St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-12
MISSIONARIES LONG EXPECTED
THE INSURRECTION IN
CHINA.
WAS PREcIPITATED BY WAR,
DISTORTED NEWS OF WHICH
HAD ONLY REACHED THE
INTERIOR.
TO MINISTER DENLY.
Interesting Interview With q
Lady Ex-Missionary ut BOs-
ton.

BOSTON, Mass, Aug. IL. - The
Standard will tomorrow print an eX-
haustiVe interview with Miss Clara
M. Cushman, of Deadham, concern
ing the missionary situation in Chi
ma. Miss Cusman was for many years
missionary in Pekin, having been
sent by the same society as that
under whose auspices Miss Hartford
has been working at Ku Cheng. In
this interview Miss Cushman asserts
a belief that these latest massacres
are one of the results of the recent
wars between China and Japan. Ku
Cheng is many hundred miles from
the central government at Pekin, and
it is probable that the people had
only rumors of the trouble, and so
got all sorts of stories, some of which
may have started the trouble.
1.-THE uninformed 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
the foreigners there can never tell
when mob will come upon Them -
Miss Cushman thus describes Ku
Cheng: Ku Cheng is quite a dis
tance from Foo Chow up the Min
river. 1t is a walled city of about
10000 inhabitants, and has the rep
utation of being very neat and
clean city. long Bing is still further
inland. Miss Hartford has an as
sistant, Miss Wilma H. Rouse, of
Minnesota. The missionary society
of the Methodist Episcopal church
has two other missionaries at Ku
Cheng, Rev. M. G. Wilcox, presiding
elder of Ku Vheng district, and DR..
j. j. Gregory, in charge of Wiley
hospital. The only building owned
by the Methodists is chapel val
ued at $1,000, in which the average
attendance of Sunday worship last
year was $50. The homes, schools
and hospital are in hired houses.
which fact may have saved both
buildings and inmates from the fate
OF the English missionaries and their
buildings
Miss Cushman being asked to speak
OF Miss Hartford. who so narrowly
escaped death at the hands of the
Vegetarians through personal ac-
quaintance, says of her:
Miss Hartford was sent to Ku Cheng
In 1887 by the Woman's Foreign Mis-
sionary Society of the Methodist Epis-
copal church. She was at that time
very popular teacher in the public
schools at Dover, N H. She has no
father, mother, brother or sister Ifv-
Ing, but is entirely devoted to her
work. Although the five-year term for
which she went has expired she has
steadily refused to accept the vaca-
ton with privilege of visiting Amer
lea, saying that 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 yaca-
ton when the troubles came on. Mrs.
Alderman, of Hyde Park, the cor
responding secretary of the New Eng
land branch of the society, has writ
ten to her advising her to take, this
opportunity while the country. is set
Ting down again to come to America.
Miss Hartford is in charge of the Ku
Cheng and long Bing districts of Foo
Chow woman's conference. Her report
to the last annual conference showed
in the Ku Cheng district one boarding
school with an enrolment of "A, four
teen day schools with an enrolment of
200, one Bible training school with an
enrolment of 90
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 a letter re-
ceived by Mrs. Alderman from Miss
Hartman. 1t is dated Foo Chow, May
2, and says: 81 was obliged to close