The record-union., 1897-10-26
LATEST ADVICES
FROM THE ORIENT.
Large Increase in Amount of Silk
Exported From Japan.
A Cholera Epidemic Reported TO Have
Broken Out at Singapore.
Terrible Havoc Throughout Japan,
the Result of a Heavy Rain
storm Sixty-fve Thousand
Houses Flooded at Nagoya, and
Many People Killed.

TACOMA Oct 25.-The steamer
Olympia arrived from China and Japan
to-day with LOCO tons of freight She
brought forty passengers, eight OF
| whom went ashore at Victoria. The
Olympfa's freight includes 800 bales OF
raw silk, valued at $12500O.
The Olympia brings Yokohama ad-
vices up to October Sth as follows:
A telegram was received in Yokohama
reporting the destruction by fire of the
synagogue at Nagasaki on the day OF
atonement.
Iron deposits of excellent quality and
large extent are reported to have been
found at Okla, Fukuoka.
Serious earthquake shocks are re-
ported to have been felt at Yonezwa,
Sendia and Niiagata. The same shock
was felt but Slightly in Yokohama.
Snow fell on Mount Ishikari on the
25th ult., one week earlier than last
year.
The steamer Sesshu Maru, which left
Hiogo on the 2Sth ult., for Shinegawa,
is missing, nothing having been heard
of her since she left Kobe.
The disease which has attacked the
cattle Of Osaka and vicinity is increas-
ing in violence.
hre at Takee Mura, Kijimai-Gun,
destroyed thirty houses.
In Kanagawa prefecture crops have
been damaged 10 per cent. by insects,
and in Kaga district the harvest is
~ per cent. less than usual.
The export of raw silk from Yoko-
hama from July to the first of August
was to America 5,S44 bales and to Eu-
rope 1913 bales, a total of 1929 bales.
Last year during the same term go
oales We're exported to America and L.
ZfS bales to Europe, a total of / .92S.
I0S, tOS, 800 SO yen of gold and 1902. =
'9l 81 in silver coins and bullion are
reported to be the total amounts in
Japan October 1st. There were /. .536
banks having an aggregate capital of
zO5,O4I,ol4 yen in Japan at the end of
September, an increase of twenty-four
banks and 4,474,000 yen capital over
August.
There have been 60,637 sufferers by
dysentery throughout Japan since Sep
tember 25th. Of these 6,044 were in
Toxic, and 1,51S proved fatal.
The rice crop in Niiagata prefecture.
which is usually 2500O, 600 koku. has
been reduced one-half by floods and in
sect poets, and a quarter of a million
koku must be supplied from other dis
tricts for consumption before next har-
vest.
The amount intended to be raised for
the public industrial loan during the
past and present fiscal years was 67.-
100000 yen. OF this 100000 yen only
was subscribed. The Government will
be forced to go abroad to get the bal
ance of it. 1t is stated the rate of in
tereSt offered will be changed from )
to 4 per cent. or even less
A cholera epidemic has broken out at
Singapore with about four new cases
every day. The epidemic shows no
sings of spreading.
A contract has been arranged be-
tween the First Bank (Japanese) and
the Corean Finance Bureau. to the ef-
feet that the japanese one ven piece
now in circulation in Corea shall be ac-
cepted in payment of customs duties
upon stamp being imprinted on it's
face.
The King of Corea has at last ac-
cepted the title of Emperor, after the
officials had presented him with it nine
times, and the coronation ceremony of
the Emperor-King was to take place
on October 18th, when the Empress and
heir apparent win have their titles
officially proclaimed.
A Seoul dispatch says: All the Cab
met Ministers having rendered their
designations, the following appoint
ments are to be made: Min Yong
Kiyu. to be Minister of the Royal
Household PAX Chong- Yang, to be
Minister OF Finance; Cho Pyong-C Chick,
to be Minister of Education: Min
Chong- -Mok, to be Minister of Foreign
Affairs; Ye Chong-Kon and Chong PAX
Young, Ministers of War and Agricul-
ture and Commerce, respectively, while
Nan Chong Chol has been ordered to
retain the portfolio of Home Affairs.
Shin Sang-Hun and Vii Yan-Yung
have been appointed councillors of the
Cabinet. and Han Chu-Sul a member
Of the Privy Council 1t is rumored
that the present Cabinet changes be-
ing due entirely to the Kings own will
is subject to the opposition of the Rus
sian Minister
News comes from Lembok that Mr.
vanderhout, the Dutch Controller of
the village of ,Sisela, has been mur-
dered by insurgents. Another Con-
troller was wounded The residents
called troops and summoned the insur-
gents to surrender On their refusal
the village was stormed and burned.
Twenty-Five of the insurgents fell. The
Dutch loss came to one killed and three
wounded. The cause of the rising is
not known.
An imperial order has been issued to
the effect that the circulation of silver
yen viii be stopped on April 1, 1898.
Fire at Muroran destroyed f1fty-eight
houses on Monday last
Sixteen thousand rifles from Hong
kong and Shanghai have been received
by the Philippine rebels ON the west
coast Of I.uzon.
General Count Nozu has been def
intely decided upon as the successor to
Baron Nogi as Governor of Formosa.
The crops at Gishiu- Corea. have been
badly damaged by the overfiowing of
the Ya1u River on September 11th. The
people have been driven from their