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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. A miniature ship, the Raguaa, sailed from New York for Liverpool yesterday. yester-day. The Senate has confirmed S. "W. Chubbuck postmaster at Gold Hill, Nevada. A vote on the treaty is partially expected ex-pected to-day; but it is a matter of uncertainty. un-certainty. Casserly occupied nearly six hours on Tuesday, dilating on the defects of the Treaty of Washington. i The giand lodge of the Independent ; Order of Good Templars of North j America is in session in Baltimore. i The English Premier acknowledges J the receipt of the indemnity for colliers ' sunk in the Seine by the Prussians. Assistant Secretary of State Davis was examined by the Senate committee on privileges concerning the publication of the Treaty. The managing editor of the New York Tribune has been summoned to .Washington to appear beforthe Senate investigating committee. . Dr. Edward J. Sears, editor of the Xatmnal Quarterly Revitw, was arrested ar-rested yesterday on a charge of rape 'upon Margaret O'Keefe, a relation ofj his. In the British Lords the bill enabling ena-bling the dominion of Canada to create cre-ate provinces from i.3 newly acquired possessions, reached its second reading and was unopposed. A. J. Kirk, telegraph operator at Washington, was examined as to who ! filed the copy and in whose hand-writing the Treaty was, when delivered to him for transmission. He declined to answer. A committee of the Keform Presbyterian Pres-byterian Synod at Philadelphia made a report expressing thankfulness for the downfall of the llonian church and the overthrow of the French empire, em-pire, recommending the church to set apart a day of thanksgiving in com-memoration com-memoration of the event. |