Sacramento daily record-union., 1890-09-18
THE ORIENT.
Latest News Per Steamer from Chin
and Japan.


Latest News Per steamer from China
and Japan.
SAN FRANCISCO, September 17th.-By the
arrival of the steamer Rio de Janeiro we
have advices from Hopgkong to August
CHINA
A large stretch of country in Shantung
has been flooded by the Yellow river.
Floods are reported from many other
parts. Tientsin and the district round
about were inundated. Thousands are
homeless, and many lives were lost. In
the province of Chihli there are said to
be 100000 homeless, and in Shantung
the misery is great.
The Tientsin Railway has been stopped.
An angry crowd, thinking that the rail
way embankment increased the height OF
the water in certain districts, broke the
embankments. The water rushed in, de-
stroying the line along stretch of about
ten miles.
The breaking out of the Yellow river
again and the great damage done by floods
all over China, will, it is said, again stop
railway progress. the Central Government
having its hands too full to thiak of rail-
ways.
Cholera. which has b enraging in Japan,
10 HOM RiC III OAo-1e,tioi cho thO hOle eh,
and several Europeans have succumbed to
it.
Export business at Hongkong and coast
ports has almost come TO standstill, for
the time being, on account of the rise in
silver.
The United States steamer Monocacy left
Shanghai for Ningpo. Chinese rowdies at
that port are in the habit of visiting Chi
nese theater, which is an American enter
prise and refusing TO pay. AS the Chinese
authorities do not seem able or willing to
interfere, the Monocacy has been sent there
to see that the interests of the American
proprietor are protected.
JAPAN.
A rather gigantic scheme is on foot for
the promotion of emigration to and colo
nization in Mexico of japanese laborers.
Representing the projectors of the great
railway in Mexico, MIR. Vogel, backed in
his endeavors by Admiral Viscount Emo
moto, Privy Councillor and ex-Minister of
Education, is at present in Japan exerting
himself to induce the Government to aid
him in sending japanese laborers over to
that country, not only as laborers on the
new railway, but also as colonizers in other
parts of South America.
Cholera returns up to August 18th, some
of which we give below, bring the total
number of cases in the country during the
present epidemic to S,210, of which 4 S62
ended fatally. At Osaka the disease is
spreading rapidly. The disease is reported
to be raging severely at Shimonoseki. In
Yokohama and its suburbs the latest ad-
vices report the total number of cases at
1SS, with 123 deaths. One man died on
the United States steamship Omaha, but
the doctors considered it sporadic case.
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board
The sulphur mountain at Shiridoko,
Tenemura, Kitami district, Hokka1do,
which last year became active and has since
been emitting, is reported to have again
broken out.
A volcanic eruption is reported as having
taken place at Tsuchiyu mura, Shinobu-
gun, Fukushima-k ken. Much property is
said to have been destroyed and several
people killed.
MISCELLANEOUS.
| On the Island of Moklam, in the Moluc-
Gus, q volcanic outburst has Just taken
place. A crater thsre which had re-
manned so quiet since a destructive out
break in December, 1861, that the country
close by had been brought under cultiva-
ton, again burst into activity on the 10th
of June last. A column of smoke rose out
of the crater to a hight of thousands Of
! feet, and red hot stones shot aloft to amaz-
ing distances. The ground in the neighbor-
hood quakes continually ever since, the
heat around has become unbearable, and
the ashes cast out darken the air. The in
habitants have fled from the island in all
haste, but the loss of life among them has
been small. By last advices the volcano
remained active at work, and the old crater
| had fallen in. A new crater has formed
| itself on the south side.