seems to be welcome news to the Shantung officials. Perhaps they were dreading that some time the future he woul visit this provinces, and his visit would prove a visitation as it did to the Yangtze provinces. Shortly after the happy event, a native telegram received here from a high oficial announced that the Chi f of Sinners (9B fet) had died. Rumours are continually circulating to the effect that Russia and England, or Russia and Japan, are at war, and even those who rejoice over the defunct Kang Yi, evidently wish that these rumours might be realised.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.