The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-13
mURDERoUs cHINEE Is DELUDED.
MisIed ir-> Believing that Missionaries
Used Eyes for Re licine.


Boston, Mass, Aug. 12-The Stand
ard printed today an exhaustive inter-
view with Miss Clara N. Cushman or
Deadham. concerning the missionary
situa ton in China. Miss Cushman was
for many years a missionary in Pekln,
having been sent by the same society
AS that under whose auspices Miss
Hartford has been working at ku
Chung In this interview Miss Cusn-
man asserts a belief that these latest
massacres are one of the results OF the
recent war between China and japan.
Ku Cheng is many hundreds OF miles
from the central government at Pekin,
and il is probable that the people had
only rumors of the trouble ana so got
all sorts of stories. some Of which may
have started the trouble.
1.-The unfortunate Chinese, MISS
Cushman continued. believe that the
foreign missionaries cut out the eyes
and hearts of the natives to use for
medicine They are quick TO accept
any story that they hear, so that the
foreigners there can never tell when a
mob may come upon them"
Miss Cushman thus describes Ku
Cheng: "Ku Cheng is quite a distance
from Foo Chowup the Min river. 1t is
walled city of about 10000 inhabitants
and has the reputat ion of being a very
further inland Miss Wilma II. Rouse
of Minnesota, who was probably not
in the massacre, as her name was not
mentioned. The missionary society of
the Methodist Episcopal church has two
other missionaries at Ku Cheng, Rev.
NJ. c. Wilcox, presiding elder OF Ku
Cheng district. and DR.. ]. J. Gregory,
in charge of Wiley hospital, The only
building owned by the Methodists is a
chapel valued at $1,000, in which the
average attendance of Sunday worship
last year was $50. The homes, schools
and hospitals are in hired houses,
which fact may have saved both build
ings and inmates from the fate of the
English missionaries and their build
ingS."
Miss Cushman, being in a position to
speak Of Miss Hartford, who SO narrow
ly escaped death at the hands of the
Vegetarians, through personal acquain-
tance, says of her: Miss Hartford
was sent to Ku Cheng in 1887 by the
Woman's Foreign Missionary society
of the Methodist Episcopal church. She
was at that time a very popular teach
or in the public schools of Dover. n. H.
She has no father, mother, brother or
sister living, and is entirely devoted
to her work. Although the five-year-
term for which she went has expired
she has steadily refused to accept the
vacation with privileges of visiting
America, saying she preferred to stay
in China with the work and finally die
there. But because of i'll health and
need Of rest she had almost made up
her mind to take the needed vacation
when the troubles came on. Mrs. AL
deruan of Hyde Park, the correspond
ing secretary of the New England
branch of the society, has WRITTEN to
her advising her to take this opportun-
ity while the country is settling down
again. to come to America. Miss Hart
ford is in charge of the Ku Cheng and
Long Bling districts of Foo Chow Wom-
ans conference. Her report to the last
annual conference showed in the Ku
Cheng district one boarding school,
with an enrolment of forty-four, four
teen day schools, with an enrolment
of 200; one Bible training school with
an enrolment of twenty
Miss Althea NJ Todd Of this city is
now under appointment to join Miss
Hartford at Ku Cheng. and was eX-
pected to leave in about a month. That
trouble has been long brewing seems
proven by part of letter received by
Mrs. Alderman from Miss Hartford.
II is dated Foo Chow. May ,, and says:
81 was obliged to close the women's
and girls school April on account Of
fears of local instructions. The Eng
lish mission closed their schools two
weeks earlier, but I had hoped mat
ters might clear up and so held on. At
last I found ] could not stand out any
longer. Everyone thought the schools
ought to be closed, so l yielded. Then
/ was sick. so when Dr.. Gregory urged
me to come to Foo Chow and have a
rest. came"
Miss Cushman thinks the criticisms
made Of United States Minister DENLY
are unjust, as, during her residence in
Pekin. he had been very careful to pro-
tect the missionaries rights, was on
friendly terms with them all, and they
esteemed him very highly.