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FRIEDRICHSHAFEN, March 12.-The Zeppelin airship, which went up from Lake Constance this morning, attained an altitude of over 3,000 feet, a record height for steerable balloons. Varied and most ...

The immense airship sped rapidly along its seventy-foot track, was carried by its own momentum for 100 yards, and then fell gradually into the Potomac River, whence it emerged a total wreck.