Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1896-03-05
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Inc STATE department nAH recelVel
the resignation OF Ramon O. Williams
al Consul General at Havana.
Ii 10 stated that Russia has asked
Turkey TO expel all English and Ameri-
can missionaries from Asia Minor.
Fillman & Co. q picture frame factory
in Chicago was destroyed by fire Tues
day, the loss amounting to $50, 600.
Admiral Beranger. Spanish minister
of marine, declares that r squadron
will be ready to sail for Cuba in two
weeks
Stutz & Bauer's piano factory, on
East Thirty.iirst street, Now York
City, was burned on Monday night;
loss, 500, 600.
Julius s. Walsh was Tuesday elected
president OF tho st. Louis Terminal
Railroad Association, succeeding Will
liam Taussig, resigned.
During tho prevalence OF terrible
wind and snow storm, on Sunday, the
village Of Coleville, in Mono county,
Cla., was completely wiped out by fire.
Tho Comptroller Of the Currency
Monday issued call for a report of
| the condition Of the national banks at
the close of business, Friday, February
2sth.
Chief Justice Fuller Monday an
nounced tho opinion of the Supreme
| Court of the United States declaring
the Nogales land grant in Arizona in
valid.
= A Helena, Mont, dispatch says that
| fire has broken out anew in the
Bozemsn tunnel on the Northern
Pacific, and it is said to be beyond
control.
The nomination of James II. Multi
gan Of Kentucky, TO be consul at Cape
Town, Africa, sent to the Senate Feb
ruary 26th, has been Withdrawn by the
President.
Since the United States Treasury be-
gan the issue of what are called Sher-
man notes, or Treasury notes, $40, ell,
| 722 have been redeemed ia standard
silver dollars.
The schooner Nellie Woodbury., from
Hayti with a cargo OF logwood, went
ashore Monday ON Long Beach, l..
|. Her crew OF six men were taken off
by the life-saving crew.
The Connecticut game law, which
forbids the transportation of certain
kinds Of game beyond the State limits
was upheld by the Supreme Court of
the United States Monday.
The President Monday sent to the
Senate the following nominations
Commodore T. o. Selfridge, to be a
Rear Admiral; Medical Inspector T.
N. Penrose, to be medical director.
The British naval estimates we're
presented in the House of Commons
Monday. The government asks for
ETA, 600, 600, and the statement was
made that the exchequer could supply
it.
Tho Governor of Indiana Msnday
informed the chairman of the Repub-
lican State Committee that he would
not call the Legislature in special
session to enact new apportionment
act.
A Baltimore dispatch says that the
James ID. Mason & Co. g steam bakery,
in that city, aaid to be the largest
bakery in the South, passed into the
hands of the New York Biscuit Go.
Monday.
The Pope, Monday speaking Of
Prince Ferdinand OF Bulgaria, ex
pressed the hope that his selling him.
self and his son. Prince Boris, would
have DO influence upon the spread OF
the faith.
The Frankfort Zeitung asserts that
secret negotiations are proceeding be-
tween France and Spain with the OBJ
iect on the part of Spain Of procuring
tho intervention of France against the
United States.
Tho British steamer Stag, from Ric
Marina, arrived at Baltimore Tuesday,
having on board Capt. ireland and a
crew Of five men, rescued from the
schooner Eunity II. Dyer, which went
down an hour after the rescue.
Fletcher Harper Haight, years old
the publishing house of Harper Broth.
ors, of New York City. was accidentally
shot and killed by his brother, Theo.
dore IIaight, Jr., aged II years, al
thoir home, in Astoria, on Monday
night.
The Supreme Court of the United
States decided Monday that the New
York State law making preferences o
savings banks deposits was Imperative
80 far as ii infringes upon the Fedora
statute requiring ratable distribution
of tho assets Of a failed national banl
among its creditors.
The French government has giver
I
, that it has annexed the Island Of NADIA
, gascar. No official action has beer
taken by Secretary Olney in the matter
: except statement that the United
! States will maintain her treaty rights
, secured from tho Hova government.
] Near Oldtown, Me-, Tuesday. Luther
Antoine, aged 49, assaulted Grace ID.
and Jennie Nj. Irving, aged 20 and q:
! years, respectively. lie then blow out
/ his brains. Tho women were fatally
injured. Antoine, who was weak
, minded, had been taken when boy
} of u and given home by the lrvings
, The government has abandoned all
claim of right to detain tho alleged
filibustering steamship Bermuda and
tho lighter j. s. 4. Stranahan and
their cargoes, excepting in the case oil
, tho explosives found upon the Strana-
! han, which, it is alleged, were packed
) in boxes not marked az required by
: law. 81
, A jury in Judge Valiant's court, il
st. Louis, brought in a verdict, or
/ Monday, in favor of ex- Congressman
I John NJ. Glover against the American
Casualty Insurance Co., of Baltimore
for $50, 000 This is the outcome q
Mr.. Glover's suit against the company
for printing his name in list Of al
/ legged embezzlers and defaulters in posi-
4 tions of trust.
The Supreme Court OF the United
} Statcs decided Monday that pro
ceedine by the United States for TIT
> forfeiture of certain merchandise, be
cause of fraudulent invoice filed 10y
the importers. was civil action anC
| that fherafora the defenlants war