Echo from the Past.
DASTARDLY MURDER RECALLED. SUSPECT ARRESTED AT TANO AFTER THREE YEARS HUNT, L,,、,,:
Most people in Hongkong, or at least the majority of them, are of opinion that when a crime is committed in their midst and the pelice, for the time being; are unable to bring the perpetrators to book, they abandon the "chase allegethar. This allegation we basico to contradict. Some three years ago two men and a boy, lome fourteen years of age, were done to death in a most cruel fashion on the hillside neat Shatia. As it will be remembered there was not a single clue telt for the police to act on; but did they aus succeed in
getting the desperadoes and during the trial adduco sufficient evidence to warrant their conviction? "We could bring lörward numerous other cases, illustrating clever police work, but we will coas teat ourselves with dealing with a more CAVA,
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH FRIDAY JANUARY 8 1909.
Murderers Doomed.
SHA-TAU-KOK TRAGEDY
RECOUNTED,
CAUGHT IN CHINESH TERRITORY AND TO BE REHEADED
The curtain falls over the scene of the Sha tau-kok murder mystery..
Your meo, who were arrested on the Chinese borders, in connection with this tragedy, wate hailed before the Namboi magistrate and tried, Aller lengthy evidence had becaled by those who bad been on the scene at the time, the arctic were found guilty and sentenced to or Sba-tau-kok, or it is commonly called, or Sha-tea-kok, as it appears on the map, isa. village on the mainland near Starling Inlet, in Mirs Bay, The population is very small and made up chiefly of fishermen.
ba beheaded.
Standing on the high road, a few minutes' walk from the village, is a little mud-bouse in 0.316 February, 1906-very searly two which lived a middle-aged man, his wife ned an years agoma" thust, shocking tragedy was comoniychild, and they earned their living by selling atitted in the New Territories young Singas tea and cakes to wayfarers. It was in this little porean, the second excine officer of the
but that the dastardly murders were enacted. Opum Fant, by name Chau Beng Chan, was
Early on a November morning the master of Jolly murdered by a gang of armed meo, 10 the 10x shop set out to walk to Cal Po to trans-
his matshed at Taipa.
act some business there, leaving his wife and child to look after the shop, which they had done on many occasions in his absuoca: Tuat robbers had got wind of the shopkeeper's intend ed visit to Tai Po, and that they had planned to loot the premises while he was away was known.only to them.
It was reported at the time that during the
•ensiyondary of the morning a party of armed robbers entered the matshed of the deceased, whot, by their naise, they smoke; when on chaine disturbed in their depredations they
•tură, i on him and after a very evident struggle "between deceased alone and by assailants, be
When the robbery was committed, whether was overpowered, and after disembowelling
in the day or at right, is not known. It is ba him and abarly severing his right arm from
lieved, however, that they forced an entrance the trunk they made off without taking agyinto the shop and proceeded to carry out their thing out of the matshed.
The circumstances pointed to the robbers plan. It can be supporad, in the absence of having either been disturbed in their heicons any eya witnesses, that the woman on. finding the meo in the house and, knowing the pur. work or frightened in some way; for, notwith-
pose of their visit, yelled for help, while the standing the fact that they had already slain
child began to cry. The robber," it is to be their victim and prepared a bundle of loot to
assuined, threatened them to be quiet, but as carry away, that bundle was got removed; but
the order seemed to have been disregarded, was found lying on the ground, and aside the
the mother and her child were seized, thrown matahed, by Bergt. Lander, when he was called
to the floor, while, the robbers proceeded to tie to the scene.
to stop any further calls for assistance thus, strangling their victims. Something like 580 money and goods were removed from the shops. Do leaving, the murderers closed the door carefully behind them in order that they may bide their tracks before the discovery was made.
Matsheds on Fire.
SERIOUS EXPLOSIONS AT.
HUNGHOM.
SIX SHEDS DESTROYED AND DAMAGE.
ESTIMATED AT..$10,000, at
.... 5th init.. Last evening, au wa'were going to press, the news roached us of a serious fire which bad broken out across the water, but owing to the lite bout we were unable to obtain any detail. ed particulars beyond reporting briefly the fact of the outbreak in our last issue,
The Opium Question.
AN EXTREMIST VIEW,
LECTURE BY REV. E, W. TRWING. We have received a copy, reproduced below, of a "fecture on the opium question, by Rev. E. W. Thwing, special secretary of The Inter national Reform Bureau, and Delegate from Hawaii to the Opium Conference, delivered at 4 MAXI meeting of the Chinese Y.M.C.A., beld in Canton, Monday, January 4, 1939. The words within inverted commas are as written on the copy forwarded to us. It will have boen soted in our special telegram from Shang hai yesterday that Hawaii has not been invited to the Conference and that the Rev. E. W. Thwing can bave no official standing thereat,
The text of the lecture as received by us is as follows:-
tities of the drugs are exported from theat
CLEVER BUROLARS,
LINGENIOUS"
ATTEMPT TO ENTER A TOBACCO SHOP, GLON
provinces, so that in roma other parts of the Empire Bo% of the adult males are user of the drug (in many places also one-tenth of the women opium.). There are also "many'
Now Year Eve a year ago a number of burg cases where the aid of the foreigner,la not sought, so that I feel that I have not exaggeraty lars forced an entrance into Messi, Sayce; and Company's tobacco store in Beaconsfield ed in the conclusion that every year in China Arcade and get away with a good haully/Car- half a million people attempt suicide by lous to remort, at the same time think your, mor possibly many more. The majority of the cases are those of, woman who cannot otherwise other visit was paid to the shop, but on this escape the tyranny of cruel husband occasion the thieves got nothing for their pains. At about sight o'clock on the morning of the The opium makes the suicide, possible and easy. It also is the cause of poverty, ruin and at uling when Mr. Jayce went to his business despair, of a wife sold into a life of shame,opte to open up, he was surprised to see the which makes death delirable, Oh the son large pot palm, which is usually placed against | the wall, standing in front of the shop door. row that opium brings to China !
Quickly removing the obstruction, ha examin- ad the door and at the bottom panel go the fight hand side he saw number of holes, ten were counted, which had bean bored, wihan Ainstrument. The door was opănad and in.... stead of finding the plato vin, disorder, Mr. Sayce discovered that the rubbers did not suc- ceed in theit mission, face, the
DRUG STORES ABLAZE": Two
FIRES, AT, WEST POINT AND
EXTENSIVE LOSSES, ** Great damage was done at a fire which cured last: Saturday afternoon att Suther. land Street, West Point. The building in question is wastorey brick structure and was used as a godown, bere expensive Chinore medicines were stored. It was about 5.45 o'clock that fames were seen issuing from the top floor and the pews was promptly commual cated to beadquarters: The fire brigade (Chief Inspector Baker in charge) arrived on the scone when the premises were enveloped in smake and flame, and after some hard work they cucceeded in saving the building. It was discovered later that one bale of medicine was destroyed, while
fire and water,
The damage is estimated at $17,000; and the digs were insured for $65,000 in the London and Lancaster Insurance Company's office.
The fito, and a serious one it was, too, broke out, as stated last evening, in a matshed, which was occupied. by, the contracting firm of Messrs. Kang On and Company, at
OPIUM TRADE TO. AMERICA Hunghom West, News of the outbreak was telephoned to headquarters shortly balore fiva
Twenty years ago I took passage in cus of o'clock, and imminediately the entire fire fight the Pacific, Mailboats for America. I was ing force of the Colony was called out, with
able to leave from Macao, and go on board the Chief Jaspecter Bakerja commood.
steamer by taking a large oplum jusk which The maubed in which the fire broke out was convoying a cargo of opium out to the was situated in Des Vœux.Road, immediately steamer, some distance off from Macao. As opposite the oid calle depot. Oo the right an American, I feel deeply ashamed at this wore five other matsheds, owned by the same.
open violation of the spirit, and possibly the contractor, and which were used to stora.raii.
letter, of the Commercial Treaty, between way stores, which also included a large quan China and the United States, that has been tity of dynamite for blasting purposes,"
That Treaty, signed Nov. 17, 1882, provided, When the firemen reached the scene, the going on for more than twenty years matsheds presented the appearance of an imia Art. If, that "Citizens of the United States mense furnace, and what with the crackling of are not to import opium into any open port of | the dry bamboos and palm leaves, and the China, or, transport from one port. to another. The remainder of the stock was damaged by
occasional explosions from the dynamite, which or buy or sell opium in any of the open ports was to be heard some distance away, the picture of China;" and this also "extends to the yes-
The fireman, who. was a lurid one indeed. were aided by a number of Europeans from the sels owned by the citizens of either power or
to foreign vessels employed by them." Kowloos Docks, Indian soldiers, in charge of
Yet it is an open secret in Hongkong, that their officers, and several European civilians, Americas ships, will clear for Shanghai or made a airdog fight to subdue the now increas Japan and go in Chinese waters to Macao for og flames, which, according to an eye-witno,
a cargo of opium. They thus carry on the leapt to a height of over a hundred feet.
Only two bydrants were in use, and notwith- opium trade in defiance of the spirit of the standing the fact that the force of water was Treaty and to the shame and injury of the American people. His Excellency the Chinese good, four lengths of hose were not sufficient to
Ambassador Tang Shao-yi told me in Honolulu, do much good, especially when the tenements
some six weeks ago, that he felt keenly the fact in the neighbourhood were in danger. The
that the .s. Mongolia, na which be was travel- and its powerful pumps were put to the toil..
of opium valued at over a quarter of a million In hitis or no time, so to speak, the mat.
dollars. This Chinese official has been most sheds were razed to the ground and the fire, active in the Anti-Opium measures in China still burning fiercely, spread to a timber yard,
and he hopes that the true friendship of the setting fire to a aumber of logs. The fact that United States will lead to a hearty co-operation the wind suddeely veered to a favourable direc
in the prohibiting the, opium trade, I feel as tion set aside all anxiety, as it drove the fire
sured that the people of America ara now be coming aroused in the disgrace and the danger of this trade, and that it will soon be stop except for medical uses. The American pasann gars on the ss. Manchuria, recently signed the following petition, to the President of the Dait ed States, which has been sent to Washington. it was a part of the Thanksgiving exercises held on the 5.1. Blanchuria.
It was understood that decansed had pre. pieces of rags round their accks, the idea being fire-float, however, arrived in the nick of time, ling to the United States, was carrying a cargo 3 before they got serious,
viously, been threatened with a violent death and there was po question that the attempted robbery" was merely a bind, used to draw at tention away from those who might be known Io have a grudge against the deceased.
It was a significant fact that a couple of days before the murder was committed po less than six native exciae officers mationed at Tai Po had resigned giving, as a reason for such action, their fear that trouble was brewing for them, while at the same time the deceased's chair coolies bolted without giving notice.
Nearly two-years had passed since then, The ordinary man-in-the-street had forgotten all about it. But the police had mal. For two years and eleven months detectives of the police, deputed to find the murderers, have been on the trail, and last Monday we were given to understand that a suspect had been captured.
The shopkeeper returned in Sha-tau-kok some time the following day and was theader- struck to find the shop closed. He pushed open the door to find out the cause-and the tragedy was koewn. There us the fidei weic the corpses of his wife and child. In the next lew minutes the whole village was thrown into a state of excitement The Shatau-kok police were informed and after the oecossury, jaspec- tion the remains were sent to Kowloon for examination.
Soon after the murders had been committed, detectives goi ca the trail of the murderers and It will not be for a week or so before the tracked them to the borders of the British ter- suspect can be placed on trial, and saineritory. By this time the Chinese authorities teresting particulars are sure to be brought to had been apprised of the matter, which resulted light,
in their capture, and subsequent conviction..
ADRIFT TWELVE DAYS:
KOWLOON CITY ROBBERY.
HEAVY SENTENCKS,
-WITHOUT FOOD AND WATER,
Adrift on the high seas without food and water for twelve days, was the experience last The trial of the three men who committed month of 1. Cobb, a labour contractor in the
the daring robbery on the 21st November last employ of the Philippine Railway. Company, at No. 37, Kowloon City Road, came to a cop- and 150 native labourers whom he was taking clusion at the pupreme Court last Monday.. from Cuyato lloilu,reports the Manila Calicutun Thol Chief Justice (Sir Francis Piggott) pre of tat, ist. Starting at Cuyo early in December sided, while the following jury was empadell on the latcha #fortensia in tow of a launch, theed-Messrs. . T. Richardson, S. J. Fenton, line parted in a storm and the party was driven, Swart, R. Abraham; E. Raymond, G. K. to the west coast of Mindsuno, all alive but Haxton nd R. Auken, destituto,
Two lorchas, each carrying af labourers, started from Cuyo in tow of launchies. The first forche was also adrift, but reached Huilo December 6, They were out of raligau and bad been bungry for half a day. They reported that the other larchiwith Mr. Cobb and party nad left at the same time and could not be found.
The railroad officials took prompt action, assisted by Mr. de la Rama, who dispatched the launch Cosmopolit the following inording with rige on board. The launchi beaded toward Cuyo, but failing to connect with the last lorcha, returned to Iloilo that night.
A second and bird attempt, was made to reach the sorat tossed party expeditions being made as far south as the Cagayanes Islands and to the south west coast of Negros, bat no trace of the lorcha could be found.
Li Y, dae of the women inmates of No. 37 Kowieso City Road, stated that she wake on the morning ja question and was surprised to fiad's man sitting on top of her He served her by the throat and pointed a knife at her. She was too frightened at the time to remember exactly what look place after that.
strings.
away from the ceighbouring dwellings to vacant piece of ground.
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DRUG DRYING CAUSES FIXE. Wert Point's second fire occurred shortly before daybreak on Monday, The flames broke out at, 105, Des Vaux Road, but fortunately the Gre-fighters were on the spot immediately after the outbreak, and were able to tackle matters 106, Des Voeux Road West is a three-storey ed blue brick building. The ground floor is occupied by a bardware merchant, the second floor is unoccupied, while the third and top floor was used as a dwelling house. The site broke out on the top floory caused, it was alleg. ed, by the over-heating of some drugi.. Is the twinkling of an eye the whole floor was ablaze, and as we have already stated the brigade
Boor.
That the scheme to break into the shop was clover one can be understood, han: it is mentioned that the palm was shifted in front of the door so as to conceal the parsan while he proceeded to remove the panel to Admit himself and his colleague. Their tailare to complete the task shows that they were diss turbed. The matter was reported to the police. But if the" robbers intend onlyita aniny, hir.. Sayca once a year, and that on New Your Eve, then vigilance is not required,
THE NEW MESSACBRIES.
AGREEMENT.
The projected agreement between the French State and the "Compagnie des Menageries Maritimes 'is severely criticised; by the "Paris...
The origin of the fire was believed to have been caused by a coolie, who, baving Temps, which argues that it is not likely to Bruck a lighted candle near a bals of medi-improve the precarious position in which the company at present stands. In 1907 the PID cive, left it, only to set fire to the bale,
fits amounted to f,10,000,000, and no dividand could be distributed. Although the State sub- sidy is by the agreement reduced by £150,000, this may be compensated by economiles reRİ- ised in the suppression of interests to credit: accopots, and thus the company will dispose ja future of the same profits.. ~ But the charge of the new bonds is practically squal to the old, the Temps argues, because if it is lighter It is paid on a higher, nominal amount. How, then, would the company be abla any moré than now to pay a dividend? The new agree. ment establishes the principle of a regular amortissement of the feet in 25 years, under the form of bonds, which is all right for the future. Our contemporary points out, however, ment in the same period of the present sub sidised flest, which has already an average of 20 years, while commencing with the first few years it will be necessary to create new boods for the construction of now units. Thus, in' associating with the company, the State commences by favouring a clear violation of the law of amortisation-inscribed on the frantis- piece of the convention: it gives its guarantee for the issue of bonds represented by a fonda do roulement, a contribution fund liable to rapid disappearance, and a feet which will soon possess. no markat value.
At about eight o'clock the indications were ned; as far as American ships are concerned, I arrived in time to confpe the flames to that that the agreement allows also the amortisse-
that the fire was under control, and at, mine o'clock the last fireman was permitted to leave
his post, the fire having been extinguished, except for a smouldering heap, which wAY soon attended to.
The origio of the fire is still a mystery, and it occupying the attention of the police." The damage done is estimated at about £10,000, and is not covered by insurance.
SHANGHAI AIRSHIP.
To the President of the United States, Wash-
ington, D. C.
S.S. Manchuria, Nov. 26th, 1998. On the day of National Thanksgiving, as we remember our own blessing of liberty and fleedom, we desire that America may contious to be a leader in extending universal peace and happiness to other nations. In view of the noble efforts of China to secare freedom from opium, and as the use of this drag is increasing to an alarming extent in our own land, we, the undersigned, respectfully request your influence towards the speedy enactment of laws for the suppression of the opium trafficiia American Territory and by American ships, so that the United States may-both by example and effort aid, in the freedom of China from this awful cures of opium.
PRESENT USE OF OPIUM IN CHINA..
The premises were insured, in's Chinese company for $1,300, and the damage is put down at $800.
RATS AND PLAGUR
OBICKET.
PARSEE C. C. V, LUSITANO CC
The above match was played on New Year Eve, on the ground of the Parsees, who won by 4 wickets and 38 runs.
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LUSITANO.
A. Ribeiro, b Tyler.............................. R. Silva, c'Vapiwala, b Tyler, scoicianson R.Carvalho, c Bejonjog, b Batli some A: Carvalho, b Batliwala zos) C. Lopes, à Noria
C. V. Ribeiro, Tyler
THE CAMPAION IN SHANGIÍAL The N. C. D. News writes:-The campaige against rate in Shanghai kas now begun in real earnest. Sines the discovery of plague-infected |'rate in Hangkew a thorough and systematic examination of all rats found dead in the streets the has been introduced, and for that parpose fallest use has been made of the existing sani. tary organization. The house refuse coolies who, in their small districts, have hitherto been changed with the duty of reporting cases of infectious disease and denilis among the native population are now valuable units. in the discovery and localization of plague. infected rats,, Equipped with small bamboo backets-half-filled with a disinfectant-and a pair of chopsticks, to avoid touching the rats with their hands, these_coolies_collect all the it is difficult to know at present how many dead rodents they can find, and take them to of the Chinese bave acquired the use of opium, the garbage chutes. The rats are put into the Vacions estimates claim that a moderate figure buckets, where the disinfectant kills any ver- would be between 13 and 20% of the total min on their bodies. At the chutes the Health F. Hyndman, b Tyler....... mala population, or 2 to 5% of the total pont Inspectors attach labels, describing the locality A. Abbas, b Batliwals...................... lation, it is said that in some places 80% of la which the rats were found, before transmit-H. Sporge, b Batliwala.. the adult males use opium, and at least one-ting them to the Health Office for examination. J. A. Ribeiro, not aut tenth of the women.. Before the present anti- In the Municipal Laboratory a post mortem opium campaign began, there were over 1,000 examination of the rate is made, the spleens registered opium dens in the city of Foochow being examined microscopically for plague alone. It is more common bas rice. The bacillus. Thirteen hundred rate have, so Chinese often call it the "black rice. It is far, been examined in this way, and forty. also estimated that opium costs the people of eight were found to be infected with plague. map of every part of the Chios 200-millions of dollars per year. Sir There are
Settlement on the walls of the Health Inspect | Robert Harl'said that the duty on native opium,
at the ordinary tax of 60 tacit per nicul, for or room, and every time an infected rat is
· found a little red flag is pinned to the part of the year 1897.sbould amount to so million taels or about 15 million dollars gold. The Govern the plan that shows the locality from which it [ment did not get all this money, however,
In another room, plain glass pics owing to the various provincial leaks and mark the spot where every dead ral, plague.
infected or not, has been found recently.
The Health Office staff, as well as native Every province in China has produced more or less opitim. The money, profit to the pro- foremen and refuse coolies, are all being R. Teewanice, b Abbas ....... ducer, the trader, the officials, and to the Gov.inoculated with Heikine's prophylactic, the S, Tyler, 5 Abbas ernment is the grestest obstacle to its overthrow. value of which has been proved in epidemics of S. Batliwals But the ruin and misery, brought in the end to plague in India. This prophylactic, which, M.F. Billimoria
in a greater or less degree protects the subject A. Mayewala all of these parties is far greater, a hundredfold
for several months, consists of a suspension |. P. so, than any mossy profit received.
of plague bacilli, beated to a tempera ture which is just sufficient to kill them. The babit is easily formed but hard to break. Inoculation has very slight after-effects. The It brings its woes to the high officials and to the poorest labopter. Many wealthy families are for a few days, and slight ferer may be
arm into which the fluid is injected' remains | through this blighting curse, have been brought expected the first night, but compared with to extreme poverty. The labouring man who vaccination the discomfort is trifling. Large earns from $4.00 18 57.00 Mex. per month, will supplies of the prophylactic are being prepared soon spend more than that amount on opium. in the laboratory, and should human plague As a result he will first borrow, then sell to a
make its appearance, the Health Office will be able to offer free inoculation to all Chinese who
comes.
The NC. D. Neos, 28th utt., saysThat portion of the community which gave itself up to recreation or merely exercise on the after. noon of Christmas Day was not a little surpris. ed to see an airship making its way, not altoge- thor willingly as lar as could be judged, in a northerly direction. So many weeks have clapsed since an ascent of Capiain Price's airship was Gest promised to as expectant public that the possibility of an actual fight had been almost overlooked. Captain Price, however, having once made the mistake, to which all enthusiasts are prane, of discounting material abstacles to the currying our of careful !y calculated theories, had learned his lesson and had been quietly devoting hiraself to preparing his airship for a trial ascent without public asgouncement. Ou previous occasions when the Afcusenger was to have essayed its first trip had been found impossible to inflate for intime for an ascent during the hours of daylight. Faulty generators and 'inferic acid were, according to Captain Honorato Martin, a gate-keeper of the Kew. Price, blame. It was also found that the loon Dock, said that at 7.30 am that morning, balloon tavelope leaked badly in spite of he was walking along the Kowloon City Road, the six coatings of varnish on the Cheloo silk. when he saw the first deleudant coming from Repairs were made and. two occasioną No. 37, and going towards Hungbom Market
the airship wat ready for an ascent, but clima The man was arrested at the latter place by antic conditions were unfavourable. On Christ Indian constable and taken back to No. 37, mas Day a further attempt to inflate it was be- guo; but it was found that there was not en- Witness saw inspector Watt search the pri soner and produce two pieces of wood with ough hydrogen available to give the airship
In these squeezes! * the requisita lifting power. Li Chau said he lived at No. 37 with the circumstances Captain Price assistant, a woman wines. "He had left the house early man of lighter build, volunteered to make the that morning, but in consentence of inform ascent and the Messenger loft Chang Sue stion received, he returned to the house, when ho's Garden shortly after a p.m. Misfortune, he saw the first accused at the fact of the stair however, dogged its path, for almost immedia. case in charge of an Indian constable. Hetely something went wrong with the opgine raw his sister bleeding in the breast, whom he and the airship became a mere non-dirigible attended. He was "afterwards handed two balloon. The wind carried it, at välýidg altí- knives, one by his wife and the other by his tudes, in the direction of Woosung, and ulti
mately the aeronaut was compelled to let out After further evidence was taken, the pri the gat and descended near a Chinese village soners treated the Court to a surprise by, con some too miles away. While he was engaged As suca at his selegram was received at lessing that they did commit the robbery -but in making arrangements for the transport of the Iloilo, Purchasing Agent Theobald Diebl, in did not carry day knives. The third defendant airship back 10 Shanghai, Chinese curiosity or the absence of Mr. Harris, made arrangements went one better by telling the Court with a macia for curio-hunting prompted the specta for a special steamer, wired the district gover smiling face that when they want to the house tors to make off with most of the frame. nor at Dapitan to make the labourers as com. with an intention to robbery, they expected, to work, which had been damaged by the fortable as possible, and authorized Mr. Fleis. find the tomates sound asleep, but on feeing fall, and to test the workmanship of the pawnbroker or oibars, his clothing, his home, cher, a merchant of Dumaguete, to advance them wide-awake, they had to decamp.
baltogu by inserting knives into the silk. Ubis very wife and children to sopply that awful will submit to it..
desire for the.curred drag. Many of the dens Pzoo for the subsistence of the tabourers.
His Lordship said that on the face of the in-timately, towards 3 am, the tenant airship re Arrangements were made at once with Mr.teresting statements made, he would not trouble surned to head-quarters on the shoulders of the fery with any reference to the facts of the founeca coolies, General sympathy will be case. On a unanimous verdict of guilty being felt with Captain Price in his misfortune; but, recorded, the first and second prisoners were doubtless, he will be well advised to postpace, sentenced to five years' hard labour, while the as he intends, & further flight for some months until he has perfected his vessel, The ascent third received seven years' hard labour.
on Friday of the Alcasenger shows that Captain Price has an airship in posse, and ren- | ders pardonable the enthusiasm which led him to advertise prematurely its capabilities. The mapey already spent on the ship amounts, we understand, to a good round sum, but Captain Price should be able to count upon being raim- bursed it soon, as it is an aimhíp în casa,”
When Mr. Cobb and his men were just about given up for lost, a telegram reached loito on Christmas Eve from him. It was from Duma guets and was to the affect that a landing was made a few days before on the west coast of Mindanao. All were famished and exhausted. After a short period of recuperation the party marched to Dapitan, reaching there Decem. .ber 23, according to a telegram from con- stabulary authorities.
de la Rama to read the Cormopɗlita to tow the lorchs and mes to Iloilo. The men are now
in Iloilo none the worse for their thrilling ex perience and prolonged fast, and will be ready- to go to work with the dawn of the new year,
"PAINLESS”. SUICIDE,
SHANGHAILANDER'S FUTILE
TO END HIS DAYS,
ATTEMPT
A northern Chinaman, by name. Tsui Lo Sbing, a gold gilder by trade, made a most desperate, though fatile, attempt, to commit suicide on New Year's moon. Tsui, Lo Shing came to Hongkong from Shanghai abouta week ago, as he could not get suitable employment, which seemed to worry him, he decided to také the "plange
sister?
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CLOTHES SIBALERS PUNISHED.
THREE YEARS' HARD LANGUN BACH, Li Chan and Kwan Ting, coolies, figured in the Criminal Sessions, which resumed last fonday (the Chief Justice prasiding) charged with stealing four pigskin" boxes containing $1,728 worth of clothing, and with being in possession of stolen property,
It was stated by the Attoway Genaral, with
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FIRE IN TOKYO.
RESULTS OF OPIUM."
of vice have received their supply of victims by the help of opium. Many have gone the limit until nothing remains but the craving for that which they cassat supply, and then they sure to the opium to bring them death as their only suicides is new cause for alarm.... refuge. The increasing number of opium
OPIUM SUICIDES,
Total...
PARSETS.
O. M. R. S. Tyler 9 23 $45 Bilimoria....5
25
Bowlers
J. Norion? 4
FARSEES,
J. Bojenje, b.Lopes...........
J. Heera, b'Abbas ....................................................... J. Noria, and b Ribeiro |J. Chinoy, b Abbas.......
G. Hoggath, not put.
did not bat
Extras
Sid wickets LUSITANO.
Bowlers. A. Abbas 10 Lopes.argő T. Ribeiro a 4
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TELEGRAPHS 1. RES. The league fixture was played on the naval ground en Baturday and resulted in a win for the Telegraphs by 45 runs. For the winners Warburton and Shields batted well, contribut ing 37 and is respectively. Peake took 5 wickets for 19 and Shields for 29 For the R.E
Power and Harris were batting well until a mis. hit by Power placed the ball fo Young's hands,' Shortly afterwards Harris lifted oss ta covar point which Luck held Scores, sam nekater
BAO NA ATELEGRAPHS," Woods, b McGregor wit......................... Beattie, lbw b McGregor an Warburton cb Walker Young, cand b McGregor,
persons who came to our home for help there should be inspected to see that there are asko, c'àid b Milbank "DENN
one a day for Iz months.
whom was Mr. Dennys, of the Crowa A Solicitor's "About 7.3a on Tuesday evening, 22nd. ult Arming himself with a ropt, Taui walked all office, that the prosecutor wasa blacksmith refire broke out in the residence, at No. 13, Rei the way from Wanchai to Bonham Road, where siding at 59, Wing Lok Strest On the night, aanraki, Akaraka, Tokyo, of Commander ho picked out a quiet spot, there to end him of the 7th November he and his family weat to Dougherty, Naval Attaché to the D, S. miserable life. He clambered up the hill-bed on the first floor, and when be (the black. Embaly, Fanned by the strong southerly side, facing the Diocesan Home, and, ad-smith) awake in the morning ha discovered that wind prevailing at the time, says the Japan justing the cord around his neck, which, by four out of eleven of the boxes wara missing. Gaselie, the flames immediately spread in all which the missionárias. help wax sought," "LAVO now over 3,000 rat traps which are sat daily by Harrison, þ Shields: the way, was protected by bandkerchief, Of course, the master was reponed to the directions, and the building, a two-storied wood Taul hauled himself up a tree-the ane police and the prisoners were arrested by a marest the roadside, Fastening the other kong in Graham Street with the pawntickets and of the rops to a branch, be released bir in their possession. The Attorney-General ze hold and dropped: An Indian policeman heard marked that the blacksmith heard no noiss bis groans, and spotting the suspended body when his effects were being stolen, and the very from the road, ran up and cut the man down fact that he and his family went to bed with the It would seem that Tsai bad been banging windows oper, suggested that the prisoners had there for some time, because when he was entered by that warded "ast guilty to this takes down it needed a great deal of resuscita The prisoners pleaded tion before he could be brought round fie indictment, but wars found guilty after a trial war sant to the hospital, for examination, and and sentenced to three years hard labour each lam Monday morning, appeared in the PoliceThe jury, which comprised Messrs. H. Git- Court to be bound over to keep the peace. Tad tins (foremic), A Mortey, Dickie, G. Rapp, swears he is going back to his native country, H. E. Craddock, R. A. Kennedy and H..yan wire the climate is more suitable to bip tesuden Bose found thems gully, and sentenced
Plague, with the exception of the paeumonic form, which is rare, is believed to be caused entirely by fleas, which convey it from rat, When a rodeat, dies, the vermis leave the corpse and seek sustenance) on the fest warm body they can find. Though the white races may be less susceptible to the disease than Asiatics, the comparative immunity they an- joy is due chiefly to cleanlier habits, and bet A doctor, a resident of Chaotong, in Wester sanitation in their houses. The precau Chins, tells of the rain brought to this country tions, that foreignen can take, therefore, are by opium, He speaks of China as The Land limited to cleanliness, and the extermination of Suicides," where there are 500,000 cases's of rats in their dwellings. The first step to year." In his latter, published in 1898, he said: lake is to render houses, as far as possible, rat
In the 30 days, anding June 18th, among the proof. To this end ventilators bear the ground
Franklin,b Walbankanum ware 19 cases of opium suicide. I have also openings large enough to admit rats, and all rat Lacks - Walbank qu gathsand statistics, given me by missionaries, holes inside the boule should be plastered up. Bartiscombo, run out from five cities in
Cats, are invaluable allies in the campaign | Shielde; b Walker ....!! 5. In a city, in the Province of Yunnan, of against rats. They are not as a rule suscepil Kempthoms, lbw b Wal
foe? Where they ars kept they should be given
Extraa.... 200,000, the cates of opium suicide averaged ble to plague, and they are the rodents natural Hone, not out w
2. A city of about 50,000, had 73 cases in one free access to the attics and, if possible, to the year to which the missionaries was called. roof-rafters, for it is in those parts of the house 3. la, a city of 80,000, in the Province of that ints usually congregate: Mice, which are Kueichow, in sus year 300 cases occurred in factors in the dissemination of plague, should
alio be destroyed. The Health Department bas Denman, b Paska one knows how many other cases). an one, covering 40 tsubo, was bunut down, to Right of these cases of opium suicida oc
native rat-catchers, ander the supervision of Power, c Young; b' Shi gether with a small one-storied house, attached curred in ons
As has been already pointed out, rats are the Barna, click, b Fesken. to the main building. The fire was got adder. In a city of Son,poo, in the great province the Health Inspector McGregor Peake control at half-part 6 o'clock. The case of of Sanchuan, in one year, the missionaries of chief, if not the only source of plague infection. | Walbank Cumäkliny b Skisida the outbreak is alleged to have been a stove in two missions tatre, ware asked to save life in Contraction of the disease, from, heman cases Smith, b Shields okyanqja the bedroom on the second floor. As the locs 400 cases of opium suicide dave no record is unlikely, if proper precautions are observed, Fide, Wabarton, a Pa tion is high, the supply of water was pour of other missions there.(Srochan is where and to doctors and puries the risk of attending Toomey, & Peake There was great confusion: În view of the.ax istence in the locally of the U.S. Embitsy and
the largest amoset of opiam im grecenes)).; sa plaque patients is far less than that incurred in
5. In than Province of Anhul, the home of connection with cuts of scartes: for The Walker, Battiscom the goldences of the Resident General and Li'lung-chang in a city of Sopon, So cases only satisfactory mabod of xterminating rats Lovett Not out other distinguished persons. Professos Terry's were brought to the missionaries, went in by catching them either in thapa or with cate. residence was in danger for a time
Thes la population of 580,000 more than Ret virus, which hit mcantly baan, introduced The contents of the bonse of Commander 1200 cases of opium suicide, occurred IRAYS at home, is al very little practicalinfilty, **® 31 Dougherty were totally destroyed, "The farul months in which its aid of the mistinasties are less deadly to the rate than plaque fisadi, Only killa” a small propontist of thing turs at Cade ware made that come ought. This way onely To Che West, what calca mercial Inion Iniurance Co far Y (109)