PLAGUE RAVAGING V AGING CANTON v I That tho the city of Canton China is badly bady infected with wih pla plague le is the news brought by tho the steamship NiD chov from the tho orients orient are dying yin b bythe by bytho the tho hundreds 8 an mind and it has been to get Jet men to bury the dead Tho The hot weather veather of an unusually dry summer has ha made conditions in in the city unusually Idly ally Efforts were rere made to burn 1 sonic some of the affected quarters quarter but without effect The rhe houses bouses were so o crowded and md so dry that it was found difficult to burn bur them without starting a serious conIa conflagration A