Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-06-25
0UTRAGES In CHINA.
Missionaries Threatened With Death
by the Celestials.
OFFICIALS AFRAID TO OPPOSE
The Mob, Which Daily Becomes More Malig-
nant in Its Hatred.
A PROPOSED ENGLISH TAX ONU S GRAIN

ESPECIAL TELEGRAM TO THE DIsPATCuI
SAN FRANCISCO, June 24.-The steamer
China arrived to-day, bringing the later
news of the anti-foreign excitement in
China
The North China Daily Ners SAYS. mis-
sionaries having fixed the guilt of the at
tacks in both instances on leader of the
Literati in Kienning, named Chiao Chic
puoi, and having apparently substantiated
the accusation. the British Consul has de-
manded the punishment of this man.
This is difficult matter, for
Chiao is man of great power
and influence. besides belonging to
Kienning, to which city special privileges
were granted after the suppression of the
Tapping rebellion. 1t is said that any at
tempt to arrest this man aud bring him to
trial would lead to rising of the whole
countryside, and that the authorities are
in such dilemma that they will proba-
bly, refer the matter to Peking.
A correspondent of the same paper de-
clares that the troubles at Kienning were
due mainly to the rashness of DR.. Rigg and
two young women of the Zenana Mission
They ventured into places where the anti
Christian feeling was so strong that the
more experienced missionaries would never
have dreamed of going. The result has been
to arouse the bitter hatred of the Chinese
mob which may lead to attacks on other
missionaries
Peril on the Increase In the Cities.
Reports from Chin Kiang and other ports
on the Upper Yang-Tse river show that in
all large cities the missionaries are In great
peril, as a wave of anti-foreign sentiment is
sweeping over China and has injected large
disorderly classes The latest reports that
arrived in Shanghai before the vessel sailed
say that foreigners were badly maltreated
there after the departure of the British gun
boat Esk, but no details were received. At
Chin Kiang the foreign colony was only
saved by the prompt arrival of the United
States steamer Petrel
1t was the common rumor in Ching Kiang
that rowdies and Kolao Hivei men intend
to burn Roman Catholic and other missions
at Tan Yang on the first of the fifth moon
(the 26th day of May), and to murder mis-
sionaries and foreigners generally, but the
Roman Catholics are to be their objects of
attack. Wagner, Senior Consul, sent tel
egram to the Governor of Kiang-Su Prov
ince, at 500 Chow, requiring that official to
take immediate steps for the prevention of
bloodshed and outrage at the threatened
places. Three soldiers were actually caught
at Tan Yang few days ago posting plscards
calling on the people to burn
missions and murder "foreign hogs and
goats" but they were not punished.
An Execution That Was = Farce.
1t Is declared by the Shanghai editor that
the execution of the men as leaders of the
Kolao-Hivei Society has been farce, as
the Mandarins knew they were decapitating
the wrong men. 1t is charged that several
prominent men in this great foreign-hating
society are officials of high class, and that
the government dares not molest them.
The real leaders are at large, and are re-
sponsibe for fomenting all the mischief
along the Yang-Tse river. These fellows
have good material to work on, as the ig