The Northern News. — 1898-10-15 (Carlisle, Cumbria, England)

REIGN OF TERROR IN CHINA.  The Shanghai correspondent of the "Times,' telegraphs :—Huang, formerly Consul at Singapore and lately Minister-designate to Japan, was arrested here on Monday by order of the Empress Dowager 1:n conneotion with the Reform movement. The nature of the punishment intended for him is uncertain. The recent edicts have been issued on the sole authority of the Empress Dowager, whose general proscription of the Progressives constitutes a reign of terror. The ootnments of the native press are guarded, but there is sufficient indication that all classes except the higher officials are in sympathy with the Emperor's attempted_ reforms.  The' Pekin correspondent of the "Times" telegraphed on Monday.—To-day the manager of the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank and Hu Yu Fen, Director of Railwayq, signed the final contract for a 5 per cent sterling loan of 132,250,000 for the continuation of the Northern Railway to Newohwang and Hai Ming Ting. The total length is to be 260 miles, and the line is to be oompleted within three years by the present Administration. The security is a Government guarantee, and a charge on the railway from Pekin to Shan Hai Kwan. which is already open. The oontract complies with the eonditions imposed by M. Pavloff and accepted by England, namely, that the proposed extension north of the Great Wall should not be given as security, and that no foreign control of the railway north of the Great Wall should be conceded. At the same time, a final agreement was signed for a valuable coal imining concession near the proposed railway north of the Great Wall.  litse Duchess of Rutland has been a total abstainer for several yearti. Lord Charles Bereeked and smite hiss left Shanghai for the northern ports. The Grenadiers are accepting many invitations to theatres and music-halls.  Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman, who is in 'Vienna, has been indisposed, but is better. A Teddington clerk hazed a boat on the river, and found deed in it next morning. It is stated tha.t the Czar will leave Copenhagen next Sunday on his return to Russia. The Yarmouth Board of Guardians are grapegrowers, and find some difficulty in disposing f the fruit.  There have been 470 eases of yellow fever and 36 dea.this in the State of Mississippi since the outbreak of that disease.  The Bishop of Chester is confined to the Palace suffering from a chill, and his engagements for the next few days have been cancelled. The Right Hon. Joseph Chamberlain has arrived at New York from the home of hi wife's relations, en route for England. He will sail shortly. Col. Martin, of the 21st Lancers, who has returned to Farehain, called on the mothers of two soldiers Who were wounded in the *barge of Omdurman. A coroner's jury at Marylebone held an inquiry on a (quid alleged to have died from vaccination. Verdict, "Death from blood-poisoning after vaccination."  . - During a heavy thunderstorm on Tuesday at Preston, a ma-n named John James Holmes, of Frenohwood-st., was struck dead by lightning, his face being terribly scorched. The Right Rev. Monsignor Fogalll, Bishop of Bhengtee, China, who has arrived in London, has adopted the Chinese habit of wearing the pigtail, in addition to the Chinese ooetume.  The Duchess of Rutland opened a reading-room at Stoney Middleton, near Etakewell, erected by Lady Denman, and unveiled a portrait of the late Lord Denman. The Duobees took a present of books, and said Lord Saliebury and the late Lord Mayor of London had also sect volumes. Upwards of 100 chiefs have been arrested in Sierra Leone, and are awaiting their trial in Freetown Gaol, for complicity in the recent murders of American missionaries and others. Their capture was effected some time ago, o.nd the notorious ringleader. Alexander Dooossbecr. is among the number.  A return of the number of accidents which have occurred during shunting operations to employes on the raihirs,ys of the United Kingdom-during the ten years ending 1897 is issued as a Parliamentary paper. It is stated that in 1888 the proportion t:f men killed was one lin 185 brakemen and goods guards employed, and one in 224 shunters. In 1897 the proportion was one in 264 and one in 203 re. speotively.  The Imperial Bank of Germany ha .s raised its rate of discount from 4 to 5 per cent., and the rate of interest on advances from 5 to 6 per cent. A farmer's son named Bellingham, and two labourers zalled Paris and Parks, were committefl for trial at Mailing, Kent, on Monday, charged with refusing to assist a police constable, who had called upon them in the Queen's name dur;ng a deqperive struggle -with a man who eventually succeeded in making his escape.