The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-08-02

| An earthquake shock was felt in Yoko-
hama at 10:40 D. m. the 21st ult lasting
| for % seconds
1t is reported that cholera has been
! spreading in VIII, town on the Korea
Manchurian boundary
| The total number of cholera cases dis
covered in Kobe up to date is twelve, of
which eight proved fatal, four having re-
covered.
A traveller who has just returned to
Nagasaki from North China, says that it
seems almost certain that Wei-hai-wei Will
be renamed Edward after the Corona
ton
During the week ended on the 23Td
inst there were 40 cases and "a deaths
from plague; 10 cases of cholera, wi
deaths; non-fatal cases OF enteric fever;
and 1 case of smallpox
Bishop 1nnocente has been appointed
chief of the Russian Orthodox Mission
at Picking sum of E16,5o0 has been
granted to the Bishop to restore the Mis-
sion, and the maintenance grant has been
doubled.
| The Diplomatic Corps at Picking on the
14th inst. arranged the final distribution
| of the It's $50. 100000 War Indemnity, by
reducing in proportion the claims or each
| of the interested States. This agreement
was made unanimously.
| Count Mutsu Hirokichi, successor OF
the late Foreign Minister. who has been
transferred to Washington from Rome
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Japanese Legation. will leave Italy for his
destination in September. without return
| ing home
The ten steel gunboats now under con
struction for the American Government
at the building-yards of Messrs- 5. Z.
Farnhar & Co., Ltd, Shanghai. are rap
/ idly approaching completion The ooats
will be used on the Philippine coast, one
being intended as a lighthouse tender for
the Philippine Archipelago
| Three battIeships of the Japanese
standing Squadron. the Hatsuse, Asahi
and Emil. are now In Aomori bay. All the
other ships belonging to the squadron
| will assem- bic at Aomori by the END OF
| this month and then start TO practice
exercises in the Tsugaru Strait, the cnan-
mel between the main land and Hohkaluo-
| Two cases of cholera were discovered
!, Eb;me Prefecture on the 21st inst.
| seven fresh cases occurred in Mol on
the goth and 21st. A case was found on
the s1st in Nagasaki, Fukui and Saga On
the same day the discovery or TWO pa
tients was made Hikojima island on
iShimonoseki. One OF the suHerers sue
lcunlbed to the epidemic
violent explosion took place in the
| praye-yard of the Muryoin temple, To-
salxi-cho, Koishikawa-ku. Tokyo, about 8
O'clock on Friday afternoon IWeh'S
three tomb stones were smashed in pieces
| md adjoining houses sustained damage.
| h,,t NO loss of life occurred. The cause
of the explosion is not exactly known.
though it is thought that some one hao
placed some explosive in the yard
| Poisonous butterflies have appeared in
the neighborhood of GinZa-dori OF kyo-
bashi Ward and also in TSukiJu- Ihelr
Rte causes much harm to human beings
TWO Of them wandered into kshida S
drug store aid were caught by the store
keeners who at once sent them 10 the
! Kvobashf Police Station They were
found TO be the same kind of buttert1es
as appeared in Miyagi Prefecture some
years ago.
The pilgrims to Mt. Full are cautioned
Mt 70 60 near the villages called Suba-
sbiri Nakabatake, Suyama, etc. in the
neiehborhood of which target practice Is
hei1e carried out by the Imperial GUARDS
for the authorities have notified the pub
lie that they will not be responsible 1oI
4 the death of those who ignoring the eau
tion get killed by the flying bullets Inc
n DANGEROUS practice will come to close
on the 9Th inst.
A disheartening report is to hand
1rbirtaep cases of cholera including foul
deaths occurred in the prison of Fuku-
oka Kvushu. on the Bird inst. There Is
a e,lsDicion that the appearance or Inc
cases was kept secret at first. The eN-
crernent of the patients were carried &c
% different places and the casks that car
ried them were cleansed IN the tshi''
| it.s- that flows into the city of Haka-a
The discovery OF this extraordinary cen
durt created a panic among the nh;ihit
60 ~ that CITY. Embellishments com
I.iI yycs summoned at once and resoiu
ton that carboiic acid should ne pou: &c
into tha river was adopted instantly.