The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-09-15
NEWS OF THE ORIENT.
Coinage OF Gold Ordered in Japan
and Steps Taken tn Retire silver
Korean Ambassador Removed
American Locomotives Succeed.

TACOMA. Sept 1.-THE Northern Pa
cine liner Tacoma arrived today VITA a
faA cargo, the greater part OF winch Is
tea. Ihe other freight Is general merchAa-
Disc lne4H31lEg - bales of TAw silk. valued
approximately at s17eaa Her trans-pa-
cllse passenger list numbered g Chinese. IS
japanese and Is cabin passengers. Among
tire cabin passengers Eas Leon y Ford
from Japan for the kle7dike. The Taco
ma brings Oriental aews up TO August g
Count Matsu died Of consumption Az
gust - On the Sunday previous he vas
promoted b the imperial favor 20 the
nrss class % the second grade In court
rank- and u was then known THAI the end
was at hand. Il came at s.s o'clock.
Heavy foods are reported from Takata
Naoyetsu and several ether places AT
Na9yetsu nine persons were carried out 70
sea on the roofs of houses. They we're
picked Up b. the steamer Talwan Msra.
Japsn's Gold Coinage.
The Malniehi learns from The finance de-
psrtnent that +oasDo. yen In gold will De
Tainted during September Il was preyi-
ously announced that 20 Go 90 IN gold was
70 be placed n circulation during the cur
rent year, bur the authorities now think
thar 4a,0o0 90 yen Eill suffice for present
needs.
The Nlchi Nichi says that the Count
Matsugats has definitely decided not 10 In
crease the sake and land taxes next year
but vii retrsnch n every department as
much as possible ard make ~ the defeit
as regards Formosz from the war indasn-
nity.
TIE Chuwo says the government Is 70
raise another loan Of Is .ooa 90 yen TO meet
the deficiency n the budget. The interest
IS 20 be 5 per cent and bonds are 70 be
issued AZ par.
The drouth az Matsuye is reported 20 be
50 serious that persons along the coast
there are using salt water for cooking pur-
poses.
The Russian telegraph lines are reported
70 De interrupted by extensive foods IN the
Shllka district, beyond Blagovenschsk-
The railway In course Of construction be-
tween Flllki and Kanazawa will be opened
for traffic during October next.
Ruin wroughs by Floods
BY the recent foods in Nilgata prefec-
ture over 100 houses have been destroyed
and five or six lives lost in the MiShima
district OF this prefecture. The embank-
ment along the ShimoJo river has been
destroyed for distance OF 80 feet in the
Minsmi Kambara district. All the bridges
on the Oshima railway line In Higashi
Kubiki district have been broken down
by the floods. and the roads have also
been damaged in many places. Over
forty houses and twenty gG-doNns were
swept away by the water. and twenty
four lives were lost In the village OF Mat
sugasaki Sado district BY the swelling
OF the Agano river 1880 houses In Sanjo
Macfi and 20 houses In the village OF
Ichinokido were submerged. At Izumo-
zakI one shrine. two go-downs. four tenn
pies and half a score OF dwellings have
been crushed by landslides from the
mountains: five lives have been lost and
ten persons severely wounded.
An Ambassador Discharged.
A royal edict was issued at Seoul on
July 81 TO the following effect:
We are told that the envoy extraor-
binary TO Great Britain. Germany. Rus
sta. Italy, Greece and Austria, Min Yung-
whan. Is returning home before eomplet-
ing his mission without order from the
government. We consider hts action as
insolent IN the extreme. We hereby dis
miss him from the Office which he now
holds"
Certain native papers state that the
premier has sent IN his resignation. The
yorodzu Choho says IL was sent In on
August IA
large house boat containing over a
score OF Foocaow and Shanghai girls
bound for Marking capsized in the
Yangtse. Including the crew. orchestra
and servants Of the girls. thirty-nine per-
sons lost their lives.
II Is reported in Picking that the Bel