Mesa free press., 1898-04-01
FROM FOREIGN LANDS.

FROM FOREIGN LANDS.
Owing to change in their pay day
500 Japanese are on strike in To-
mioka.
Four hundred patients have died of
starvation in one Havana hospital dur
ing the past two months.
DR.. Sven Hedin, the Swedish ex-
plorer. has been received in Paris with
almost as much attention as was ac-
corded to Nansen.
Ii Hung Chang has just celebrated
his 10th birthday anniversary. He
was entertained by number of high
officials at the An-whei club.
President Dole, when interviewed
after his return to Honolulu expressed
the opinion that annexation was popu-
lar with the American people.
The Minister for the Colonies, M.
Lebon, has refused the petition of Nine.
Dreyfus, wife of the former Capt Drey-
fus, to share the latter's imprisonment.
News from West China says that rs
per cent of the girl babies are killed
in the walled city of Chao-tung-fu, and
the bodies thrown over the wall at
night.
An earthquake has destroyed the
town of Amboina, capital of Ambolina
Island, one of the Malacca group. Hun
dreds of natives were killed and 1000
! injured
/ The British battleship Victorious,
which recently left England for the
! China station, ran aground at Suez,
February 1S, and to get off had to dis
charge her coal and her guns.
David w. Ramsdell, who has just
died in Vermont, in 1861 received a
package of government seeds. One pc
culiar variety of grass grown he called
Norway oats" In ten years he made
$3,OOO,oO0 from its sale, but he died in
poverty.
Owing to a rupture of the combina-
tion between the United Steamship
companies running from Japan to
European ports, a rate war has been
started, and freights have already
been reduced from 80 shillings to %
shillings.
The Austrian consul, Frederick
Berndes, recently contributed $500 to
help build Spanish warship. The
Spanish masses consider this an evil
dence of Austrian support The consul
is alarmed and explained that the con-
tributlOn was private one. The in
cident may cause correspondence be-
tween America and Austria.
| A dispatch from Shanghai states that
Russia informed China that the latters
delay in replying to the Russian de-
mands would be construed as an ac-
quiescence in the Russian occupation
of Port Arthur. Sir Claude Mcdonald,
the British Minister at Peking, is said
to be urging China to resist.
The Korean financies will hereafter
be managed by Russian bankers re-
siding at the capital, Seoul All the
will henceforth be conducted by the
Russo-Korean bank, which was opened
at Seoul, February 13, with a capital of
| 100000. On the first day that the bank
was open for business the Korean
treasury. deposited 100000 with the
Russian financiers.
Since the adoption of gold mono
metallism in Japan, October 1, 1897,
up to and including February II, 1898,
the amount of silver and notes ex-
changed for gold has aggregated 22,-
100000 yen, of which one-seventh was
silver. In order to facilitate the ad-
justment of coinage the government
has resolved to shorten the period for
exchanging the yen price, which will
be limited to June 30, next.
According to advices received from
Paris the largest and best equipped
balloon ever constructed is being made
ready for journey to the North Pole
and the rescue Of Aeronaut Andree
1t will be in charge of the famous
French aeronauts, Louis GODDARD and
Edouard Surcof. The most original
feature of this balloon will be a sys-
tenn of ten small reservoir balloons. It
will be much larger than that used by
Andree and will be called La France.
It will be capable of remaining sixty
days in the air.
Arrangements are in progress to dis
continue number of the relief stations
in Havana, which are open only at GER
tain hours, and to establish one large
central station, which will be open for
relief at all hours of the day, and four
suburban stations. Lists have been Sc
cured of the names of the towns near
Havana of the number of their inhabi-
tants and of the destitution in each.
These lists will be extended through
out Cuba, to embrace all the localities
where suffering exists. A careful esti-
mate 1t is hoped will be made of the
total number to be provided for, SO
that the amount and variety of the
daily rations can be fixed according to
the money available.