, 1888-10-16
FLASHES.

importeu tof tue hofaaF trade are brought
In elaborate coverings suitable and de.
signed tor other uses than coverings, thew
should be taxed 100 per cent.
Rome. The tetes, In honor of the
German emperor have been concluded.
The emperor is visiting the various points
of interest in Rome and will go to Pompeii
where he will witness the unearthing of a
number of buried houses.
Paris.-The government has issued an
order forbidding the reception of foreign
officers in the army or military colleges
of France.
Washington. Under the recent decis-
ion In the case of the Northern Pacific
Railway company VS.. q. Miller, selections
by said company as indemnity have been
held for cancellation by the general land
office to the extent of 81, 900 acres.
Washington. In the senate to-day
Hoar called attention to the Union Pacific
railway funding bill, and suggested that
IN view OF Its great importance it should
be set down for hearing for the first Tues
day in December, which was agreed to.
City of Mexico. Congress to-day de-
clared that Gen. Porfirio Diaz had been
re- elected president of the republic. To-
day the first train, a mixed one, left
Laredo and the City of Mexico simultane-
ously, a temporary bridge over the Metlac
or the Vera Cruz railroad having been
finished.
Berlin Forty thousand copies of
Mackenzie's book have been seized by the
police of Leipsic.
Rome. Cardinal Rampelli, papal Sec
rotary of state, has sent a circular letter
/ 70 thn uortArC ,,,pnYN, -, ,,L,.I l.
the pope was much satisfied with Empe-
ror Williams visit to the vatican, and
that Emperor William recognizes the
pope's high sovereignty.
Zanzibar The story that the three
sailors who deserted from the German
gunboat Nerve had been eaten by ma
tives is u%nfounded. The men were killed
by the natives and their bodies badly mu-
tilated through fetishism.
Washington.-The Washington Critic
became to-day the Erening Post, and will
be henceforth published under this title
by the Washington Post company. This
new combination is under the old man
agement, and supplements the absorption
by the Washington Post last summer of
the daily morning Graphic.
Dublin.-The Freeman's Journal pub
fishes to-day a gist of charges against the
Parnellites which the London Times will
bring forward before the commission OF
inquiry. The only specific charges are
the paying of money to criminals for their
defense and to help them to escape.
Chicago.-Fifteen hundred men of
various ~nationalities were naturalized here
to-day. Seven judges of the county court
and their clerks were kept busy most of
the day.
New York.-In the contest of the
Democratic factions for the mayoralty the
Young Mems Democratic club got on the
fence to might by declaring that it did not
feel impelled by It's constitution to endorse
nor condemn a candidate for a municipal
Office when the Democratic party has
more than one in the field.
Paris-The chamber of deputies reas-
sembled to-day. Gen. Boulanger was
present and no demonstration was made.
Eloquet, prime minister, introduced a
bill providing for a revision of the consti-
tuition.
New York-Among the arrivals o.day
on the steamer City of Columbia was DR..
Paul Gibier, to study yellow fever for
the French government.
Baltimore-San Dan Kee, a Chinese
laundryman. was to-day sentenced by
Judge Phelps 10 nine years in the peni-
Tertiary for an attempted felonious as
sault on Annie May Warte, a 10.year.old
girl. He is the first Chinaman ever sent
to the Maryland penitentiary.
Brussells-The Independence Belize
says the German East African company
has received news OF a fresh disaster.
The station at Madinolo on the Klngarie
was attacked by natives and burned.
New Orleans-John Chaffee, one of
the most prominent members of the cot
ton exchange and one of the largest cot
ton planters in the United States, died to-
day aged 10. He was funding agent dur
ing the war for the Confederate govern
ment.
London-The sultan of Nor rocco will
send an embassy to the United States to
complain among other things OF Reid
Lewis, United States consul at Tangier.
Glasgow.-A block of buildings adioin-
ing one of the blocks on Buchanan street
DESTROYED by fire Yesterday collapsed this
morning. Loss, $250,000.
London Lord Mount Temple is dying.
Advices from Java state that a conspi.
racy against Dutch residents has been dis
covered at Madiop. Forty-two ringlead.
ers were arrested and eleven Others who
refused to surrender we're shot.
Berlin.-The police are Selling all copies
of DR.. M~ackenzie's book wherever found.
Washington Representative Wheeler
Of Alabama to. day introduced in the house
a bill providing for the assembling OF the
tifty-irst end subsequent congresses on
the 4th of March, when adjournment
shall be Immediately taken until the first
Monday in December following unless the
president expresses a wish 10 the con.
trary.
Jacksonville The official bulletin fol-
the twenty four hours ended at 6 p. Ill. is
New cases. %; deaths, 8. Total number
OF cases to date, 1863; total number o
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