Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1879-04-11
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PLAGUE IN ST. PETERSBURG,
THE SZEGEDIN DISASTER.
SEN ENTY- SEVEN VICTIMS,
THE POPE'S LETTER.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

Conse4nence OF the Golfers, Strike
LONDON, April lin consequence of the
OF she cSers OF the county OF Durham
!or the United States will have to proceed to
thelr destination In ballast. w
seventy.scven Victims Of the Siege.
Inc Times correspondent at Vienna saws
CaIeIui inquiry shows that total OF 60 Victims
t od t Inc szegedin disaster had been buried down
10 the 9th inst. Other corpses found and well.
asCeItalned cases Of drowning make the total
loss or life Il. The water In the lower narfs Of
me the toWn Is stlll from to IL feet deep, so that
Ine ruins In most cases cannot yet be reached
Ihe loss Of life is likely to show an Increase
when the Whole OF the ruins have been sea rcheT
Dut VIII stlll fall far short OF the hundreds whom
eye-Witnesses no doubt sincerely believed they
Lad seen perish 10 single day. It is doubtful
Whether the water can be pumped out in t1fty
or even hundred days.
The POPesS Letter on Education.
The Times Rome correspondent sayS:-"The
ropes letter concerning the education ques-
t1on has great Importance apart from the sub
Ject OF which 1t treats, as 1t directly confirms
une impression, which some newspapers have
c0mDatted, that the Pope understands the
liberty and dignity OF the papacy to consist I'm
removing from Rome all means Of pracrcing
and propagating whatever the church holds to
be heretical, and that his gradually increasing
ihsistence on tlS restoration OF temporal power
Is prompted by The equally increasing convic-
sway it Will be impossible to prohibit liberty Of
worship and instruction. Thus he declares In
this holy city the religion OF Christ ought to
reign sovereign, and the universal teacher of
tie faith ought to have free power to close all
access against 1mp1ety and to maintain the
purity OF Catholic teaching
The Plague I'm Sc. Petersburg.
The Daily 7eiegraph's correspondent al st.
Peters says cat the last meeting OF the maa;-
cal society Prof. AfanaSen stated that an au-
tcpsy OF The bodies of four soldiers led TO the
discovery Of the existence Of the plague ln Sc
petersburg, and that during the past week
there have been several cases in ST. Petersburg
exactly similar to that OF PrOkofers, the porter
Socialist AAsassins in Russia.
Ihe corpse OF student was found recently
rear the KaSan cathedral in st. Petersburg
stabbed and labelled Sentenced as a traitor by
the Socialists revolutionary committee"
1sfsnlarck,s Tariff.
ANTWERP, April 1.-The Precursor SAYS
Prince Bismarck insists on his resolve to estab-
nSh sur taxes upon colonial produce coming
from European bonded warehouses, with view
OF Kidding German ports of foreign competition
He hopes that the large firms now located fn
Antwerp and Holland will establish themselves
in Bremen and Hamburg. Several influential
persons in the Hanseattc towns have promised
TO support the Bismarck project, and have
started to construct a railway direct from Bre
men to Frankfort.
Republicans Gathering in Rome.
LONDON. April 11.-A special dispatch to the
standard from Rome SayS:-"Many republican
leaders are expected to arrive here shortly to
meet at GaribaldrS house. The Messagero states
that at meeting Of the democratic leaders at
Menatti, Garibaldi's residence, q movement tn
favor OF universal suffrage was discussed"