The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1892-11-26
A LOT OF BAD NEWS.
Chiefs With Strange Names Waging
War in Samoa.
A CHINESE TEMPLE COLLAPSES
BURYING EIGHTY SOLDIERS.
Foreigners in the Interior of China and
Japan Subjected to Insult and Assault


Japan Subjected to Insult and Assault
British Gunboats Giving Solomon
Islanders Lesson-Many Lives Lost in
Drowning Accidents-Australian Police
Beaten by Riotous Strikers.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, November 25.-
Recent reports of trouble among the
advices from Apia, which arrived yester-
day by the steamer Monowai. A cor
respondent writing on Nov. 9th says:
The natives are fighting in the bay.
The towns are all destroyed.s No native
houses are standing. European proper
ty is safe as yet, but the natives are
threatening to burn the white people
out. Business is naturally at a stand
still. All the natives have now left the
bay of Pago-Pago and are on the east end
of the island. Hostilities commenced on
Lelato and his followers made raid on
the village of Aoa, killing four men and
wounding one.
On the 29th Fagatono and Aua went to
Pago-Pago to endeavor to arrange mat
ters peaceably between the contesting
parties, but on their approaching the
beach the Fagasaa people, who had
joined the Pago-Pago partys fred on the
boats, killing two men and wounding
three. Later, the Fagatono and Aoa
Villages We're Burned Down,
and, indeed, the whole of the east end
was destroyed
Leiato and his people returned to the
island of Annum and intrenched them
selves there. This position is an exceed
ingly strong one. Indeed, it is almost
inaccessible, and is most difficult to at
tack. There are plenty OF. provisions on
the island, and consequently no danger
of the people being starved out.
The forces of Tualauta, inland tribes,
are about to join Leiato's party, and if
they do the whole of Tutulla will be in
war. There is ample ammunition avail
ference with Savay to settle affairs in
Samoa. Three men-of-war from the
British Australian squadron reached
Samoa on Nov. Sd.
Advices per steamer China state that
a traveller who has arrived at Foo Chow
reports that in the latter part of Septem-
ter gale, accompanied by waterspout,
Swept Down From the Mountains,
swamping the country in the neighbor-
hood of Chang Chow. The water in
same places stands ten feet deep. The
Confucian temple and the temple of the
city god were both submerged, the walls
of the latter collapsing burying eighty
soldiers. In the Nam Hsien district, the
people suffered much.
In gale off the Japanese coast, Octo-
ber 2Oth to 22d, number of boats were
wrecked and 10 fishermen drowned.
A number of attacks on foreigners are
reported from the interior Of China and
Japan but with no serious injury to life
or limb.
H. M. S. Rapid has shelled and de-
stroyed seven native villages ON Solomon
islands and her officers have tried a
number of natives for the killing of Ny
berg and another white trader. One
native was found guilty and executed.
Australian advices state the convio-
ton of six union leaders of the Broken
Hill mining strike, October 31st, led to
rioting in which the police and nom
union miners were beaten and roughly
handled. A number Of arrests were
made.
In Whangerie harbor, recently, boat
belonging to John Tucker, a coach
builder, capsized and Tucker and eight
others were drowned.