The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-05-03
ASIA'S TALE OF WOE.
Steamers Bring Tidings Of Flood,
Fire and Slaughter to San
Francisco.
Ru cnbls to the unfted Press.


vices brought by the steamer Empress OF
China, which arrived yesterday from Yo-
kohoma, are as follows
A big fire occurred at Kanda, near
Toxic. in the early part of April. The
fire started in the house of a charcoal
merchant. and over three hundred houses
were destroyed, including the theatre.
Court House and three other public
buildings. The Imperial q niversity
Hospital narrowly escaped estruction.
Several firemen were seriously inj ured,
one of them fatally. Several 9th er per-
sons were killed or injured.
Over fifty men of the Twenty-second
Infantry Regiment stationed a5 Kuman-
oto. have deserted. Long aud tiresome
drills and bad food are assigned as the
cause.
Through the falling Of the upper story
of the Ouaka Post and Telegraph Office
at Hachikenya, sixteen letter soruers were
injured. five of them seriously.
Reports from Malacca say tnat cnolera
is making terrible wages, as many as
200 new cases beng reported daily. A
number Of deaths from the disease have
occurred.
Although it was hoped that the rinder-
pest had been stamped out, some cases
have been reported at Kawabizon.
Fire broke cut in the Yoshiwara (the
"Teuderloin PrecincL"), at Toxic, on
April Is, and torty-hve buildings were
destroyed.
Information has been received In Hong
Kong from -Wan-Foo, the capital
town of Formosa, of an attack by
sayages on a missionary IN that Island,
at about the end OF March. The person
attacked was the Rev. Duncan Ferguson
rrlf l, nv ariQ Mission
he seems to have had very mar
row escape from death. He was
crossing the mountains on his way
back TO Tai-Wan-Foo from some
mission stations on the other
side OF the island, when. he was shot at
by savaaes and wounded IN the right
breast The wound was not very deep.
the bullet coming out about Two inches
from where it entered. Mr.. Furguson.
who had been in advance of his party,
ran back and rejoined his friends before
the savages were able to overtake hlm.
Mr.. Ferguson's wound was subsequently
dressed and he was able to proceed to his
own station
Appalling distress has been caused
among the poor of Shen-Si by the excep-
tlonal severity of the winter, and deaths
from starvation have been numerous.
a very destructive fire occurred at
Manila on the afternoon of Good Friday.
over 1000 houses being consumed A
number of lives were lost, five bodies
having been recovered from the ruins. A
number of persons sustained burns and
other injuries while making their escape
from the burning buildings.
A serious disturbance prevails at Seoul,
in Corea. The foreigners residing in the
city have made operations for lmDied1-
ate escape. The danger arises from the
Togakuto, or party of Oriental Learn
ing. whose avowed object is to
restore the Greed and Philosophy
of the East to its pristine preeminence.
This programme necessarily involves
hostility to everything alien. The Toga-
kuta is numerically powerful. Its MEM
bership numbers 100000 and it Is religi-
ous-political organization. a Japanese
gun boat has been sent to the scene.
MIR. Mottayasu, a wealthy Japanese,
proposes to raise subscriptions with
which he intends TO purchase man-ot-
war and present IL to the government
A famine is now prevailing in sone por-
tions of the sub-prefecttlre OF Ting-Hai,
near Ning-Po, and the inhabitants, 1000
in number, men, women aid children.
have been going round IN large bands, de-
manding aid from the rich people IN
the ueighborhood. AS o precaution
AGAINST POSSIBLE riots Il large body of
troops have been Quartered In the famine
districts No outbreaks have yet oc-
CURED, however, as Gne genUry, whenever
asked Tor aid by the sufferers. have gen.
erousIy responded Eto their prayers
Some rich officials and bankers who own
that portion of the country and who are
soiourners at Shanghai and Tien-Ta1n,
have already subscribed and sent nearly
150, 900 taels for distribution in the fam
inc district.
Z News from China yesterday by the
steamer Peru says the river Hoan gho has
overfiowed its banks with disastrous re-
suits. Some four hundred villages were
flooded late in March with great loss OF
life. On March % the river again broke
its banks in two places at Son Katoo, do
ing still greater damage.
Refugees from the flooded districts are
pouring iato Tientsin. Hard lighting on
March 10 is reported between Chinese
troops and salt smugglers. The troops
were beaten, losing two of their leaders.
The smuggiers were led by q notorious
bandit, and the Chinese authorities at
once sent six gunboats of the InlandRiver
navy to uuniSh the SmugglerS.