Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1894 — THE COREAN WAR. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

THE COREAN WAR.

Latest News From tha Scene of Hot tllltlea, A Japanese fleet of seventy ships has appeared in the Gulf of Pe-Che-Li, and there is a panic at Shanghai A Yokohoma cable, Oct. 8, says: Th< advance guard of the Japanese army hai crossed Yalu river and formed a new camp. A battle is believed to be Imminent A dispatch from Shanghai says that rumors are current there that a rebellion has broken out in the distrct of Jehol, is the province of Chi Li, the object of tin rebellion being to overthrow the Manchu dynasty. Details have not been received and the rumors are officially discredited. A Shanghai dispatch via London says: “United States Minister Denby warned American residents of Pekin that the city Is certain to be attacked by the Japanese, and he advises that all women and children be sent at once to places of safety.’ A dispatch from Chefoo to the Pall Mai Gazette of London says: “The Britisi and Russian ministers, Mr. N. R. O’Connor and the Count Cassini, started for Pekin yesterday. The object of their visit to the capital is not known.” The dispatch adds that all the women and children belonging to foreigners have left Pekin for places of safety. A Shanghai cable, Oct.-10, says: Various local rumors are in circulation, th< most prominent being that 40,000 Japan ese troops have landed near Shan Ha: Kwan on the boundary between the Chinese provinces of Manchuria and Chi Li, at the eastern end of the great wall which traverses China. The telegraph wire: have been cut. thus hindering communication with that district. Shan Hai Kwan, where the Japanese are reported to have landed 40,000 troops is directly on the railroad building Iron Tien Tsin to Moukden, and is of greai strategic importance. In fact, the opinion has been expressed that if Shan Hal Kwan is captured, there is nothing to prevent the Japanese from marching on Pekin. A Japanese fleet was reported to have been sighted off Shan Hai Kwan on Sept. 28.

of Pennsylvania, died at Bellefonte, Pa., Sunday, Oct" 7. Governor Curtin was born at Bellefonte in 1815, of Irish parentage. He early entered politics as a Whig and held various offices. Ho was elected governor In 1860 as a Republican, and was one of the most energetic of all the “war governors.” In 1860 General Grant appointed him minister to Russia. In 1872 Governor Curtin abandoned the Republican party and supported Greely for president, and subsequently joined the Democratic party and was elected to Congress three successive times a* a Democrat. Th* Illinois State Federation of Labos has adopted a resolution pledging thd Federation to support the State, eongres. lional, connty and local tickets of the People’s party in Illinois daring the comIng campaign.

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