07 Jun 1894
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Newspaper
Rocky Ford Enterprise
Location
Rocky Ford, Colorado, United States of America
Date
Jun 07, 1894
Page
1
The Enterprise surveys opinion on skirt reform advocates two legs to stand on and notes favorable yet contentious views on dress reform. It cites reform prospects and social debates across currencies, policing, and suffrage while cataloging various political and cultural topics.
The 139th to 144th Senate days featured Hill opposing a three-fourths cent lead ore duty with a 3 to 52 vote against him, while lumber duties and the McKinley tariff dominated debate. House actions included District of Columbia wage questions, the Albany & Astoria railroad bill, and the Brawley state bank repeal discussion. The sugar schedule provoked sharp exchanges as amendments and open sessions were debated amid party lines. Jerry Elmpson progresses to convalescence.
Heavy rains from the 29th triggered rapid river rises across Colorado. Pueblo and other towns flooded causing about 100000 dollars in losses and at least three deaths, including an eight year old boy. Boulder and canal regions suffered severe damage to bridges, rails, and homes with total losses estimated around 350000 dollars. A statewide one fare rate is arranged from July 2 to 7 for delegates, with hotel rates secured. committee members listed.
The state labor congress executive committee calls for the second annual congress to convene in Denver on July 3, 1894. Delegates equal one per 1000 affiliated members for central bodies and one per 100 members or major fraction for other bodies, with a minimum of one for groups under 100. The text urges full representation and cautions against violence, insisting on deliberation and unity to pursue prepared bills and the future prosperity of Colorado’s honest workers.
A mob of about twenty men seized Alexander McCurdy from Golden jail at 2 am and lynched him on the Lakewood road bridge over Clear Creek. Sheriff Kelly failed to intervene. two guards were captured and later identified. A coroner’s inquest led to warrants for the other participants, while the incident prompted broader legal action against the lynchers. The report also covers a Free Coinage Union No. 41 statement on mine labor disputes, hours, wages, and alleged ethnic and organizational influences in the camp.
A Hastings march by visiting miners from Aguilar failed to trespass on company property. Sheriff Radford halted the group, surrounding and arresting fifty on the spot. later four organizers including S. Chambers were jailed in Trinidad with habeas corpus sought. Some prisoners released, others held. tensions linger as strikers disperse. Also notes on Florence reduction works and other Colorado items.
A long bulletin covers cholera in Germany, coal prices rising in the east, pension payouts totaling 81,608,209 since 1860, and a Presbyterian assembly condemning a Cincinnati professor. It notes temperance moves, anarchist watch lists in New York, massive Cherokee Nation disbursements, and a municipal league stance. It also reports petrified remains in Kansas, a near Alhambra exhibition, railroad strikes, a Madrid church hoax bomb, a deadly tunnel collision, and global mining ventures including Mexican emigration to Mexico for plantations. Additional items include government formations in France, flood disasters in India, a court ruling on Miss Pollard v Breckinridge, Turpin’s war machine claim, and a mine operators conference in Illinois with wage and price tensions.
The tale recounts Tiburcio Vasquez, an early California bandit tied to Anastacio Garcia’s gang. It covers his rise from horse theft to terrorizing towns, daring escapes, the Enriquita raid, a mercy-seeking romance with Abdon Leiva’s wife, cantua canyon hideouts, eventual capture at Greek George’s house, a murder conviction, and his end at San Jose.
A humorous note from Texas Siftings about a wife who married a total stranger from Boston and the irony of preferring the “star boarder” for fear of losing such scarce company.
In Brooklyn Life a playful jab notes the lack of old ruins in the country, contrasting with Miss Remsen’s quip about McComb's dam at the upper end of New York and Lord Angus’s remark about McGregor's Curse near Edinboro.
A assortment of brief items including an odorless whisky invention claims no breath taint, a Sunday church thrashing in Attleborough, a 15 year old Richmond youth jailed for $50,000 Confederate money though released, Lawton Sherman and wife celebrate 78 years married then bury eldest daughter, a Liverpool magistrate fines himself for chimney neglect, a Boston dreamer wakes to a burglary, and Rev W R McNeill receives a $10,000 loan tribute from Bridgeport tied to Miss Harriet Johnson’s will.
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