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In the last three years the United
States have sold abroad $1,300,000,000
more thau they have bought.
Medical men now regard typhoid
fever as a disease so preventable that,
as one of them declares, “for every
case of typhoid fever somebody ought
to be hung.”
A writer in the Lancet says that
'‘there is undoubtedly a good deal in
the open-air treatment of consump¬
tion, but the way it is being at pres¬
ent ‘boomed’ by people with ready
pens, but with no medical training, is
calculated to make men who are ac¬
customed to look at things from a sci¬
entific standpoiutrather than critical. ”
A writer in the Medical News de¬
clares that America is falling behind
in the matter of professors’ salaries.
The class of teachers who here get
$2500 to $4000 receive in England
$4000 to $(>000. Scotch universities
have chairs worth from $7000 to $20,-
000 per annum, and even in Berlin
there are professors who earn from
$10,000 tp $15,000 a year.
Perhaps the best indication of the
trend of prices is Sauerbeeks’s index
figures, based on the prices of 45
leadiug commodities. In that scale
the average from 1867 to 1877 is taken
as 100. For a long time the average
or index figure has been iu the sixties.
Now it is crawling back towards sev¬
enty At last accounts it was 66,
which is the highest average since
1893, the year of the great panic.
From a recent table of statistics,
published in the foreign journals and
taken from official sources, it appears
that there were at the end of 1898
2,029,893 miles of telegraph and tele¬
phone lines in use in the world, of
which 167,800 miles were submarine
cables and 382,417 were for the tele- :
phones. The corresponding figures
for the mileage of the wires as distin¬
guished from the lines are as follows:
8,285,400, 169,600 and 3,202,950.
We are fnr from believing that be¬
cause certain conditions always have
been they necessarily always will be,
says the Independent. Universal
peace and a reduction of armies and
navies to a mere police footing may be
possible as a result of patient effort
and rational processes of world-educa¬
tion throughout a long period; but no
sudden lift of enthusiasm can do the
work of centuries, sacrifices, compar¬
isons of experience and the slow un- j
derswell of increasing human self-un- j
derstaudiug and universal sympathy
and charity. In not expecting too
much we shall avoid despair, and so
feel able to continue patiently work¬
ing for the right.
The three chief facts about Prefes-
eor Hadley, the new president of Yale
university J are: That he is only thirty-
three years old; that he is . not , a cler- .
gymau—the first exception to the sup-
posedly ironclad rule as to the qualifi-
catious of a presideut of Yale; that he
is not a professor of Greek or Latin
pihilosophy or any of the so-cal ,, e ,
or
“culture” branches of education, but
of political science, the science of gov-
eminent in its broad sense, which in-
eludes all kinds of public 1 action.
Thus one of tha greatest and , most
conservative of America’s old univer-
sities has at one stroke broke from
those time honored traditions.
President W. C. A. Hammel, of tht
Audubou society of Baltimore has
compiled some statistics upon the loss
of bird life in this country that are
really startling. In the last fifteen
years the percentage of decrease in
Maiue has been 52; in New Hamp¬
shire,32; Massachusetts, 27; Vermont,
30; Rhode Island, 60; Connecticut,
75; New York, 48; New Jersey, 37;
Pennsylvania, 57; Ohio, 38; Indiana,
60; Illinois, 38, Michigan, 28; Wis¬
consin, 40; Iowa, 32; Missouri, 36;
Nebraska, 10; North Dakota, 68; Dis¬
trict of Columbia, 33; South Carolina,
32; Georgia, 65; Florida, 77; Missis¬
sippi, 37; Louisiana, 55; Texas, 67;
Arkansas, 50; Montana,75; Idaho,40;
Colorado, 28, and Indian Territory,
75, making a general average of 46
per cent. The figures were obtained
from government reports and the rec¬
ords of Audubon societies, and, while
a bird census is impossible trained ob¬
servers can at least compare present
with former conditions and work out
fairly reliable percentages.
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AT THE STILE.
They might have been brother and
sister or cousins accustomed to each
other’s society every day in the year.
Certainly they did not act like lovers.
They walked carefully, the man minc-
lngly, on either side of the dusty lane,
each keeping close to the border of the
grass.
“I think,” said the woman, that it
is the very wisest thing we can do.”
The man started—-he glanced covert¬
ly at her, then turned his face very de¬
liberately to her as he replied: “I will
not say you are wrong. But have you
reached this conclusion suddenly—
within the past hour, or did you arrive
at It last night?"
"Last night.”
“Then you doubtless thought of
everything in connection with—
with-”
“Our quarrel?” She looked straight
at him. Her face was not disturbed in
the least that he could see; she
seemed, Indeed to be unusually self-
possessed. "Yes.”
“I apprehended as much.” The man
braced himself with an effort; It re¬
quired an effort. “I made due provis¬
ions for this interview.”
"A case of telepathy.” She laughed.
Her laugh was the same—there was
not a false note In it. The man could
not have laughed naturally if his life
had been at stake. “You mean you
have brought my letters.”
“Yes.”
“I brought yours with ms, Carroll.”
She uttered his name just as she al¬
ways uttered it. At that moment he
could not trust himself to utter her
name—he would exhibit feeling, he
knew it. And to think—this was the
woman he could have sworn sympa¬
thized with him as no other person in
the wide world sympathized with him
in his work'and alms. Yes, it was
well that they bad made the discovery
in time.
She handed him a small, dainty-look¬
ing packet—he reached her a larger
and by no means as neat a package—
he observed the difference himself.
Then he inferred that his feelings were
much the deepest; she had been at
pains to make hers attractive—he had
no thought of mere appearances when
he tied his. He felt as if his heart was
bound up— going from him in that lit¬
tle package.
"Now that It is all over—Clara”—It
required an effort to call her by that
name—"will you tell me my chief of¬
fense? I am not indifferent—I like the
good opinion of nay fellows. That is,
while I preserve my self-respect al¬
ways; of course, I do not fancy the idea
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of going through the world in a way
that would subject me to the criticism
of any sensible man or woman."
“Well. I am rather glad you ask
«*>*■ £ disabuses me of one lmpres-
sion. Now that everything is over be-
tween Us j wj]1 ^ entlrely frank w)th
you. Indeed, It is due to you to say
that I do not—no, I am quite sure I
Dave never met a man whose manners,
whose estimate of himself (judging
from his manners and general bearing)
are more perfect or commendable than
yours.”
“You have taken a load from my
shoulders positively you have
“How about my nswiners?” She held
her head a trifle hfeher . ber paragol ^
that moment was deflected; he could
Just see the lower part of her face; her
chin seemed a little redder or was it
Imagination?
“Why, what on earth do you mean?”
"I asked you a very simple question.
But It does not make any difference.”
“Your manners-”
"Did you not say last night that I
was too demonstrative—when Miss
Cballoner fainted and her do* was
tramped by Mr. Trescott"
"You must have wholly misunder¬
stood-”
“Well, perhaps I was mistaken there.
But do you recall your words—your ex¬
act words when I was introduced to
your friend, Mr. Grinnell?”
“I do not. Now I do recall it; I may
have said—I thought you unlike your¬
self. Something you seemed—for the
first time—precise. But-"
"Then you persisted in going away
and leaving me with him.”
“Miss Maehmont beckoned to me—
you saw her with her mother.”
"That did not occur to me. Of
course you could not have walked
across the room with me and left me
with them,?”
"It was doubtless stupid of me.
but-
“Let us say no more. It is all so un¬
like us to part like children.”
“But about Grinnell. I did not know
he was ah—disagreeable to you. If I
had dreamed-”
“Do you tell me that you did not
know he pursued me two years ago—
the very first year I was out? I have
been annoyed by him more than by
any other man. I never liked him—
and never wUi>”
"Am I to understand that Mr. Grin-
nell was the gentleman that your
mother referred to last fall when- »»
“Please let us not speak of Mr. Grln-
nell any more.”
"But I want to say I only became
acquainted with him a week ago,
and-”
"I am glad no one observed us. I
dislike that Miss Dreggltt. She Is a
confirmed gossip—and busybody.”
“Yet you took her arm last night and
walked away with her."
“The wisest thing I could do—how
else do you think I could have diverted
her attention? She has eyes like a
hawk’s.”
“You mean-”
“I mean that if I had not walked
away at that precise moment with,her
all the world would know we were at
odds. Is that plain enough?”
"But you—you walked away with
Mr. Grinnell.”
"For the same reason you walked
away with Miss Dreggltt."
“I hope ypu will remember me
among your truest friends, Clara.”
“You have no better friend than I
am.”
“If anybody had told me yesterday
we would be walking here this way to¬
day-”
“I might say the same. Do you mean
to convey the impression I am any way
at fault?”
“You are faultless—have I not al¬
ways told you so? I never realized
your good sense, your justice, your
beauty as I do this moment.”
“You compel me to say In reply that
I never had less reason to note any¬
thing approaching a fault in you. I
can say that now that everything is
over.”
“Is it all over? Listen, Clara. There
is some inconceivable misunderstand¬
ing. You are perfection in my eyes—
you must permit me to finish. I was
chilled by a single glance last night—
now you tell me you were annoyed
about Grinnell. What has Grinnell to
do with me or mine? I was grieved to
the soul when you avoided me. And
yet we two—of all the other people in
the world. I did not close my eyes last
night.”
They were now at the stile. She
grew pale and red by turns.
“Let us sit down here a few minutes.
There is no one near.”
“Why do you confess in one breath
that you have no fault to find with
my appearance or manners—and give
me back my letters?”
"Why did you give me mine?”
"God knows—I do not. I thought
you had suddenly discovered some¬
thing that you did not liki
“You did me the injustice to think I
am changeable.”
“I deserve the rebuke.”
“And yet you could say with as much
reason that I assumed you were
changeable.”
“It would never occur to me.”
“How delicious and cool it is here.”
“I never beheld a lovetier morning."
"Nor I.”
He drew a package from his pocket.
After looking at it sadly he handed it
to her.
“Give me yours.”
Without a word she gave him back
the package he had given her near the
bottom of the lane.
“We have acted like silly children,”
she said, shyly.
“No, Clara; we have acted like sensi¬
ble man and woman. And now we are
not to be alone; I see Miss Dreggitt’s
hat and parasol. I could tell her among
a million.”
“Let her come. I do not care if all
the workl sees us now.”
Tlie Trekking Wagon.
The South African wagon is a long,
heavy cart mounted on four wheels, as
a rule, with a sort of canvas tent over
the back half, leaving the front clear
to carry the miscellaneous furniture of
its owner, drawn by sixteen, eighteen
or twenty oxen, curiously fierce-look-
ing with their immense spread of horn,
sometimes as much as eight feet from
tip to tip and rarely less than six, but
In reality as patient and hard-working
beasts as one could wish to find. Their
mode of progression Is certainly slow,
but there Is a strangeness and a fas¬
cination about it which may draw men
to it almost as the Alps draw their
devotees. In front there marches the
“voorlooper,” generally a small boy
leading the two foremost oxen by a
rein or rope passed through their nos¬
trils. The driver walks alongside with
the long and terrible whip he uses so
unsparingly, or else sits on the front
of the wagon and gets off occasionally
to lash up the whole team with unfail¬
ing impartiality. The traveling is all
done at night, starting a little before
sunset and marching until perhaps 11
or 12 o’clock; then there is a halt till
a little before the first signs of dawn,
when they go on again till the sun be¬
gins to get hot overhead, and then they
lie for the day.—Gentleman’s Maga¬
zine.
Bank Notes of Ancient Times.
Among the products of civilization
which were familiar to the Chinese
many centuries before they came Into
use in Europe may be reckoned bank
notes. There is at this moment In the
possession of the Bank of England a
specimen supposed to be one of the
oldest extant, dating from the four¬
teenth century of our era. It is now
proved, however, that paper money
was issued in China as early as 807
A. D. These securities closely resem¬
bled the famous French assignats In
being based upon the estates of the
kingdom. The Bank of Stockholm
claims to have been the first western
institution to adopt a paper currency,
but the Bank of England must have
followed very close with Its £20 notes,
which were issued in 1696.
Good luck has helped many a man to
be honest.
VARIOUS TOPICS.
An Irish paper prints this protest
from “A Cyclist”: While cycling on
the road near Healy’s bridge a toxey
terrier dog stole on me unperceived
and bit me on the calf of the leg, from
which I am now suffering. The dog, I
understand, belongs to a magistrate
who resides in the neighborhood, and
is allowed to wander on tne road un¬
muzzled, and yet site on the bench iu
Judgment on others.”
A law class of forty-eight women
has just been graduated from New
York University. It is now nine years
since this course was introduced, yet
the public is Just beginning to under¬
stand and appreciate its purpose. Its
aim is not to make lawyers out of
women, but to give them a practical
knowledge of the laws which concern
them, especially in the direction of the
management of property.
Here is a new style of wedding no¬
tice from Windsor, Mo.: "His name Is
Ortts P. Edds and he Is sixteen years
old. Her name was Peart Ramp and
she Is fifteen years old. Sunday they
were married In Warrensburg, and
then moved to a farm near Lamonte,
where they will go to housekeeping
and take up the struggle against the
great imaginary wolt that keeps men
hustling and women scheming from
dawn until the crack of doom.”
Down here they saw the horns off
the “wild” or Texas cattle before they
ship them east. The animals pack
better, take up less roofh In the cars,
are not so likely to injure one an¬
other and look better to the buyer. A
Texas steer may carry just as much
beef and tallow as a muley cow, but
his long horns make him look leaner.
Texas cattle have a bad reputation,
too, and when their horns are sawed
off they look as innocent and harmless
as a barnyard heifer.—Iola (Has.) Let¬
ter Chicago Record.
The names of some of the Oklahoma
newspapers show a high range of origi¬
nality. In the published list is the
Shawnee Daily Dinner Bell., The Rus¬
tler is a favorite name, and there are
several papers so called in different
parts- of the territory, although in the
cattle trade u has a dreadful signifi¬
cance. The Sunbeam is also popular
as a name for newspapers, and there
are several down here. The Kingfisher
Kicker is an influential Populist organ,
and its rival is the Pottawatomie
County Plain People.—Correspondence
Chicago Record/
Apropos of the question as to wheth¬
er or not women should remove their
bats in church a Lexington (Mo.) man
suggests a return to the good old cus¬
tom under which the men sat on one
side of the church and the women on
the other. “In that way,” he says,
"the women could get the full benefit
of their big hats. Women who remove
their hats out of courtesy to those who
sit behind them could, of course, sit
where they chose. The others could
have the full benefit of attempting to
see the preacher through a jungle of
feathers and gee-gaws.”
A generation ago there were only
two colleges in the United &tatee draw¬
ing interest on funds reaching $1,0C0,-
000 . Now a Chicago college asks an
addition to Its endowment of $9,000,000
in a single year, although it already
has- productive funds amounting to
$5,800,000. A single Individual with¬
in a comparatively few years has be¬
stowed upon It $7,426,000. Harvard’s
interest bearing funds last year were
$8,963,053; Yale’s, $4,500,000; Colum-
bia’s, $9,500,000; Cornell's, $6,446,818;
Girard’s, $15,048,146, and Leland Stan¬
ford, Jr.’s, $3,500,000.
In a letter to an Ottawa county (Kan¬
sas) paper one of the members of Gen.
MacArthur’s brigade writes irom Ma¬
nila: “Night before last I was on pick¬
et duty all night, and yesterday morn¬
ing I found that the nigger picket was
within a hundred yards of me. After
a little talk we both laid down our
guns and met between the lines and
had a little visit. He said the people
In their army did not want to fight us,
but they had to or their officers would
kill them. He also said that he had
not had a bite to eat for three days.
I gave him what hardtack I had with
me, and it did me more good to see
him eat it than if I had eaten it my-
self. When we parted we shook
bands, and he cried like a baby.”
Onoe Was Enough.
This is one of Gen. Miles’ stories: In
the Confederate army Longstreet’s
corps was making a night march.
About 4 o’clock In the morning, when
every one was worn out,a Georgia regi¬
ment stopped. A Georgia soldier put
his rifle up against the tents on the
other side of where Longstreet was.
“Well,” he said, “this is pretty hard
—to fight all day and march all night.
But I suppose I can do it for love of
my country.” He continued: “I can
go hungry, I oan fight, if neeid be I can
die for my country. But when this
war is over I’ll be blowed if I’ll ever
love another country.”—Woman’s
Journal.
He’s Guessing: Yet.
Ye Poet—“Would that my muse
might soar aloft, and, cleaving the em¬
pyrean blue, find words to sing the
glorious glory of your hair of burnish¬
ed gold.” Ye Maiden (Titian haired,
hut prosaic)—“That sounds very pret¬
ty, Mr. Scribbler, but do you know the
difference between your poems ahd
my hair?” Ye Poet—“Ah, a conun¬
drum. I give it up. What is the dif¬
ference, oh, fairest of your sex?” Ye
Maiden—“Well, my hair’s read.”—
Kansas City Journal.
MORMON ELDERS MOBBED
BIG eHOWD OF MASKED ME/N MAL¬
TREAT THREE “MISSIONARIES.”
•Hosts Who Harbored the “Saints” Tried To Pro¬
tect Them With "Disastrous "Result.
Three Morman elders, who have
been preaching their peculiar doctrines
in the vicinity of Covington, Ga., for
the past few weeks, were mobbed
Thursday night by thirty masked
men near Newton factory.
The Mormons had met with little
success in their effort at proselyting,
but following their custom, had beg¬
ged food and lodging, which the coun¬
try people, in the kindness of their
hearts, willingly extended.
The missionaries, together with Mr.
and Mrs. William Cunnard, were seat¬
ed on the front porch of the latter’s
residence Thursday evening enjoying
a quiet after supper chat. There l#d
been no warning of an outbreak, and
the Mormons fancied themselves in
security. Suddenly the tramp of ap¬
proaching horses was beard, and in a
few moments thirty well mounted and
armed men drew up before the door of
the Cunnard residence, and dismount¬
ing, filed into the yard.
All the men wore black masks, and
there was little confusion, the mob
pushing forward one of their number
as spokesman.
This party brusquely addressed the
elders, commanding that they accom¬
pany the men who stood waiting to
receive them. At this an altercation
arose between the members of the
mob and the Cunnards, who declared
that they would not violate the rules
of hospitality by allowing their guests
to be taken away in this cavalier
fashion.
Mrs. Cunnard, in a moment of an¬
ger, grasped the chair on which she
INGERSOLL IN ASHES.
Body of the Noted Agnostic Cre¬
mated According To His
Expressed Wish.
Walston, the home at Dobbs Ferry,
where Robert G. Ingersoll died, was a
quiet place Wednesday. The body of
the dead agnostic lay on his flower-
covered bier. Only the widow and
daughters sat near, all the others kept
away. These hundred letters were
received during the day from all over
the country, most of them from inti¬
mate friends.
Colonel Ingersoll’s body was cre¬
mated Thursday. The coffin was a
plain black cloth covered affair with¬
out ornament or handles of any kind,
and without even a name plate. It
was simply a box in which the dead
might lie at rest during the journey to
the crematory at Fresh Pond, L. I.
The body was placed in the retort
at 11:50 and at 2 o’clock all that re¬
mained was ashes.
There were no services at the crem¬
atory. Even the organ, which is
usually played while a cremation is
going on, was silent. This -was at the
request of the family.
The incineration was strictly pri¬
vate. The time was not even set, in
order that the public might not know.
The funeral party waited during the
hours while the body was being con¬
sumed, to take the ashes back with
them.
THEATRICAL PRODUCTION
Decided Upon To Raise Funds For
Dewey Reception.
The executive committee of the
Dewey testimonial fund met at the
Astor house, New York, Thursday.
The plan of the committee which was
formed to raise money to purchase a
home for Admiral Dewey has narrow¬
ed down to the proposed production of
the play “The White Squadron. It
has been decided to give the perform¬
ance at the Metropolitan opera house.
President McKinley, the cabinet and
Governor Roosevelt have indorsed the
plan.
The performance itself promises to
be one of the greatest theatrical pro¬
ductions ever undertaken in that city.
TAX COLLECTOR SKIPS.
Official of Walker County, Alabama,
Short In His Accounts.
A Montgomery, Ala., dispatch says:
State Examiner Perry has filed with
Governor Johnston the result of his
examination of the office of (Tax Col¬
lector Davis, of Walker county. He
reports that the collector owes the
state and county $14,765, and has only
$1,000 to his credit in the bank.
Some two weeks ago Tax Collector
Davis went to Birmingham and got on
a spree, and Governor Johnston sent
the examiner to Jasper to check over
his accounts. Since that time Davis
haB kept out of the way of the authori¬
ties.
QOING TO HIS DEATH.
Deserter Givens Is Sent Back To Ha-
nila To Be Courtmartlaled.
On board the transport Ohio, which,
with the Newport, sailed from San
Francisco Wednesday night for tko
Philippines, was Benjamin Givens,
private of company H, Fourth United
States,infantry, manacled and guarded,
to be returned to Manila for trial upon
the charge of “desertion in the face of
the enemy,” the peunlty for which is
dea'h.
was sitting and attacked the mob in¬
discriminately. Pistols were drawn,
and Mr. Mr.Cuuuard, rushing into the
house, secured his shotgun. Iu the
confusion the light in the sitting room
was extinguished, and then ensued A
rapid volley of shots from the mob,
broken by ty the deafening report of
the shotgun.
For several minutes there was much
scuffling and bad language, and when
a light was finally procured the mob
had retreated, taking the missionaries
with them, and lying in one corner of
the porch was Mrs. Cunnard, the half
of whose face had been shot off.
It is supposed that iu the uncertain
light Mr. Cunnard discharged his
weapon directly into the face of his
wife.
Just what had become of the Mor¬
mons was a mystery for the time be¬
ing. They have been very persistent
in their efforts to spread their faith,
and the doctrines which they proposed
are exceedingly obnoxious to the mass
of the country people. Only a short
time ago they were rotten-egged out of
Winder and Monticello, and other
Georgia towns have accorded them
similar treatment.
They do not provide themselves
with scrip or with clothing, declaring
that they will subsist as did the
apostles of old. They make a slight
impression on the more credulous, but
the substantial country people are bit¬
terly opposed to their presence in any
community which they may invade,
and if they have escaped thus far it is
only because their mission has been a
peaceful one.
LUETGERT DEAD.
Notorious and Wealthy Sausage-
maker Expires In His
Prison Cell.
Adolph L. Luetgert, the wealthy .
Chicago sausage maker who was serv¬
ing a life sentence in the penitentiary
at Joliet, Ill., for the murder of his
wife, was found dead in his cell Thurs¬
day. held
Drs. Warner and O’Malley a
post mortem examination, disclosing
the fact that Luetgert died from
fatty degeneration of the heart.
Frank Fay Fratt, a member of the
Chicago bar, made a statement
Thursday night that Luetgert con¬
fessed in February, 1898, that he had
killed his wife. i
“In February, 1898, said fir. Pratt,
“in my visits to a client at the jail, I
became acquainted with the sausage
maker. He was told by one of the
jailers that I was a palm reader, and
one day as I was passing his cell he
asked me to read his hand. I found
the lines of fatality or predestination
very strong, and I told him that from
his hand I could readily see. that he
was not responsible for his actions in
the sense of self-restraint. He then
said:
“Yes, that is so; I did kill my wife.
I was possessed of the devil and kill¬
ed her because I was in love with an¬
other woman.
“He then started to tell me about
the vat and said his wife attempted to
make a dying statement to him when
the dogs began to growl and he put
an end to ber. He then began curs-
ing. As I considered the confession a
professional one, I respected it until
death has now placed him beyond fur¬
ther human pursuit.” Luetgert in Chicago at¬
The trial of
tracted widespread attention and was
one of the most sensational in the his¬
tory of the state. Luetgert was
charged with having murdered his
wife in the basement of his factory
and cooked the body to pieces in a vat.
The prosecution had but a few small
bones and two rings as evidence that
their story was correct, but secured
conviction and a life sentence.
FILIPINO TOWN CAPTURED.
General Hall’s Troops Have Brisk En*
gagement With Insurgents.
A special from Manila under date
of July 27, says: Brigadier General
R. H. Hall, with 1,000 men, has cap¬
tured Calamba, on Laguna de Bay.
The loss to the United States forces
was four killed and twelve wounded.
With the large armies engaged the
fighting was terrific and great num¬
bers of the insurgents were killed.
Calamba is a city on La Guna do
Bay, about 30 miles southeast of Ma¬
nila. It is much further south than
the United States troops have yet pen¬
etrated on land.
RIVER STEAHERS COLLIDE.
One Sinks and 155 People Are Drown¬
ed In Volga.
A dispatch received at Berlin, Ger¬
many, Thursday, from Nijni-Novgorod
reports that a cargo and passenger
steamer collided on the river Volga,
and that the latter sank, drowning 155
persons. states that the captain of
The report
the cargo ship has been arrested for
disregarding .signals,