St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-24
CHINAMEN GONE MAD
Fanatical CeIestials Attack
the Missions to Burn and
Pillage.
The Peculiar Rumors That
Started the Bloodthirsty
Pigtails.
Europeans, Assisted by Men
of-War, Repulse the Hea-
then Hordes.
ReadmiSsion Of the Jesuits to
Germany Not Possible at
Present.

DAN FRANCISCO, June 23.-lDe North
China Daily News, i'll its account of the
Wuhu riots. says it had been reported
for several days that the mob of Chinese
mad determined to loot and burn the
property of the Jesuits at Wuhu owing
TO the rumor that a number of Chinese
children had been killed and their ayes
taken out to make medicine for the
Jesuit fathers. On the afternoon of
tuesday, May II, a mob of Chinese
gathered about the premises of the
priests and broke through the walls,
eventually setting fire to the cathedral
and the other buildings, after driving
out the missionaries and piIlaging the
place. A mob then proceeded to the
English consulate and destroyed consid-
cradle property by throwing stones.
The arrival of Taoti, a local magistrate.
and the GOODNESS of the British consul
alone saved the buildings from being
set on fire. The consul and wife
Escaped From liz Mob
by dressing in Chinese costume, and,
hurrying to the custom house, EN-
barked with the other foreign residents
on h China Navigation company's re-
ceiving ship. A number of foreigners.
headed by the consul, armed them
selves and passed the night at the Gus
tom house, and, assisted by Taoti, re-
PEELED the mob, who twice during the
night made an attempt to loot and
set on fire the custom house and resi-
dences of the foreign officials. Next
morning an immense crowd again set
fire to the custom house and the sur
rounding buildings. but the customs
staff, fully armed, charged the natives
and again put out the fires. In the
afternoon three Chinese gunboats
which were %escorting Shen Ping Cheng,
the governor of Anhui, up the river, ar
rived on the scene. and learning of the
riot began to fire blank cartridges,
which had the effect of frightening the
mob. Some 200 soldiers arrived from
TAPPING Flu and these sent additional
protection to the foreign residents. The
mob did not make any demonstrations
against the Methodist Episcopal (Amer-
ican) mission, but, advised by the Brit
iSh consul, missionaries from that point
also embarked on the Tehsing, which
brought them. together with
The ladies and Children
Of Wuhu to Shanghai. At Chan King
the priests who escaped from Wuhu in
a boat were picked up. There was only
Il British man-of-war on the North
China station at the time of the riot,
and this one, the gunboat Linnet, was
near WooSung, but it was sent for, and
proceeded TO Wuhu. On the 10th of
May, four days after the Wuhu riots.
the natives of Nganking made an attack
on the Roman Catholic mission there.
rumOrs having reached them that Taoti,
or Wuhu, had forwarded a dispatch to
the authorities declaring that the alleged
deeds of the missionaries were true.
The priests succeeded in keeping the
mob Off, aud one of the a%ssailants !
was arrested and punished. The Cath |
Ole mission was not the only one at
tackled, for a crowd equally large made
a descent Oh the inland mission near
North Gate, but the Chinese authorities
arrived III time to prevent any serious !
damage. The crowd fingered about the
missions during the neXt two days, and
the native women came to the orphan
age to reclaim their children who were
left there. a French man-of-war was
sent for, and arrived on the 18th. Capt.
de JonQuieres Informed the governor
OF Nganking that, if the rioters did not
obey the mandates of the magistrate, he
would not hesitate to
Fake Strong Measures.
The governor responded that order
Woul De maintained. On May Is the
German gunboat Iltia arrived and Capt,
Ascher lent his influence to secure pro-
lection for the missionaries; placards,
however, had been posted by the rioters
announcing that the mission buildings
would be totally destroyed Friday, May
y. PlacardS also had been posted in !
the French quarter of Shanghai, threat
ening the foreigners. Some of the
Gaelic's passengers who arrived to-day |
brought the Information thai the natives
OF Canton had again broken out against
the missionaries, burned the mission
situated on the banks of one of the
rivers in the province and put to death
all those connected Herewith. Just be-
fore the Gaelic left. it is stated, four of
those murderers were put to death.
Cases OF abduction and murder are be-
coming numerous. Several men and
women have been enticed beyond the
borders eff Canton and held for ransom.
Ii ransom were not forthcoming the.
unhappy victims were to be put to death