Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-03
Missionaries Reported Murdered at
Ku Cheng.
GRAVE FEARS AMONG THE METHODISfS
Secretary Leonard Has Had No
Advices.
WHAT OFFICIALS SAY

SHANGHAI. August 3.-Advices from
Foo Chow that a telegram received
there the Sd aays that a. fearful mas
eacre Of Christians has occurred at Ku
Chens. Five rei2n ladies are among the
murdered.
Methodists Much Concerned.
NEW YORK, August 3.-An Associated
Press cablegrlm telling of a massacre of
Christians. including five women, at Ku
Cheng excited the gravest fears at the
headquarters of the foreign board of Meth
odist missions in this city today. The
Methodists have a mission at Ku Cheng
IT Is in charge of Miss Mabel c. Hartford.
Her assistant is Miss w. H. Rouse. In ad-
dition to these it is feared that two other
women, Miss Maoel Allen and Miss Sarah
Peters, are also in the vicinity of Ku
Cheng.
Corresponding Secretary A. B. Leonard
Oft OF the Methodist board of foreign 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 well. Had any of our
people been massacred I am sure that the
Rev. w. H. Lacy. our representative and
treasurer tr at Foo Chow. from which place
cabled to without delay We will not
communicate with Mr. Lacy unless we re-
ceive information of the alleged massacre
from him.
Miss Hartford Is a resident of Dover.
N. H., and has spent several years ns a
missionary in China. She was some time
ago put in charge OF the women's work at
ku Cheng. Miss Rouse her assistant
came from Lakefield. MINI.
No Presbyterians There.
The Rev. Job Gillespie, secretary Of the
foreign board of missions of the Presby-
terian Church, said today that his church
has no missionaries within $50 miles of .Ku
Cheng, and expressed the opinion that the
massacre affected most seriously the
Church Missionary Society of England
which established a mission at Ku Cheng
In 1S41. The mission Is attached to the
Church Of England, and has two mission
houses there. The society maintains twen-
ty-two schools in the province, one of
which Is In charge of native pastor.
There is also a small church for lepers in
the leper village, just outside of the south
gate of the NJ E. compound.
Rev. E. E. Chivers, secretary of the
board of Baptist foreign missions, said trat
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 XII Cheng,
which Is also about 200 miles from Ku
Cheng.
Never Heard of the Place.
BOSTON, August 3.-Rev. Justin Smith.
D. D., one of the secretaries of the Ameri-
missions. whose headquarters are In this
city. said to an Associated Press reporter
today regarding the cablegram from Foo
Chow. China, that massacre Of Christians
occurred at ku Cheng:
Il have heard nothing of such massacre
and cannot say whether or not the report
Is correct. / received a letter from one of
our missionaries in that vicinity in June,
but ne said nothing of any friction between
the Chinese and Christians at that time
Foo Chow is the head mission station of
that section of China fer the church mis-
sion and the American board, and there are
large number of missionaries, both men
and women, in that section. At the present
time l do not know of any mission at Ku
Cheag: indeed, 1 lave never heard Of the
place before. 1t is not mentioned in our
latest list of Foo Chow missions. II may
have been established recently, however,
The Report Confirmed.
The State Department has received a
cablegram from United States Consul Jer-
nigan at Shanghai. stating that one Ameri-
can female missionary was wounded and
four British female missionaries killed at
the mission of Ku Chang No further de-
tails given in the dispatch, and the
place described is believed to be in the
province of Hupe, far up on the banks of
the Yangste 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