Thousands Die.

Starvation Carries Off a Multitude of Inhabitant in the North of China, While Cholera Claims Over a Thousand Victims in the Philippine Islands.

San Francisco, April 18.—A Chinese steamer arrived Tuesday bringing more ghastly details of the slow starvation of thousands in the north Chinese provinces. In one town on the banks of Yellow river women walked the streets and publicly offered their children for sale, declaring that they couldn’t hear them cry for food any longer. It is estimated that European and American missionaries are now feeding 80,000 people but this is not more than a fiftieth part of the number that are starving. Famine also prevails in Chollas Tao in Corea. The Corean Government refuses to allow any foreigner to enter the afflicted province and declares there is no famine. The failure of the rice crop is the cause of the suffering. It is reported that Judge Denny, the American advisor to the Corean King, has been given $30,000 by Viceroy Li Hung Chung Chang to resign his position and return to America. The report is not credited but Yokuhaitia Denny receives $12,000 a year with free residence and many perquisites. Strong Chinese prejudice against railroads has been powerful enough to prevent the building of a road from Tientsen to Tsungshow. The young Emperor backs the anti-foreign party. The cholera epidemic in Zamboanga, Philippine Islands has been attended with great mortality. In a population of 8,000 there were 1,500 cases, of which more than 1,000 proved fatal.

source: St. Joseph Herald
location: St, Joseph, Michigan