The morning call., 1894-02-15
RAVAGE OF RENEGADES
Bold Operations of a Daring Band
of Robbers.
MANY LIVES LOST IN JAPAN
Subjects of the Mikado Become
Sufficiently Civilized TO Resort
to Bomb Throwing.

VANCOUVER, b. c., Feb. ii. - The
steamer Empress of China arrived to-day
from the Orient with twenty saloon pas
sengers, $50 Chinese and 1900 tons of
freight.
The Empress brings Chinese advices as
follows: The monument erected by resi-
dents Of Hong-kong in memory Of those
who persisted in the Bokhara disaster has
been put in position on Sand Island. in the
China Sea. A handsome piece of plate
was presented at the same time to the Gov
ernOr Of Pescadores by the Captain of FL.
NJ. 5. Porpoise for the services he had rem
dered.
In the case of the Norwegian steamer
Krm VS.. the Messageries Maritames
steamer Haiphong. for salvage services,
the Hong Kong Admiralty Court awarded
$3.50 and costs.
Official Geographic dispatches received
at Shanghai from Kirin state that the rem
nants of the insurgents decimated last
winter by the troops of Viceroy Ii, liz the
JehOl country and Gil A6yang, near New
Chwang. having fed to Yaloo territory on
the Corean borders. are again making
themselves felt in that region. the local
troops and the CoreaE authorities on the
borders being too weak to crush them. A
number of villages on the frontier have
already been devastated.
Foreign residents OF Honkow have ad-
dressed letter to the foreign representa-
tives at Picking regarding the Sungpu mas
sacer, in which they ask for full inquiry
and deplore the fact that several innocent
PERSONS have been made to suffer for the
crime.
Over 1900 houses were burned in 500
Chow in fire on the 18th uIt. The loss of
valuable property was very great, as there
were 800 good shops among the houses
destroyed.
The telegra phi steamer Recorder has re-
turned to Singapore after surveying the
route for proposed new cable from
Labuan 10 Hong-Kong. In all the sound
ings taken the greatest depth was shown
to be 2300 falhOms, and the temperature at
this depth was registered at 80 degrees.
Native reports say that very severe
ear hQuakes occurred at Oh-Kuk-Su, Mon
golia. close TO the Siberian frontier and
about fifty miles south of the Baikal,
which is a volcanic region, on the oath,
26th and 9th of December. The shock on
the Goth was very terrible one. the W b ole
district being devastated and a great
number of lives being lost.
Word has been received from Lukfung
to the effect that band of about 100 70 b.
bers have occupied hill in the district
and are robbing villagers and travellers in
the peighborhood.
The Hongkong Chamber OF Commerce
has recommended the coinage of the
British dollar.
Japanese advices are as follows:
Matsuoka Koki has been appointed Vice
Ministe for Home Affairs.
On the 2Sth ult a fire broke out in a
brothel in Sbinagaws. and before extin-
guished 315 houses were totally destroyed,
including the police station and city hall.
Three women were burned to death and
several were injured
Owing to a cave-in at the Hoson mine in
the Tukui Prefecture two miners were
killed.
Colonel N. w. MeIver. new United States
COnsul-General arrived at Yokohama on
the 9th ult. Mr.. Tillotson, retiring Con-
sui, was to leave on the Sd on the Oceanic.
An extensive fire occurred last month in
Kagoshma, 503 dwellings and eight 60
.dows being destroyed. Fourteen men
were killed.
The Japanese have besome civilized
enough to resort to BON b-throwing in order
to get revenge on their enemies. Recently
a resident of the Gumma Prefecture threw
bomb into the house Of a politician who
had not obtained for him coveted po-
sition. Four inmates of the house were
injured, one fatally.