Show TVEL VE H NDRED IiO1SI ES BURNED Further Particulars of the R cent Disaster in China BLOODY FIGHT WITH A GANG OF PIRATES INSURRECTION IN CORE IS DI3I DII ISHING Wife and Bauzrhter and Father of Kim Ok Kiniu Beheaded Seventeen Seven-teen Hundred Chinese Die of the Flangne France and Italy Hove Acceded to Spains Request The Displeasure of the Pope Morocco Princes Removed From thc Army Vancouver BC June HThe steamer steam-er from China and Japan brings the I following Negotiations for the revision of a treaty between Japan and England are I progressing rapidly but the new treaty will not be in operation for five years I after its ratification A question has arisen over the protection protec-tion of patents copyright and trademarks trade-marks demanded by the British government i I gov-ernment for subjects According to a Japanese paper the government proposes pro-poses to postpone any action with regard etc gard to the protection of patents for some years after the treaty is in force The same paper says that the i British government realizing the disadvantages I disad-vantages to the interests of its subjects sub-jects by such delay has demanded that i the Japanese government as compensation compen-sation open two or more ports in addition addi-tion to those now opened for foreign trade i Amendments to press regulations passed by the lower house were thrown out by the peers The matter is now I under consideration It is proposed that I any newspaper publishing matter which the minister of home affairs considers injurious to the public peace will be fne 10 to 100 yen instead of suspension suspen-sion sionFurther Further particulars of the recent fire at Yamagata are given by the Kokkoi The fire broke out Sven p m Saturday the 26th and burned till 1 oclock at night A strong breeze caused the flames to spread rapidly and no less than 1200 houses were reduced to ashes and fortyeight others were badly damaged dam-aged The PostTelegraph office was amongt those destroyed Thirteen persons per-sons were reported killed and twenty nine injured News comes from Canton of A sanguinary san-guinary fight with pirates A gang of those gentry who were able to muster a squadron of eight junks planned to attack a walled village named Tanchi in the district of Hsinnlng Kn ngt sung The villagers however learning of their intentions procured the assistance assist-ance of a number of vamon runners and soldiers so that when tha pirates arrived they were confronted by a force of over 800 men Surrounded and cutoff cut-off from their junks the invaders fought desperately but thirtytwo were killed and three captured alive while three of their vessels were slezed and many pirates drowned in trying to escape es-cape to the rest of the squadron Eight of the villagers were wounded one mortally |