Rocky Ford enterprise., 1912-01-12
GEN ERAI.

Four boys were drowned when their
bob sled" broke through the ice on
the Contoocook river at East Jeffray,
Mass.
In full vicw of passing crowds and
in the principal business street of
Newark. Ohio, burglars looted jew
elry store of $4,000.
Radical reduction of freight rates
on livestock have been prescribed by
the Interstate Commerce Commission
on western railroads.
The present value of the annual ex-
United States with Latin America is
approximately s640,00O.0o0.
Theodore l.. Weed, chief clerk OF
the postoffice at Washington, has
been appointed director of the postal
savings system at $1,000 year.
Wabash passenger train No. / from
st. Louis to Kansas City left the track
at the station at st. Peters, Mo-. and
from ten to fourteen persons were in
jured.
Comptroller of the Currency Murray
has instituted a sort of scientific
shop management of his own to dis
cover the reason for laxity on the part
of certain bank examiners.
Alfred Tennyson Dickens. Oldest sur
viving son of Charles Dickens. the
novelist, died suddenly of acute indi-
gestion at the Hotel Astor in New
York. Mr.. Dickens was in this country
on lecture tour.
Pupils were found by an inspector
of the state board of health attending
school at Ladd, Bureau county, ILL.,.
| while suffering from smallpox in its
advanced stages. A total of twenty
two cases in thirteen families were
found.
The entire family of James Cool
edge is dangerously ill in their home
at Deerhead, Essex county, n. Y, from
drinking water contaminated by pois-
oned meat put out to kill foxes. The
water was taken from a mountain
brook from which the family was IN
he habit of drawing the household
supply.
Fire which broke out in the pack
ing house buildings of Swift & Co
in the heart of the Union Stock yards
in Chicago, and adjoining the scene
CT the disastrous stock yards fire of a
year ago, threatened the whole Swift
plant and many adjoining structures.
but was controlled after doing dam
age of s450.0O0.
Representatives of the American
Poultry Association appeared before
the postoffice committee of the Sen
ate in Washington. to urge the estab-
iishment of a parcels post and the ad
mission of their products to the mails.
The poultrymen were not quibblers
as to the rates of postage. All they
seek is to send young chicks, fancy
eggs and game cocks through the
mails, and the weight limited from
four pounds to eleven pounds.
Leonard C'Baby') Bliss, reputed to
be the largest man in the world, was
found dead in his home at Blooming
ton, Ill. He had not been seen about
the place for several days and neigh
bors found his frozen body, seated in
chair with gas escaping from gas
stove. lie was DOTH near tuls city
May IA, 1866. His dimensions follow:
Height, 6 feet inches; waist, ~
inches; hips, sc inches; chest, &C
inches; thigh, AZ inches; calf, 81
inches; collar, 81 inches; hat, rs
shoes, 13; weight. $40 pounds.
Four persons were fatally injured
while another was seriously hurt at Gin
cinnati when a street car jumped from
bridge which connects this city with
Newport, Ky. The car turned somer
sault in its drop of fifty-live feet te
he pavement below.
Some time during the month of Jan
uary. the Employers Liability Com
mission will present Its final report
to the two houses OF Congress and il
will embody a complete bill providing
graduated scale of compensation
for injuries to employees of raIlroad'
engaged in interstate commerce.