The record-union., 1897-10-04
Export Of Cereals Prohibited by the
Chinese Authorities.
awate Country Visited by Tidal
Waves and Reports OF Typhoons
All Around-Chinese Financial
Minister Proposes Increase of
Taxation on Land and Sake
Effort to Promote Catholicism
and Cause the Expulsion of
Protestant Missionaries.

TACOMA, Oct 3.-The steamer Vic
foria of the Northern Pacific line ar
rived from China and japan this after
noon with ten European, ITO Chinese
and forty-three Japanese passengers
and 1900 tons of freight, consisting
principally of tea, silk and curios. 1t
is reported that 600 tons of freight in
tended for America was withheld be-
cause of the fear that the ten per cent.
discriminating duty would be charged.
Passengers report that an earthquake
occurred at Yokohama the day previous
10 the ships departure. Reports of
typhoons on all sides We're heard.
The Victoria brings Yokohama ad-
vices up to September 18th as follows:
Colonel DENLY, Minister for the Unit
ed States, who has been seriously i'll, is
slowly recovering.
The Emperor of China has forbidden
all sorts of banquets and junketing be-
cause an eclipse will occur on January
%, 1898. An eclipse Of the sun is said
by the Chinese TO be a proof Of the
wrath Of heaven at the lack of virtue
an ruler.
Owing to the recent, advance in the
price of grain at Shanghai, the Yor
Ddszu correspondent reports the Chin
ese authorities have prohibited all ex
port of any cereals abroad.
The Iwate country is said to have
been visited by the tidal waves ush-
cred in by several earthquake shocks.
No damage is reported, however.
Aa soR;
Mr.. Speyer is trying to further the
spread of Roman Catholicism in Korea
and to cause the expulsion from the
country of American Protestant mis-
sionaries.
The rice crops in Toyoma prefecture
have been so much damaged by the in
sect pest as TO be one-half below the
average.
1t is reported that 5000 Chinese have
Started riot at Salatowa China, op-
posing the proposed founding of a
Christian church there.
Braves to the number of 1000 have
been dispatched from Canton to pac-
sfy matters.
Mount Kierishi1na is reported to be
sending forth roaring sounds, but up to
the present no real eruption has oc-
Curred.
Japan will enter the international
copyright alliance.
case of cholera is reported at Ish-
1kaata Shickome. The rice exchanges
at Toyoma, Tokoma and Fushiki have
been ordered to suspend transactions.
1t is stated that the Government has
decided TO rescind its recently made
regulations for the payment Of a boun-
1y TO native exporters of silk
Sufferers from dysentery throughout
Japan numbered 50,121 up to Septem-
Der 18th In Toxic twenty-five per
cent of the cases have proved fatal.
Colonel John F. Convoy, the new Unit
ed States Consul-General, has received
mis- exequatur and assumed office.
tukuoka merchants are complaining
yy7he Government has included the ex-
spense of new legations to be operated
Eat Brussels, Madrid and Constantine
pie in the next years budget.
Mr.. Fujita, Director of the Sea Pro-
ducts Bureau, ana Professor Midzu
Kuri VIII be ordered to washington
shortly to represent the Government in
the fishery conference
been abolished by imperial ordinance.
Min Yam Up has been appointed Min
lister for Korea to the six treaty Pow
ers in Europe.
The Chinese Financial Minister pro-
poses the following increases of taxa
tion:
That the land tax be increased by
one per cent; that the value of land be
Teassessed; that the sake tax be in
creased. the brewing of sake for house
hold use being prohibited; that the tax
On land for residential purposes in cit
ies and towns be increased. 1t is re-
ported that Marquis Ito will join the
present Ministry.
A census shows there are 1O,S55 for
eign residents in the treaty ports Of
China. There was also an increase Of
siXty-three business houses.
In consequence of the recent increase
cost of rice about 1900 of the poorer
Inhabitants of Shiminotana and Ida
made an attack on the dwellings Of the
manager of the Matsumoto Commercial
Bank and several persons were killed
and many injured.
a Seoul dispatch says Chin Sanghun,
Minister of Finance and Acting Minis
Ter Of War. has resigned and that his
successor WIFI be Min Chong Menk or
Nam Chong Chol
The steamship Victoria, which ar
rived at Tacoma to-day, brings news
of a severe storm that prevailed over
Japan last month. and at sea, taking
the form Of a typhoon. The principal
damage. so far as noted in late papers,
was at Toxic, where 316 houses were
totally demolished, 7,72S partly dam
aged, and 14,030 houses submerged. In
Shdiyuoka there We're 1,060 houses de-
molished and 1000 rendered practically
worthless. In this district thirty-eight
persons We're killed and forty injured
In the Gifu Province bridges were
washed away. the rice crop injured and
other damage done. In the Saitama
prefecture an embankment broke, and
fifteen villages were flooded. Yejir is
practically in ruins. In Koishakawa
1.50O houses We're submerged, and in
Esigome 1S5 collapsed. Hardly a