The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-09-07
Crews Of Warships Infected With
the Disease.
UNCLE SANS TARS ARE SAFE
Deaths Reported Daily in the Russian
Fleet at Chez Foo---Cases at
Hong Kong.

San Francisco, Aug. 31.-The steamer
Coptic arrived today from Yokohama
and Hong Kong, bringing the news un-
der date of August 10.
The Asiatic plague has broken out in
Kobe, Japan, and the crew Of the Ital-
Ian cruiser Umbria have suffered. Some
Of her seamen died of the complaint,
and in one day two cases of the dis
ease were reported on board. The men
were taken to the infectious disease
hospital, and the Umbria was sent to
the Nagahama quarantine station. An
other case Of cholera was reported on
board the Umbria on the 14th inst. A
number of the crews of Japanese war
ships have been laid low with the dis
ease. The crew Of the Matsushima
Kan was attacked while at Kelung. She
returned to the quarantine station at
Nagasaki on the 31st of July
Many cases OF the plague are reported
at Hong Kong.
None of the American feet of war
vessels, among which were the Balti-
more, Concord, Charleston, Machias
and Detroit, which have been stationed
in these waters, are infected, owing to
the precautions taken by the officers
in refusing to grant shore leaves to the
crews upon the first indication of dis
ease. All the ships have now left that
locality, but no information has been
received as to their whereabouts fur
Their than the fact that the Baltimore
sailed for San Francisco on August IS.
The entire Russian fleet stationed at
Chez Foo, on the northern coast of
China, is infected, and deaths are be-
ing reported daily. The Zabaika,
corvette, has 80 cases on board, while
the Bobr reported 20.
Every effort is being made to confine
the plague to the ships harbor, but
fears are entertained that already it
has gained a foothold on the mainland
too strong to check.
ANTI-FOREIGN RIOTS.
Indignation meetings have been held
| by the English residents of Hong Kong
and the open ports of China, calling up
on the British government to infiict
punishment for the massacres at Ku
Cheng, and denouncing their represen-
tative at Pekin as incapable of rising
to the requirements Of the occasion. So
! 1ar as known no Americans nave Deen
killed, though one, Miss Hartford, was
injured, and several narrowly escaped
with their lives. The murderous at
tack was premeditated, the intention
being to destroy the entire foreign
party.
The entire neighborhood is in great
excitement and further outrages are
apprehended, not alone in Token, but
throughout the interior of China. The
envoy of Great Britain announces that
he will send the consul at Foo Chow to
Ku Tien with an armed escort, to hold
a rigorous inquiry and that proclama-
ton will Immediately be issued by the
Chinese emperor ordering the decapi-
tation of all who were found guilty
The arrangements for investigating the
Cheng Tu riots are unsatisfactory
alike to English and Americans. Mes
sages were sent by telegraph to Presi.
dent Cleveland and Lord Salisbury thai
the measures taken by the diplomatic
agents are inadequate to secure re
dress, and urging that reparation be-
strenuously demanded by the hom,
governments.