Show FOR CHINA FAMINE SIAng shanghai hal china april 15 tho sum of received from the united states by tho the famine relief committee was used to purchase half a million pounds of dried potatoes which were rushed to the front A die dis patch was received today from a chinese I 1 official offering to put for the first time in history steamboats above tho the locks on tho the grand canal thus cutting down the time of the transportation por tation of food to the famine dis tricks from this city to eight days further particulars of the distress S existing show that the people are eating the green scum from the ponds abito clay and the hulls of rice the relief committee has been able to secure enough milk from one depot to feed one hundred babies until the harvest the committee however has been compelled to leave about oth or babies in that district to die after the performance ot of the san carlo opera company at the salt lake theater tonight the company will leave leav 0 in a special train for denver it wt will 11 attempt the record made mado by the madam butterfly special sp ocial |