There being a report current that some of the members of the Russian destroyer Ratstoropuy, that was blown up by ber own crew at Chefoo, had muiyed to abscond from that port previous to the departure of the Chinese cruiser Haiyung for Shanghai, a question to that effect was the other day asked by the Japanese Consul-General vf Yuan Tuotai. The latter accordingly telegeap hed to. the Chefoo Taotai asking for details, but a reply from Ho Taotai of that port has been received saying thet there is no foundation whatever for such a rumour.
Educational Progress in Chin?
According to a Tientsin native paper, the Department of Exdlucation in Peking, which is connected with the Peking University, in a report to the Throne concerning the fands noerled for the up-Keep of the University itself and higher the night of the 8th instant, there was a serious conflagration in that city which lasted nearly four hours, consuming nearly nine hundred houses, the majority being of the poorer sort. It is also stated that so far as could be learnt no less than seventeen lives were lost in the con-flag ration.
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