Rocky Ford enterprise., 1907-05-10
NEWS OF The WEEK
Most Important Happenings Of the
Past Seven Days.
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ateh ih siuAthisiN oAttrN~SA h"s SN''~s
that the Panama canal would be COM
ple,ed' in eight years.
A. T., StIi~eli and a party OF ~
capitalists who took trip over the
lines oi the Orient railroad in Mexico.
have returned. .. ....-s-.
John Mitchell. president OF re
United Mine Workers. has submitted
Ia an operation which Ii declared 10
have been successful and NO danger
is anticipated.
Dennis Kearrey. the sand Lot
Orator" who led the agitation against
the Chinese in San Francisco In tho
early seventies. ID dead al his home
IN Alameda. Cal. la.
Admiral Dewey was tho guest OF
honor ai banquet held In Washington
to celebrate the ninth anniversary o'
the battle OF Manila bay.
Con. kuroli. OF the Japanese army
who won fame in the war with Russia.
Is now In this country.
Charles IL. Hinton. an assistant t1'
amincr Of tho patent office. dropped
dead In the lobby OF the Y. NJ. e. a.
building In Washington. where he had
lust respondsd to toast ut n banquet.
John cndahy. the wcil-known CHI
easn packer. In critically III.
Capt. Edgar Macklin. of the Twenty
fifth Infantry. has been acquitted By
the court martial which tried him In
connection with the shooting up OF
Browas,iii- Texas. -rIt-t DIS
Arthur Melvin. chief editorial writ
cr on the New York American. died
recently In Hamilton. Bermuda. of
heart failure. ...........
President Castro. of Venezuela. Ia
again reported seriously III.
william =. Corey has been re-
elected president Of the United States
Steel corporation.
miscellaneous.
Counsel for Meyer. Haywood and
Pcttibonc have issued z formal state
mcnt denying that their Clients were In
Idaho Mt the iImc Of tho murder OF Gov.
StcuncnberE.
william A. Brcwcr. Jr.. former
president Of the Washington Life In
surancc company. was fined $500 Mt
New York recently for making falsc
returns to the state superintendent
Of insurance.
A warm welcome wns extended Gen.
Euroki and suite upon their arrival
in Seattle. In addition TO the thous-
ands OF Americans. hundreds of Jap
ancse were on hand to greet their
general.
Serious anu.European riots have
occurred at Rawaipindi. British In.
dia. A Hindu mob burned several
buildings. pillased mission church.
and looted the post office.
William Cross, his wife and two
sons were asphyxIatcd In New York
by inhaling Illuminating gas.
Newton Youngblood. 1G-year.old
Oklahoma boy has been sentenced to
prison for life for killing farmer.
A San Francisco newspaper carrier
has been arrested for selling counter.
feit money. In his room was found
several hundred dollars of the greer
good"
Thirty thousand acres of irrigated
land near Billings, Mont, are to be
opened for settlement by the govern
ment about July 1.
Ten men of the United States gun
boat Tacoma, while on shore leave a,
Santiago, Cuba, were attacked by the
city police and badly injured. An In
vestigation by the authorities was I'M
mediately begun.
On the last day of April snow GOV.
cred the entire state of Iowa to q
depth of from three to eight inches.
A bomb was thrown Mt the carriage
of President Cabrera in the streets oi
Guatamala City. but the official escap.
ed unharmed although the horses were
killed.
After being entonibed for more thar
four days seven miners were rescued
alive from flooded mine at Johns.
town, Pa. They were in an ex.
hausted condition but will recover.
The transport Buford sailed from
San Francisco for Honolulu recently
with party of 25 congressman who
visit Hawaii at the invitation OF
Delegate Kalanainaole. to acquaint
themselves with conditions there.
Four men have been arrested in
st. Louis on suspicion of having
started the fire by which two mer
were killed and eight others injured
-Four hundred men have been made
idle by the destruction of the plant OF
the National Stove company al
Lorain, o..
France is moving for a commission
like that appointed by the United
States to adjust the tariff with Ger
many.
The first Kansas state convention o.
the Society of Equity, the farmers
union, held a two days session ir
Wichita recently,