The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-30
REBEL CHER CAPTURED
TAKEN INTO CUSTODY AND HIS
HEAD REMOVED AFTER THE
CHINESE FASHION
RIVAL CHIEFS WITH ARMIES
Close to PeLin and Ready
to Break Into Open War Upon the
Slightest observation-disclosures of
the DOwager Empress Directed to
Preserve Peace Among the War;
ring Factions.

TACOMA, Wash, Oct. 29.-Three re-
bellions are in progress in as many parts
Of China, according to the latest mail
advices received here. Ying Wan TIE,
the peoples champion of Taichow, has
been captured through the treachery of
one of his followers Tempted by a re-
ward of 1000 taels for the betrayal Of
Ying, a rebel led the soldiers in the night
to a hut in the hills, where Ying was
taken. His son is still at large, with a
strong body Of armed men.
Two days after Ying was captured over
10000 men and women gathered at the
Yamen, where he was confined, and
prayed for his release. Ying will be
taken to Ningpo for trial. He Is ac-
cused of killing imperial soldiers and with
the breaking open of prisons and liberat-
ing forty prisoners, both capital offenses.
The Szechuan rebels have bottled up
the officials of several districts behind
city walls, whence they are imploring re-
fnforcements from Chungking and
Chengtu. In Tatsu, however, the man
darins are ahead. Chief Wang, at the
head of 500 rebels, was captured after a
colonel of the Shou regiment Yushao
nephew of the arch rebel Yumantze,
was betrayed, captured, and decapitated
at Chungking after a brief trial. De-
spite the loss of these two leaders the
Tatsu rebels still keep in the field.
The Manchoorian rebels are making
things lively along the great wall, ESQ
miles from Tientsin. They rob natives
at will, and every little while swoop
down on some defenseless town, which
is speedily looted. Their proximity to
ly dangerous, as showing the govern
ment's essential weakness
ARMIES OPPOSED.
In the Southern Hunting park, near
Pekin, are two Chinese armies, practi-
cally arrayed against each other and
commanded by the rivals, Prince Ching
and Jung Lu. The Pekin field force and
the Manchoo, Mongol, and Hanchun Ban
ner corps, all under the command of
Prince Ching, which are to take part In
the annual army maneuvers In the
southern Hunting park, have encamped
near the five Chinese army corps of Cen
eralissimo Jung Lu, who have been en-
camped in that park for the last four
or five months
The original plan of the empress
doWager was to have grand combined
review OF the two armies, whose total
should aggregate quite 10000 men. or
about $4,000 Tartars, and the same number
OF Chinese. The well known unfriendli-
ness of the two chief commanders
toward each other, whose quarrel
is eagerly taken up by their
bined maneuvers, as the slightest mtsun-
derstandfng between rival generals or
subordinate officers, such as the claiming
OF senior positions, might easily form the
excuse to set alight the fame Of civil war.
AS there is no decree commanding a. COM
bined review it is probable that the two
armies will be kept apart.
The leaders of the factions are care
fully keeping the flame of discomfort alive
by repeated denuneiations against the op-
position chief or against one another The
empress dowager makes no sign, and
simply shelves the fiery memorials the
moment she reads the headings This lis
the chief reason of the superficial calm
which marks the Pekin political atmos-
phere Of the present moment, a calm
which has so far deceived most of the
foreign official residents in Pekin, but
which Is causing much anxiety to all high
Chinese officials who appreciate the
gravity Of the situation.
TROUBLE IN COREA.
There is trouble in Corea over the GIN.
seng monopoly. The government claims
that all ginseng is its property, and has
long asserted this right by buying up the
valuable root at a fixed price, far below
the market value. Ginseng does not
become productive until the fifth year Of
it's cultivation. During the interval the
government does not concern itself in
any way about the matter, but when the
gathering begins, officialdom steps in and
enforces the crowns prerogative.
Under such circumstances the cultiva-
tors are glad to sell their ginseng to for
~eigners, If they get a chance. The Japan
ese have been the principal buyers Last
year their purchases amounted to 100000
yen, and the value Of the ginseng thus
obtained was over 100000 yen in the
Shanghai and Nagasaki markets
The Corean government has adopted
high4handed method of putting an end
to this trade with outsiders. 1t has issued
proclamation, declaring that, whereas
large and repeated thefts Of ginseng had
taken place, soldiers and armed police
men would henceforth be EMPLOYED to
protect all ginseng grown, and disavowed
any responsibility for injuries suffered at
the hands of these constables, either by
Coreans or foreigners, who should at
tempt to perpetrate such thefts.
To this announcement the Japanese
minister has taken exception. He pointed
out that, whatever course the govern
ment might adopt toward its own SUBJ
jects, 1t could not be permitted to in