The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1900-03-08

OPPONENTS OF THE MANCHUS IN
ARMS AGAINST THE EMPRESS.
Latter Said to Have Appealed to Rus.
STA for Help-PrOtest from Japan
Other Oriental News.

VICTORIA, B. c., March 7.-According
to Asiatic advices by the steamer Empress
of India the recent coup detat of the EN-
press dowager Of China. in which the EN-
peror, Kwang Su. was dethroned and the
six-year-old son of Prince Tuan named as
his successor. bids fair to embroil the
Celestial empire in civil war. At Swallow
the Chinese are already in revolt and in
many other parts of the empire they are
taking up arms against the Empress and
the Manchus. The reform party, which is
at the head of the movement to foment
rebellion, is in receipt of a telegram from
Kang Yu Wei, sent from Singapore, in
which he says he can raise an army of
forty thousand. The China Gazette says
the Empress dowager and her advisers,
being afraid Of revolution in Peking
have applied to the Russian government
for help, and that the Japanese govern
ment has protested. kilograms from
Peking to japanese papers say it is re-
ported that Russia has sent warships to
the mouth of Yalu river.
Other Chinese advices on the same SUBJ
ject say that in effecting the reinforcement
of Kaung HUI on jan. "a the Empress
dowager practically forced the monarch to
be the author of his own undoing to the
extent of renouncing the throne. proclaim
ing new Emperor and practically assert
ing himself a usurper by stating that his
election to succeed Tung Chin had been
discovered Illegal. The decree of renuncia-
ton says in part: "Now be it also known
that when selected to the throne 1t was
then agreed that If ever we should have a
son that son should be proclaimed heir to
the throne; but ever since last year QS9S)
we have been constantly Ill, and it was for
this reason that the Empress dowager gra-
ciously acceded to our urgent prayers and
took over the reins of government in order
to instruct us in our duties. A year has
now passed and still find ourselves an
invalid, but ever keeping in our mind that
We do not belong to the direct line of sue
cesson, and that for the sake of the safety
of the empire of our ancestors legal heir
should be selected to the throne, we again
prayed the Empress dowager TO carefully
choose from among the members OF impe-
rial clan such one, and this she has done
in the person of Pu Chin, son of Tsai vi,
Prince Tuan, second order.
Advices from Yokohama, under date of
Feb. 10, report that the approaching mar
rfage of the prince imperial is absorbing
popular attention, TO the practical exclu-
sion of other interests The ceremony will
entail. IL Is said, an expenditure of nearly
100000 yen. The date of the wedding is not
yet fixed. According to the usual custom,
many prisoners who have been serving
long sentences will be pardoned.
Toxic has recently been somewhat in a
state of siege. An army of four hundred
irate peasants, whose farms had been de-
stroyed by the poisonous exhalations of
the great Ashio copper mines, advanced on
the city for the purpose OF presenting de-
mands for the abatement of their griev-
ances The passage of the Tatgamt river
was disputed by large force OF police and
the farmers were finally routed and turned
back.
The Japanese Diet has passed bill per-
| hitting foreigners to engage in mining in
Japan.
Mount Asama, one of the principal vol
| canoes in activity in Japan. which has of
| late been showing unusual signs of disturb
| ance, was, on Feb o. the scene of a ter
rife explosion, followed by a continuous
| uproar. which at the time of the latest
| kilograms before the mail closed had not
| vet ceased. There has been of late a series
| of slight earthquake shocks in Yokohama
| and vicinity. and predictions of serious dis
| turbances have been rife among the old
residents.
Very unexpectedly the United States bat
| tleship Oregon arrived In Yokohama har-
| Dor on the 10Th OF February. She undoubt-
eddy is the most impressing warship that
| ever visited that port and elicits adnlira-
| ton from the Japanese as well as from
foreigners.
| The Asaki Shimbun says the Emperor OF
| Korea was greatly perturbed at the cir
| culation of a statement that certain Amer
| lean citizens I'm Seoul were taking part In
a conspiracy TO overthrow the imperial
| form of government and substitute a re-
| public The present adviser 10 the Korean
government, who. like his predecessors. is
| an American was expressly referred &c
| as the leader I'm the alleged conspiracy
| and the Cabinet placed some credence in
| this story. The United States minister
was called upon for an explanation. but
| succeeded In convincing the Emperor thai
his suspicious were unfounded.