Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-02-09
ADvICES FROM
THE ORIENT
Six Men Swept Overheard From
a Steamer.
THE CHINESE REBELS ACTS
Several Hundred Children Were
Drowned BY Them.- China Must
Resist the French.

Vancouver. B.. c., FEB. 9.-The Empress
of Japan arrived yesterday from Hong
Kong and Yokohama. Mail advices say
that the steamer Kinshiu Maru, which
sailed from Seattle. Dee. %. lost six men
overheard on her trip across. When TWO
DAYS out the wind blew a gale from the
northeast with mountainous seas. Some
of the crew, led by Mr.. Laprack, chief
officer, were securing hatch covers ana
all movable fiXings on the afterdeck Wnen
a very heavy sea broke on board, COM
pletely filing the afterdeck and Washlng
overheard the apprentice, officer and four
sailors. Captain Brady at once put about
in search of the men, but could not find
them. Several cOmpanionways OF the
Kinshiu Maru were carried away, besides
large pieces of bulwarks.
Lord Beresford left Yokohama Janu-
airy % for San Francisco on the steamer
American Maru.
Chinese rebels recently captured kuei-
fu. Several hundred children under the
care of Roman Catholics were seized and
drowned. Later advices from Formosa
state that the insurgents We're finally
repulsed at Choshuhua by the ~vanguards.
who sacked the city; also 50 insurgents
were wounded.
At Kobe on January Is the City of Pc
king narrowly escaped total loss by col
liding with the Japanese gunboat Amagl.
A number of her lifeboats and davits and
20 feet of bulwarks rail were carried
away. Passengers say the order main
tanned on board at the time of the col
lision was splendid and they pay high
tribute to Capt. Smiths GOODNESS and sea-
manship.
Sir Claude Macdonald has obtained Of
fetal assurance from the tSung Ii yamen
that China will not ALLEVIATE northern ex-
tension railway to any foreign power
Dispatches received from Hang Chow
report a rising among a rowdy class be-
longing to the TunS Luhsien, Yenshow
Prefecture of Chehiang, against the ma
tive converts of the American mission. re-
sulting in the burning of the mission
chapel and the wounding Of two converts.
1T is stated that the project to extend the
branch of the Hankow-Canton railway
to Fukien. for which Americans agreed
to advance a loan, has been abandoned.
Lieutenant Hohson passed through
Kobe on his way to Manila. He delivered
an address to the young peoples. society
connected with the various Christian mis-
stons. At the conclusion of his address
the Merrlmac hero was accorded an Ova-
ton, all the children rising and shouting
banzai for the American officer. 1t is
learned from official sources tina the jap
anese government intends to make no dis.
tinctlcn between the subjects of the var.
lous powers III the matter of travel after
E July.
A Peklng dispatch states thai the Brit.
lsh government has advised the Chinese
government not to concede the extension
OF the French settlement at Shanghai un.
der any circumstances, adding that Grea'
Britain will assist China to oppose an,
pressure and resist any threats France
may exercise.
Russian troops stationed at Port Ar.
thur to the number Of 10000 Were prepar
ing to poss the winter under tents. OW
ing to the severe weather the tents afford
scant shelter to the men, great number
or whom are suffering from frost bites
Several have died. The c~ommander-in
chef has IN consequence given instruc
tons for the erection of barracks.