Show MATTERS IN CHINA foreigners incensed at the action of or chinese officials i cm clif Bisi ECED er BY THE LOCUST fest reports or damage done bj by the recent ij phool from the th hi if well realm SAK SAN FRANCISCO sept 3 the steamship gaelic arrived today to day from rona hong kong and yok yokohama A muchang correspondent bays says the patience of the foreign population is n nearly e rl y exhausted at the tardiness bbown 1 l 0 o w by the chine chinese ee officials in punishing u the perpetrators perpetrator a of the V u u eh outrages A few have been executed exec u led and bome come others sentenced to im imprisonment for life A new dep n nty ty perfect has been appointed known to be friendly to foreigners and the arrest of the malefactors la is looked for the correspondent says one of the prominent officials of shanghai was implicated in tej issue of the incendiary placards which caused the uprising at the time of the murder of customs officer green and the missionary agent on june ath the head mandarin refused to send a a single man to quell the riot after the arrest and execution of tw two murderers r the subordinate offiel officials os apro professed to consider the case closed closed except as a money reparation but after strenuous representations of the foreigners ei ners the higher officials consented to r reopen P n the case fifty four duya dayis after th the a riots noticed were posted for the first time offering rewards for information concerning the rioters the incendiary placards bad had frequently been brought to the attention on of the authorities prior to the rioting but at no time has anyone been punished tor for issuing them several prominent chinese bankers at amoy have failed since the eaf gas pension n sion of the biah biang recently n t ly the liabilities of the mone money ch changers angre aagre affected is between two and three hundred thousand bit but there is no estimate of the amount for which the broken banks are liable outside the south gate of mankin manking 9 locusts are piled up three to four feet deep the a officials have offered prayers in the temple tor for succor of the crop and steps are being taken to exterminate the pest reports concerning the typhoon of july 18 are coming in slowly but it is known that great damage was done to property the loss lose of life so far as known does not exceed four or five the beech beach at is strewn with wreckage over fifty junks being destroyed the british gunboat gun boat tweed w was 2 9 blown from her h er a anchorage 0 c h orage smashed the wall of the navy bard birard and partially sunk one sailor ailor being sing drowned japanese advices advises state that in cou con sequence of heavy rains early in august the rivers have overflowed and a number of towns are badly flooded japanese native papers still comment severely on the tact fact that the salaries of cabinet ministers have not been reduced in the same manner as other officials and it now appears the ministers have also bad an allowance of about per year from the emperors privy purse riots on 9 small scale have taken place at akos caused by dissatisfaction of the natives with the proceedings of the municipal assembly in the matter ol 01 taxes eleven native papers have been suspended by the government during july for publications menacing denae the peace of the country the japanese council at shanghai reports that cholera has broken out al at and one case is reported in yokohama |