In Wilhelmshaven to day a large first-class battleship of the Wittelsbach type was launched and christened by the King of Wartemberg Schwaben. The King delivered a speech in which ho laid stress on the great interest which is taken now by the whole inland of Germany in naval matters.
Tu the North Atlantic the steamer Jun-can (2), which runs to Iceland, has been lost. She had 220 passengers and crew on board, of whom 65, including the captain, have perished, whilst 105 were saved.* The Czar has conferred upon Count von Waldersee the Order of St. Andreas.
The composer Charles Camille Saint-Snéns has died at Paris. He was born there in 1835, and was since 1881 a mem-bor of the French Academy.
This doubtless refers to the loss of the Yukon liner Islander—Ep., "N.-C. D. Nows."
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