The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1895-08-07
Chinese Massacre Christians.

SHANGHAI, August 3.-The Shanghai
Express prints telegram from Foo-Ch
under date of August Sd, reporting
frightful massacre Of Christians in Kuch-
eng in the province of Konsu. Sim -Kiang.
Among those murdered were five foreign
ladies'. No confirmation of the report has
been received.
WASHINGTON, August 9.-A cable dis
patch, received at the State Department
today from Mr.. Jarnigan, United States
consul general at Shanghai, reports
massacre of Christians at Kucheng, China.
No Americans were killed, but one was
seriously wounded. The name of the
place where the massacre occurred was
not plain in the dispatch, but it is under
stood TO be LucheDg, where according to
a United Press cable message from
Shanghai received this morning fright
full massacre of Christians had occurred.
The only place on the map of the State
Department which resembles Kucheng
in name is Kincheng. This Is located in
the middle of the China empire. north Of
the Yapg-Tse-K Kiang river. Navy De-
partment officials say that no. vessel can
get within several hundred miles of the
place.
The dispatch from Mr.. Jernigan gave
the name Of the American lady who was
seriously wounded as Miss Harlow, and
said that five English ladies were killed.
The miss Harlow named in Mr.. Jerni-
gan's dispatch as having been wounded
Is believed to be Miss Mabel c. Hartford,
of Dover, N. H., in charge of the Metho-
dist mission at Kinoheng. Her assistant
is Miss W. n. Rouse, and two other
Methodist female missionaries, Miss Ma
bel Allen and Miss Sarah Peters, are
located at places nearby. The church
missionary society has large mission al
Kunpeng and the five English women
who were killed are probably attached to
1t.
At the State Department it is believed
that the massacre is simply the result of
another outbreak of fanaticism, such as
was rampant during the Chinese-Japanese
war. The greatest riot at that time against
Christians occurred at Cheng-Tu. The
American mission buildings there were
damaged, but no American was killed.
Minister DENLY protested against the
treatment of the Americans at Chen-Tu
and the Chinese government gave salts
factory assurance of it's intention to punish
the offenders and to prevent repetition
of the outrages. The British missions at
Cheng-Tu were alao damaged and the
British government has just sent one of
its consular officers to make inquiry into
the affair with view to demanding dam
ages.
LONDON, August ga dispatch from
Shanghai gives the details of the reported
massacre Of Christians at Kucheng. The
ladies who are said to have been killed
are believed to have been members Of the
Church of England, the Jenana and the
American Methodist Episcopal missions.
According to the dispatch they were
butchered after suffering atrocious inju-
ries. A number Of other foreigners, In.
cluding women and children were seri-
ously wounded.
The dispatch declares that the Chinese
officials connived at, if they did not insti-
gate, the attack on the Christians. The
revival of outrages is attributed to the
apathy of the British and American min
listers, despite the increasing anti-foreign
feeling that is displayed.
Foreigners in Shanghai regard the
commission sent out to inquire into the
recent riots at Cheng-Tu as farce. Many
officials who were charged with compiled
ty in these riots are being promoted.