Rocky Ford enterprise., 1906-08-17

iciue IN san FRANCISCO Dy SnOOtiuS
himself with revolver.
A mob Of 5000 men took three
negroes accused OF having murdered
the Liverly family from the jail at
Salisbury. N. c.. and lynched them.
Mrs. Denslow. demented woman
at South Bend. Ind. poured gaso-
line on the carpet and applied
match. She was burned to death and
four other persons who came to her
assistance were seriously burned.
A leave OF absence Of not exceed.
Ing ten days has been granted to
postmasters of second and third class
offices by Acting Postmaster Gen.
eral Hitchcock to enable them to at
tend the conventions Of the Nation
al Association Of Postmasters to be
held in Detroit August 22. % and "a.
Heavy hains In Oklahoma nre
damaging the wheat which has not
been threshed by causing It to sprout
In the shock.
The Milwaukee Avenue State bank
OF Chicago. one OF the largest outside
the downtown district with deposits
amounting to over 33.000.000 has
failed.
DIR. Julian p. Thomas. OF New
York and Roy Knakenshuc. n
fcssionnl aeronaut. made one OF
the most successful balloon trips yet
taken In this country when they
sailed 225 miles from New York to
Brant Rock. Mass. consuming nearly
l2 hours on the trip. ..NEt
The attorney general has rendered
IN opinion to tho effect that tho
eight hour law does not apply to
vessels under construction for tho
navy by contract with private cstab.
iishments.
The Transatlantic Fire Insurance
company OF Hamburg. Germany. has
refused to pay San Francisco insur-
ance claims approximating H.ooo.-
600.
The idaho state democratic convcn-
tion has adopted 4 strong anti-Mor.
mon plank In their platform which
II enacted into law would diAfrnn-
chise nli faithful Mormons.
Edward Batcman, n negro. was re-
Gently hung at Springfield. Mo. for
assauitinE n white woman at Aurora.
last February.
Owing 10 the recent hot wavo sew
crnl factories In Paterson. n. j.. were
compelled to shut down. Several
deaths and many prcstrations were re-
ported.
Tho heaviest rain In several years
visited Joplin. No.. recently. wash
Ing out many streets and flooding bus
mess houses. The foundation for tho
new $1,000 hotel. now under con.
,ruction. was wrecked.
Western Central Texas was recent
iy visited by torrcniial rains. Crops
wcrc damaged and railroad raiiic
badly crippled. No Casualties wcre
reported.
Ernest Stc!nhcar'. n whisky sales
man for Kentucky house, COM
nittcd suicide In ST. Louis giving rs
reason that he would rather be
dead than to continue selling liquor.
The third annual conference OF tho
International League OF Women Suf-
frasis,s met recently at Copenhagen.
Denmark. with Mrs. Carrie Chapman
Gait presiding.
The federal grand jury at Chicago
recently returned mn Indictment
agninst the Standard Oil company for
receiving rebates from the Lake
shore d Michigan Southern railway
company. Bond was required In the
sum of $4,000. The indictment con-
tanned 10 counts.
Henry W. Herring. cashier Of the de-
funct Milwaukee Avenue State bank.
of Chicago. was arrested recently In
connection with tho disappearance OF
nearly 100000 Of tho banks funds.
The bug known as the "sharpshoot-
er." which destroys growing cotton
plants, has been discovered In the
fields of Oklahoma.
A wcil-dresscd girl about is years
old was killed by the premature cx-
piosion of a bomb near the residence
of Gen. Kaulbars in Odessa, Russia,
recently.
II has been announced by the
United States treasury department
that the purchase II silver bullion for
the subsidiary coinage would be re-
sumcd Immediately. About 100000
ounces n week will be needed at
present.
Justice Giegerich of New York. has
ordered the Mutual Life Insurance
company to furnish correct list of
It's policyholdcrs to the International
Policyholders' committee and to file
n similar list with the state insur-
ance department at Albany within ten
days.
George Hall. one Of the lynchsrs
Of the three negroes at Salisbury, N.
c.. recently, has been convicted and
sentenced to the penitentiary for is
years. This is the first instance on
record of the conviction Of a lyncher
in North Carolina.