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Show LIGHTNING FLASHES. The woman suffragists are in convention conven-tion in Boston. The Germans have established siege batteries before Cambrai. The diplomatic and consular appropriation appro-priation bill has pased the House. Garibaldi's operations are f-aij to be suspended owing to Bourbaki's retreat. re-treat. . . The Germans have occupied Dole, capturing fifty car ' load of army stores. . The last filibustering expedition to Cuba is reported nearly all captured and killed. The Hornet has reached Port au PnDce, and is watched by three Span ish gunboats. - The Prane-tireurs have destroyed the bridge over the Moselle, between Nancy and Toul. England, is getting alarmed at the proposed annexation of &an Domingo to the United States. Jamaica is made tha prionpal military mili-tary and naval station for Great Britain Brit-ain in the West Indies. The Nevada legislature bw passc9 ajoint resolution, asking Congress to prohibit Chinese immigration. A locomotive exploded near Hinsdale, Hins-dale, Mass., on Tuesday, scalding five men, two of whom have since died. The steamer l)nln, of the Panama & West India Cable Co., has failed to grapple the Jo-t cable on acounl of a heavy w.-i. Another attempt will soon be made. Serious trouble is anticipated with the Indians in the neighborhood of San Diego, Cala. A party of tliccu attempted at-tempted to stop the Los Angeles stage on Monday evening. In the celebrated ccclcsiiislical Chicago Chi-cago oaso of Cheney v. Whilchouse and others, the Supreme Court of Illinois has decided that the Episcopal Ecclesiastical Court hail full jurisdiction. jurisdic-tion. Lieut. Cradlcbangh and twenty soldiers sol-diers were surprised by a hundred and fifty Indians on the night of the tith, forty miles ea.-t of Prescott, Arizona, lost 21 horses and had two men badly wounded. The Indians were pursued and defeated. : lien. A. Whitman has commenced a libel suit flt'.-iintit Frank Leslie, as proprietor of tbe Day' Jjninr.f; damages dam-ages laid at ?20,00O. And Mux Stra-kosh Stra-kosh has commenced libel nzainit the Jioehester I hilly I'nion, fur saying that ho was an extortioner and swind Icr in ehartdtii; fiur dollars 'i head to hear Nils.-on sin;;, mid palming' off inferior in-ferior tingerK au lii-xt-rli.'. ! i |