The morning call., 1893-09-01
FROM THE ORIENT.
Wreck of a Steamer on
the Chinese Coast.
Starvation Caused by Drought-Anti-
Foreign Riots in China-Desper-
ate Fight With Convicts.

BY the arrival of the steamer China
from aOng-Kong and Yokohama we have
late advices from the Orient:
The English bark Dread has put in at
Yokohama, having been dlsmasted in a
typhOOn.
The Alert left Yokohama for San Fran
cisco on August Is. The American adj
miral, with the Lancaster and Marion, is
still In the harbor.
Serious fires have taken place at Hachi-
oil and Nigata. In the first instance 1000
and in the second 400 houses were con-
sumed.
The Philippines coasting steamer San
Antonio. which took prominent part in
the salvage of the Don Juan, was
wrecked in Salomague harbrr, South
lllocos, during typhOOn which passed
over the archipelago on the 18th of July
She was torn from her moorings and
thrown on reef and almost smashed TO
pieces. The crew were saved by the Chur-
ruca. The steamer Del Rosario also was
driven ashore on Negros Island in the
same storm.
The Shanghai native papers contain ac-
counts Of rather serious flood which oc-
Cured ut midnight on July 10 at Shang-
Keao, Human Province, and which was
attributed by the inhabitants of the dis
trict to the River Dragon" great
many houses were swept awav, and large
numbers of cattle. etc. were drowned, and
the damage done to the crops was very ex-
tensive. A high waterspout was ob-
served on the river by some OF the viii
layers.
sad state of things is reported from
Mlake-lima as the result of the continued
drought. The island, which is one of the
Oshima group, Is plague-strirken, and it
seems by no means improbable that ere
lnnfr Ybor -,
lett. VI pure water there Is none, the ONLY
available supply being four small ponds,
and this supply, bad as it is, will soon be
exhausted. The horrors of the situation
are multiplied by the prevalence of sim
guiar kind OF fever, which is ravaging the
island.
The Hankow correspondent of the
Shanghai Mercury. writing on July %,
says: Intelligence was received here to-
dav OF another anti-iOreign riot at place
about 100 miles from Hankow, called Yen
hIh-wen, not far from tie large town of
Mlen-yang, and situated between the han
and Yang rivers. The affair took rlace
on the 25th. but we nave so far received
only the barest outlines of what happened.
All that the friendly messengers who
brought the news to HanKOw, state is that
TWO native converts were killed and the
French priest OF the district was harbar-
ouslY lnSulted and beaten, barely escaping
with his life. The priest does not reside
at \ en- Kia.wen. but chanced to be there
on the day of the riot.
Ii was not the people of the district who
created the trouble. but some strangers
from distance, aided by a number OF
well-known bad characters who came from
Mien-yang. The chapel was burnt down
and the little mission property ruthlesslv
destroyed, the inmates being forced 10 f1y
for their lives.
AT O'Clock on the morning of the Goth
ult., says the Japan Gazette, three con.
victs left the S0rachi prison, in Hok
kaidO. 10 draw water under The surveil-
lance OF jaiier. When they came To the
lkushunbetsu River one of them went be-
hind the Jaler and caught him in his
arms, while another ran away and the
third seized the jailer's sword. They beat
him on the ground, and having rendered
him unconscious crossed the river and
made Tor Jariyama. The two men, the
third having escaped already. eventually
came 10 the house of former head taller.
Ito TOralro. Seeing they were escaped con.
virts he came out with drawn sword. bur
they rushed upon him and dealt him a
shallow cut on his head. Ito now attacked
the convict with the sword, while the other /
came upon him with pole nine feet long, |
de skiilfully parried a blow aimed at him
by she former and cut off his right arm. |
The convict at once picked up his sword |
with his left hand. but before he had time |
to rise, his head rolled on the ground. The |
other convict toOk up the sword and |
struck him. Ito was ready TO fall, but |
once more spTang upon the felon like n |
tiger and cleft his bead in two. He him |
self then fell down from loss of blood. |
The con victS were under sentence for life. |