Evening star., 1898-10-20
Reported Marriage Of Ii Hung
Chang to Empress Dowager.
MANCHURIAN RAILWAYS TROUBLES
Storms in the Orient Destroy
Life and Property.
JAPAN WORST SUFFERER

VANCOUVER, B. c.. October 20.-Re-
Chang and the empress dowager, the China
Mail which arrived on the steamer EN-
press of Japan, says: Iii Hung Chang and
the empress dowager are reported to have
been married at Sinfa Temple on the morn
ing of September %. They at once proceed
ed to T1en Tsin, destroying the railroad
track behind them they Travelled. to
prevent pursuit. The emperor was furious
The happy pair WILL 1t is surmised spend
the honeymoon at Port Arthur. Pavilion
is jubilant.''
The very wording of the supposed dis
patch proves that it is joke and a poor
Ole at that.
w. c. Jack of the Hong Kong and
Whampoa Dock Company has left Hong
Kong for Manila, for the purpose of report
ing on the possibility of raising some of
the Spanish vessels sunk by the American
fleet May l.
Great Britain is strengthening her no.
sition. The China Mail learns that four
new gunbOats will soon be sent out to Hong
Hong in sections to be fitted up in the dock
yards: The names of the gunboats are
the Woodlark Woodcoek. Sandpiper and
Snire. One boat will make her headouar-
ters at Shanghai and one at Canton, while
the remaining two will be retained in the
meet reserve at Hong Kong
Amur Miners In Revolt.
Two thousand Amur gold miners who
were reported by the last mail as being in
active opposition to the Manchurian rail-
way being built by Russians have been re-
inforced by 5000 disbanded soldiers and a
rising appears imminent!
A dispatch from Taiueh says that on the
night of September 25 about 400 rebels at
tackled district Office at Sankakuyu, but
were repulsed after desperate fight Sep
tember 26 300 rebels advanced to Doio with
view of attacking Bansho but Japanese
troops having already arrived at Bansho
the rebels began 70 retrf eat. The japanese
soldlers advanced from all directions and
attacked the Anzo headuuarte of the reb-
els and burned a numbef Of villages. Many
rebels were killed
TOXIC was recently invaded by a hungry
army of 5000 distressed farmer. from the
Asho copper mine district who petitioned
Tor an extension of the period Of tax ex-
emptfon and for a national subsidy to exc
their village exchequeFs.
Prince Henry of Prussia LIS being we'll re
ce1Ved in Siberia
Disastrous Storms in Orient,
Disastrous typhoons. sand storms and
fccds have caused fearful loss of life
and property in the orient. In the distric,
Watered by the river Feng in Japan, hun
and 1000 people have been drowned An
other report says $50 towns are under
water. Thousands of refugees are flock
ing TO the cities, The 1shkari river has
also overfioWed, drowning over 1000 peo-
pie. Seven procedures were destroyed
In terrible typhcon off Formosa, hap
pening the same time as the foods great
damage to shipping was done. AT Tenant
eisht 1unks were wrecked and a hundred
lives lost. Twelve junks were driven to
sea and lost. The steamer Renso Maru was
piled up on shore.
Among the ships wrecked was the Amer
lcan bark Comet. The crew were saved.
The steamer Cowrie is partially wrecked.
The French steamer Hollow is wrecked on
the beach near Annoy. The German steam
er Trinidad, formerly of the Cunard Line,
was abandoned in the open sea.
Homeward- bound passengers state that
they passed through twenty miles OF
abandoned wrecks, chiefly Chinese junks.
The loss of life must have been enormous.
A dispatch from Vancouver, B. c., yes
terday says: Newspapers received here by
the steamer Empress of Japan, which ar
rived this morning from Hong Kongl and
Yokohama. publish the amazing statement
that Lii Hung Chang and the Dowager
Empress of China have been secretly mar
ried.