| Show st petersburg unmoved by the news of peace st petersburg aug 30 the peace news was received here without an manifestations of joy the city shows absolutely no evidence of the receipt of the tidings it can safely be said however that the general feeling among the more intelligent classes is that justice has been done at portsmouth expressions of relief are heard that there will be no further bloodshed but the inglorious peace la a disappointment to many the suddenness with which the japanese finally accepted the russian ultimatum makes many people believe that the cession of the island of sakhalin Sak halin would have been premature while a large clement of the people beem of the opinion that another trial at arms with of victory would have been preferable to the present peace the reception of the news here today shows plainly that th ewar has been foreign to the masses who in no sense have been in sympathy with its objects the more intelligent classes have nover shown any capacity for appreciating the political id caa of the government and seem to have lost right of the vital interests of the state because of the revelations of official corruption discovered in connection with the balu yalu enterprises and na a result of the and incapacity of the army and navy to cope with the problem and also because they have been fully occupied at home with the struggle to obtain a representative government fishing BOATS SUNK london aug 30 the correspondent of the daily telegraph at leghorn sends a report received from nagasaki of the overtaking of a hundred fishing boats by a hurricane oft goto island in the channel of korea the report says that men are missing and it la feared they have been drowned RUSSIAN WORKS REOPEN Nov gorod russia aug 30 the works which had been closed tor some time owing to labor disturbances reopened today the steel foundry was the first to resume the other departments will follow FROM AMBUSH r alno ira n d p doolit IK i ats i h to the depot after his midnight lunch marion bemenderfer night agent tor the lake shore michigan southern railroad company was shot and killed early today by unknown persons people attracted to the spot by eix re volver shots found the body lying on tho track his revolver with two empty chambers was found nearby bemenderfer was 2 years old and leaves a widow and four daughters HOT IN LOS ANGELES los angeles Ang ples august 30 yesterday was one of the hottest days in los angeles since 1885 the thermometer reaching a maximum of although the heat wag unusual for this climate the tact that there wag ant twenty per cent of humidity in the atmosphere prevented suffering reports from interior points show a very much higher temperature than that rs corded in this city tho indications tonight are that the hot wave which has now lasted three days will be broken |
