Show FROM THE ORIENT Cholera Raging in Japan An In liunian Chinese Execution SAN FRANcisco Sept 29The cholera is still raging throughout Japan The proportion propor-tion of deaths to cases was very heavy between be-tween August 28th and September 5th inclusive in-clusive In nine days 13343 new cases were reported The deaths during the same period were 8472 In Tokio alone there were during dur-ing the nine days 2352 new cases Over 63 per cent of those attacked died An examination exam-ination of the wells in Tokio was made and 740 out of 1117 were condemned as unfit for drinking purposes At Canton August 29th a Chinese woman aged 18 underwent a Ling Chi execution which is that while living one piece of her body after another is cut away until the body is divided up into exactly one thousand pieces The victims as in this case always die from loss of blood before the horror is completed The woman was charged with having poisoned her husband charted relatives rela-tives and although it was shown on examination exam-ination that she was innocent of the offense the people of the district insisted on her execution which the Viceroy finally ordered |