Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-07-14
THE WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
poINos AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
WESTERN.

Rain has fallen in many sections
of Kansas and the long drought is
broken. Farmers are happy.
In fight over girl at a country
dance nine miles south OF Muskogee
Okla, eleven men were stabbed. All
may die.
Jim McWard. flying biplane at
Wichita, Kans., made spectacular
flight over the city attaining height
of more than 1000 feet.
Separated only by a few seconds
two earthquake shocks. the heaviest
since the big shake of 1906. Jared the
central portion of California and west
ern Nevada. Each shock lasted about
five seconds.
1t required the services of detail
of the state militia to prevent long
suffering but disappointed crowd at
Glendive, Mont, from running an
airship INTO the Yellowstone river be-
cause 1t would not fly.
Armed with rifles two hundred men
are securing Was county, Wisconsin.
for Joe Imperio and Philip Roberts,
the murderers of Sheriff Radcliffe
accused of white slavery.
Charles Schultz, of Oklahoma City,
dropped to instant death at Phillips.
Okla, when, after he had become en-
tangled in the guy rope of burning
balloon and been carried several hum
bred feet in the air, the charred rope
gave way.
MOI laf rag- IN hn
S25O,00O against the Mexican govern
ment have already been filed with
the state department at Washington,
as the result of the killing and wound
ing of a number of Ell Paso people dur
ing the time the battle of Juarez was
in progress.
Clyde Mattox, who is known to have
slain four men and has been accused
of killing a fifth and who was famed
as an outlaw in the territorial days of
Oklahoma. has been released from
state prison and his citizenship re-
stored alter he had served twelve
years.
Accompanied by very heavy rains.
destructive cyclones swept over south
central South Dakota. Farmers wit
messed the demolition of their barns.
outbuildings and trees with compla-
cency. as the rain will benefit the
crops sufficiently to cover the cyclone
damage a thousand fold.
Four members of the crew of the
wrecked steamer Santa Rosa and
second mate. Z. Hawson. of the Pa
cific Coast Steamship Company, were
drowned in the surf while trying to
get a line ashore from that vessel,
which stranded near Point Arguello.
six miles south of Surf. Cal.
Closely pursued by the town marsh
al, a pickpocket leaped into the has
ket of a balloon near Sayre. Okla.
just as the air craft was leaving the
ground and sailed away to safety. The
balloon had been filled with gas and
the aeronaut. George Harvey, was in
the basket ready to start when the
marshal discovered the pickpocke;
taking purse from pocket of citi-
the balloon.
A preliminary victory was won by
the prosecution in the case of John
]. Mcnamara. secretary-treasurer OF
the International Association of
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers.
accused of connection with the Los
Angeles Times dynamiting. Judge
Bordwell sustained the objection to
the plea of no jurisdiction introduced
in behalf of the alleged dynamite con-
spirator by his attorneys. Judge
Bordwell said that the Los Angeles
courts have jurisdiction over the pend
ing trial of Mcnamara on nineteen
charges of murder.