Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1895-08-07
MISSIONARIES KILLED.
Four British Women We're Victims
and an American Girl was
Wounded.

Shanghai, Aug. 3.-Advices from Foo
Chow are that q telegram received there
on the 3D. says that a fearful massacre
OF Christians has occurred at Ku Cheng.
Five foreign ladies are among the MUIR
dered.
New York, Aug. 3.-An Associated
,ress cablegram, telling of a massacre of
Christians, including five women, at Ku
Cheng excited the graveSt fears at the
headquarters of the foreign board of
Methodist missions in this city today.
The Methodists have mission at Ku
Cheng. 1t is in charge of Miss Mabel
Hartford Her assistant is Miss w. H.
Rouse. In addition to these it is feared
two other women. Miss Mabel Allen and
Miss Sarah Peters, are also in the vi
cinity of Ku Cheng.
Corresponding Secretary A. 3. Leon
ard of the Methodist board of missions,
who has spent considerable time in
China, said today: In view of the fact
that we have received no cablegram
from China we can only hope for the
present that our people are safe and
we'll. Had any of our people been mas
sacred l am sure that the Rev. w. II.
Lacey, our representative and treasurer
at Foo Chow, from which place the ad-
vices were received, would have cabled
10 Us NlIuOuI uGldy. we Will uOI GULF
municate with Mr.. Lacey unless we re-
ceive information of the alleged mas
sacre from him.
Miss Hartford is a resident of Dover,
\. H., and has spent several years as
a missionary in China. She was some
time ago put in charge of the women's
work at Ku Cheng Miss Rouse, her as
sistant came from Lakeheld, MINI.
The Rev. Job Gillespie, secretary of
the foreign board of missions of the
Presbyterian church, said today that his
church has no missionaries within $50
miles of ku Cheng. He expressed the
opinion that the massacre affected most
| seriously the Church Missionary society
of England, which established a mission
at ku Cheng in 1S47. The mission is
attached to the Church of England and
has two mission houses there The So
clety maintains twenty-five schools in
the province. There is also a small
church for lepers in the leper village just
outside of the south gate of the Metho.
dist Episcopal compound.
The Rev. e. E. Chivers, secretary of
the Baptist board of foreign missions,
said that the Baptists have no missions
nearer the scene of the alleged massacre
than Che Kiang, which is 200 miles
distant. Other missionaries are located
at ki Cheng, which is also about 200
miles from Ku Cheng.
Washington. ID. c., Aug. 3.-The state
| department has received a cablegram
from United States Consul Jernigan at
Shanghai stating that one American fe-
male missionary was wounded and four
British female missionaries killed at the
mission of Ku Cheng. No further de-
tails are given in the dispatch and the
place described is believed to be in the
province of Hupe, far up on the banks
of the Iang-tse river, beyond the reach
of men of war, and about 400 miles north
of Cheng Tu. where the last missionary
riots occurred. The state department will
take steps in the matter at once.
Under instructions from the state de-
partment United States Minister DENLY
is now engaged in investigating the dam
ages sustained by the American missions
at Cheng Tu, China, during the rioting
there some months ago. The Chinese
government: has already given assurances
that 1t viii pay a suitable indemnity
and has taken steps to ascertain for it
self through a commission the extent
of the losses sustained by the foreigners