The herald., 1896-11-30
DIDN'T KEEP OFF THE GRASS
Which Cost the Viceroy a Years
Salary
Ii HUNG AGAIN IN DISGRACE
For Walking Without Sanction in Il .
Kings Park
Oriental Advices Report the Prevalence
Of Cholera-A Russo-Chfnese
Treaty-Japanese Poisoning

steamship Doric arrived tonight from
Hong Kong and Yokohama, bringing the
following oriental news:
viceroy Ii Hung Chang is again in dis
grace. He entered the imperial park and
hunting grounds without sanction. The
punishment for this offense is to be de-
prived Of all his ranks and decorations,
but the emperor has decided to be leni-
ent, and has merely deprived him of
years salary amounting to $4,000 taels.
The count, it is believed, will ask to be
allowed to retire to his native province
on the plea Of ill-health, as he has been
disappointed in the hope of obtaining
a position of influence in the Peking
government. Should the efforts of the
empress dowager in his behalf succeed.
it will be easy for him to become viceroy
of Chihihli.
1t is stated that the Chinese minister
to London. Hung Cow Yuan, has Pc
titioned the emperor to be recalled. He
does not like London.
Cholera is prevalent in T Tokio and ap-
pears to be on the increase.
The North China Daily News prints
what is said to be the text of a new
treaty between China and Russia. BY
the terms Of the treaty. Russia Is to be
allowed to build a railroad through
Manchuria. and is to be given for fifteen
years the port of KiaOshow, in the pro-
vince Of Shantung. for a winter port;
Russia is to fortify Port Arthur and
Talienwan, and in case of war with other
nations Is to have the use Of these ports.
Russia will furnish officers for the in
struction fthe Chinese army.
The plague has made its appearance in
Formosa, and the Japanese there are
dying in large numbers.
Yokohama society is torn up over
mysterious poisoning case. Mr.. r. Fl.
Carew, gentleman occupying good
social position and secretary Of the YOko-
hama United club, who was married t. a
lady of substantial income, was taken
i'll Oct. 18th and died Oct 22d. A coro-
ner's inquest was held and it was dis
covered that he had been poisoned.
The evidence showed that Mrs. Carew
just before his illness and after he was
sick had purchased arsenic in such
quantities as to alarm the druggist. She
said she wanted it for malarial fever.
Mrs Carew told a remarkable story of
mysterious yelled woman dressed in
black, who called on her husband Oct
10th. Mr.. Carew was not at home and
the woman left, after making an ap-
pointment to meet him. Mr.. Carew ap
peared to be greatly worried when the
woman failed to keep her appointment,
and wrote her letter addressed to
Annie Lake. Mr.. Carew was taken i'll
Oct. goth. While Mrs. Carew was out
the same mysterious woman called at
the house. She asked where Mr.. Carew 8
bedroom was situated, and the servant
after telling her went to bed. That was
the last seen of the mysterious visitor,
but Mrs Carew received from her
letter written by Mr.. Carew, which had
been thrown in wastebasket. After
Mr. Carew had died and the inquest was
in progress, the woman wrote to Messrs.
Lowder and Hail. stating that she was
going to join her twin SOUL" and that
she had fooled the chemist, the doctor
and that SILLY little wife" The police
have been unable to find any trace of
the woman in black. The coroner's Jury
brought in verdict that Mr.. Carew
died from the effects of arsenic poison
ing. but by whom the poison was admin
lstered there was no evidence to show
Mrs. Carew was then arrested and
charged with the murder of her husband,
but was later released on bail. Her trial
was in progress when the steamer left.
Il. w. Irwin, who has been in Japan
for thirty years, and has represented the
Hawaiian government there, first, as
consul and afterward as minister during
the greater part of that time, arrived
from the Orient on the steamer Doric
today. He said: 1.-The statement that
INuSold Has cStdOllSneQ a SuZerAl0tX
over Corea is incorrect, although the
fact that the king is housed in the Rus
sian legation might lend credence to
that supposition. Japan's ambition does
not extend to Corea, Americans influence
is uppermost In the kingdom, and am
credibly informed that the king is act
ing entirely under the advice of three
Americans, Minister Sill the secretary
of the American legation and an Amer
ican missionary by the name Of Under
wood"
Irwin say that Japan's sole ambition
now is toward commercial and indus
trial advancement. The government is
encouraging the construction, opera
tion and maintenance of railroads and
steamship lines and manufacturing in
dustries. He declares, however, that a
false impression has been gained of the
extent and Importance of the steamship
subsidies recently offered.
'The subsidies offered are entirely in
adequate for the purpose Of maintaining
a powerful line of transpacific steam
ers." he declared. THE Nippon Yusen
Kaisha, which has undertaken to run
a line of ships between Japan and Seat
tie, will think better Of the project be-
fore two or three years are past, and the
company which is headed by S. Asano
will, in my honest opinion, never mate
rialize. 1t will be many years before San
Diego is the terminus of any Japanese
transpaciflc steamship line that Asano
or any other Japanese capitalist or
corporation may establish. Asanos un-
dertaking is lragely a myth"