Sacramento daily record-union., 1883-10-24
CHINA AND JAPAN,

The Pacific Mail steamship City of
Toxic, which arrived in San Francisco
Monday night, brought Yokohama advices
to October 9th, and Hongkong advices to
September 29.h
JAPAN.
A horrible case of murder and suicide
occurred in Toxic on September 22d. Rosa
Sadatsugu, an inspecting accountant of the
Army Department, left his house at his
usual hour OF 7 o'clock. In the house were
his wife, second wife, two sons and daugh.
ter, his adopted son Xxi, a man of 81
years of age, the wife and daughter of Xxi
and daughter named Tijiro. Immedi.
ately after the departure of his adopted
father, Xxi took down his favorite sword,
as he had often done before, but this time
with the blood frenzy strong upon him.
With two cuts he took the lives of son
of his adopted father, aged 4, and daugh-
ter aged 6. With another blow he slew
the second wife on the spot, then turning
upon his own wife and daughter he literally
cut them to pieces. Hearing the commo.
ton, Tsjiro rushed into the apartment,
only to meet instant death at the hands of
the infuriated monster, who then disem.
boweled himself with the weapon reeking
with the blood of ak innocent victims.
Mrs. Rosa and her eldest son escaped an
otherwise inevitable fate by rushing into
the street.
On October 4th there was in the harbor
of Yokohama the following Bristish men,
of-war The Audacious, flagship, AL
batross, Curacao, Pegasus and Vigilant.
The Sapphire left for Kobe on that day.
The Gazette very pertinently remarks that
the place for the feet would seem to be
Hongkong, where there is real danger to
the foreign colony from Chinese hostility.
Nagssaki has been thrown into a state
of great excitement by an affray resulting
in the killing of Chinese. In that por.
the police are alleged to have power to
enter the premises of all residents, and
especially Chinese premises, when they
have reason to suspect opium smoking. On
| September 18th they entered one house
where they found two Chinese,
whom they allege were smoking opium.
These men resisted arrest, and one of
them was stabbed with the swords of
the police in the front and back of his
| body, the latter wound proving mortal.
A feature in this case is the holding Of
formal inquest by the Chinese Consul and
jury of four Chinese residents.
By the overturning of a triumphal car
on festival day at Kitagats, one man was
crushed to death and two others seriously
wounded.
The rice crop bids fair to be abundant,
except in few places.
Captain P. G. Van Schembeck, an off.
Ger of the Netherlands Engineers, has ar
rived in Japan in pursuance of resolve
on the part of the Government to obtain
skilled foreign assistance to carry out the
projected fortifcation of the coast.
The Chinese telegraph lines from
Shanghai, which hitherto reached north.
wards only as far as Tientsin, have now
been extended to Tungohow, town within
twelve miles of Peking. Telegramsfo the
capital are sent forward from Tungchow
! by courier.
Sir Harry Parks is about to proceed to
Corea for the purpose of negotiating new
treaty or modifying that originally pro.
posed by Admiral Wilies.
On September 22d the convicts working
the coal mine at Mike rose in revolt and
serious riot occurred, during which the
underground workings were fired in sew
eral places. Forty-two men, including
conviots from the Government prison, are
missing; many others, half poisoned by
choke-damp, are under medical treatment.
Many horses employed in the mine have
perished since they were dragged to the top
of the pit. On October 4th the fire was
still burning.
An instance OF Catholic missionary devo-
ton is recorded by the Catholic Register,
Hongkong. Mons. Pagnucci, Coadiutor to
the Vicar Apostolic of Shansi, relates the
death in August last of Father Lewis Mar
tinetti, after mission of forty.eight years
in the interior of China without having
single leave home. The deceased Father
came to China in 1885, worked as mis-.
sionary in the province of Hupeh for a
short time and afterwards passed tO Shansi,
where he spent thirty. eight years in edu.
eating the native clergy. His death was
lamented by the whole community of the
province,