A Riot at Kuachou.
A Chinkiang dispatch states that on the 26th instant a mob of nearly 3,000 villagers reinforced by rowdies of Kuachou attacked the otices of the, fre steam Jaunch com:
panies in that city, smashed everything them, and thea marched "D. jetties of these companies and captured five of their steam Jaunches, which were subsequently brought - t-gether and set fre to by the mob, who first drove off the Jerews and passengers and then threw the baggage and whatever could be' found on the steamers into the canal. The district magistrates of Chiangtu and Kanch'uan, the two hsiens of the prefectural city Wanychou, and the local military mandarins were powerless to stop the mob outrages. Kiuachow is an important town opposite the port of Chinkiang, situated near the mouth of the Grand Canal, belonging to the jurisdiction of the officials of Yangchon ind is the headquarters of a Majorral. 'The' origin of the riot is said te be due tothe reckless manner in which the skippers of the steam-launches running between Kuachou and other cities along the Grand Canal banks, as far as Using:
ang pu, rush through the Gran' Canal. thereby seriously damaging the banks and dykes en route, [t appears that repair Land strengthening, work of the Grand Canal dykes had been going on near the vicinity vf Kuachow which' required considerable care 10 ive exercised by the Stemnlaunches while passing to and fro, go as to avoid the danger of bringing down the new works with the wish of the launches. Asa matter of fact, the Com: missioner of the 1. M. Customs at Chinkiang had also warned the stean Tauneh com to make their skip: pers go slow snd at, ost, steam at halt-speed when passing prices undergoing, re Instead of obeying orders, however, it is alleged that skippers of steam-laun on the contrary, at full speed when passing such works, thereby doing more damage than ovr and causing the banks tv overflow and. flood the countryside to a considerable extent. This naturally greatly incensed the farmers and {and villagers who saw their crops ruined and their poultry and many of their destroyed by the sudden inundate Vyesult was that. the villagers resolved to ake the law intel their own hands and the jot aforesaid was the result.
High Mandarin.
akew disparel: reports the death at Wachang on the morning of the 26th ivst., of H. B Chit Ting-chao, Provincial ''rea-Surer of Hupeh. The deceased official was "aeousin of HE. Chi Hiung-chi, Grand Couneillorand President of the Waiwupu, hut his official career was not distinguished by anything very brilliant, although he iwas on the highway to the attainment of "javernorship at least. through the in-cousin in Peking. sha, capital of Hunan, dispatch states th 1 man named Li Yuan-eho, who Gbtained his liter degree of M.A. at e Changsha provincial examinations in The autumn of 1902, has been recently Neprived of his literary degree and sen-fenced by Governor Chao Erh-sen to jprisonmnent for life. This severe punish Sallewed to have been due to the GLALA-s attempt at pretending to bea member of one of the Chi ist ian Missions of Hunan with the object of extorting Snoney from certain wealthy people,
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