The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1895-09-05
THE DREAD DISEASE CHOLERA
Is SPREADING AMONG
ORIENTAL SAILORS.
LATE NEWS FROM THE MASSA'
GRE DISTRICT.
English Residents of Hong Kong Appeal
to Their Government to lnfict
Punishment for the Massa-
cre-Cuban News.
NEWS FROM THE ORIENT.

San Francisco, sept I'-Ime SUe"liS
Coptic arrived yesterday from 1okoha
ma and Hong Kong bringing the news un
der date of August Is that Asiatic plague
has broken out in Kobe, Japan, and the
crew of the italian cruiser Umbra have
succumbed. Some other seamen died OF
the complaint. Another case OF cholera
was reported on board the Umbria on
fine 18th inst A number of the crew OF
the Japanese warship have been land low
with the disease. The crew of the Mat
suihama Kan was attacked while at Kline
lang. She returned to quarantine at
Nagasaki on the 31st of July. The Mani
wa Kan has been temporarily the flag
ship.
a Many cases of the plague are reported
at Hong Kong.
None Of the American feet of war YES
s4ls. among which were the Baltimore,
Concord, Charleston, Machias and De
troit. which have been stationed in these
waters, are infected, owing to the pre-
cautions taken by the officers IN retus-
ing to grant shore leaves to the crew upon
the first indication of the disease. All
the ships have now left that locaEty, out
no information has been received as to
their whereabouts further than the fact
that the Baltimore sailed for San Fran
cisco ON August IS. The entire fleet
stationed at Chez Foo, on the northern
coast of China, as infected and deaths
are being reported daily. Sabiaka, a
corvette, has 30 cases on board, while
the Bohr reported 20. Every effort is
being made to confine the plague to the
ships in the harbor, but fears are enter
tanned that already it has gained foot
hold in the island too strong to check
At Yokohama the latest reports Indicate
that neither this port nor Hakidote will
suffer to any great extent from cholera,
the disease not spreading to an alarming
extent.
Indignation meetings are being held by
the English residents of Hong Kong
and the open ports of China calling upon
their government to infict punishment for
the massacre at Ku Cheng, and denounc-
ing the report that the Pekin authorities
are unable to control the place. So far
as known no Americans have been killed,
though one, Miss Hartford was seriously
injured and several had marrow escapes.
The murderous attack was premediated,
the intention being to destroy the entire
foreign party.
Some of the assailants showed a dispo-
sition to accept ransom, but the leaders
ordered them to kill without exception.
1t was only by good fortune that the
deaths were but 10 and the wounded
three.
The viceroy of Fo Ken province prom
Used to make search for the attackers,
but the military sent by him to Ku Ten
began operations by plundering the mis-
sionaries' houses The entire neighbor-
hood is in great excitement and further
damages are apprehended, not alone in
FO Ken but Through the entire country.
The envoy of Great Britain announces
that he will send the consul at Foo Chez
TO ku Tden with an armed escort to head
rigorous enquiry, and that proclama-
tion was Immediately to be issued by the
Chinese emperor ordering the decapita-
ton of all who are found guilty.
The arrangements for investigation of
the Cheng Tu riots are unsatisfactory
alike to English and Americans. Mes
sages were sent by telegraph to President
Cleveland and Lord Salisbury that the
measures taken by the diplomatic agents
are inadequate and urged that repatriation
be strenuously demanded by the home
government.
The grandson of Tat Won Kun of Co
rea, who was reported to have been as
sassinated while in exile is still living
and will presently be recalled by special
order as king. The prisoners captured
by the Japanese during the war will be
conveyed to China and set free before the
end of August.
In response to the demand for the liber-
alton of Japanese prisoners the Chinese
authorities announce that only two can
be found. 1t is suspected that the great
er number have either been deliberately
slain or have died from i'll treatment
Ihe plans for naval extension to be
laid before the next Japanese parla-
menlt will call for an expenditure of 2OO,-
100000 taels.