The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1892-10-01
HAVOC OF A GALE In JAPAN
Thousands of Buildings Destroyed and
Hundreds of Lives Crushed Out.
Many Boa's Blown Out to Sea-Accident at q
Temple Gladstone's Cabinet Worried
Over EyictiOns by Tory Landlords.

Mail company 8 new steamer feru arrived
this evening. twenty-five days from Hong
Kong. via Yokohama. She brings Japan-
ese news up to Sept. 1G. The gale which
swept central Japan last month, inficting
such terrible damage in Tokushima pre-
lecture, also afflicted Rinkin Stands. Re-
ports from Okinawa give the following
figures: Four hundred persons were
crushed to death, boats were blown out to
sea, twenty-three houses were overthrow,
and l.511 partially. out-houses were blown
down and crops greatly injured. These
figures do not include the devastation
wrought in the smaller islands. The
typhOOn of Sept. s did much damage in
S~hukusha, Aichi and Gumwa procedures. AT
HOmamatsu courthouse q school and 90
dwellings were blown down and many per-
sons injured and several killed. In an
other prefecture eight hundred dwellings
were partially blown down or destroyed,
several houses swept away and seven
people were killed and two wounded. The
reclaimed lands were flooded and several
dwellings washed away. Great damage
WAS done In other parts of the provinces;
also In Gumma prefecture the same story
OF devastation Is told.
During q festival at Nom Temple, near
Kobe, a terrible accident occurred. The
temple Is approached by u flight OF $50
steps, very steep. While q dense crowd
was ssembling and ascending the steps q
man at the top fell, and in his fall brought
down thirty people. Five were killed out
right and others badly injured.
Tories Worrying Gladstone.
copyright. 1882. by the New York Associated Press.
LONDON, Sept. S0.-Tbe Irish eviction
question and the evacuation of Uganda
we're the main matters discussed at yester-
days and tO-day's Cabinet councils. A
decision concerning Uganda was postponed
. because of the more urgent necessity for q
solution of the difficulty in the way of af-
fOrding relief for the evicted tenants in
Ireland. Mr.. John Morley. Chief Secretary
for Ireland, is understood to have advised
q Temporary grant of money. on the ground
that the commission To examine into the
evictiOus cannot complete Its inquiry In
time TO prepare q bill to be introduced MT
the opening of Parliament He also ad-
vanced In support OF a grant that, while
the commission was deliberatinR. the
evicfed tenants would suffer. The Irish
Evicted Tenante Association ask, in the
mean time. q grant OF t25O,O00. with due
representation on the commission. Mr..
Morley has promised that the association
shall be represented on the commission,
but refrained from pledglng himself on the
grant until he bad consulted the Cabinet.
Ministers are inclined TO concede q moiety
of the evicted tenants demands, but refuse
to Immediately sanction any portion of
the proposed grant.
The gravity of the eviction troubles be-
comes more intense under the action of tho
Tory landlords. The number OF evicted
tenants now reaches $500. The number of
eviction notices pending under the act OF
1887 reaches almost so. 000. Many of these
are formal. but all the tenants. unless they
pay their arrears within six months after
they receive notice, are liable TO be ousted
or become mere care-takers of their own
farms. Ii the landlords try to foil the Lib
eral policy By wholesale evictions. there
will be a bitter land war. The ministerial
circle IL confident that the Cabinet Will not
hesitate to sanction the boldest measures
the Irish executive may REQUIRE to foil the
UnI0nist tactics.