Evening journal., 1896-11-30
EARL ii in DISGRACE.
The Great viceroy Fined $4,000 For
4tli' Trespass Oriental Advices.


The Great viceroy Fined $4,000 For
7tli' Trespass- Adviees.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 3o-The steam
ship Doric has arrived from Hongkong |
and YoSohoma, bringing the following |
Oriental news
Viceroy Iii Hung Chang is again in dis
grace. lie entered the imperial park and
hunting grounds without sanction. The
punishment for this oifense Is to be de
prived of all his ranks and decorations,
but the emperor has decided to be lcnicnt
and has merely deprived him of year
salary, amounting to $4,000 taels. The
count, il is said, will ask TO be allowed to
retire to his native province on the plea of
i'll health as he has been disappointed in
the hope of obtaining position OF iniiu-
ence in the Peking government. Should
the efforts Of the empress dowagor in his
behalf succeed, it viii be easy for him to
become viceroy of Chihili.
1t is stated the Chinese minister to Lon
don, Kung Chow Yuan has petitioned the
emperor to be recalled. He does not live
in London.
Cholera is prevalent in Tokyo and APP
pears to be on the increase. The North
| China Daily News prints what is alleged
! to be text of a new treaty between CHINA
and Russia. BY the terms of the treaty
| Russia is 10 be allowed TO build a railroad
through Manchuria and is TO be given for
Is wears the Port of Kiaoshem, in the
province Of Shan Tung, for "a winter port
/ Russia is to fortify Port Arthur and Tai
ien-Wai, and in case of war with other ma
tions is to have the use Of these ports.
| Russia will furnish officers for the instruc-
tion of the Chinese army.
Yokohoma society is torn up over a
mysterious poisoning case.
Mr.. r. II. Carew, gentleman occupy
ing good social position and secretary o.
the Yokohoma United club, who wa!
married 20 a lady of substantial income
was taken i'll Oct. . and died Oct. %. a
coroner's inquest was held and it was dis
covered that he had been poisoned. Tit
evidence showed that Mrs. Carew, just be
fore his illness and after he was sick, has
purchased arsenic in such quantities as tl
alarm the druggist. She said she wanted
it for malarial fever.
Mrs. Carew told a remarkable story Of Z
mysterious veiled woman, dressed in black
who called on her husband Oct. 10. Mr.
Carew was not at home and the woman
left after making an appointment tC
meet him. Mr.. Carew appeared to b'
greatly worried when the woman failed tS
hNNB AAt appointment anu MANAD 4ANA
letter addressed to Annie Luke. Mr. Carev
was taken i'll Oct TO- and on Oct. 20, while
Mrs. Carew was out, the same mysteriou
woman called at the house.
She asked where Mr.. Carew's room wa
situated and the servant after telling her
went TO bed. That was the last seen o
the mysterious visitor, but Mrs. Carew re
. ceiyed from her a letter, written by Mr.
Carew, which had been thrown in a vast
basket After Mr.. Carew had died ant
the inquest was in progress the wOmel
wrote to Messrs. Lowder and Hall, stating
that she was going to join her 'twil
soul and that she had fooled the chemist
the doctor and that ''silly little wife.
The police have been unable to find an
trace of the woman in black. The core
ner's jury brought in a verdict that MI
Carew died from the effects of arseni
poisoning, but by whom the poison wa
administered there was no evidence
show. Mrs. Carew was then arrested an
. charged with the murder Of her HUSBAND
but was released on bail. Her trial was
progress when the steamer left Plagr
has made its appearance in Formosa an
the japanese there are dying in larg
| numbers