The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-09-22
DYING BY THOUSANDS
SCENES ON THE STREETS OF Pc
KING, SHANGHAI AND THEN TsIN.
Victims of Cholera Lying About I'm
cared for-The Pest breeding
Center OF the Universe.

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. H.-W. Z. Cur
It's, well-known Washington correspond
ent was passenger on the steamer Gaelic,
which arrived from the Orient yesterday.
He went to Japan in May last to study the
commercial and industrial prospects afford
ed Americans in that country. and lately he
has been in China, which he describes as
the pest-breeding center of the universe.
1.-The cholera has attained fearful proper
tions in China" said he. Chinese are dy-
ing by the thousand. / passed through the
streets OF Picking, Shanghai and Tien Tsin,
and saw cholera victims dead and dying on
every hand. 1t is no uncommon sight to
see the dead bodies of cholera victims lying
on the street on one block, and in the next
lot of Chinese gorging themselves with
raw cucmbers and melons. The cholera is
all attributable to the filthy habits of the
Chinese and the weather. The summer was
quite cool until August. Then spell Of ex-
cessively hot weather came on, and with it
the cholera.
I'm Peking they have a plan of issuing
permits for the removal Of bodies outside
the city walls. AS is probably well known,
no bodies are Inferred within the walls To
secure permission for the removal of the re-
mains of a deceased mortal outside the
walls of the city, a cash is dropped in
box. A cash is small brass coin. worth
one twentieth of one cent AT night the
cash receptacle is full. 1t contains from
two thousand 10 three thousand pieces OF
coin, and when ii Is considered that nearly
all of these deaths result from cholera, the
enormous extent of the disease can readily
be judged The disease is as bad at Shang-
hal and Tien Tsin, and is also moving
down Chinese by the hundreds In other
parts of the infected country.
Mr.. Curtis said that the cholera Is con-
fined almost exclusively to the native Chi
nese In Peking d where 81 very dessb leT iorTg ene
one one death death among among the foreign population
China. In Shanghai. where the cholera is
raging at an awful rate. the fatalities
among the foreigners have been much
yised Of eighteen deaths
Speaking Of the subject which Mr.. Curtis
went to China to investigate-the CONNER
he had returned to America convinced that
America had no market in the Mikados
realm for manufactured goods. The Jap
anese make almost everything they want.
he said They are stealing our patents
and copying our inventions, and are now
almost ready to export their wares and
thereby enter into ruinous competition with
other nations. There is. however a splen-
did market for machinery, as we'll as for
cotton, iron and other raw materials cot
using cotton very largely, and here is
pointer for American cotton producers.
While a great deal OF American cotton Is
used in the Orient II goes through English
hands before ii reaches the Japanese, and
the American grower is deprived OF the
commissions which 30 into the pocket of
the English middleman in Liverpool Our
cotton ought tc be shipped direct TO Ja-
pan. For that purpose We need the Mica
ragua canal; we need the completion OF the
Guatemala railway and open harbors at
the two termini of the Tehuantepec rail-
way. America could sell lot Of cotton in
Japan In two or three years Japan will
control the cotton trade of the Orient"
The Worlds cable from Foo-Chow. China
says: The investigation into the massacre
of missionaries at Ku-Cheng has been
sumed. The flag bearer who gave orders
to kill the women In the missions has
been brought to ku-cheng for trial. The
executions this week have had a salutary
effect upon the Vegetarians who will prob
ably stop further prosecutions OF Chris
tians. The prospects for securing ample
justice against the ringleaders of the riots
are much brighter than they were earlier
in the week.