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?-?->y- ? K * VOL. XIII. MFAT PACKFPS OUT ? I *. i K. V IA J\V V/ V Fifty Thousand People Walk Away From Their Situations FOOD SUPPLY MAY BE AFFECTED Employes Numbering 45,000 Quit Wcrk at Chicago, Kansas City, Omaha, St. Joseph and Other Cities as the Result of Stubbon Disagreement, Chiefly Over the Wages for Unskilled Labor. (M . <> Special.-?As the r< suit of .1 s' .'i! disagreement. chiefly ove r ur killed labor, one of the most f-nsivo strikes in the history of t. :t pa king industry began Tin ... morning in Chicago, Kan us CM, . Or. alia, St. Jo.-' ph. AIo., and I II' . . Mil' . i- l?!l llilv Win-, plants aro located. If prolonged the ?11*iI i* expected to cause widespread inconvenience, possibly equaling the an I hrac.te coal famine of (wo years ago. The unanimity of the strike was complete. More than to,000 employes are directly involved. In Chicago alone is,000 men are ou strike. The effect of the strike upon the leoti supph of t ho country and tho prices of meats is being earnestly dis cussed, notwithstanding the announcement that thu packing houses, eontiary to the somewhat general expectation will continue operations without any closed door, employing whatever help may bo obtained. How nun li alleviation in tho furnishing of supplies to tho public this course may afford is a matter of wide variation. Tho packers declare that hundr ts < : men who could not hi' provid<1 with places have been applying daily for work. Tin.1 walk-out hero was started by t! employes of the killing departti ! various packing houses. T..< killers wore followed by th v. ik< s in other departments as fart : < urrent work left by the slaughterer. could bo cleaned up- Thus as tl w. r' >rs in each department disp d of the their part of the work :1 y threw off their aprons and dcp:>.;< d. This consideration was shown tin* packers, the labor officials nnn inn ed, because it was not the desire of the men to cause the employer. any financial loss as a result of lu'pbv ting meat, tliat was on hand to be dressed. Watched by cordons of police, the strikers tiled briskly out of the packing houses, carrying overalls, rubber boots and knives, cleavers and steels. ^ The strikers wore greeted by crowds of women and children, many of whom joined hands with the worknun on the outward march. Whatever the future may have in store in the way of riots, there was absolutely no sign of disorder. A plcMtresquo seeno was presented when the sausago factories and can neries wore left by their forces. There are 1.000 girls employed tn these two department*. of the meat Industry. (Mad in the variegated garb of factory rls. this army of P miniuo strikers tripping along lite thoroughfare of the stockyards, were roundly cheered n they emerged through the gates and distributed themselves in the crowd of men who had awaited their coming. "We're with you to j the last," the gills exclaimed, amtnitg as thoy tood around and talked over the situation with their malo companion in the movement. Arthur Meeker, of Armour & Company, "We < 'nsider the demand of the union for an advance in wages of unskilled labor entirely unwarranted by industrial conditions. Wo could no; concede it. and proposed to submit the Question to arbitration, which the | union d lined to do and called .a strike today at all our plants. Kvery department is kept running, however. Wo have had applications from httndr?ff of unemployed nun for positions at. less wages than we have been paying and every day expect to Increase our output." President Donnelly, the strike leader, said: "I wish to inako it clear that we are not lighting for an increase of wages, but against a do- I ' rettso. Our original demand was for ?. minimum or *gn cents an hour for laborers. This demand was amended aM'ter our second conference with the packers in June. We then agreed to a scale of 1S% cents an hour, except Ir. Omaha and Sioux City, whore the scale is lit cents. The packers, on }ho other hand, refused to pay morn tnan 1712 cents an hour and declined O sign any agreements at all except vith a small proportion of the workmen. The question of wages to stilled men was not discussed. To unskilled workmen the average wage was 18%. but when we asked that this ' Ik made the minimum wage they cut it to 17% and 15 cents. A man could live on 15 cents if he could get. steady work, but at sonw plants the men have been able to make Just 13 hours a week at this wage scale. They votlld not live on it. No one could. . OR l ] AT THE PARKER RESIDENCE Preparations Being Made to Carry on the Campaign. Psopus, N. Y.. Special. Itosemount, the home of Judge Alton 11. Parker, for the first time, began to show outward signs of the coming on of the campaign. The lodge house at the gate is being ararnged for use as the campaign office, and linemen Wednesday put up tho special telegraph and telephone lines which are to he in use from now- on Onn .if lm In- u is being fitted up with many conveniences for tli" newspaper correspondents. More than 200 letters from Judge I'nrker vent in the first outgoing mail, most of them being replies t i lett'Ts and telegrams of congratulaj fion. More than 200 arrived in the I lir. t incoming mail and every mail dure has shown a marked increase o\e the one before. A foiee of sten ?mv. pliers under the direction of Judgo I'nrker's private seen iary, Arthur 12. M- Causlan '. will he inrtnlle.il within a day or two in the new offices. Davis Likes the Platform. rllkins, \Y. Va.. Paecial. "Of course I'll support fhe rlatform: I am perj fectly satisfied with it." This was the ; first statement which Henry (i. Davis m \ f TOT *%' 02S> SSJl (- > ~ V, NAV l\ Vi .11 f ; i &.V 7i-y; -vV ,\ mt ' < i Q Vr/-.VV n: ;i;Y a. i>avis. [has yet given relating t?? his views on i national issues. "Mr. Parker's slant , sviil undoubtedly strengthen him. When 11 he time eomes, t Ho whole party undiI vi<io<i will star I for the judge and his | tieket." v>r\civ-ii 01 i x-ocnaior uavis. 11 or. ry C. a seaway Davis, nominated for Vice-President t?y the Democrats, at St. Louis, was born in Howard ounty. Maryland, November 1 "?. 1823. receiving only a country school education. an early age he was left fatherless, and was forced to begin work for iiis own support, working on a farm until 1S13. For fourteen years after that period be was in the employ of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, working his way up from brakeman to station agent at Piedmont, which is now his home. Mr. Davis has on? son I John T. Davis, of Elkins, Md., and ! three daughters, Mrs. Stephen B. I Elkins. Mrs. It. M. c. Drown and Mrs. J Arthur Lee. His wife died in 1902. j He was formerly i'nited States Senator 1 front West Virginia. ' j Evacuates New Chwang. St. Petersburg. By Cable.?Colonel ; Novitsky. of the general staff. In an in- ! lervlew said: "The result of the his-. of Kai Cli >u will probably he the evacuation of New Chwang. (dene al Kuropatkin's i position is mote d'.flL-ult thnn that which confronte 1 Lord Roberts in South amir<i. It is as if Lord Roberts | received his supplies by rail via Conrtantinople, Cairo and 1 ent-al Africa. j It'will he a long time nefore (Jeneral i ft iirnn? i'. in ' ;ll - * -w. .1(111-411 MlU'UieS | and men ? assum the offensive, in ' the meantime nc will have to fight roar guard, act ions perhaps giving up important positions. 1 iko N'cw Chwang. which are of vastly more consequent:# : than Kai Chou." Georgia Bankers Llect Officers. Chattanooga. Tenn.. Special.?The Georgia Bankers' Association adjourned Wednesday afternoon after a two days' meeting on Lookout Mountain. The following are among the officers chosen: President. Miller S. Bell, Millcdgeville; first vice president, .las. Orine, Atlanta; second vice presi| lent.. Jos. L. Davis. \Ibany; third vice I president. B. fl. Walker. Monroe. \ Guardship Attacked. Tokio, By Cable.?Admiral Togo re- j ports that at midnight July 11 torpedo j boats approached the boom which blocks the entrance to Port Arthur harbor and attacked the guardship Diana with torpedoes. The result has not been astertained. The Japanese j ! boats returned undamaged. Jape Take Another Port. Che Foo, By Cable.?A Frenchman who arrived here on a junk from Port Arthur Tuesday morning reports that on July 7. the Japanese captured Fort No. 11. < \ . FORT MILL, 8. C WH1 20 KILLED ON TRAIN O Gay Crowd of txcursiouists Meet With Horrible Accident A COLLISION SOUTH OF CHICAGO * " " I Running at Forty Miles an Hour, a ' Picnic Train Plunged Into a [ Freight Which Was Backing on t to Another Track. Chicago, Special.?Twenty persons were killed and about twenty-live injured Wednesday night in a collision on the Chicago & Eastern 111? >i.-; Railroad, at Ctlenwood. 111. "i miles until of Chicago. Tlie colli ion o< rnrred between a picnic train from Chicago, wliicli was reluming t am Moinenee, 111., and a freight train. ;uto the rear end of which lb" excursion train dashed at idg'.i sp- e.l. 'i'li , picnic train was coming north, ami the freight was 011 the south-bound tiaek. A misplaced switch threw the picnic train 011 the south hound track, and before the engineer could apply the breaks, it ran at forty miles an hour into the rear of the freight. The engine, baggage and aev nil coaches were demolished, and the injured wire in two of the coaches. The picnic was the annual outing of the members of Doremus. After spending the day 011 the picnic grounds at Momence the train load started on the return trip, running in as the second section of the regular passenger train, which is due in Chicago at S:lh*? p 111. When the picnir train reached Chicago Heights, four miles beyond Glcnv. ood. where the accident took place, i. was ^witched to the regular southbound track, and although it was '.inning north, it was given a clear track h\ the operator at Chicago Heights until it should reach Glemvood, four miles away. The train, after leaving Chicago Heights, gradually increased its spec ! and when half the distance he tween the two stations had been covered, it was plunging along at the rate of 40 miles an hour, .lust half way between Chicago Heights and (llenwood. there is a sharp curve. As the picnic train tore around this on the southtrack, a feright train was backing fioni the south bound to the north hound track, it was partly on both trac ks, and no train could have passed it in either direction. The bend is so sharp that the engineer of the picnic train did not see the freight until he was almost on it. It was too late to do anything but set the brakes, but before they could take effect the passen ger train smashed into the freight at full speed. The locomotive and the baggage car of the passenger train went through the freight and were piled up in a heap of wreckage on the further side of the switch track The first coach of the picnic train (uuiigcu ii.m iiiw wrecKuge ami uurieu : itself in a mass nf kindling wood. Nearly all of toe passengers in the first | eoneli were caught beneath ttic mass of debris and it was here that the loss of lit'.- occurred. The people in the rear coaches were hurled from their seats and many of them were bruised, but all of the serious casuallioa occurred in the first car. The uninjured passengers and the trainmen at once hastened to the relief of those who were pinned under (he wreckage. The wreck was two miles from anywhere, ami much delay ensued before some oi the injured, who were held down by hea.y timbers could he extricat d. Nothing could he done for them until lifting machinery came from Chicago llv-ight... Thr first train to arrive at the wreck cuine froni Chicago Heights, and it carried six physicians. A short time afterward a second train arrived 1 nun (11. nwood, bringing additionel physicians and a number of nurses. Darkness had fallen and rescue went on by the light of bonfires. Gautemalnn Ants Effective. Washington, Special.?The effectiveness of the Guatamalan ants in checking the ravages of the boll weevils in the'cotton fields^ has been tested and Mr. l otiK. uio oxport of the Doparti mont of Agriculture, in a telogtvm to Secretary Wilson announces thai the ants promptly destroyed the weevil ami th^ Texas red ants as well. The telegram, which was the subject of great satisfaction to Secretary Wilson. was from the chief of the Bureau of Plant In lustry and is datc.l Victoria. Texas. It is as follows: "After four weeks of captivity and of sugar diet, the Guatemalan ants promptly destroyed the Texas Ixdl weevils end also the Texas red a its, the harmful species which it was feared they might resemble." Oku Advancing. Che Foo, By Cable.?A dispu^-h received here from Lloyd's agent at New Chwang says: "Japanese scouts were seen this morning at Blackwood's Pond six miles south of here. Gen. Oku, with 50,000 men, is advancing rapidly between this plaee and Ta Che Kiao. Shipping and trade are progressing as usual." Y I S ONKSDAY. ,11'!,Y 2<>, I PAl'L kRl'GF.R DEAD Former President of tlie SuuMi African Republic Succumb# to Old Age. Clajena. Switzerland, By Cable.? Paul Kruger, former President of the Transvaal ?cpublie. died here at 3 o'clock Thursday morning from pneumonia. and supervening heart weak* nesr. Mr. Kruger lost eonsiousuess Monday. Ills daughter and son in law worn with him at the time of his death, lie bad been out only once sinco his arrival here, at the beginning of last month. The ex president's body was <\tn bnhned, and ihis evening the remains were placed In a vault, pending tuner ul arrangement . Application will bo made to t;. Itiiiis.i eivenunc'.it for authority to tr. n ;port tho remains tu the Transvaal. In the mount inn; they will be temporal : . interred 1; re. S. M. Jones Dead. Toledo, O., Special. Samuel M. Jones, the golden rule mayor, died ut his hi me Tu?: day evening nt .">:0T o'clock as a result of n complication ot disease. The inunedia e cause of his death was an ahseess on his lungs The death of Mayor .Jones lias caused the greatest sorrow all over the city, i He leaves a widow an I three sons, ! Percy. Paul and Mason .loner. Armour Branch at Richmond. Richmond, Ya.. Special. According ' to 11 telegram from Norfolk, Armour ACompany will open .1 branch slaugliti ring house here to relieve the meat situation in Virginia during the Western pac; ing house strike. \t the local branch of Armour & Company, however, until hi" had been heard of such a , ontei.iplated move. The prices of n at here have risen very little so far. Pork remains at the anti-strike tig tin . There are various ami extensive slaughtering houses already itr this I oint. ami the work tin re is practically unaffected by the strike In the West. Great Flood Near Manila. .Manila, lly Cable. A cloudhnrst over the hills northeast of Manila caused a Hood which lias destroyed Han Juan I ? 1 Monte. Two hundred lives were lost. The low-lying dis trlcis were inundated. The honi s of Americans and foreigners are isolated. Transportation through the street- is j tarried on In boats oily. Rain has. fallen for -7 hours, the total being 17 l a inches. This is unprecedented. | Cominunica'Ion with outside places is. interrupted. Tlio damage to property is estimated at $2,000,000. Bloody Repulse for Japanese. St. Petersburg, lly Cable.?An otll eial communication from the Russian general staff says: "According to information derived from Japanese sources and received by \dmiral Alexieff's. staff, the Japanese attacked the Russian positions at Port Arthur during the night of July 10. They were repulsed with enor- | atcnious loss. It is difficult to calcu- ' late ovon approximately the number of Japanese casualties, which amounted, it is said, to 30.000." * British Steamer Lost. London. By Cable. Lloy I':; Sydney, N. S., agent wires that the British i Meamer NemeRls is suppose! to have hf en lost in the gales which recently swept that section of the It. .is feared all <#n board the yes el w lost. The wreckage has been washed nchorc. Japanese Lose Heavily. I*on on. By Cable. -The Morning Post's Shnngui correspondent ays that the Japanese casualties by land inhu : at Port Arthur Sunday i.l:-!f :.i?- reported to have been 2s.?J(?i). hut none of the many other special war dlspa'ohes mention a Japanese disaster at Port Arthur. Mormon Headquarters. Chattanooga, Tonn., Special.? President Renjaniin E. Richards, of tho Sou*.! ern States mission of tlio Mormon Church, purchase 1 substantial i buildings In this city for the permanent establishment of headquarters for the Mormon Church in the South. All the Southern States will he in his juris- ' diction, and missionaries will be sent ' out from here. Tlie.se headquarters aro moved here from Atlanta. Telegraphic Briefs. Ecclesiastical an i commercial inter- i ests in China arc* said to deslrn th<- re- j moval of John Goodnow, American i Counsel-C.eneral at Shanghai. Ti e new battleship Ohio will be ready to go It.to cumraUision in threo months. Santo Domingo is being treatod to a display of American naval strength. Russian ofllelal dispatches tend b confirm reports that tho Japanese lost i 30,000 or 40,000 men in a land attack j on Port Arthur. 1 A cloudburst northeast of Manila caused a llond which destroyed the ; suburb of San Juan Del Monte, i!00 j lives being lost. !M)L NEWS THtOlJGIiOlJT THE COUNTRY 1 Paragraphs of Minor Importance Gathered From Many Sources. Through the South. In a light at Flint Hill. Rappahannock county. Va? between Dr. Theo-j " (lore H. Hooton and Mr. William Jor- ; dan. Jordan was shot and killed. Geo-go W. Kelly resigned Tuesday ' as manager of the .laeksoiiYfllo ?>all | tears. Catcher Jack Robinson was j elected to succeed him. Gratifying result are attending efforts being made t > prevent the ap- ( j ( aratn e of yellow fever on the Texan- ( At . v i ':? n linp 'ttr ,1 dame n.vkes. 7 years old, was shot and mortally wounded at Hampton hy , her ll-year-old sister ISvylin. ,> *>"!*. T ha ' i \s?. ial i< a ot' the 1'ni- t i' t'iiito< in'-! in scrotal atltial couvcn- 1 t i a ;.t Old Point ('omfort. Wellington Happening-.. \ti extensive addition is to lie made to th Murom; of Knpraviup and IT nt lnp. ( Tim Department of C'omnieree and t I.shot- has prepared tin interesting . i: omipmph on tlio country's material t growth from century to century. j , In the North. j Nearly .rtO,000 men < niployod in tlm meat parking business went out on a strike Tuesday. !'; -hi iii'niiik worn Irilliil .* 1 t ^ < 1 life in jcred in a railway collision oil the Krio ] road at MSdvale, N. J. ; (lovernor Slicehnn does not desire . the chairmanship of tlio democratio ' national committee. Vt P.ertka Dolbeor. said to have in- I i .! t?'?i $"..()0n,00ft from her fat her, com- ' niitti-d suicide by lumping from a ninth t. v window in the Waldorf, in New York. 1 The new Democratic national <om- ' hi it t ce met in St. Ijouis and voted that < if v is "the sense of this meeting that Mr. Thomas Taggart of Indiana, should l c elected chairman of the committee. One of tlie 20 persons killed in the Wabash wreck at Litchfield. 111., was Patrick Keefo. a wealthy Democrat of , Indiana. t A committee of the Socialist-Labor 1 Party convention in New York report- \ ed against "labor unions of the stamp of the CoiDpers unions." Foreign Affairs. i The train wreck reported from Sa- ( lonica Sunday was caused i?y Itulgari- f ans putting dynamite on the track. : Twenty persons were injured, Chinese at Cliefu stated that S00 Rus- , s'nn (load wore brought into Port Ar- i thur on .July and a report from Tokio 1 said tlio .Japanese liad captured a fort- ' re; s and oiglit gens. Oeneral Sakliaroff's official report, confirms the Japanese occupation of Kai Chow, tiio Russian loss being given 1 r.s ir.ii. | In an imperial rescript to Prime Job < Oholonsky, new governor-general of ' Cinlnnd, the Czar urges that the con- j lideneo of the people in the Russian ( scepter he won over. i Central Toral, who commanded the J Spanish troops at Santiago. Cuha, died In an asylum for the insane in Madrid. Miscellaneous Coinys. , Mr. Hryan comes out strongly in ' favor of the ticket and platform of ' the St. Louis convention. 'I pe aiiioi it a., fa in the Jerusalem conce si n at the St. Louis Pair was J burned, and many Orientals had nar row escapes. I no German cr nsor Panther is in Unit inn waters to demand redress for the recent attach on the German Minister by the Palace Guards. Russian troops .attached General Kuroki's outposts at Motion Pass and after ti hot fight in a fog, the Russians < were tlriven hack with the loss, <if ?n0. th ueral Jluertas, commander of the i niniy of Panama, arrived at Jamaica < or: his way to Kuropo to study military , affairs. I Steamer Destroyed by Fire, Philadelphia, Special. The steam- ' ship h'an Jacinto, of the Mallory Line, i was ilaiuared to the ext'-nt of $15,000 l.> tire while lying at Roache's shipyard, where she was laid up for repairs. The fire oiiginattd in a room used for storing oil and varnish and had gained such headway before the arrival of the lire engines that tL? firemen divided their attention between the big vessel and the property of the ship building company adjacent to the dock. The llaniPs were confined to the aftorpart of the vessel between decks. The electrical plant was badly damaged. A score of firemen were overcome from heat and smoke. 9 / . I? . * m NO. IS. IVAR IN FAR EAST ? ? ? :ortuiies of Battle Seem to Have For a Season Favored the Russians rut FOSSES GREATLY FXAGERATED 'uzzling lack of Further News i at St. Petersburg?Tokio's Silence Considered Significant. St. To- t-.iiiurK. liy c title The la^k >f I illh"".' < lli. ial news ivyanlin:; tho niram-mont at Port Arthur on tho . mil, . . . 11 I .? I ' I 11 \ I ? J111 f. / 11 11B. Hint t In* Japanese were heavily ?I? t"? :*t*ii is nut donhted here. hat in lln* allien i?i" further information. tin* ex uit i>t tin- disnst " licit I i-fi'M tliem is jegitmln? i > he seriously questioned. D' finite news lies heen recoi d from I'ieeroy \lexi lien lqunrters at Mukden that a week before tic* eujagi'tnent at Port \rthur. Major <: -ti nil Ko Me administered a severe defeat o tin* Japanesu oti .Inly 4 and .Inly 5, hiving thom frotn tin' heights comnnnding Luiisantan pass with a loss of l.OiiD. This is i-otisiili'ti'il liito as proof hat there has been heavy lighting heore the forir s iif Port Arthur, and as caking tin* silence of Tokio regarding t all the more signitleant. Other Reports of Losses. Ta Telie Klao. I?y ('aide. The latest opoits regarding the storming of Port \rthnr. July 10, place the Japanese ,...-i.o i HI..I .... i i.. i ... - ?' .-? 111 rvniv . iiiiu a iMiiHM'M i\i in 1 those of tho Russians :ii 5,ti00. Tho Inpancse retired ami tli * Russians <> Mipi?*il tin* position. Tin* Japanese have low changed their I'rontnl position ami i hip: hallo is expc, to 1 at tho eastern lortion of t.lio defenses;, owing to tho lapanoso turning niovoniont. Muct Not Mention Ships. St. Petersburg, Itv Cahlo. It is possl>lc that tho fourth ship of tin- Vladivohork squadron, now off the Japanese) oast, is the ornisor Hogatry, as tin- retail's to that vessel wore known sunn iine ago to have heon nearly completed. in view of the approaching departure of t' e Maltie squadron for tho far Hast, e-.tr.i precautions are being taken to present the publication of lews of the movements or condition of lie Fins-dan ships. Th<* newspapers aro strictly forbidden to mention their names, and even foreign news dispatches referring to the Russian vessels are not passed by the censor. Further Fighting Imminent. I.iao Vang. l$y Cable. Fighting is mniinent at Ta Telie Ivlao and Hal hi ni:. The Japanese arc entrenched i\ miles south of Ta Tehe Khio. Much diirniishing is taking place. The .leather is favorable for tin* movement >f troops. No rnin lias fallen for a ivhnle week. The thermometer has regstcred as high as lit) degrees eentrl;ratle. it is rumored that a Japanese) ulnmn has appeare 1 on the Mukib-n *u:;d. Troops are constantly arriving it-re. Troops Shifted. Ta Tehe Kiao, Hy Cable. The .lupuicse have withdrawn from the west iide of the railroad and are massing 'u ir armies on the Hessian left. Heonnaiss inces in force carried out by tiissian cavalry and artillery yesterday mkI today almost as far south as Isal T.ou. failed to disclose the Japanese. A liversion is expected from Ta Pass. It : possible that some of the Jajianese owes have been drawn off to Port Ar'nir to replace the terrible losses of 'uly 10. Pcpnrt of Losses Confirmed. London. My Cable. A dispatch to a t.i-wi agency from St. Petersburg says in War Office announces the receipt f a dispatch from Port Arthur conrirmlng the report that the Japanese sustained considerable losses on July ii. the exact partlcaulars or which h;ivo not yet been ascertained. According to lie dispatch, the Russians recaptured 1 the positions lately taken by the Japanese. Officer Wounded. St. Petersburg. Hy Cable.?General llennenkainpff was wounded, but not erioiisiy, in a skirmish near Sulmats' i. A bulb t passi 1 through the calf of no of his legs. (Jeneral SakharofT. who ; ported the wounding of Rennenkampff. says it occurred July 13. between l.iao Vang and Saimats/.a, In a skirmish in which the Japanese were repulsed. LoGsr9 Now PlSwC.-i at 2.0U0. Mukden. I>y Ca'de. In the fighting at the righ flank of the line of deli nces of Port Arthur July 3 to July C the Russians drove back the Japanese and occupied the east hank of the Lunsantan and the heights commanding l.unsantan Pass. The Japanese losses \v< re about 2.000. Those of the Russians * were insignificant. Russian Submarine Tested. St. Petersburg. Fly Cable.?The submarine boat Fulton, which has been at Cronstadt, is reported to be in the Neva, undergoing tests. It is not. known whether she will go to the far Fast by rail or with the Baltic squardon.