The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-12
A LITTLE CHINESE REVOLT.
REBELS CAPTURE KUANG ZINC, BUT
COULDN'T KEEP n.

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The Governors or KusnE.i ana mnnau Com
sined TO Drive Them Out, and the Rebels.
Hearing or II, Fied-Thc Samsson-rsooley
Syndicate 10 Build HniIroads-GoId Fields.
BAN FRANCISCO. Cal, Sept. 1.-THE steamer
Gaelic arrived to-day from China and Japan
bringing the following:
Advieos from Changsha, the provincial capital
Of Human, give details OF tho Instruction In
Kuangsi. The origin was very similar to that Of
the Mohammedan rebellion in Kansu, which
brought nearly 200, 900 Mussulmans into tho
field for quite two years. Tho trouble arose
through tho imprisonment OF some persons by
the presiding Magistrate Of tie district, followed
by the rescue of tho prisoners by their friends.
the murder OF the unfortunate Magistrate and
the capture OF tho city by the malcontonts.
1t appears that about tho end OF Juno tho
Magistrate OF the district Of Kuangyanghsen
Kuangsi, which borders on tho frontier dis
tricts of the Human cities OF Yunemind and
Chianghua, imprisoned three men belonging to
o gang OF bandits who had boon plundering
villages outside OF the city walls.
This gang had their Businesses in the adjacent
hills and numbered nearly 500 men, but they
were allied, as is usually the case In that part OF
China, with the Kolao Hui. who has a center In
the city of Yungmlnd. As soon as the chief OF the
bandits heard OF the capture of his three men.
ono Of whom was his chief lieutenant. he at
once made preparations to attack Kuangyang,
while on the other hand ho asked for aid and in
structions from the centre at Yungming.
On the night OF June ~ the bandits silently
scaled the walls Of Kuangyang, and while one
band attacked the Jail and released their com
rades, setting free at the same time most OF the
thieves, cutthroats, and debtors. another band
swarmed into the Yamen proper. where the
magistrate lived, and murdered him and his
whole family, numbering thirty-two in all, in
Guiding male and female servants and slave
girls. Not one escaped.
This was not done without the bandits en-.
countering some resistance, for. owing to the
general lawlessness of that portion of Kuangsi,
the district magistrates have a bodyguard OF
some forty or fifty militismen attached to the
iamen, who act as thieftakers on occasion.
There was q desperate fight In the courts Of
the Yamen between the bandits and the sur.
prised militia. who, being all picked men, fought
well. But after losing nearly all their number,
although reinforced by 100 men from the mil
itsry commandant Of the garrison, the re.
mainder. outnumbered and overpowered, fed,
leaving the Yamen and the city to the san.
culinary band of desperadoes and robbers.
Staying " and piund kshs ' %Shere sns w tbss M n,sht
Kusnsyang OF ali its civil and military man.
darins. taking possession of the place. Guards
were posted on the walls and at the gates and
an insurrection was organized. INSTRUCTIONS as
from the Kolao Hui chief at YungnIing.
Meanwhile word was sent that same night to
the neighboring kuanRsi districts of Hsingana,
where there was another strong band Of robbers
rcstiop in aid OF tho KuSneyans band te.
The latter at once began to pillage the coun-
tryside. chiefly OF food stuffs. in order to pro-
vision the city which was. intended to be
the headquarters of the insurrectiou. The
DhHultS were, however, dlSaD Ointed Of re-
ipforcements, from the immediate vicinity Of
kuangyang, for no one Joined them from among
dred thieves and ritfraf; Hence the Chief
found 70 Sarr that he he had a1dd. only about 800 men
from the centre" at Y%oungming to
KuanRsi and Human were in telegraphio com.
munication with each other and they had
agreed to send each 5000 men to retake Kuang:
not enough arms to fight. SO they had 10 quit.
1t Is declared on good authority at Shanghai
u preliminary contract with the Chinese Gov.
eminent for a loan Of sl6.OOO.OOo at 5
are to construct important railway lines
In the empire. The representative OF the
arrived from England in the Rosetta onSHI Aug vi" iS'
and who proceeds to Pekin to rafify the contract.
A party Of government experts have been
prospecting z IN kuangtung province for mineral
deposits. and have come across alleged rich de-
posts or auriferons quartz among the Yung Liu
OF Teching.
Tho best specimen of quartz when crushed 10
said to have yielded pure gold at the rate of
sixteen ounces per ton. while quartz found in
another portion of the same hill, produced when
crushed over three ounces per ton. The provin.
ciai authorities OF kuangtung appear to have
been quite excited over the discovery Of gold
IN the. province. and have authorized the
formation of a syndicate TO develop the mines,
with n ca pital OF $500, O0O one half to be LET by
the provincial Government. The YunR Iiu
hills stretch into the kuangsi border distric' Of
ludDkN ulSltn. ana II Is rCpOrtei that nj thia
last named place gold has also been discovered.
Already plans and estimates have been pre-
sented 10 the VtceToy and the Governor OF KIN.
nngtung, and orders will soon be sent to San
Francisco for sixty crushing mills. pumps. &c.
where also a number OF OK perienced Chinese
miners, now unemployed, will be engaged 10 re-
turn to Chinn md Wnrk ut tho n,n.r o..