The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-01-17
JAPAN SUBURBAN SCENES.

eEsty circles. began 10 be associated with
the ruu1or IN an ugly way. The British
consul. Mr.. Han. promptly decided upon a
r0sr-morten examination and searching
coro1sT's inquest The post norton DIS
cIosed undouated evidences OF arsenic
poisoning. The inquest. which vas con-
Quoted uy she consul himself. sas much
Ike Gre Of our preliminary hearings be-
fore a magistrate. The whole case vas
gone into Ia great detail. one 81 the most
prominent witnesses being Mrs. Carew
herself.
To offset the strong presumption thus
created against Mrs. Carew the defense
tried 20 saoT that mysterious woman,
Annie Luke. with whom i was a..ege1 Mr..
Carew had formerly been intimate, had
been hanging aboGt the Csrew house and
the club for several days prior &c Mr.. Ca
reE's death. and some notes purpoTring 10
have been written by her were Introduced
IN evidence. Bot Annie Luke turned out 10
Be a myth. Mrs Carew's own evidence,
given AZ great length was enough 70 pro-
duce conviction OF her guilt. and the cor
oner in bis vigorous charge 10 the jury as
mach as said So Nevertheless. 70 tire as
Constituent OF the community the jury re-
turned a non-commistal sort Of verdict as
follows;
Eve md that Waiter Raymond Halo
well Carew died on October = 81 the Royal
E@F a hospital. N%of4EEfies from TIE F3E-Cls
Of arsenic, bu by whom administered
there is no direct evidence to show
Public sentiment decreed otherwise and
IN a feE days tire British crown prosecutor
arrested Mrs. CareH on the charge or
murder.
I learn from 2 Shanghai paper OF last
Friday. November e. that the United
States cruiser Detroit. now at Shanghai.
has resolved sealed orders AID IS 70 pro-
cod IA al - N1z %
pine Stands. where Spain seems 20 have
Tally a. much trouble on her hands as she
has in Cuba. II is almost impossible here
% obtain reliable Information about the
rebellion IN the Philippines. and when att
theHric Information does reach here IL Is.
Ike most Oriental news. very stale.
have just learned from a gentleman who
came IN on the Kobe Maru from Shanghai
that the spaniaTds now have about $500
troops in Manila the ma iority % whom
are raw recruits, badly armed and some
OF them without uniforms. 4 small body
OF caVairygneu arrived with the last
batch. but without horses 50 they will
have 70 be mounted on the native ponies.
which are as q rule wretche6Iy fed and
would require az least a month 10 get into
anything like decent condition Two young
fellows Zone Spanish and one ha1f-Spa nish)
were murdered on the native lines about
the beginning Of the month. They went
cut 10 take Photographs, but took rifles
with them. They We're fired on directly
they crossed the Spanish lines, and they
returned the fire One body has been
found stripped: the other one is sim miss
ing.
one Of the passengers on the Kobe Marn
last week for Shanghai vas l. T. James.
recently on the Philadelphia. now on his
way TO Join the Boston al Chemulpo-
The yorktown arrived in Shanghai last
Friday, November p.
When Cur steamer. the Kobe Maru. ar
rived In this port last Saturday evening.
the usual throng OF little boats. or sam
pans. surrounded her on all sides before
she was a. anchor. The captain shouted
warning 10 them In good japanese 70
keep off. but TO no avail. About 30 of them
were clustered near her stern. and as she
swung round they were caught 10 the suck
OF her propeller and besides being badly
damned several Of them were swamped
and their occupants thrown into the boil
Ing eddy. The United States flagship
/ Olympia was lying hard by and IN an in
slant she had lowered a couple of boats
and In less than two minutes the blue
Jackets were alongside us TO assist In the
work OF pulling the soaked and scared
bOatmen out Of the water and in righting
up the overturned sampans. There were
a dozen other war vessels in the harbor,
but not one of them. Russian. British.
Mexican or Japanese. sent out a boat The
prompt and cool-headed work Of the
Americans was highly commended. and il
was only in keeping with their gallant &C
ton last spring when OF the China coast
the men Of the same ship. the Olympia,
lowered boat in an angry sea AT 2 O'Clock
IN the morning and picked Up IS men from
. sinking Chinese vessel.
Cholera smallpox and other epidemic
diseases have been on all sides OF me- but
probably not TO much greater extent than
usual, and the only danger auprehenaed
by conservative men seems 10 be an cpl
demic next summer. There were Is cases
OF cholera day In Tokyo while | was
there. bu; nobody took any notice OF the
fact. and business went on as usual. The
general tone Of public sentiment Is voiced
/ IN the following note from A Yokohama
paper OF some three weeks ago:
The sudden outbreak OF cholera while
! the cool season is at hand has caused
much surprise among native doctors How
/ long this viii continue cannot be surmised
bar Some fears are entertained that an
epidemic VIII be experienced IN the coun-
! Try during next summer"
| HERBERT L. BRUCE.