Rocky Ford enterprise. (Rocky Ford, Colo.) 1887-1950, 1911-09-22
GEN ERAL.

Spreading wreck and ruin in it's
wake, a disastrous windstorm heId
! Springfield and central Illinois in it's
| grip three hours.
4 The wholesale price of refined su.
gar in Chicago now stands at "a
cents a pound, the highest price in
30 years.
/ AS the result of an explosion of
ether. in Philadelphia. nine persons
were fatally injured and property
damaged 100000.
| Many school children are being dis
| missed from school on account of the
excessive heat. The temperature is
ninety-five degrees.
From 499 out of 52l cities. towns
and plantations in Maine, unofficial
returns gave majority of 90i for re-
peal of the prohibitory constitutional
amendment
| Nearly $4,000 persons engaged in
the New England textile industry
have resumed work after various Pc
RODS of idleness due to pronounced
policy of curtailment.
Nominally it is between Germany
and France that relations are strained.
Really it is between Germany and
England. To predict early hostilities
would be going too far. There is
possibility of them-no more.
| S. A. Potter, who is said to have
garnered more than s1,500.000 from
the unwary of two continents during
the last few years, by means of gold
brick swindles and confidence games,
is locked up in Jail in Chicago. A
cash bond Of $4,000 was refused.
| Shivering temperatures in the
northeastern part of the country and
sweltering weather in the southwest
and middle plains states, in some
places almost the highest ever re-
corded during September. are ev-
tremes to which nature is treating
| the people.
From the branch OF the Bank of
Montreal in Westminster. b. c..
$1,000 was stolen. Five buglars en-
tered the bank by the front door.
broke through the thin metal coating
of the vault. blew the safe by charges
of nitroglycerine and got away with
their booty.
{ For the first time in the history OF
the United States. the coal mines of
the country in 1910 were credited with
an output exceeding half tillior.
short tons. the combined production
of anthracite. bituminous coal. ana
Ignite having amounted to sol 567. 1875
short tons. with spot value Of 1929.
529.745.
I Cotton growers. bankers, congress-
men, United States senators and
business men to the number of one
( thousand, representing every cotton
growing state in America. declared in
convention at Montgomery. Ala. that
cotton is worth fifteen cents pound
and resolved that the farmer should
hold his cotton for that price.
Governors of twenty-four states in
convention at Spring Lake. N. j.. voted
| to unite in protest to the United States
Supreme Court against what they con-
slider an invasion of states rights by
| federal courts. The decision of Judge
Sanborn in the Minnesota rate case
is the particular invasion" to which
the governors object. By their action
the governors establish a precedent in
American history.
| Not to be out done by the British pos
tai authorities in the carrying of mails
through the air. Postmaster General
Hitchcock gave his consent to the es-
Establishment of an experimental aero
plane mail route between a branch of
the Brooklyn, y. V, postoffice and
the aerodrome at Nassau boulevard,
Long Island, during the international
In, which will ha held
there from Sept. 2S to Oct. L.
I All the American naval strength
deemed necessary as a precautlon is
being concentrated as near as pos
sible to the scene of serious disorders
/ in China Admiral Murdoch has cabled
the Navy Department that he sailed
on his flagship Saratoga, accompanied
by the cruisers New Orleans and
Helena from Shanghai for Marking.
The admirars report contained moth
ing regarding the situation in China.
Revised returns on the question OF
the repeal of the constitutional pro
hibition law in the state of Maine re-
duced the majority against repeal to
295. The total vote is: For repeal,
GO,216: against repeal, 60.511.
The crop report issued by the De-
partment OF Agriculture does not in
dictate generally much improvement in
the condition of the crops over that
of a month ago. Some Improvement
was shown in corn September LIST,
over August list, but It only amounted
to seven-tenths of l per cent In the
aggregate.