| Show THE FAR EAST FORGERY preparation FOR FOK WAR WAK RIOTING CHOLERA the steamer rio blo de janeiro arrived in san flan francisco september dates from Hong hongtong Hen kong to august sad yokohama advices advises to august stol lowB CHINA the shanghai arcury says news basI bube been efi received e d of disturbances which took place toward the end of june at pin lou in the department of km chegu southern Kt angst where lou Monal signor gnor router is the bishop la in chop of the mission mis it seems that an having died in the village ot of pou lou in the kan chegu district the but he athens herts made a wound in his bis neck as 11 habild he bad been struck with a kuffe and tinned him on a hill bill behind the residence de of the catholic missionaries Theft ben started a report that the tl dris hd had killed him and buried bato a place where there were no ani on june the rais mission sion bourdas was sacked and entirely de pd and on the the rioters idled eh ant and burnt the mission gresi dence and schools of wi having stolen all the money and ot of value and destroyed the neater ter part cart of the houses occupied by christians Chiist ians M peres a french priest was iru captured and ill treated a ransom 0 of was at first asked for him but when it was seen that he possessed athing he was released the grave 1 mr yuen a native christian priest who died last year has been desecrated two days later the inhuman authors of these streel atrocities ties seized with lear replaced things in their former order The China na N mail ail if cays monsignor R bou qu le r left the mission too toe night wore before the attack anahis example was followed by all iopu 1 era except M peres fare the bishop 31 dialot ot find escape e very ey easy his boat t had bad been smashed on the previous night and sunk in the river he therefore bad to make his bis way by foot for ays till he found a chair I 1 in n be crossed the mountains moun taina to aw there he be found a boat a made kis his way to canton the otar I 1 nartis found refuge at Kli boring stations where the natives deremore pe remore more friendly the station at chou chon was a central one and there sa good deal of valuable property the e chapel and the residence the filters rs carried off everything they wild d lay jay their hands bands on provis provisions lotis kiture clothes etc leaving noth d walls M peres who sto tb be made of the old heroic I 1 nary r type on being reassured V the chinese took up his abo abode de bitong the ruins and refused to desert ac scene of his bis labors taberious amerious At Ab erious riot took place at chung IK hog unruly in which a mob of attacked the american mis dau wn lour four miles from aiom the city and de 4 1011 Ulia hed shed the buildings which were in tonise of erection when the district literate lut erate heard f the disturbance he fie ves men with him and started alt 10 aall tee disturb disturbance nee the mob re bied 61 afa absurdity absurdity ol of the proceed laird d started for the town where they de Moll shed the miss missionary ionar establish bots nots tots and the consuls residence residence the riot commenced first at mr hols house the china island when only the ladies and children mrs nichol was very ach ill treated by the mob they b clothes off her back took her R wo lier her feet and snatched v a ring of be ger on ad the madsion tn chung king arri arrived vLad at ag they were mr and mrs WM anar and mr Hught son of 0 the y china island mission dr and y X crews my mr and mrs gamewell Game Will kt taud mrs reeves beeves and child miss row e and miss wheeler of the amerl ameri ff methodist episcopal mission mr koll man of the foretek ejbl bible wety aty and mrs kopp opp and three of the scottish bible society W were kept prisoners in the ton lap too in ill chung C ung king for 16 15 days before the th syo h collid get boats to go eo down r the ilot in chung king was ut use as the missionaries had bad S a d to the ground and had secured yalon U to build on it aul there ilk t he district city of 0 foo chou tobal W attempt t t made a 4 to plunder iu rot t it ww was r wal i A college at a place called sen ken tse about ten miles from chung king was partly destroyed and a number 0 of farm hoddes burned and the ground actually confiscated the settlers being compelled to re rest reni from leaders of the mob some refused to do so and their standing crops were immediately cut and carried off these occurrences have been duly daly reported to the officials but bat no proper measures have been adopted to t put pin a stop to them there is another college at a place called koshu ko shu distant from the city some forty miles where the catholics have a laap establishment a valuable library and printing presses esses and a great deal of valuable property y this place has been besieged repeatedly but up to the 26 1 th of july the college people were able to 10 hold their own on ift that date however toe the mob increased the place was carried and a number of defenders wounded As asual after ever everything movable had bad been carried off tae the buildings were burned this is the last of the mission establishments save one there is mg no excuse whatever for the officials not having prevented this outrage as they were perfectly well aware of what was going on and ana that there was a large crowd trying to destroy the place the latest intelligence from pek ko shu is that one bue of the priests M and a soldier belonging to one of the city regiments sent there to assist in prot protecting eting the mission property were killed billed and quite a number er ot the defenders wounded many of their assailants lantt were also wounded it la 18 said that the besiegers numbered several thousand men it remains t to 0 be seen what this aate larger body of lawless la w characters will do 0 next as now there are no more christians christiana to be P plundered I 1 tt the hoog hong kong press of august ath says bays A clever and it is to be feared only too successful fraud has been committed in this colony during the past week pedro B R beltran clerk employed by the consul for spain ois ais appeared ou july with a sum just jast over which he is said to have obtained from the chartered bank of india australia and china by means of a forged document the fraud was carried out in the following manner on the mr beltran went to the bank and said that the spanish government required a sum of just over to defray the cost of repairs etc to spanish men of war by the hong kong and khampoa dock company comy coiny a n y he saidye should want a draft for ro r the equivalent ent of manila currency and that he would call again the next morning he took away with him a draft to get the signature of the span isn consul mr Me who was then living at on the morning of the he be returned to the bank with the draft then bearing the official spanish consular stamp 9 and what purported to be the signature of mr the document appeared to be in perfect order and mr beltran said that as he be had to pay the amount to four or live five different person she would take the mo money ney in notes of that bank the money was then handed to him neatly nearly all in chartered bank notes after eceil inythe money Mr Beltran disappeared when subsequent inquiries revealed the fact that the signature on the doc u indent he presented ed tp the bank was a forgery I 1 a r sn 4 and li t that at tie he had not been au i p sed ae ya t to 0 draw the money i belteau went to macao where ho he met his bis wife but tie he had bad left oft there when ahan the accountant pt the bank r rebelled 0 X macao the fugitive is ih a native or of manila the macao correspondent of the china mail ot of august says A large portion of the money stolen by beltran has baa been discovered no less thou than has been found in ak a box which joa da cruz who lits baa been arrested in hong kong a as 8 W accomplice hart had requested one Barni barnardo ardo da ailva the overseer of abe public garden of san francisco to keep in his bis house bouse it seems thit taut cruz had bad come to macao three times lately and that on one of the occasions he be offered to one tavares if he be would hide beltran tavares did not accept the offer the affair aft afterward orward leaked out and the police haying having been watching these parties ever since as well as the house boose of the overseer of the vu garden where it Was wasT knon cnown cruz hyt been lodged through In formati cruz aks akrep ilk hong ong and the overseer 0 of ane e public garden on hearing bearing the news of the arrest yesterday went before the police authorities and declared that day cruz croz had bad given him a box booz to keep in safe custody and made hini a present ot of a 25 note which he be returned to the authorities with the box on the box being 9 opened pen d some elo cl otties thep which seemed to belong to Bell d tank auk notes to the amount aunt ok of ral 1 ju 7 50 at were e re found 0 it iff ia apost upost almost certain A tram must be hidden somewhere in this place it is whispered that be is now dressed in female attire it is also said that beltran has been robbed by his companions the canton correspondent of the north china daily news ot of august ath Ws says ore up appears p rs to b be soW thing stir tarring g in i i the pITt political leal of an unpleasant nature officers of distinction are being appointed to impo important posts the tae c coast line defenses defens asaro esaro are being strengthened atio and forts forti and aid ara armaments put in order inspection of the defense wor works p is very breque frequent at and precautions are b being e I 1 ag taken take 1 a in earlb various ais parts to guar guard a surprise no doubt the late anti missionary disi t ibm have bave tio 0 alape IV 1 in va p the go U bf t 1 as an 94 ii it attempt might be made to avenge them and to enforce the payment of an indemnity for damage done it is still ardently hoped by some portions persons that the french will give some cause for breaking the treaty and renewing hostilities on a new plan peng pingyu yu lins advice to the throne on the subject of war with foreign nations was conveyed in eight characters which meant I 1 with the flexible cut the inflexible with the scattered oppose the concentrated in other words with the chinese active and lightly equipped troops you may annihilate the sturdy unwieldy heavy troops of the enemy the first chinese newspaper ever issued 0 aed in canton was published on the itis called the kuang pao is printed by machinery received from america and its office is quite close to the viceroys Vice roys yamen the consuls ot of five different nations are said to have applied to the viceroy for a removal of the barriers in the macao reach of the canton river the viceroy chang chih tung is said to have refused to comply with this just request on the plea thit that the people of canton objected to such barriers being removed it now appears that the local gentry say that the viceroy did not consult them in the matter and that if he be had bad they would naturally have recommended the said barriers be removed as soon as soon as possible to facilitate trade and especially the arrival of foreign steamers which now carr carry y so much of the total trade of canton there has bas been a good deal of fighting lately in hainan where attempts are being made to bring the whole island under imperial rule much the same as has lately been done in formosa but the of the li inhabitants may prove he be thinks rather difficult since the dismissal of toe the foreign commanders from the cruisers in canton waters the receipts of revenue from opium have been dwindling and he be supposes that smuggling has bag proportionately increased says the north china daily news of august jtb the postponement of the departure of the occidental and oriental steamship oceanic for san francisco was announced some days ago and we now learn from the china mail that the detention of the steamer in hong kong is due to the local surveyors there declining to certify that she is seaworthy owing to a serious defect having been discovered in her stern frame the defect must have existed tor for a long time though it has no doubt been gradually growing but though the steamer has been under repair several times since her bier overhaul and renewal at home some six or seven vears ago it baa been overlooked I 1 ifa Is said that the defect is so serious that if the oceanic went to sea as she esthe whole or a portion of her stern frame might drop off carrying the rudder with it charles rivington one of the proprietors prie tors of the shanghai Ner mercury cury died led in shanghai on august ast 1st he went to C china hetia hitia in 1862 1802 was connected tor for lour years with jardine matheson Mat beson co then started 1 in business for him self but failed he founded the mercury cul ry and was connected with it up to his bis death JAPAN A body of chinese marines from a man of war in toe the li harbor arbor ot of nagasaki landed on august lulb and assaulted several per persons the police who tried to suppress the disturbance were attacked on the two following days more marines were landed and lighting fighting in was resumed four chinese were and over 30 wounded the officers of the man of war declare that their men were unarmed when they went ashore so that the inference is the men were supplied with arms by the chinese residents on shore twelve japanese civilians w were ere hurt while one policeman was kille dand a number wounded cholera returns from the infected districts for august were ua 71 new cases and deaths one hundred and ninety two new cases and d deaths anong an ong new and old patients were reported in tokio on the h just the total number of cholera cases ses throughout the country since the 11 first at appearance of the disease up t to 0 ate date Is of which ended ende d fatally tally of these figures cases and deaths occurred in osaka and cases and 2050 deaths GO in tokio an accident of a fatal nature occurred on the alt at sagami the scene of the wreck of the city of tokio it appears that a gang of work men were proceeding to the wreck in a boat taking with them a dynamite cartridge one of the men either through rough ignorance or carelessness began egan tapping the cartridge with a piece of iron t that at he had bad in his bis hand band when it exploded with terrible force killing lour men instantly and seriously wounding eight others it it is reported that mr watanabe watana e president of the imperial university sl will leave shortly on an official visit to england germany france the united baates and other countries in consequence of european dress having become fashionable in tobio the quantity of woolen cloth imported to the capital is in increasing re asing as will be seen from the tae tact fact that in 1884 about cases of cloth were imported while lu in ma 18 it increased to 1200 cases and it to is estimated to 19 T SA ova two i the people of Yok kaichi propose to establish a sf spinning inning factory there with a capital of 2 yeti yen machinery to be imported will contain spin dies more than half the sum of the capital has been already subscribed there is a cave known as the snake cave on the Taneichi dabe dake mountain kuto kato gort gori riku cho which is of so great a depth that no one has ventured to measure it tradition says that large snakes formerly lived in the cave but of late it has been occupied by wolves who caused great trouble to the villages these latter therefore blew up the cave by means of dynamite mi milend tend and the result was that old as well as several young wolves were killed advices advises from osaka say that there were thirty two passengers on board the ibe uk u marua I 1 junk unk wh which ich founder edo ff the ad dinst twenty two wre were rescued by launches belonging to the police and the rema remaining n ten were drowned at during the night of |
