Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1897-04-08

A decree has been issued ty the Sui
tan of Zanzibar abolishing slavery.
President Errazuriz has declined to
accept the resignation OF the Chilian
cabinet.
The Cumberland Coal Co. of Sturgia.
Ky, whose mines caught fire two weeks
ago, assigned Tuesday.
The Lebanon, Pa. Rolling Mills Co.
Tuesday made a deed of assignment Of
it's property for the benefit Of creditors.
The President Tuesday nominated
Capt. A. S. Crowninshiold, u. Is. NJ. to
be chief of tho bureau of Navigation.
The Riverside Cotton Mills Co. of
Danyille, Va, has given IN order for
40 looms, which will make total Of
s,75l.
Fire in Springfield, Mass, on Mon
day night destroyed the interior OF the
Gilmore Opera House block. Loss.
500, coo.
Our consul at Tangier has demanded
PREPARATION for the threat of Moorish
soldier to shoot Vice Consul Castleton,
at Laraiche.
Paul Raymond Kendall died Tues
day at Canton, n. y, aged II years.
He was the first president of Lombard
University at Galesburg,, Ill.
OF GO Michigan cities In which
Mayors were elected on Monday thu Sill
rerites carried 28 and tho Republicans
81. In five party lines were not drawn.
Fire in Brockton. Mass on Monday
night did $4,000 damage to the dry
goods stock Of H. W. Robinson g. ca.
and SIS, 900 damage to that OF the H.
W. Robinson Carpet Co.
A burglar was surprised Tuesday
morning in the house of Augustus
Van Fossen, at Gloucester City, N. j.
Two shots wero fired at him, one of
which. 1t is thought, took effect.
The neutrality-suspicious. met Tues-
day in Tallahassee, In tho caucus for
Senate and House officers tho anti Gall
msn were victorious. They are support
Ing W. ID. Chipley for United States
6ensto
The municipal election in Chicago
Tuesday resulted in the election of
Carter Harrison. Silver Democrat, for
Mayor. He received more votes than
Sears, Republican; Harlan, Independ-
ont, and Hesing, Colo Democrat, COM
bined.
The entire Pennsylvania division of
the National Guard will be ordered out
to participate in the ceremonies attend
ing the unwilling of the Washington
monument in Philadelphia ON May 18th.
4 provisional brigade will be sent TO
New York.
Conservative members OF the German
Rsichstag have given notice that they
will interpellate the Imperial Chancel-
Ir,,, fS,r bat ~ .,EA Ia;
States tariff, the government intends to
adhere TO the agreement OF August 23d,
1891, with the United States.
At the annual meeting of the share
holders oil the Grand Trunk railway of
Canada. in London, Tuesday, the
chairman, referring TO the anti. trust
decision of the United States supreme
court. said he believed the railroad
managers intended to maintain rates
under all circumstances. ~
Asa result of the retirement on Mon
day OF Admiral Ramsay. the following
promotions In the navy will result:
Commodore Sioard TO be rear admiral,
Capt. Kautz TO be commodore, Com
mander Leary tn be captain; Lieuten-
ant. Commander Swift to be commander
and Lieut.. Winslow to be lieutenant
commander.
President Mckinley is about to send
a special message to Congress. it Is
said, asking that he bs authorized TO
send special envoy TO Constantinople
to secure the settlement OF the pending
claims against Turkey. In case neces-
sa.y power is given the Hon. John W.
Foster, ex-Secretary of State, will be
selected for tho mission.
A Houghton, Mich, dispatch says
that j.. II. Gilmore and Frank van
Dusen of Green Bay, Wis, have secured
options in the Minnesota and National
copper mines, at Rockland, Ontonagon
county. These are mass mines, and
paid nearly 81, 600, 600 IN dividends In
the early days of Lake Superior mining.
Both have been idle for more than 10
years.
The Memphis relief committeo, in a
statement presented to President Nc.
Kinley relative to the need of govern
ment aid for tins sufferers in the M issia-
sippi valley, said: 1.-THE flood is the
greatest and most destructive that has
ever devastated the Mississippi, the
water being two und half feet higher
than the highest stnge it has ever
reached before.
Replying to q statement in the House
of Commons Tuesday to the effect that
the production Of food supplies in the
United Kingdom was wholly inade-
quate, and that the country was de-
pendent upon other nations, Mr.. Bal
four, the government leader. said be did |
not think tbore was danger OF foreign |
COUNTRIES refusing to supply Great |
Britain with food. The United States,
10 IA ali. A..
terest and sympathy for Great britain, !
and, combined with the United States, |
Great Britain could stand against any
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