FOREIGN CABLES.

Southland Times, Issue 18063, 5 February 1903, Page 3

FOREIGN CABLES.

SUCCESSFUL QUACKERY DIVORCE DENOUNCED THE FUR SEAL LET GO [United Ppess Association. — By EI.BOTBIO Telegraph — Copyright.] NEW YORK, Feb 3. Tbe Rev. J. Dowie, of Zion City, Chicago, holds a mission in New York in October, assisted by two hundred converts. If the visit proves successful he will build another Zion City there. . Cardinal Gibbons delivered a remarkable sermon in New York. He stated ; that thesdivOrce mills were slowly "but surely- grinding away the domesfcicalfcars of the nation. Divorce, he declared*, "waa a social . scourge more blighting and destructive than Mormoriisin. 7^. The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill authorising the resumption of negotiations with Great Britain for the preservation of Alaskan fur seals and giving authority, if a modus vivendi is not concluded pri^v to the opening of pelagic sealing, to exterminate the seal herd on Pribyloff Islands, excepting ten thousand females and a thousand males. The Maharajah of Holkar resigned owing to occasional attacks of insanity. The Italian vessel Sambuk and crew, which were captured by Turkish pirates have been ransomed and released.