The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1898-09-22

hundred thousand persons have been
plunged into the deepest distress and
many into absolute penury, which local
authorities are unable to alleviate.
British Consul Butler at Kiung Chow
has requested the American consul, DR..
Bedloe at Canton, to urge the Viceroy
to send soldiers to Nodoa near Hollow
to protect the lives and property of
American missionaries n that district.
Rev DR.. P. w. McCnntock and Rev.
w. J. LeWert, of the American PreSby-
terrain mission, district of Hal Nan,
were obliged to fly for their lives and
seek protection from the British consul
at Hoi Chow. Reports of the rebellion
in Hal Nan indicate outbreaks of the
freed society, a band Of thieves and
robbers who have been strengthened by
pirates. This 1awless army has COM
mitted many depredations in the Hoi
Chow country.
The Gazette reports that the Russians
have produced a written promise signed
by Lii Hung Chang, while at st. Peters
burg, that Russian official will sue
coed Sir Robert Hart as inspector gen
eral of the imperial customs.
Miners are opposed to the Manchurian
railway and are obstructing the Rus
slams. They are well armed. The Rus
slams have about 25 600 soldiers between
New Chowang and Port Arthur. They
have landed over a hundred new big
guns at Port Arthur and are building
up forts very quickly. They have
about ID men of war between Port Ar
thur and Ia Lien Wan
Considerable dissatisfaction is felt in
Hong Kong and elsewhere in cOnSe-
Quence of the retention of Spanish du-
ties at Manila by American authorities.
A serious mutinous conspiracy has
occurred on the German ship Christine
lying in Kobe harbOr. Assistance was
sent from the Gefion and the men ac-
cuSed were eventually brought before
the German acting consul and the ac-
cused will have to be sent to the YES
sePs port of entry, Bremen, to be tried
for the offense. The prisoners consist
of four Dutchmen, one Englishman and
one German.
The Belgian contract for the construc-
ton of the Luhan railway has been
ratified.
There are rllrnors of British and Jap
anese concessions on the island of Nan
tai at Foo Chow. One of the members
of the crew of H. NJ. S. Lynett has been
making a survey in the neighborhOod,
it is thought, for the information of Sir
Claude Macdonald.
News comes from New Chwang that
the Russians have been acquiring large
tracts of land in the vicinity to make
capital out of the proposed British rail-
way enterprise in that region as 1t
seems that the land on the proposed
route of the Russian railway has been
purchased by the British, who demand
ed eXOrbitant prices for the same. RuS-
sians by way of checkmating their
rivals have commenced building in the
north of New Chwang without the
formality of purchasing or leasing the
land from it's owners, practically grab
bling lots they required, arguing that
as they had only built on the land it's
owners could not help themselves and
would be amenable to any terms offer
ed bV the Russians. By these means
they would hold the whip hand Overtime
railway in eastern China which is to
run from Petuna to Port Arthur via
Kirin, Loudkin and Matching, with a
branch from Port Arthur to New
Chwang.