The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-11-16
A SERIES Of MURDERS
Chinese Peasants Get Their Re-
vepge on officers.
NATIVES ARE RIOTING
French Jealousy in South China-Russia
Has a Schems-A Harbor to Be Re-
Observation-Disclosures Bigotry
at Shanghai.

Oriental advices:
Just before the steamer sailed a
series of murders We're reported COM
mitted in Shangtung, China, the vic
Tins being subordinate Chinese Off
Gals. The murders were in revenge for
alleged high-handed treatment of Chi
nese peasants by army officers.
Serious rioting by Chinese is reported
from Koknox On in Kiangse. Houses
occupied by missionaries were stoned
and afterward fired, while the station
there was destroyed. All the mission
aries were safely taken to adjoining
stations.
Stories are current respecting the dis
play of French jealousy in South China.
The Hong Kong correspondent OF the
Courier d'Haiphong mentions piracy
prevailing in the Canton Delta and
goes on to say that 1.-The English, who
never miss a good opportunity, have
made this state of affairs a pretext for
sending gunboat UP the West river"
The same paper says that the English
wish to police kwangtung and kwangsi
for their exclusive profit, as was done
in Egypt, and advises the French gov
eminent to take all necessary meas
ures in order that they may not ope-
rate alone. 1t is reported at Hong
Kong that the French consuls there
and at Canton have urgently requested
the dispatch of a gunboat from Saigon.
The Osahi states that Lii il Shoku and
four other Coreans, who recently ar
rived at NagaSaki, are said to have
come to Japan for the purpose of assas-
sinating Ii Shoku Yeo. and Vel Ju and
Yu Kitsu Shun. Corean refugees in ia
pan, by command of the newly appoint
ed director of police in Seoul.
The Kobe Chronicle refers to a
scheme of the Russian government to
form an Eastern Asiatic steamship
company with view to open commun-
ication between the Port Arthur Man
churian railway and Vladivostock and
various other ports in the far East.
The service. it is stated, will shortly
be open between Vladivostock and Port
Arthur
The same paper quotes the manager,
who has been to Chenulosh to take
charge of the branch to be opened there,
stating that the new steamship COM
pany is very closely connected with the
East China railway proposition, the
two being practically one concern. The
new steamship company had purchased
the right of the government subsidy
from Sherverloff & Co., who will discon-
tinue their steamship business after
this year. Ten steamers, it is said, will
be put on the line.
Efforts are being made to reconstruct
the harbor of Woo Sung. The neces-
sary funds are being raised by public
subscription. The Chinese government
has agreed to grant a subsidy.
The imperial railway from Lou Kow-
CHA to Pao Ting Flu, so miles in length,
has been accepted by a Belgian syndi-
cate and is now being operated.
The Japan Times understands that
the Japanese government has practi-
cally decided to give a guarantee to
the Fusan-Seoul railway undertaking
and that an item of this account will
probably be inserted in the budget for
the coming year. The time of the guar
antee will be 6 per cent.
Shanghai is excited over the charges
of religious bigotry in its municipal
council The city of Shanghai main
tains crematory, to which is attached
the chapel. A Japanese rate payee APP
piled to have the corpse of a japanese
later cremated there and to be allowed
to hold religious services in the chapel.
The cremation was allowed, but the APP
plicant was told that he must have
general service outside the chapel in
the open air, as no other than Prot
estant could be allowed at the chapel.
Personal unpopularity of Marquis Ito.
the Japanese statesman, is being evil
denced by many public indignities. AT
Kanazawa recently some person threw
a stone at the train of Marquis Ito
The marquis was uninjured.
The United States cruiser Yorktown is
at Sandkan. Her tender, the gunboat
Albany, it to be kept cruising around
the Palawan coast for the next month
or two.
Chinese students continue to be sen,
TO Chinese schools at Toxic, where there
are now upwards of 800 Chinese taking
the japanese course of study.
plan is being advocated for the dis
patch of British mails to India, China
and Australia by a new route. Instead
of the overland journey to Brindisi and
shipping of the mails there. it is pro-
posed to establish an overland route to
Salonica. where the mails will be put
on board a steamer for Port Said. Mails
will be transported by rail and stean-
boat to OStend and thence conveyed by
the Orient express directly through TO
Salonica. A fast line Of steamers is to
be founded for the service between
Salonica and Port Said and the trip will
be shortened y hours.
Elaborate experiments in wireless
telegraphy have recently been con-
Quoted by the Japanese government.
Successful results have invariably been
obtained and the communications de-
partment will put the system into per
manent operation between IdZo Point
and Mikami island a distance OF niue
miles.
The Kankow-Canton railway is now
regarded as a certainty, contracts ful
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the proviso that work would be com
rnenced within six months.
The financial condition Of the Honi
Kong colony disclosed by the 1900 est
mates have given rise to jubilation. I
is estimated that the present year wi
close with a surplus of 100000,
1t is evident from the tone Of Japa
and China newspapers that the relG
tions between Russia and JaDan Ell
far from amicable, official statement
to the contrary Notwithstanding. A
an indication is the positive statemer
emanating from Shanghai that the Ru!
sian government protested 20 the Oh
nese government against Chinese sto
dents being sent to Japan, also again
the engagement of Mr.. Yaono as az
visor to the Chinese government al
against japanese officers being engage
TO train Chinese students
The latest development just prior
the sailing of the E,mpresS is the repo