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Show Tales of Woe From the Orient. Las Fraxctsco, July 18. The steamship City of Pekin arrived yesterday from Hong Konirand Yokohama, bringing these advices: Two hundred buildings at Marong were destroyed de-stroyed by fire, and San Miguel de Mayuuio was practically wiped out by fire. At Bal-langa Bal-langa 1500 buildings were destroyed and 9000 persons are homeless. News was brought to Yokcmama of a terrible ter-rible murder and piracy on the hijrh seas. The schooner Undine of San Francisco sailed for the South Sea Islands, touching Honolulu, where a man who said he was the mate's brother boarded the vessel. Three days out from port the captain was shot, and the crew filled with poisoned liquor. At one of the islands a new crew of natives was shipped and the schooner proceeded to Ascension, As-cension, where the steward revealed the crime and the murderers were arrested. . . a . . |