Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1890 — PIRATES ARE PUNISHED. [ARTICLE]

PIRATES ARE PUNISHED.

i By the High Executioner, Who Slices off Their Head*. A San Francisco special of the 13th says: The last time the revenue cruiser Ling Long came in, says an Amoy paper, she reported having seen between Foo Chow and here a large pirate junk firing on a peaceful trader. A gunboat was at once sent out by the authorities and shortly; afterward returned with eleven prisoners,* who had been captured from the piratical’ craft. On the 2d inst., all these men were beheaded. One of them went raving mad. and refused to kneel before the execution-, er, so the latter had to take “potshots” ah him, and eventually decapitated him in slices. It is rumored that about 100 pirates: came down to the execution to try and es-J feot their rescue, but the large number of| troops present effectually overawed them. News has Just come in of a frightful, atrocity committed by a pirate craft, haw ing seized a trading junk and murderedj In cold blood the of thirty-' nine men. \ Japanese advices received by the steam er Belgic, which arrived on the 10th. state that there is a movement on foot to plant s colony of Japanese in Mexico. A Mr. Vogel, representing a colony of Mexico,, has been in Japan trying to induce the gov-, ernment to accede to bis scheme. He has received semi-official sanction and expects to send over 2,000 laborers before the eud of the month, at wages of 60 or 70 cents » day. Chinese advices state that there has been greet gambling in silver in Hong Kong,, and the Hong Kong and Shang Hai Bank* is said to have made millions out of the deal. When Mexican dollars were valued] at 34 cents and before the silver bill passed the United States Congress the bank purs chased ah th Mexican dollars it could get.' When the »iiver bill became a' law the! value of the Mexican dollar took a jump and the bank sold all it bad for 95 cents. Before the deal the bank’s shares were quoted at |125. Since then they have been almost unprocurable at $226.