, 1888-09-08
Harrison's Consolation.
FLASHES.

steamer Prussian from Philadelphia on
her way to Glasgow in the Clyde last
night collided with and sunk the steamer
Membling which was almost cut in two.
The Prussian was beached.
A dispatch from Rome to the Chronicle
y The pope has instructed the papal
nuncio at Brussels to aid Cardinal Lavigi-
RE to convoke an international confer
enc on the suppression of slave trading.
At the trades congress at Bradford a
resolution was passed favoring the exclu-
sion of semi pauper immigrants unless
skilled workers.
HALIFAX, Sept. THE British war
ship Canada arrived yesterday from the
West Indies.
PARIS, Sept. THE government has
ordered an investigation of the report that
dhows carrying the French flag are en-
gagged in the slave trade between Pemba
and Madagascar, and if true it will be
stopped.
MONTREAL, Sept. IA special of four
Pullmans and a baggage car arrived to-day
with 100 Boston Odd Fellows with their
friends and families en- route for Los An
geles, Cal, to attend the grand conven-
ton of all the lodges in the United States
to be held there in the middle OF this
month.
CHICAGO, Sept. THE wheat market
was feverish this morning on a published
report that Minnesota warehouse commits.
sioners had lowered the price of No. ]
hard by allowing a certain percentage on
frosted wheat. 1t took till almost noon
to get such an authoritive denial of the
report as to stop its weakening influence
on the market.
BERLIN, Sept. THE Catholic con-
gress at Freiburg unanimously adopted a
resolution in favor of the temporal power
of the pope condemning Italian penal
laws affecting the clergy.
The German government has sent a
note to England requesting hat the set
Element OF the Niger dispute be hast
ened.
Baron O%ppenheim Of Cologne has sub
scribed ii, 900 marks to the fund for the
Emin Bey relief expedition. DIR. Rohlfs
has published a letter in which he ap
proves the expedition, but favors the
establishment OF a chain of German sta
tions at intervals of one weeks march.
WMMNGToN, Del, Sept. IA special
dispatch reports the sinking of the
othOOhCl pOftlu CIOChlGl Ou Tic mOuLu
of Misphillian creek in a severe storm
this morning. The schooner Annie Z.
Price has gone to the rescue of the crew,
who are all In the rigging.
MONTREAL, Sept. 1T now turns out
that Waldron, the Ascending teller of
the Hillsdale Savings Bank of Michigan,
sailed for England on the steamer Paris
ian. A creditor who had a claim of
$4,000, had him arrested, but allowed
him to depart after he had settled the
claim. He is said to have taken $40, 900
with him.
PARIS, Sept. IA dispatch to LIE
Temps from Zanzibar says: Tangani ma
tives to-day resisted the landing of Ger
man companies and officers of the Sui
tam troops. Shots were exchanged and
two Germans were wounded. A German
man of war afterward bombarded Tangani.
The excitement is spreading. Communi-
cation with the interior is interrupted.
COLUMBUS, o., Sept. 7.-Catholic day
at the Ohio centennial exposition brought
excursions from nearly all cities and towns
of the state, there being over sixty organ
i~zations represented, and probably 10, 900
people in all. The formal exercises we're
held in the large coliseum at Centennial
park in the afternoon.
KEY WEST, Sept. 6.-The Mallory
steamer State of Texas arrived here TO-
day. She struck the hurricane twenty
miles west of T~artugas. Her bulwarks
and bulkhead were stove in by the heavy
seas, the cabin was Quilted and the ma.
chinery disabled.
DUBLIN, Sept. Con- the occasion of
the trial of Redmond at Arthurstown the
police charged the crowd OF people as
sembled outside the court. The police
dubbed the people with their rifles and
dispersed them violently. Many were
seriously injured.