Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-11-09
IN GENERAL.

Speaker Crisp left Washington Friday
night on the way to Chicago to see the
Worlds Fair buildings.
The strike of the Big Four railroad en-
ployes at Cairo, ILL.,, was still on Friday.
No passenger trains were run, but engines
drawing single mail cars were allowed to
leave.
A telegram from London, Ont, says
that cholera has appeared among the
swine returning TO Canada from the
Worlds Fair, and now in quarantine at
SANTA.
The Cunard steamer Lucania arrived at
Sandy Hook from liverpool, Friday, in
5 DAYS, IL hours and 81 minutes, beating
the best previous western record-that Of
the Comparatively 20 minutes.
The Bigelow carpet mills, ct Clinton
Mass, the second largest carpet mills in
America, employing about 1000 hands,
were smut down Friday for an indefinite
period, owing to lack of orders.
known actor, died on Thursday night in
FoIdham. n. ". aged II years. He was
at one time member of the Walnut
Street Theatre stock company, Philadel-
phia.
The supreme court, at Boston. Friday
| decided that the interchangeable mileage
law passed by the last Legislature, requir-
ing that all railroads in the State shall
honor mileage books issued by any of the
roads, is unconditional.
Henry Weir and wife locked their house,
near Kennedy. Ala, Friday, leaving
| four children inside, and started for the
field to work. In some unknown manner
the house caught fire and three of the
| children were burned to death.
| Attorney-General C.ney. in view Of the
passage of the Chinese bill, will Friday
| issue orders to United States marshals,
having in custody Cinnamon ordered de,
ported by United States courts to discharge
them at once from custody, if their only
offence has been failure to comply With
the Geary law.
A dispatch from Pittsburg says that che
indications are that all hope for a settle.
ment of the troubles between the iron and
sheet steel manufacturers and the Anal
| gamated Association of Iron and Steel
Workers is past. 1t is said that in a few
days a number of the manufactures will
endeavor to operate their mills indie
pendently Of the Association.
Orders were Friday sent by the Treas
ury Department to the minis at San Fran
cisco aud New Orleans to resume the coin.
age, suspended some time ago, of standard
silver dollars. The resumption is for the
purpose of utilizing the seIgniorage. Abou
81, 500. 900 will be coined, and on this tn,
seigniorage will be S500000. The tota
amount Of silver subject to coinage is
140O00,o00 ounces. For some days pas
the administration has been considering
whether it could use all the seigniorage a
once-$53, 600 000-but no conclusion ha
yet been reached.
II is said that there is trouble ahead TO
the Louisville Il Nashville and Illinoi
Central railroads in regard to the purchas
of the Chesapeake, OHIO d Southwestern
The constitution of Kentucky prohibit
the purchase, lease or consolidation o
competing railroads, telegraph lines, &c.
and, as the Chesapeake, Ohio & South
western has been TO some extent com
petitor of the Louisville & Nashville, it i
thought that the purchase of the road j
contrary to this provision Of the constitu
ton. The railroad people, however, CLAIM
that there has been no competition excep
to Memphis, and, as the road runs througl
these states, it comes under the Interstat
Commerce law.