A few nights ago some one entered the residence of Mr. Liu, the son of the late BRA. 4 former Minister to the United States. What the purpose of the strange visitor was is hardly understood. The matter seems enveloped in mystery. A sharp, two-edyed sword with a (Chinaman's) queue wrapped around the blade, was found in the morning sticking in the wooden cover of one of the large water jars standing in the court, while on the pavement written with lime were these words: Cheo Kuan-wen borrows several thousand taels." Several bags of lime-dust, such as are used by highwaymen for blinding those whom they wish to rob, were also left behind, but nothing seems to have been stolen,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.