, 1908-09-02

AN - OObooA w - oSAN SoOOI h1O
telegraphed to the State Department that
the authorities at that Port have refused TO
grant clearance papers for Curacao to the
Merida, thereby delaying the United States
mails for forty eight hours.
Loudon, Aug. Sir Henry Moore
Jackson, Governor of Trinidad, died in a
nursing ZONE on Saturday. The funeral
will take place tomorrow.
The death is announced of the Earl of
Rosse.
The adaptability of suction gas engines to
ship propulsion has been shown in expert
ments with an obsolete warship. The Rat
tier, nm old ship, was driven with a five hun
dred and fifty horse power engine nearly
eleven knots an hour on the Clyde, at a cost
of three pence per ton per mile. Slack was
burned as fuel, and neither boilers nor fun
nels we're used.
Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore will be the
guert of the Duke of Norfolk during the
Eucha,istic Congress, which assemblies in u
few days, over which Cardinal Vannutelli,
who is now en- route from Rome, will preside.
The Bishop of Winchester has dedicated
a church of unique construction on Lord
Tennyson's Isle of Wight Estate ; although
the walls aud portico are of stone, the
roof is OF thatch, being the only matched
roof church in the kingdom.
NThe six great powers of Europe, with the
United States, Japan, Spain, and Holland, have
accepted the invitations of the Foreign Office
to attend a conference on October first
for the pur pose of framing a code fol naval
warfare. Among the subjects that will be
discussed are that of contrnband, the estab-
-lishment of AN international prize court and
coaling of belligerents in neutral ports.
According to a despatch from the Hague,
the fact that NJ. de Reus will be among the
guests at the dinner given by NJ. van Swim
derin, the Minister of Foreign Affairs,to the
diplomatic corps to-day in honor of Queen
Wilhelmina's birthday, is taken as evidence
that the Netherlands Government are salts
fed with his explanations and will not apol-
ogize for his anti Venezuelan letter.
A telegram from LODI announces that
,Asiatic cholera has broken out in the prov
ince of Kalisz.
Advices from Teheran report that all the
provinces are showing political unrest, some
being already in q state Of anarchy, and i. is
feared that Persia is on the eve Of a civil
war.
The Portuguese Chamber of Deputies
have passed the budget, which estimates a
deficit of two millions.
A despatch from Ptkin states That an edict
has been issued setting forth the stages
bAS IA w A. NCSA ISNA Ii WIZ -
ing the form of Government of China to the
foreign system, the Emperor assuring the peo-
pie that a constitution will be granted nine
years hence. The Kaiser, in a markedly pa
Ciic speech at Stlasburg ,said"I rejoice to be
able to declare my deepest conviction that
the peace of Europe is not in danger and that
it rests on foundations too solid to be easily
upset by indictments and, calumnies, provok-
cd by envious and evilly disposed individu-
ais. Peace is guaranteed by Germany's
strength on land and sea"
New Orleans, August 31st,-Thirtytour
warehouses and factories in the French
quarter of this city have been destroyed by
ire. The loss is estimated ut 1,500,O 600
dollars.
London, Sept. 1st--The British Ambas-
sador at Rome reports that the Italian
steamshiplines are .nettled by the competi.
ton OF the Northern European Lines in the
transportation of emigrants and have de-
olded TO establish special lines at ports in
Northern Europe to compete with the above
mentioned companies.
The Chimes. states. that the two new
steamers just laid down at Belfast will be
bigger but not faster than the "Lusitania." Z.
A despatch from Tehe1an reports that
the struggle between the Loyalists and the