The herald., 1897-08-30

lost by drowning. 1t is reported that it
is the greatest flood during the present
century in that district
The Shanghai Shenpao contains let
ter from its Foo Chow correspondent,
who reports that the bubonic plague in
the native city and suburbs is most seri-
GUS and that people are dying very rap
idly The center of the plague is in the
center of the Tartar clubhouse.
The Corean government has sent out
an official notice that the ports Of Chen
an-po and Mok-po are open to foreign
trade on October L.
A terrible danger threatens the sugar
planters in Java from a widespread dis
ease which attacks the roots of the cane
The roots rot and the canes die The
planters stand helpless before the dis
ease, which may ere long bring on a fail
ure of the sugar crop. 1t has already
struck four provinces and has broken
out even on well-kept estates.
MANILA AFFAIRS
The latest advices from Manila state
that the rebellion is far from being
crushed. determined attack has been
made on the port and town of Magcar-
lang, in Laguna province, by party of
rebels under command of Miguel Mai
var. The Spanish troops being outnum-
bered retired to the convent, where they
fortified themselves until the arrival of
troops sent by Gen. Iaramillo, when the
rebels retired, leaving twenty-five dead,
carrying off their wounded as usual.
The Spanish loss is not stated. The friar
priest of the town fought like lion.
Tn P,r1o % Il
have attacked the towns of Mecanyan-
an, Angat and Bigaa, but were repulsed
with losses. In San Ildefonso in the
same province, a party of 300 insurgents
made an attack on the hamlet of Bulac,
but after severe fighting were repulsed
with loss of twenty killed
The Spanish column in Polo, Bigaa
and Santa Maria, in the same province,
attacked a party Of rebels in Camalig
and killed six men.
y In Pampanga province, a party of 200
rebels were surprised near the town of
San Luis and driven off with loss Of
forty killed. At Magalang, in the same
province, another party of rebels were
driven off, with loss Of eighteen killed.
In Gapan, province of Nueva Excija
a party attacked this town, but were re-
pulsed with the loss of three killed and
number of horses captured. All the
aforementioned places belong to the
center Of Luzon district. In the south,
in the province of Tayabas, severe at
tack appears to have been made on the
large and important town Of Lopez, on
the Pacific coast, but details are not
Forthcoming.
The proclamation Of the governor gen.
eral of the Philippines, offering free
pardon to penitent rebels who surren-
der, has now been abrogated. The Ma
nilla papers continue to publish acts of
conflicts between the Spanish forces and
scattered remnants of the rebels, but the
rebellion as an organized movement is
over
AN AWFUL QUAKE
SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. ga Call
special from Tacoma says: Oriental ad-
vices received today state that great
earthquake occurred in Japan, August
5th 1t lasted eight minutes and was
followed by tidal wave which swept up
river, flowing into the sea and causing
great destruction. Up to August 10th
it was known in Yokohama that over
5000 houses had been inundated or
washed away. Between 200 and 300 peo-
pie were known to have been drowned or
seriously injured. 1t was reported from
Hosoku that the coal mines there were
flooded by an overflowing river, drown
ing over 100 miners The earthquake
shocks on the morning of August 5th
varied from four to sixteen in number in
various places, the movement being from
20 bo1
wards the tidal wave was felt in the
towns along the coast. Rains had fallen
almost incessantly and the rivers were
already very high. The tidal wave
raised them in so many minutes from
twenty to twenty-five feet higher.
The governor of Nigata prefecture re-
ports that Arakawa river rose twenty
feet. In Naoyetzu 1900 houses were
flooded and thirty people killed or in
jured, and the waters rose so rapidly
that over 600 people were afloat in their
houses before they knew what had hap
pened. They were ali rescued in boats.
Farther down the river twenty boats
were swept away, most of them having
people aboard.
At Takata several scores Of houses
were washed away or wrecked and 1000
were filled with water. Nearly 700 houses
were wrecked and inundated in other
town in the same prefecture. At Oma-
gari one-third of the city is fifteen feet
under water and rice fields along the
Amonox river are flooded. Bridges and
embankments were swept away by the
score.
Reports from the province of Rikuzen
state that immense waves rolled in forty
five minutes after the earthquake and
flooded eighteen fishing villages. All of
the official buildings and the railway sta
ton at Naoyetzu were flooded Here
many persons were drowned. Nine rail-
way officials were carried down stream
to the sea in their houses. A steamer
rescued them, but many smaller boats
were swept away.
Mr.. Hobson, British commissioner of
customs at Yatung, Tibet, writes to
Japan that severe earthquake was ex-
perlenced in Tibet in July.
The Sealing Season
SEATTLE, Aug. 29-Advices from
Bering sea by the steamer Portland
show that the entire catch of the North
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