Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1890-05-14
STANLEY IN LONDON.
Presented with an Address In an Ele-
CANT Gold Casket.

giant Gold Casket.
LONDON, May 13th-The reception to
Stanley in Guild Hall to-day was an en-
thusiastic affair. A dense crowd thronged
the approaches, and the guests numbered
two thousand. The Lord Mayor presented
to the explorer gold casket containing an
address from the corporation of London.
Stanley, in returning thanks, said the
Congo might have belonged to England
had Englishmen listened to his lectures be-
tween 1878 and 1884. Belgium was reaping
100 per cent. England might have had
East Africa, but her journalists see every.
thing through an opaque glass. Germany
to-day has the lions share, and cannot fail
to win IN the long run. Wissman never
heard of such things as Quskerism, Peace
Societies, anti-enterprise companies, and
pamby- pamby journalism, all of which are
clogs to every hearty endeavor made by
England. He hoped the Government would
remember the services of his companions.
and not chill their young souls with the
neglect which first warped poor Gordon
after his heroic achievements in China,
German Enterprise.
HAMBURG, May 13th.-The contract be-
tween the German Government and the
East Africa Steamship Company provides
for the payment of a subsidy of SOC. 900
marks annually. The company undertakes
to maintain for ten years main line of
steamers from Hamburg to Delagoa Bay.
None of the steamers will be below 8. 200
tons, and the speed shall be lOI knots. The
steamers will call at a port in either Bel.
GUM or Holland and at Lisbon, Naples.
Port Said, Zanzibar and Dares, Salam. The
company will also establish a coast line
from Zanzibar to LANES. Another coast
line will be established from Zanzibar to
Inhambana.
Crispi's Statement.
ROME, May 13th.-In the Deputies TO-DAY
Crispi stated the policy of Dreibund was
unchanged. 1t was the policy of peace
and menaced no one, being solely of de-
fensive character. In referring to the
African estimates Crispi said he was conf
dent there would soon be formed an Ital-
ian East African Company. He said the
reports of misery among the workingmen
were greatly exaggerated.
Extensive Smelling Works,
Cry OF MEXICO (via Galveston), MAY
13th.-A number of German engineers are
looking over tracts of land with view to
the location of extensive smelling works.
Great anxiety is felt in financial circles
respecting the action which the United
States Congress will take on the silver Ques-
ton.
Rioting i'm Hamburg.
HAMBURG, May 13th.-Rioting was re-
newed this evening. Mounted police, with
naked swords, cleared the streets. The
strikers at Germ destroyed nine pieces of
finished goods and warps and fiftv.seven
looms. The Manufacturers Union offered
large reward for the discovery of the cul-
prits.
Bombarded and Captured.
ZANZIBAR, May 13th.-Wissman has
bombarded Lindi and captured the town.
The Emin Pasha expedition met with diff
hculties at Bozamoya on April 2Sth, and
has only reached point five DAYS march
from the coast. The assertions amount to
one-fourth of the whole force.
Provision Train Plundered,
CETTINGE, May 13th.-A party of Al
banians attacked and plundered a pro-
vision train on the way from Trek to this
town. A woman was killed and several
other persons wounded. The Monteneerins
were greatly excited and conflicts are pend
ing.
The New Explosive.
ROME, May 13th.-Fourteen were killed
and many injured fatally by an explosion
of balistiye, the new explosive, at an am.
munition factory near Turin.
Critical Situation.
PRAGUE, May 18th. - Three thousand
workmen at Koenigshof have gone on
strike. The situation is critical, and troops
have been summoned.
Major Panitza.
SOFIA, May 13th.-It is reported that
plot is on foot to attempt the rescue of Ma.
D., -, T.