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Show BRIGANDS Took Passage on a; Steamer and fobbed and Murdered Harbin. Sept. 12. A band of brl- gands disguised as passengers, held ' up a Russian steamer plving on the1 Suncari, 20 miles south of this port, ! today, and. after a desperate fight, overacine the crew and mbbed the! passengers. j In attempting to defend their ves- i sels, the owneis, two Russians, were killed nnd many of the Chinese crew were wounded, as also were such of the eighty Chinese passengers w ho i offered resistance. When the pirates were in control of the situation, they bound the passengers, passeng-ers, the crew of Russians and also two Russian women and took the val-I val-I uables of the captives at their leisure. A Russian gunboat was ?ent In pursuit pur-suit of the outlaws. i |