Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1884-08-27
WAR, HORRID WAR!
French Gums Roar and Their Shot Fly
About the Head of the Celestial.
Foo Chow Arsenal Bombarded ana
Paris wild with Excitement-
Starvation in Mexico-FOr-
eiSn News Notes.

| PARIS, Aug. 2o.-AQmlral COurDeG GULL
menced bombarding the Foo Chow arsenal
at o'clock p IN. The British consul and the
English physician, together with the other
attaches of the consulate at Foo Chow, have
taken refuge on board the British war ships
lying off the port.
LONDON. Aug. 25-The announcement that
Admiral Courbet had opened fire on Foo
Chow arsenal has created intence excitement
here. The dispatches thus far are very
brief and further news is awaited with
great anxiety.
! PARIS, Aug 26.-No authoritative news
has yet been received here regarding affairs
at Foo Chow. Ii Fong Pao, the Chinese
minister, is still in Paris. and two evening
newspapers asserted in special editions issued
| Saturday morning that he has received tele-
graphic orders from Tsung Ii Yamen, at
Pskin, not to quit France.
| On the bourse there was much excitement.
Three per cent. rentes.opened in the morning
at IS francs ~ confines for account, but
later fell to n francs 9215 centimes.
An uncredited rumor was circulated during
the morning that LII Fong Pao had been in
structed to continue negotiations.
1t is semi officially stated that, inasmuch
as France has not declared war, neutral YES
sells going to China will not be subject to the
restrictions which would be imposed in case
of actual war.
LONDON, Aug. 25.-A Chinese official tele-
gram states that the French are desirous of
settlement. The message was sent, however,
before it was announced that the French had
begun firing on Foo Chow.
The Eastern Telegraph company has
given notice that, owing to the hostilities at
Foo Chow, telegrams to that point will be
70 %lo -;c S,1oh
kilograms have to go from Shanghai to Foo
Chow over the Chinese wire.
Starvation In Mexico.
VERA CRUZ, Mexico, Aug. 25.-Advices
from various parts of Yucatan bring the
news that the natives, rendered desperate by
the failure of the crops destroyed by the To-
Gusts and impelled by hunger, have organized
themselves into numberless bands of robbers
and were rifling the fields of the corn and in
some instances attacking ranches of consid-
cradle size. The government, in view of the
widespread destitution in this state has been
asked to suspend the import duty on corn,
but as usual dallies its action.
Locusts have appeared about San Anderes,
State of Puebla, and the result is corn has
risen to the unheard-of price of 81 q bushel
and all other articles Of food in proportion.
There is much suffering among the poor at
Tecah, Yucatan. An association has been
formed to furnish the people with corn, SO
as to aid the needy poor, prevent impositions,
encourage labor, and at the same time do all |
that is possible to exterminate the locusts |
The simple means has been devised for ex- |
changing corn for the larvee of the locusts, |
measure for measure. All over the state the |
greatest suffering is experienced. Satuta has |
been entirely abandoned by its inhabitants. |
Near Ticul three men have perished from |
hunger, and others are killing cattle to keep |
themselves alive.