual revenue OF 35.000.000.
which 10 greater than even the most
sansuino advocates Of the law az
pecied.
Tho house at Verona, In which Ju.
liot Is said to have lived. and In which
she received Romeo. has been sold AZ
auction. Tho bidding began at $1,000.
and the house was finally bought In By
tho city OF Verona for $500.
Tho Philippine commission has
passed an act grantln. to John !. 6abin
and LouIH Glass OF San Francisco. Cali.
fornia. n franchise to construct tcic-
phone and telegraph systems through.
out tho Philippine islands.
u. H!osawa and r. Hnyashi. repro
acntaSIvcs OF the Japanese govern.
mcn,. have purchased fivc highly brcd
stations at Lexington. Kentucky. TO
bc sent TO the royal stud. Three arc
thorou.hbrcds and two arc registered
trottcrs.
Now that tho 100000 endowment
fund for the maintenance Of tho Amor
lean Academy Of Fine Arts In Rome
has been practically completed by the
subscription OF 100000 by II. G. Fr!ck.
Il is proposed to raise 100000 more
for library for tho Institution.
A St. Petersburg dispatch to the
New York World says that tho Navy
Department having resolved TO build
powerful new navy. has Instructed
Charles ~. Schawb to mako plans for
l st..r rfk "A
which tho work can be completed.
A p.o,cs; has been fiied with the
Canadian minister OF marine by Cap
schooner Acacia because tho port col
icetor. Duane bump. compelled him 10
lower tho British aas on his vessel In
the harbos at Charlotte on July 9Th.
II Ia stated tina, no more gambling
licenses will bc issued In tho City OF
Mexico after August LIST, when all CT.
listing licenses expire. Governor Tands
OF tho Federal district announces that
TO Ia determined to cxiirpaic gambling
IN the city.
At Pi;;sburr. Pennsylvania, July
10th. tho intense heat was responsible
within twcnty.!ouF hours for seven
ecaths. t~o OF them caused directly
by tho high temperature. and tho
others by drowning. tho result OF In.
1 experienced Hwimmcta seeking RELIEF
In tho rivers.
John Sclby. a veteran Of tho Mcxi.
/ can and Civil wars. died July 10th al
Tacoma. Washington. Ho was eighty.
scycn years old. Mr. Sclby served un.
der Gen. Zachary Taylor In tho battle
OF Bucna Vista and later was under
tho United States troops operating In
northern Mexico.
Gen. Amassa Cobb. briradier general
Of the volunteers during the Civil War.
veteran of tho Mexican War. cx-con.
gresham and ex.iustice of tho Su.
premc Court of Nebraska. died at Los
Angeles July 9Th at the age of seventy.
two years. Cobb was a personal friend
OF President Lincoln.
Twenty Victoria Chinese have ap-
piled for admission 10 the Fifth Rcgi.
mcnt Canadian artillery OF Victoria
British Columbia. AS the militia act
states that all British subjects over
eighteen years of age are eligible Tor
admission TO the militia. the Chinese
Insist they canno. bc refused enroll.
mcnt In tho regiment.
The French Senate by a vo,. OF 2i3
against II, passed the government bill
providing amnesty for those con.
demned by the high cour. In connec.
tion with the revolutionary conspiracy
in 1899. Paul De Rouledc. former
member OF the chamber. who is in po-
litical exile in Spain. vii. now be per.
mi,ted to return to France.
Tho Venezuelan Congress has &C.
eepted the contract signed July 7th In
London by the representatives OF
Venezuela and the Disconto Gesellc-
schaft, representing the German
bondholders, and the council OF for.
ejgu bondholders representing tho
board of bondholders. for the settle.
ment Of the outstanding obligations Of