Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-02-14

dred Japs at Bay for an Entire
NIGHT, Though Only Armed With
Canes : The Shanghai Recorder
Deplores the Partition of China.
Various News Items from the
Orient.
San Francisco, February 13-The
oriental and Occidental Steamship
Company's steamer Gaelic arrived to-
5av from Hong Kong. Yokohama and
honolulu, bringing the following Ori-
,atal advices:
The Hong Kong Telegraph says that
continued trouble is being reported
ION vessels manned by Japanese
crews, the Japanese resenting any in
stfuctions or surveillance from Euro
mean officers, and reserving an espec-
Nj grudge for European passengers.
several cases have been reported
where officers already marked for at
lack by the Japanese were warned to
withdraw from the service their reten-
ron Of their positions being invariably
followed by
a MURDEROUS ATTACK
rom ambushed Japanese enemies. A
case in point is reported from the
n. Y X liner Hakata Maru. from
Japan via Hong Kong for England.
n f,.EVr icrnt
board the liner, many Of whom gere
repeatedly attacked by the japanese
crew whenever they left their own
state rooms after nightfall. On New
Years day the Telegraph says all the
Japanese sailors and walters mad
drunk. and clad only in breech-
cloths, made an organized attack on
the English officers and passengers of
the Hakata Maru.
knives, crow bars and Delaying pins,
brutality beat the chief engineer and his
assistant and attacked a passenger,
Thomas Hall, in his berth, cutting his
head open with marlin pin. Ac-
cording to the account in the Tele-
graph the officers and most of the pas
sengers were driven to the bridge,
where unarmed forty Englishmen
kept one hundred drunk, maddened
Japanese at bay
DURING THE ENTIRE NIGHT
by brandshing their walking sticks.
Tile Shanghai Recorder deplores any
partition OF China, which, it says, Will
artainiy be unfavorable to missionary
work. adding that it will be a sad
hing. not only for China, bur for all
concerned, if the powers undertake
such action, predicting that PARTITION
would be the beginning OF unending
strife and bloodshed. The Recorder
calls upon Great Britain to interfere,
and say that China shall not be di
Eided, but that she shall be reformed
and saved, predicting that, in such in
reference England would have the
support of Japan and active acqui-
essence of the United States.
Three Chinese were hanged stimuli
,ane0usly in the Victoria jail at Hong
Kong on January 18th, the drop being
made to accommodate all three and the
ulo falling together. The executed
2lsa We're members of all armed gang
d shop thieves, and in raiding a store
klled a Chinese empioye. The Grim
mails were
DISBANDED SOLDIERS.
The chartered transport Julun6a,
from Hong Kong, arrived at Singapore
January 9Th. bringing the First bat
talon Prince of Wales own, and TAX
Ing away the same day the departing
rife brigade.
Noyasu Shon, founder of the Yomi-
ufi Shimbuna, one Of the Oldest papers
u Japan in 1874 died on January
lll aged sixty-three. He was for
u7ry junior secretary of the foreign
Office He started the first mutual life
iHsurance association in Japan, and
among other achievements edited the
best Fnglish-Japanese dictionary OF
It's day in 1878
kenichi Otoye, who is under arrest
III San Francisco for the embezzie-
ment of $1,000 yen from Savre Brandt,
Of Osaka, is also suspected of forgery,
and the foreign Office has communicat-
~ With Minister Hoshi with regard to
AS oXtraaition.
As soon as
lHE RATIFICATION TREATY
prh France has been exchanged, the
oale Of the standard and conventional
Tariffs will be notified to the foreign
powers and the tariffs themselves put
mo operation, The receipts for the
coming fiscal year commencing April
ST are therefore estimated to be an
fatro2se of six million yen.
re lochi Shibun says that . communi-
'A q was originally made by the Japan
government TO the foreign powers.
the object Of placing Formosa be-
yong ;he pale of the new treaty, but as
Great Britain and one other power
ntcd thereto. Japan decided to carry
OIL. the new treaties in Formosa alone.
le celebration Of the coming of the
a-.a Crown Prince Haruna- Miya, which
WAS postponed last year owing to the
mourning for the late Empress
Do"aser will be held in March.
aapan foreign trade during the month
" December last was as follows; EX-
E's' ls 2l5.162 yen; imports. 11,17O163 yen.
| exports of gold and silver bullion
amounted to 6,53a3e2 yen. and the imports
"tflS2 yen