Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-02-24
GEN ERAI.

Joseph ID. Rockefeller. cousin OF
John d. Rockefeller. died at his home
IA South Bend. Ind. at the age of go.
The Tennessee Packing & Provision
Company. a 100000 corporation OF
Nashville, has been thrown into bank
ruptcy.
W. S. O'Brien, forty-two years old.
cne of the best known trainers of trot-
ting horses in the United States, died
al Waukegan. III.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hyman Yerkowitz and
tteIr five children were killed by Il.
Eliminating gas in their home in the
Ghetto in Philadelphia
Fire destroyed the Calumet eIe.
yator, siX-story structure. in Chica-
go, containing 100000 bushels OF
grain, causing a loss OF s500.000.
The condition OF Miss Clara Bar
ton. founder Of the Red Cross. Who
has been Ill with bronchitis at her
fome in Glen Echo. Nd. a suburb OF
Washington. is greatly improved.
Pressed by the Rockefeller and
Kuhn-Loeb interests George J. Gould is
shortly TO relinquish the presidency of
the Missouri Pacific Railway Compa.
ny. a POSITION in which his father
placed him eighteen years ago.
Shortly after midnight Frank Cof-
fyn broke the worlds record for alti-
tude in Wright biplane in Augusta.
Ga. He rose 500 feet. The previous
Eight record was held by the late
Arch Hoxsey. with $50 feet.
To provide pure milk for New York
children the Sinking Fund Commits
sion has authorized the leasing O.
twelve sites for depots. The work Of
distributing the milk supply is to be
under the Jurisdiction OF the Beard of
Health.
ThomaD j. Ham. one OF the Oldest
newspaper men in Pennsylvania and
probably the last survivor of the din
rer given torCharles Dickens In New
York in 1859, by newspaper editors
and publishers, died At Lakewood.
New Jersey. following a stroke OF par
alysis. He was seventy-five years old
Milton J. Durham, former comptrol.
Ter of the treasury and former con.
gresham from the Eighth district Of
Kentucky. died in Lexington OF pneu-
monia. Judge Durham was eighty
seven years old. He was a leading
Odd Fellow. having once served as
etandsire Of the order in the United
States.
Washington.-Representative Benne.
of New York, one OF the Republicans
who voted against Canadian reciproc-
ity. has introduced in the House a res
olution requesting the President TO en-.
ter into negotiations with the British
government looking TO the annexation
of Canada by the United States. The
resolution was referred to the commit
tee on foreign affairs.
The high cost of living received a
setback when eggs in the Kansas City
market declined two cents a dozen
and hog prices went twenty cents a
rundred pounds lower. Eggs were
fourteen to sixteen cents wholesale,
which is sixteen cents lower than at
the beginning Of the year. Hogs are
selling sl.25 lower than last year: cat.
lie fiftr cents to one dollar lower, and
sheep 81 lower.
In fulfillment of a compact made
with her husband during his lingering
illness, which death ended. Mrs. Lyn-
wood S. Keene of Oxford. Me-. took
her own life after having fatally shot
ker fourteen-year-old son Gerald.
Philadelphia.-The funeral of the
Right Rev. OH Whitaker. Bishop Of
the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of
Pennsylvania, was held from the
Church Of Our Saviour. interment TAX
ing place in the graveyard Of the
Church OF ST. James the Less, Falls
Of Schuylkill. this city.