Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1889 — DISTRESS IN CHEE FOO. [ARTICLE]

DISTRESS IN CHEE FOO.

The China steamer which arrived at San Francisco, Thursday, brought news df the great snow storm in Chee Foo, China. Over a million .and a half of people in the province are starving and riotp occur daily. Missionaries have been attacked by mobs of Chinese, led by the gentry. On February 2 a great fire broke out in Shidsnoki, Japan, extending down fourteen streets, and destroyed 1,000 houses, including temples, schools am 1 hospitals. On the following day at Yokosuka gutted 500 houses r nd bn, tied to death three men. On the same day ten houses were destroyed at Uoshiu and fifteen at Tokio.'' V" The great West is to be represented at -General Harrison’s inauguration by a genuine cow-bov brigade. The nucleus of the brigade,’ providing there is no hitch, will be one hundred leading citizens of Denver, wtm are about equally interested in" politics. cattle and mining. ~ Bids for the /construction of the armored cruiser, Maine, were opened at .Washington on the 25th ult. The Maine will carry twenty-five guns and cosS of hull and machinery about $2,844,500. It is expected to require two years to build her. The Inauguration Committee announce that there will be plenty of accommodations, at reasonable prices, for nt,rangers during the inauguration.