, 1908-09-12

raging III Iu0 CODD0Tu liulAH SOuAtAy "a LAVA
ern Michigan; it is thought that no town has
as vet been destroyed, but many are in dan
ger, and the people, numbering about seven
teen thousand, OF the burning districts are
working with desperation to save their
homes, assisted with fire fighting apparatus
from neighbouring towns. Many are seek
ing safety by putting out into Lake Superior
upon hastily improvi ed RATS.
Jamaica, 9TH NJ. s.. Scylla arrived
from Bermuda this morning.
London, September 1Oth.-The Berlin
corresponds Mt of the Daily News says that
if France compels Mulai Hafd to become
responsible for certain financial obligations
incurred by Abdel Azjz and the cost OF the
French military operations in Morocco. which
would make him a French vassal from the
outset Of his reign, Germany will be COM
PEELED to vo to an unequivccal No to tbs
Franco-Spa nish note GU filming the conditions
for the recognition of Mulai as sutton.
Cardinal Vannutelli, the papal legate, open
ed the international Eucharistic Congress
at Westminster Cathedral yesterday with
much pomp and solemn splendour. He walk
ed thither from Archbishop Bourne's resi-
dence and assumed his Cardinals robe at the
entrance to the church. Present were 8 ven Car
dinals, fourteen Archbishops, seventy Bishops,
twenty two Abbots and hundreds OF Clerics.
Eight thousand seats were occupied
and thousands more were in the streets.
The Cardinal, speaking in Latin, thanked
England for her hOspitable welcome; III The
passage of time he said, the Emergencies
which had arisen had changed into a desire
for peace, 50 that after centuries the doors
of free England were opened to the pontif-
cal Cardinql Legate and other Princes Of the
church.
lT.ItIo laIo,to H. H. o0ono -, -
he III an embarrassing post on. It Is stated
that as late as last tuesday, he aud the po-
lice authorities sanctioned next Sundays
procession, but now that dormant laws have
been invoked he must either revoke his sane
ton OF commit Il BIZ ach of the law himself.
The Standard, in II leading article; regrets
the procession was not allowed to be held
peace ably, aud hopes that now since the
question has been raised, the Congress
will see the Instability of abandoning
it. Anent the anti-catholic laws still on
the statute books a Roman Catholic clergy
mau points out that under the law COM
peling a catholic owner to sell his horse
for five pounds the TIA ian owner of Signo-
r~netta, the Derby winner, might be COM
PEELED to sell the animal for that sum.
The Trades Union Congress at Noting
ham condemns British workmen engaging
I4lLoC % 10 ~ "a NOAAA"AJ 0A0
the colonies, and asks that parliament enact
ce tain legislation 50 that strikobreaking Or
ganizors may be prosecuted.
A telegram from the Hague states that
Professor Kouwer, the celebrated gynecolo-
gist is at the Loo, comforting with Queen
Wllhelmina's physicians. Her Majesty is
approaching her ACCOMPLISHMENT and is said to
be in poor health.
Advices from Brussels announce hat
the Senate has adopted the Congo annexa-
ton treaty and the colonial charter, tha
Chamber of Deputies having previously APP
proved these measures the Senate's action is
final. 0
st. Petersburg dispatches state that
malignant Asiatic Cholera prevails through
out northern Russia, and that cases IRE
being reported in that city.
NJ. Cornilietf, a Socialistic member of the
Duma, who edited a rev oiutlonary paper in
Finland, and was arrested on a charge Of
directing n criminal revolutionary movement,
has been b. bought to ST. Petersburg and been
convicted and sentenced to two years impri-
sonment in q fortress.
A great wave of emigration to Siberia is
in progress, the number of emigrants so far
for the present year being 100000 against
100 00n in 1QO7 aDd 60 00A IN 1Q06 M