The San Francisco call., 1896-10-22
EVENTS IN THE
M|KADO'S LAND
The American Ship Luzon
Stranded on Woo
sung Bar.
Tornado Greatly Damages the
United States Consulate
at Tientsin.
THE ATROCITIES AT MANILA.
Spanish Troops Execute Their Pris.
oners by Shooting Them in
the Back.

VANCOUVER. B. O., Oct. 21.--The fol-
lowing mail advices were received by the
steamer Empress of Japan to-day: The
American ship Luzon, from New York
with cargo of kerosene oil, consigned to
the Standard Oil Company, was stranded
on Woosung bar. The ship at the time
was drawing 10 feet 8 inches, and the
water signaled at the Signal station was
20 feet inches, but while crossing the bar
she took sheer and stranded, taking
ground on a ridge of hard sand right
amidships. All efforts to float her on that
tide failed and she remained until October
6. As the tide fell the vessel remained
suspended on the ridge, with the conse-
quence that she became seriously hogged
and it was feared that her back was
broken. She was fioated off at high
water on the 9th and towed to Shanghai
in very disabled condition. The steamer
Guernsey, which was following the Luzon
across the bar. was run onto the shore to
avoid collision and remained there until
October 6.
The terrific tornado at Tientsin did
great damage to the United States Con-
sulate. The railing and brick piers OF the
building were twisted into every conceiy-
able shape by the violence of the wind
funnel. The iron roof and large portions
of the building were lifted high into the
air and deposited in fields miles away. A
large number of natives were killed and
many boats wrecked.
James Nelson of the United States
steamer Olympia was asphyxiated by gas
dur ho LOT ffar parf Of ar,,ha a
was buried with military honors.
1t is stated by many well-informed peo-
pie In Hongkong that the chief leaders of
seditious agitation in the Philippines re-
side in Japan, whittier they immigrated
from home after the Japanese triumph
over China. Their aim was to excite the
Mikado to seize the Philippines. and, in
deed, some time ago they presented his
Majesty with petition signed by 10000
inhabitants, asking him 10 invade the
islands.
Afterward, however, it was discovered
that at least 1900 of these signatures
were obtained by making the natives be-
lieve they were signing petition to the
Spanish Government for reduction of
taxes.
The North China Daily News has
short special on the rebellion in the Phil
ippines, which says that the rebels are col
lected in force fifteen miles1from Manila,
and that the Span;ards, doubling the 10y
atty of their native troops, are afraid to
attack them. The Spaniards had cap
tured seventeen rebels, whom they exc
cuted at once by shooting in the back
The rebel battlecry is "Death to the Span
iards, death to the Chinese, death to the
priests"
Five hundred Chinese who have Just
returned to Shanghai from Manila give
such horrifying accounts of the situation
there that hundreds of Chinese who were
leaving for Manila, many of whom had
already taken passage, quietly disem-
barked and disappeared, and the steamer
left without single Chinese passenger.
Several Japanese merchants of Manila
have been arrested for selling Japanese
swords the importation of arms being
prohibited, but Japanese swords have
hitherto been considered as curios and
their importation permitted. The JAP
anese Government is being urged TO dis
patch man-of-war for the protection of
Japanese subjects in the islands.
Brigadier w. M. Powell has been ap-
pointed by General Booth to command the
Japanese Salvation Army, vice Colonel
Wright absent on furlough.
The Eastern bimetallic league has been
suddenly silenced by the clause in the
Shimonoseki treaty which gives foreigners
the right to open manufactures in China.
The British especially were not slow to
avail themselves of this newly acquired
right, and within four months of the pub
lication of the treaty six foreign companies
for working cotton-mills were started in
Shanghai.
Following this result of the clause the
members Of the bimetaIlic league gave up
their strenuous struggle and are not now
so anxious to get the difference in ey-
change removed. The extent of this new
cotton manufacturing industry in China
will, it is predicted, make Manchester