St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-07
Missionaries and Teachers
Driven Out of the Mika-
dos Kingdom.
Foreigners Set Upon and
Beaten and Carved by
Native Students.
Skaters Fall From a Steeple
and Are Mangled Beyond
Recognition.
England Stands Ready to
Apbitrate Newfoundland
Fisheries Troubles.

YOKOHAMA, Japan, June 6.-Some
uneasiness prevails among foreigners
in the Japanese capital owing to devel-
opmeDts which have followed the mur-
der of the Canadian Missionary, the late
Rev. L. A. Large. The excitement Oc-
casloned by the news of the murder had
just died away when one OF the
best known foreigners in the city
found himself victim of circum-
stances which compelled his departure;
and, following close upon that. another
missionary was set upon by crowd OF
students and seriously cut by knives.
On May 6, the Rev. James Summers.
for many years past proprietor of the
English school at Toxic and patron
zied by the nobility, was driving
in one of the principal thorough
fares Of Toxic, with his wife, when the
carriage of the dowager empress.
mother of the present Mikado, ap-
a member of the royal family passes, it
is customary for people along the street
to uncover their heads, and Summers
reigned his horse into the side of
the street and halted. AS the
carriage approached, he took off his hat.
Replacing it as soon as the carriage was
past him, one of the escorts in the rear
of the carriage noticed the hat and
brought his lance in line with it. so that,
by accident, the cavalryman struck Sum-
mers severe
Blow on the Head.
The soldier was at once arrested and
court martialed. The native press inn
mediately took up the matter, and much
feeling against the foreigners was mau-
ifested by the rough student element.
known as the Shosei, who were in
famed by the report that Summers had
been guilty of an act OF disrespect
towards the empress dowager. They
called repeatedly at his school and so
alarmed Summers that he left the
school in the hands of the police, and
left on the 10Th instant by steamer
for his home in England, leaving his
family in care of friends. The Shosei
are greatly excited and foreigners
are fearing serious outbreaks. I'm
fortunately Mr.. Summers is the same
man who about forty years ago caused
the death of the governor of Macao. in
China, by refusing to remove his hat
when a Corpus Christi procession was
passing. He was thrown into prison by
the Portuguese, was rescued by an
English admiral, and in the pend
ing excitement the Portuguese gov
ernor and one other person were
killed. On the 18th instant
the Japanese students of the Presby-
terjan school known as Meiji Gakuin,
started to play game OF base ball with
the students of the Koto SeigakkO, a
preparatory school. and feeder to the
Imperial university of Toxic. Rev.
G. w. Knox, the American mission
ary teacher in Meiji Gakuin, ac-
companied the students from his
school. While the game was in progress
another American missionary, Rev. w.
Imbrey, of New Jersey, teacher III the
same school, went to the grounds and
stepped over low hedge fence into the
field. He was
Set Upon by the Shosei
and beaten about the head and body.
and sustained severe injuries and knife
cuts about the head. No cause is given
for the attack. He will, however, re-
cover. Less fear is shown by the ShOsei
for the police, and the outcome
of the excitement is the topic
of general discussion. The Amer
lean SQUADRON on the Asiatic
station has not had a vessel stationed
in Yokohama harbor since the flagship
Omaha left two months ago for Kobe.
at which port she is still stationed. The
Monocacy is in Chinese waters and the
Swatara is at Chemulpo, whittier she
carried the family of United States
Minister Herd. This vessel is expected
within week at Nagasakl.