Rocky Ford enterprise., 1909-08-13

The National Association of Dental
Examiners in session at Newport
News, Va, closed its session on the
Sd inst, after voting to meet in Den
yer next year.
The operatives in the cotton mills
at North Grosvenordale, Conn, num-
bering a thousand. are to receive an
increase in wages about August 18th.
The increase. 1t 10 understood, will Az
erage about ten per cent.
At Port Aviation. near Juvisy.
France, August 1st, M. Peliot Gaudart.
in a Voisin bi-plane rose to q height
Of 500 feet, beating the record estab-
lished by Wilbur Wright and winning
the Lazare WELLER prize.
An official report on the damage by
the great fire at Osaki. Japan, places
the number Of buildings destroyed at
11.36s. including eleven office build
ings, eight schools, four banks. ten
business blocks and twenty temples.
By the will of Mrs. Mary F. Snow Of
Hartford. Conn.,. Miss Phila G. Miller,
a spinster at Orange, Mass. will re-
ceive the income from $4,000 for TAX
ing care of Mrs. Shows two small i'm
ported cogs. The deceased left her
husband only $4,000.
A permanently self-luminous watch.
dial and military night compass has
been exhibited in London by C. E. s.
Phillips. The glass dials have figures
on the upper surface, and are backed
with radium bromide compound. The
figures stand out very clearly at night.
A company OF women suffragists
started by trolley from Boston a few
days since to make a tour OF Massa-
chusetts in the interest OF "votes for
women" The crusaders werc headed
by Mrs. R. Y. Fitzgerald. secretary OF
the Boston Equal Suffrage association.
The expedition carrying relief sup
plies to Commander Robert E Peary.
who is hunting for the North Pole. left
st. Johns, N. F., August Sd. for Etah.
Greenland. The schooner Jennie is in
command OF Capt. Samuel Bartlett.
He will also look for the missing DR..
Frederick A. Cook.
Both houses OF the Connecticut Leg
islature have passed bill repeating
the so-called BLUE laws" relating to
Sunday observance. which forbid al
most every form OF recreation and Sec
ular activity. The laws are relics Of
enactments by the law-giving body Of
1922.
Prince Hermann Of Saxe-Weimar-
Eisanach. the heir presumptive to the
grand duchy OF Weimar. has re-
nounced the succession of himself or
his heirs. II any. to the throne OF the
grand duchy or its property. This &C.
ton Is in consequence of the princes
extravaganza.
Judge Watts Parker in the Circuit
Court at Lexington. KY. has declared
the election for city officers held In
1907 null and void on the ground Of
fraud and corrupt methods. The ef-
Skain and three other officials, all
Democrats. from office.
There has been q renewal OF piracy
in south China and tragic Affairs are
reported. seven persons being roasted
to death by pirates near Shuntak. after
the capture Of castle-like house
owned by one Of the local gentry. Al
though the Chinese garrison was but
300 yards away. no troops came to rs
sist the besieged household. or to sue
cor them when the pirates burned
them alive.
Nearly twenty transatlantic steam.
ships. which have been bending their
utmost efforts in response to orders
sent by wireless to reach New York
before the new tariff law went into
effect, lost the race at 4:30 p. m. on
the 5th inst. when the custom house
closed and the last payment OF duty
under the old law was registered. I'm.
porters will be losers to the extent OF
between 500. 900 and 100000.