Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-11-29
THE WORLD IN
PARAGRAPHS
A BRIEF RECORD OF PASSING
EVENTS IN THIS AND FOR
EIGN COUNTRIES.
IN LATE DISPATCHES
ooiNos AND HAPPENINGS THAT
MARK THE PROGRESS
OF THE AGE.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.
WESTERN.


Judge Newcomb in the Municipal
Court of Chicago imposed the SEN
tence of indeterminate idleness on Jo-
seph Girsch.
Two masked men who held up pas
senger train No. ~ of the Chicago,
Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad, be-
tween Mystic and Ottumwa, Iowa, got
about $3.50.
The United States reclamation ser
vice will open bids for the contract
cn the construction of twenty miles
of irrigation canal in western Ne
braska, November &c.
Details of little intimacies of two
households and the payment of $500
to avoid exposure we're told in NUM-
cipal Judge Sabath's Court by Chaut
cey c. Foster, a Chicago merchant and
faith healer.
Because he liked to see the fire
horses run" Nose Burton, sixteen, a
negro. set fire to three valuable sta
bles, all of which burned at Galesburg
Ill. The fires occurred different Sun
day mornings.
81 shall ha, paid today a debt that
| ought to pay" said Alexander Szafc-
sur. convicted murderer. as he stood
in the death chamber waiting to lse
taken to the gallows at San Quentin,
Cal, penitentiary.
John Schrank, who shot Theodore
Roosevelt on the night of October IA
in Milwaukee. is insane, and was COM
mi nt- Ind no IN
the Northern hospital for the insane
near Oshkosh, until cured.
Testimony was given by several
government witnesses in Federal
Judge Carpenters Court against
George w. Fitzgerald, who is charged
with havrpg embezzled $173.00O of sub
treasury money Feb. 20. 1907.
Official figures given out on the
vote on suffrage show that the amend
ment carried by majority of 1G,079
in Kansas. There were seventy-four
counties voted for 1t and thirty
against it, and tie in Brown county.
The spring maid of 1913 is to be
straight front. straight back, hipless
and curveless as figure l. In point
to look like a straight line with an
oblique line at the top. The oblique
Is the hat.
Miss Cecilia Farley, the state house
stenographer on trial for first degree
murder in Columbus. Ohio, for shoot
ing Alvin L. Zollinger. could not be
confused on cross-examination in her
story of how Zollinger was accident
ally shct."
A report that<Laura Hurley, pro-
prietress of a house in West Chey-
enne, Wyo., had been indicted by the
grand jury in the United States Court
for white slavery was erroneous.
the mistake resulting from a confu-
sion of names.
Eleven officials of the International
Association of Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers were accused by Pat
rick Dugan at the dynamite conspir-
acy" trial in Indianapolis of having
been present when blowing up nom
union jobs was discussed.
Three persons lost their lives in the
fire which partially destroyed the St
George, a theatrical hotel in Los An
geles. Fourteen were injured, OF
whom one baby, Who was dropped in
@ flame-swept hallway by its frantic
mother. probably will die.
Mrs. Lena Sneed, whose elopement
with AL Boyce led to the killing of
Captain A. G. Boyce, and later of Al
Boyce, will not testify in behalf of
her husband. She made known her
decision to the defense's attorneys at
Fort Worth, who sent to Calvert to
solicit her assistance. Sneed has ad-
mitted to his counsel that he is not
anxious for his wife to take the stand
1t is reported that the stork but re-
Gently visited Mrs. Sneed.