The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1898-11-29
JAPANESE SPIES SHOT
RUSSIAN SOLDIERS
Found. Within the For,incaaions at Port
Arthur Securing Drawings-other
Oriental Hapnenlngn

| FlCTOHiA, u. G., Nov. U.--Tho steam
or olsnogle has arrived hers after
templuouS passage, bringing an interest
| Ing budget Of news from The resides
east. From Tien Tsin comes news whlcl
shows that japan has decided 10 rests
Russian aggression. She u preparin,
70 drive tho czars troops, from corea
and 70, this end large detachments o
troops are being landed IN the Hermit
kingdom.
News Is also at hand from Tieu Tse,
that q large number OF japanese splel
have ben captured by the Russians a
Port Arthur and shot Seven Japanese
all officers OF the imperial japanese army
were taken, and on their persons wer,
found drawings Of the principal ferti.
ficasions. But q day elapsed after tbeil
capture before, they were marched out be.
fore firing party Of Russians ana sum
marfly shot.
The. rebels in Chung King, according 10
advlces BY the Glenogie. are incroaslng
IN power daily. The Tung LAans and
How Chow railway "a completely Under
rthelr control They have compelled we'll
to-do people to provide them with money
and provisions and are making weapons
day and night Merchants in Chung
Kiang have wired TO Shanghai and other
ports stopping the shipment OF goods.
The rebels are. daily committing .atroci-
lies Of every sort and kind. One Of their
leaders, vi, went TO the governor Of
Lung sluri Chin and demanded a large
sum OF money. was refused. and the reb-
els. 200 strong. pIundered the town. kill
ing hundreds. Two days afterwards they
went to Tung Lang and demolished all
the houses Of the christians. massaereIng
those who tried 70 escape. with shocking
brutality. They then declared that they
had gone to that city especially to op-
pose foreigners and christians. Others,
they said, we're not 10 be moIested unless
they offered resistance.
Two French priests and a missionITy
Of the c. N. 8. had gone to the magis-
trate's yemen for shelter and late in the
afternoon the rebels went TO the magis-
trate and asked that they be delivered
up. The magistrate refused. but they
afterwards relented and allowed the reb-
els to enter the yemen 70 take the mis-
siOnaries. The Methodist had a revolver
and he was at once killed. The two
French priests were bound and carried
away as prisoners. The rebels then
retired TO Wang Choa Tung. They are.
It Is said. seizing and numbering christi
ans almost daily.
According to reports from chemulpo
matters have reached a grave crisis in
Corea-
The emperor is being worried to death
with petitions by the independence clut
who are forcing VI nand to dismiss somt
OF the higher ministers. when the whole
phalanx OF 'hs Independence club win in,
wade the palace and take charge Of ths
governments affairs
The execution OF the unfortunates ac-
cused OF the attempt TO poison the emper-
or was a CHASTITY affair. The doomed
were taken from the scaffold on which
they were to have been executed. BY a
mob. Then began one OF the most grue-
some exhibitions Of sayagery and blood
thlrstiness ever seen in any land. The
condemned men were actually torn to
pieces by the mob and even when life
was eytinct the most devilish indignitles
imaginable were heaped on the mangIed
ond bleeding remains,