The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1901-01-10
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Victim Had Both Ba-
cilli and Typhoid
Fever.
TWO HUNDRED pEDplE DRoWNED
cAPsIzED WHILE STEAMER IN
TOW WAS MAKING
SHARP TURN.
Murder Of Lieutenant Watts-Jones-
Yankee eiuejaekets and German
seamen From Gunboat irene Have
Saloon Battle-other News.

| The latest papers from the Orient
arriving last evening by the Hongkong
Maru contain great deal OF very i'm
portant news.
| A patient in the hospital of the Osa-
| ka Medical School. named Full Rogu-
raj, died December "a. according to
the Japan Gazette. and the post-mor-
1 tenn examination showed the presence
of plague bacilli. From cold feverish
symptoms appeared and the man was
taken into the hospital The medical
examinations and experiments all
showed symptoms of typhoid fever.
and the patient was treated accord
ingly. The temperature increased,
and more pronounced symptoms OF ty-
phoid fever were observed. A post
mortem examination vas made, when
certain swellings resembling those OF
plague were discovered and subjected
to microscopic examination. Numer
Gus plague bacilii then appeared It
is supposed that the patient was suf-
fering from both plague and typhoid
fever at the same time. No similar
case has been previously recorded in
Japan.
The steam-launch Samchow left
Shin Hing for Canton December 10,
taking in tow passenger-boat with
about 500 passengers. She was of light
draught and flimsily built. On turning
the corner of Ho Kao creek. some
where near Yung kee, as she was run
ming with full speed, her rudder was
broken The passengers in the lower
deck. startled by the rumbling noise.
became frightened and made a rush
to the upper deck. The upper part
being over-weighted. the launch lurch-
ed to one side and threw the passen-
gers into the water; over two hundred
of them were drowned, and the rest
were saved by other boats that passed
by. The committees of the kwong
Chat and Oi Yuk hospitals have had
malsheds DunI near the spot to find
the dead bodies and provide them with
collins and burial.
Evidence has been produced that
Lieutenant Watts-Jones was murdered
after four days inhuman torture, eight
marches beyond Kalgan. He was the
companion of the late ]. Grant Birch
on the fatal trip on the Hoang-ho.
Nothing has been heard of Lieutenant
Watts-Jones since he left Ning-hsia,
where he made the statement con-
corning the death of J. Grant Birch,
Ito meet the possibility" as he pro-
phetically wrote, of my being killed
between here and Peking."
A collision took place between ten
blue-jackets from the German ship
Irene and thirty Al erican soldiers N
bar at Nagasaki Christmas eve. The
Americans pushed the Germans out
of doors. A few minutes later the
Germans. armed with clubs, returned
with reinforcements. numbering some
$50 in all, and attacked the Americans,
who defended themselves with bot
ties. About fliteen constables were
dispatched to the scene, and they sue
ceeded in suppresSing the disturb
ance Nobody was seriously hurt.
The Shiga Prefectural Assembly
December IS adopted a motion to
make a representation to both houses
of the Diet. calling on the government
to undertake the work of cutting a
canal from the north end Of Lake BIZ
wa to the coast of the Japan Sea in
order to allow steamers to pass from
the Japan Sea to the Pacific via Lake
Biwa. This would involve the making
of a large canal from Lake Biwa to
Osaka bay.
The crew of the ship Topgallant was
discharged in Manila December 4. On
the arrival of the ship in port week
previously, owing to stress of weather, |
the men refused duty on the ground |
that the vessel was unseaworthy. and |
although the surveyor pronounced the
ship safe they remained obdurate. The |
captain threatened them with years
Imprisonment, but eventually paid
them on
About O'Clock on Christmas day |
rather severe and prolonged shock of
earthquake was felt in Yokohama
The vibration lasted almost a minute. |
Severe earthquake shocks were expe-
rienced about the same time at Hako-
date, Sendai. Fukushima, and the
December % a hatch of sailors De-
longing to the British steamer Mace
don. lying at Moji. came In collision
with number OF Japanese on the
Bund. with the result that two foreign
ers were badly injured.
The Chuo SAYS that. the specie re-
serve of the Bank of Japan having
been greatly reduced owing to the ex-
odus OF gold. the bank has commenced
selling in London Is million yen OF
foreign consois through the medium
Of the Yokohama Specie Bank.
A man named Suzuki Takujiro
strangled his son. aged s. in an inn
at Hachobori, Toxic December g.
The cause OF the crime was extreme
poverty.