Owing to the opposi'iou of the of Ch'angchou city, in this pri Ho Fu-chi, an enterprising mere ha who recently tried to, construct a tan or reservoir for Kerosene oil outside that hss been onered to close b ment by command of the prefect of the city.
Kalbsien Insurgents scattered.
A letter from Chengtu, the capitol of Szechuan province, states that surrection in the di of io that province, which st one time threatened to be serious, has been crushed and the insurgents scattered to all pact of the province, whilst some of the lesdora, it is ssid, have escaped into the adjoining provinces.
Anti-Monarchists arrested, Three young Chinese—the oldest not over twenty-three—have been arrested ty the Peiyang Secret Servic agents ig. Newchwang 1s alleged Anti-monarchita, engaged on a secret mission from Dr, Sin Yat-sta, the chief of the An monarchists, to the Hunghutze of churia, The prisoners have been sent to Tientain for trial and punish An Appointment declined, HE, Li Ching-hsi, a nephew of the Marquis Li Hung-chang and ex. Governor of Kuangsi, who has been in retirement since 1904, was last week appointed by the Yuchusnpu and Nungkungshangpn to the post of Director General of in Anhui pr vi capital of Anhui province, di ppateh hand now states that His Excellency hes wired to the two Minis! named in the foregoing declining the appointment on the ground of ill health.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.