Rocky Ford enterprise., 1907-04-12

ShOhts,
Capt. Edgar A. Maeklin OF Company
c. 25th infantry In t~stifying before
the senate committee investigating the
Brownsville. Tex. shooting stated
that he did not believe ths men Were
guilty.
y. A. Iioibrooi. recently indicted by
the federal grand jury as the ehiei
in school and church furniture has
entered plea of guilty.
Secretary Taft held long confer
.~nce while nj Panama with President
midor and Secretary OF State Arins
regarding various complaints of the
Panama republic.
Judge Jacob ". wilkins. for is
years u msmber of the supreme court
OF Illinois. Is dead at his home In
Dany.ilc. aged 30 years.
Commander Robert y. Peary has s--
cured the necessary funds for another
expedition to the far North. His vc--
sci. the Roosevelt. II nearly ready. and
he expects TO set out the last OF June.
n. Tnknhashi. III. japanese finan-
cIal agent, arrived In New York re-
Gently on his way to Japan from
Paris cnd Lcnion where he arranged
the bi. five percent loan for his
country.
william Green has been elected
mayor OF Topeka. Kan. by u plurality
OF 1900. votes. .........-.
James j. Inn has resigned as prcsi-
dent Of the Great Northern railroad
and Is succeeded by his son. T. ".
Hin. Mr.. Hiii viii he chairman oi
the board Of directors.
Capt. william Swift. who was In
command OF tho ba,ticship Connccti-
cut when II grounded In January hns
been suspended for nine months aud
loses three numbers.
ID. T.. Cornell was elected mayor oi
Kansas City. Kan. over w. w. Rose,
the democratic nominee by majority
OF i.l73 votes.
Bishop James n. Fitzgerald. of the
NJ, r. church. who with his family.
has been on n tour OF the world. died
recently of plcurIsy nj Hongkons.
China. His home was In st. Louis.
Judge II. F. Thompson. Of Mime
apolis. Kan. n prominent attorney
- dead mt his home OF paralysis.
NThe congress- OF the Christian
church recently held In Cincinnati
has elected Rev. W. +. Richardson
OF Kansas City. Mo. president. and
Rev. Wallace c. Payne, OF Lawrence,
Kan: secretary.
Martin Flores. who came from San
Antonio. Tex. has been arrested In
New York charged with making
threats against the president. He
was sent to Bellevue hospital.
Miscellaneous.
Tho railroad committee of the Min
ncsota legislature has rejected COM
promise proposition presented by J. j.
Hill and insist upon two-ccnt fare
law and the freight reductions ordered
by the state railroad commission.
The strike of the St. Louis Brewery
workers has been settled. The mat
ters In dispute were compromised.
For the first time in the history OF
Illinois woman was elected justice
of the peace in Evanston, the fashion,
able Chicago suburb ut the recent
election.
In n recent New York tenement fire
Mrs. Sotupo and her four children met
death by suffocation.
The Nebraska legislature has adopt
ed resolution endorsing the posi-
ton of President Roosevelt in his
controversy with E. II Hartman.
The United States is now importing
n,ore than s1,OOO,OoO worth Of cocoa
month, while importations OF cof-
~ and tea are declining.
Representatives from all over the
world are attending the 7s,h general
conference of the Mormon church at
Salt Lake, Utah.
The federal grand jury at Chicago
has returned another indictment
against John r. Walsh for president
of the Chicago National bank. for
misappropriation Of the funds of the
bank.
The department of the interior is
to bring suit at once against the
Southern Pacific railroad to cancel
all patents to land in the White
Horse Mining district of Nevada, is
sued to the company, on the ground
that the land was agricultural.
BY premature explosion m the
Black Diamond mine at Joplin, MO-,
two miners were instantly killed.
Announcement has been made at
Carnegie Institute at Pittsburg, Pa.
Of another gift to the endowment
fund by the founder amounting to
$4,000, 900.
Only three minutes were consumed
at Cincinnati recently, in indicting
Bartholomew Cavagna, former teller
of the First National bank, accept
ing plea of guilty Of embezzlement
and sentencing him to six years In