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Show NEWS OF THE WORLD. AFFAIRS IN ASIA AND AUSTRALIA. San Francisco, June 10.-A delayed letter has just arrived from Hong Kong dated May 15th. It states that the French expedition against Hanoi promises to accomplish all the projectors may desire, although the ultimate object is obscure. The customs are to be collected under French authority hereafter. Trade is now stopped but efforts are made to revive it in the French interests. The General of Hanoi and Anam General hanged themselves immediately after the capture of the city. On the night after the capture a native mob attacked the French missionaries' residence. They were repulsed. Two assailants were caught, who proved to be Chinese. They were shot without examination, the next day, in a public square. On April 27th the walls were leveled by dynamite. The provincial Governors near Hanoi has already given signs of submission to the ruler of Anam. The Chinese Grand Secretary, Li Hung Chung, against whom strong influence was recently brought to bear at Peking has again proved himself to be the master of the political situation. His adversaries endeavored to have a full term for him and imposed upon him twenty-seven months. This would have terminated his career. But now the Emperor limits the term to one hundred days so that Li's sway is virtually uninterrupted during his temporary retirement from the Governor Generalship of the Chi ?? provinces. His place will be taken by a family connection, the Viceroy in Canton, whose post again will be filled by the adherent of Li. The Grand Secretary's power, therefore, is intact on all sides. A daily Chinese newspaper is about to be issued in Hong Kong, the first of its kind. DISASTROUS RAINS. Denver, Col., June 10.-One of the heaviest rain storms ever known in this section, accompanied by water spouts, wept over Denver, last night, doing thousands of dollars worth of damage in the city and surrounding country. Cellars and basements were filled with water. Several houses near the Platte river were swept away. The bodies of two men Ludwig Menor and Fidel Driver, Germans, who were in one of the houses to recover the bodies of three children, drowned and are not yet found. It is feared other lives besides these were lost. It is impossible to give full extent of the damage at present. The storm reached over several miles of thickly settled country. At Golden several houses were washed away. The Cambrian ?? works were struck by lightning and completely destroyed. A HORRIBLE DEED. Chicago, June 10.-Caspar Syeboldt is a baker who works nights. Last night when he left home his wife began preparations for a horrible deed. They had four children aged 12, 7, 2 ½ years, and one four months. She dressed them in clean, white clothes with bright ribbons, gave them strychnine, and when they died laid them out carefully with flowers in their hands, and all the surroundings were made as beautiful as possible. Then she took a dose of poison herself, having put on a white chemise with ribbons on it. this was just before the return of her husband, at 5 o'clock this morning. When he appeared at the door, she met him, told him to come in and see the children all dead and gone to heaven, to see how pretty they were with the nice flowers for angels. One of the children was alive, but has since died. Mrs. Syeboldt died about 7 o'clock this morning. The cause of the demented woman's act is not known. BOURKE'S ASSASSINATION. New York, June 10.-The Herald says of the newest Irish assassination. A card upon the place of business of Thos. J. Bourk, at 581, Hudson St., yesterday morning, bore the notice "Closed in consequence of the death of Walter M. Bourke." When the brother of the murdered man read the announcement of death he was entirely overcome. Being interviewed he said the murdered brother had been educated at Clango and Wood College, Ireland. After graduating at Trinity College, Dublin, where he received the first gold medal, he was admitted to the Irish bar and after a short practice went to India where he was made advocate in the High Court of Calcutta. He amassed a fortune in India, returning to Ireland in ‘78. His possessions consisted of the Curraghleigh estate in the Country of Mayo, the rental of which was [British pound sign] 2,000 a year, and the ?? estate in Galway, which he had purchased in ?? for [British pound sign] 25,300, whose rental was [British pound sign] 1,200 a year. During the famine he gave employment to sixty or seventy men when in reality he had nothing for them to do. I may safely say he spent more than his entire income in endeavoring to relieve the sufferings caused by the famine and yet in that very spot where he had done his best to help the people he was basely murdered. Up to the time I left Ireland there was not a single eviction nor a single raise to rent. Where he found a man unable to pay his rent I have known him to entirely forgive as much as three years' back rent. |