Rocky Ford enterprise., 1911-09-15
GEN ERAI.

C. e. Griffin. mayor OF Jackson.
Tenn, stands indicted in Criminal
Court for the offense of public drunk
enness.
A fee of one thousand dollars 10
marry John Jacob Astor and Miss
Force was refused by Edward C. John
son, DID.
"A total production CT 12,9iS,2O0
bales of cotton as the final yield this
yead is indicated by the Department
of Agriculture.
Henry Clay Beattie, who has been
on trial at Chesterfield Courthouse,
Va, for some time. on a charge of
numbering his wife. was found guilty
of murder in the first degree and his
punishment assessed at death.
With total of twenty-five persons
and vicinity by eating toadstools. the
Board of Health has posted warning
notices. Thfrty-three persons are still
critically i'll.
Mayor Thomas f. Knots, five of the
nine members of the City Council.
City Engineer w. A. Williston and
son of one of the aldermen of Gary,
Ind, have been arrested on charges
of accepting and soliciting brides in
a heating franchise deal
A remarkable speed of 81 minutes
.35 is seconds for 33 miles. over wa
ter, carving passenger. was mado
in an aeroplane by Claude Graham
White al B"- 81. t,rdhame-White sue
ceeded in winning he Boston Light
race.
Mrs. Delilah Cook -ignty Tour. of
Finley, o.. has sued for divorce from
the man who mas been her husband
for sixty years. Stephen Cook. eighty
four. farmer living near Finley She
claims that he no longer will provide
for her.
In new Wright biplane especial
ly built for experiments as to the
practicability of using aeroplanes in
conjunction with warships, Lieut..
John Rodgers Of the navy flew from
Annapolis to Washington and back
as far as College park, after lending
near the White House.
ITtSiutui AidIhuhIl vi inc lllluOlS
Central railroad ended hopes of an i'm
mediate settlement of the labor diff
-culties of the road by directing let
ter to w. F. Kramer, secretary of the
International Blacksmiths' union, re-
fusing to meet representatives of the
federated shop employees. as he had
been requested.
Preparations for the celebration OF
Labor Day at Toledo. Ohio. were halt
ed while citizens lent aid in the search
for the bodies of city officers and en-
ployes who we're drowned when "A
launch was rammed and sunk by the
barge Philip Minch, and only one of
the eight passengers in the launch es-
capped watery grave.
The incorporation of the Atlantic G.
Pacific Transport Company of New
Jersey. with an authorized capital of
s15,000.000 has been announced. The
headquarters are to be at Baltimore
with branch offices at the principal
seaboard cities on the Atlantic and
Pacific coasts and the Gulf. The COM
pany proposes to carry the mail from
both Atlantic and Pacific points to
and from Panama and Colon.
The raw sugar market is strong and
excited and prices have scored an ad-
vance of. twenty points, one of the
largest individual advances made in
years, and at the same time new rec
ords were established both at New
York and abroad.
An investigation into alleged unrea-
sonable rates on shipments o: wool
and hides from western points to
eastern markets has been begun in
Chicago by United States Interstate
Commerce Commissioner Prouty. Prou
ty will hold similar sessions at Den
yer, Colo. and Albuquerque. N. NJ.