The daily morning journal and courier., 1895-08-23
Ayo7nER CHINESE OUTRAGE.

Hong Kong, Aug. 22.-Information has been received here that large mob of infuriated natives armed with weapons of every kind made an attack a few days ago upon the American mission near Fuchau, and wrecked the chapel and school attached to the mission. Four native pupils attending the school were wounded, but the teacher, an American, succeeded in making his escape.
 The strong anti-foreign feeling which exists in Fuchau is spreading rapidly. The populace parade the streets shout ing, Drive out the foreign devils" and it is not safe for foreigner to show himself.
 London, Aug. 22.-A dispatch to the Times from Hong Kong confirms the report of the attack upon the American mission chapel and school near Fuchau and adds that Captain Newell of the United States cruiser Detroit has gone from Fuchau to Kucheng. The dispatch also says that thousands of additional antl-foreign pamphlets and placards nave pGGH SdlllOii. A dispatch to the Globe from Shang- hai says the deadlock in the Kucheng | inquiry continues. It is believed that | the prisoners in custody there will inn plicate some of the highest officials Tn | the outrages.
 The imperial tutors Weng-Tung-Ho and Le-Hung-Tsao, who have been ap- pointed members of the Tsung-li-Ya- men, are intensely opposed to foreign lers. Le-Hung-Tsao has informed the foreign ministers at Pekin that the gov- ernment is powerless in Kucheng, which linformatio he supplemented with the | assurance that the population there were perfectly peaceful.
 | A dispatch to the Globe from Shang- | hai says that the Chinese soldiers at Tientsin revolted yesterday and assem- ! bled outside the gates of Lii Hung Changs place, where they raised clam or for their arrears of pay. Later they made an attack upon the shops in the city, wrecking many of them and killing over 100 persons.
 Fuchau or Foo Chew, China, near which place natives attacked the Amer | capital of the province of Fokien, on the Min river, about twenty-five miles from it's mouth. It is one of the treaty ports and has a population estimated at about 5Oo,O OO0
 Fuchau is one of the greatest mission ary centers in the whole Chinese em- pire. The River Min is navigable to a point about nine miles below the city proper, a place called Pagoda Anchor age
 Here are situated the most extensive, as well as the most successful, mis- sions of the Methodist Episcopal church, as we'll as the missions of the Congre- l gationalists.
 Fuchau is about thirty miles to the east of Kucheng, where the last preced- ing outbreak against the foreign dew | ills" took place.
 The following is a list of the Ameri- can Methodist missionaries resident at Fuchau: Missionaries N. Sites, N. J. Plumb. G. B. Smyth, J. H. Morley, w.. H. Lacy, J. J. Gregory, M. D.; G. s. Miner. Sarah M. Bosworth; Assistant | Missionaries Alice H. Smyth, Hattie | Wilcox. Mrs. Genie A. Morley, Emma l Mind Lacy, Elizabeth F. Brewster, Mrs.
 Marie Miner; Missionaries of the Wo- l mems Foreign Missionary Society Mary | E. Carleton, M. D., Julia Bonafield, Ella M. Lyon, Ruth M Sites, Louella l M. Masters, M. D., and Miss Lydia M.
 Wilkinson.
 l Some idea of the extent of the Meth | odist mission, which was established in 1S47, can be had from the following statistics.
 There are ten foreign missionaries and six assistants, and twelve women
 under the Women's society's super vision.
 There are 123 native workers, 6S or dained and 1SO unordained native preachers. The church has now 4302 native members and 5,6o7 proba ationers, and 7,460 baptized children. In the district there are five boys boarding schools, 107 chapels, a theo- logical seminary and hospital
 New York, Aug. 22.--At the office of the Methodist Missionary society in the Book Concern building on Fifth avenue to-day Dr. A. B. Leonard said:
 q have not heard about any trouble with our missions in Fuchau. The greater part of our buildings in that place are situated on the island and unwalled part of the town, which is connected with the walled city by a solid stone bridge, called the Bridge of a Thousand Ages. Our buildings on l the island are enclosed within a pr- vate wall. I do not think that the trouble could have occurred on the island, but rather was an outbreak in the walled town.
 Tt Is probably only an extension of the agitation of the Vegetarians, who are opposed to the present dynasty and
 are trying to break it down by involv- ing it in complications with foreign powers. We have never had any trou-
 ble with the natives at the Fuchau mis- sion before.
 q wish to say right here that the
 expression, foreign devils, does not
 mean quite as much in the mouth of the Chinese as it would with us.
 ''They use the expression to mean
 about the same thing as foreign spirit, or as the old Greeks used the word
 Barbarian as applied to every for eigner
 q have called the attention of the state department at Washington to the situation in China, and I believe that
 there is a disposition to do everything