Rocky Ford enterprise., 1906-03-30
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John Alexander Dowie of Chicago
is again In the City OF Mexico and is
| reported to be much improved In
health.
A record price. $4,000. was paid u
few days ago at a London auction
room. for a prize orchid from col
lection OF II. 7. Pitt.
Andrew Carnegie has offered $4,000
to complete the S25O.0O0 endowment
fund now being raised by the Western
College for Women at Hamilton, Ohio.
The Spanish ministry of war is or.
;anizing four strong flying columns for
the suppression OF agitation by the
Carlists. according TO a dispatch from
Barcelona.
The Louvre theatcr ut juneau.
| Alaska. has burned down and John
King. who did the fire-eating act In the
company playing there. was cremated.
| being the only victim.
The steamer Urmstom Grange. car
| rying the Commercial Gable Com
pany's Pacific cable which Is TO be laid
| between Guam and Japan has arrived
1t the island OF Guam.
The United States floating dry dock
Dewey. en- route to the naval station
at Oiongnpo. Philippine Islands. lef,
the Canary Islands March 18th. pro-
posing TO call ut Gibraltar.
Six hundred Macedonian emigrants
left Belgrade. Servin. March 18th. for
the United States by way OF Fiume.
All OF them possessed sufficient funds
To permit OF their entering the United
States.
Directly after the arrival OF the new
Japanes. ambassador at Washington.
Mr.. Hioki. the first secretary OF the
embassy. will leave for Japan on leave
OF absence. MIR. Hioki. Il Ii expected.
will be appointed head af legations.
The firs, smoking car ever reserved
for women In Great Britain left u bi.
London terminus few days since for
Liverpool. The windows bore n label
reading: Ladies' Smoking" The In
novarion ati.sts the spread OF smoking
among English women during recent
years.
Fire In the HavcrhIii. Massaehu.
sctts. Manual Training School and
High School Annex impcriicd more
than i5O boys and girls. and. although
mainly bccauS. OF coolucss and g.ncr.
aiship OF the teachers. no lives were
lost. although !ow were slightly In
iurgd.
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Chicago Northwestern near Gaicna.
according to an Official OF tho road.
was that Of the Tower " robbery. near
u. Kaib. forty miics from Gaicna. That
robbery occurred In 1893 and ncticd
the perpetrators In the ncishborhooi
OF $4,000.
\ score Of original manuscripts OF
famous works oi Nathaniel Hawthorne
were damaged By nTr which de-
4 aIToyCd the HON" OF hIs son. Julian
/ Hawthorne. In Tonkrfs. y. v. few
days ago. Several at the manuscripts
we're destroyed and others were badly
damaged by water
on March :ifh 81. iaquca faufc Of
the Nero Club dc France made u bal
loon voyage from 81. Cloud across the
voss-F mountains and the Rhine. and
descended the u"Et morning at Gald"n'
bach in Hrssr Nassau. The distance
og Ss0 kilomc,"Es ,5s5 mlivsb Was COW
cred in ihiTtcva hnurs.
on a recent voyage from New York
To ChcTipourE and Hamburg the
steamer Deutschland maintained
continuous communication by wireless
telegraph with the station at Lizard
Head. Cornwall. from "a distance Of
| 1000 miles uu, from Lizard Head. un'
III she reached Plymouth.
| Three men are in Bci-m prison.
Mexico. under sentence OF death Tor
having Killed in Tpluca. capital OF the
state Of Mexico. an old woman whom
ihcy believed to be witch. Belief In
witrhcrau prevails among the lower
classes in the rural regions and many
crimes have resulted from the super.
siItion.
The mos, uniau- mo'or IN this eoun.
TRY will be- an armor-,l auto which
Scw Mexico mining man. q =, Hen
shaw. IL having made in Boston for use
| in the Southwest In the transportation
pf gold from his mines. The machine
Is TO be built on the plans OF the Ger.
man military auto. aTmoTcd. and will
carry two rapid arc guns.
The American church of 81. Paul in
Rome was crowded sunday. March
| ssth. on the occasion Of the thirteenth
anniversary Of its conservation. Bishop
u. c. Potter. who read the service.
preached Bishop PotisT's father eclc'
hratCd the first service in the Amcri'
can church in Rome in 1859. when IL
was held in a private house.
That tho hiEh prices of meat in Ger.
| many have driven some Of the kaiser
people to eating dogs and cats. as well
enormous quantities of horschesh. is
the startling revelations of the Prus'
sian slaughter house statistics Just
published. In the course of the last
year $4,000 horses and i.0ss dogs were
butchcrod for human consumption.
II is stated that Swift & Co. will
buildin a million dollar packing plant
at Portland. Oregon. The output Will
be 500 cattle. i.QOO sheep and 1000
hogs per day aud employment will be
provided for 1000 men. Tho purpose
Of the plant is to enable Swift & Co.
to enter the Alaskan and Oriental
markets. besides furtheTing their In
tcrests in the Northwest.