Shanghai, June 15.
Reuter's correspondent at Taiyuan fu, writing under date of June 10, says:—
"The new engineering block of the Shansi University is rapidly approaching completion. Designed and: erected under the supervision of Mr. Frank Aust, 8.sc.. Professor of Engineering in the University, the new building is a handsome and valuable addition to the existing institution. It has a frontage of 270 ft. and is 70 ft. wide. There are two floors and basement. The building contains a fine central hall, from which a double staircase leads to the upper floor. The turreted clock-tower holds a large tank for water-supply. On the lower floor there are eight large, well-lighted laboratories, a lecture-room and a museum, in addition to well-planned accommodation for the office staff. The total cost of the building is about $35,000.
"The students of all grades of schools in the city have declared a strike in sympathy with their comrades in Peking and, as this kind of thing is very infectious, doubt-loss we shall be hearing soon that all the students in Shansi have downed pens and books and joined the general movement.
Trarric 1s Drves.
"Dealers in morphia in the province are getting bolder and more lawless. Bags of morphia pills ate conveyed from place to place under armed escort and the local police seem powerless to stop their traffic. Last week a detective of the Anti-Narcotic Society was badly wounded in an attempt to arrest a seller of the drug, and two policemen who accompanied him. were also badly mauled. Many of the dealers in morphia are disbanded soldiers and, unless stern, measures are taken to suppress these armed criminals, one fears that the long-established peace of Shansi may be rudely disturbed."—Reuter.
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