Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1900-08-03
THE WAR WITH TIE boxers
Severe Battles in the Empire OF
China
MANY NATIONS TAKE A HAND.
The Empress Dowager l. said to Have
Moved Her Capita To H~ian Fu-Ern-
perOr Appeals to President Mckinley
for Aid in Restoring Order.
Tuesday. July %.

for Aid in Restoring Order.
Tuesday. July %.
State department, assuming message
from Sheng that foreigners al Fekin
would be started tor Tien-Tsin 1nder
imperial escort, is true. eXpectina news
OF them from allies shortly. COmmis-
sioner Rockhill preparing 10 start for
China. Tex OF Chinese eMperOr's ap-
peal TO president and latter's reply in
slstlng on protection. made public II
Hung Chang al Shanghai showed mes
sage saying movement was on foot TO
get legations TO Tien-Tsin under guard.
Said China has no money for inlem-
mites, and promise Of future good gov
eminent should suffice for powers.
Wednesday, July p.
Allied powers are said 10 have de-
tanned Ii Hung Chang at Shanghai an
til he gets news from Pekin.
Washington officials lose hope that
foreigners in Pekin are alive.
Chinese Minister to Paris hopes to
prove ministers in Pekin are alive by
getting a message soon from VI. Pieh-
oric
Rear Admiral Kempff makes q 6e-
tailed report on the capture OF the
Taku forts and gives his reasons for
refusing 10 take part
Thursday. July 20.
Shanghai message that Ii Hung
Chang asserts some foreign ministers
already en- route 10 Tien-Tsin First
serious outbreak in Mukden took pace
on June 10. when imperial troops and
rebels masSacred missionaries ana
converts in cathedral Placards post
ed in Canton province blaming con-
verts for all troubles and urging na-
tives TO kill them. Active prenara-
tions in Iangtse region for war Mas
sacre of over Sec including Italian
bishops and priests. in southern HUI
nan. Murders in Shan Ii Ii Hung
Chang may so to Foo Chow. Resr Ad-
miral Kempff's report declared Chi
nese government in sympathy with
boxers.
Friday, July -.
Admiral Remey telegraphed Wash
ington heavy re-inforcements thrown
into Pekin. making it impossible for
allies to capture city except with over
whelming force He said allies have
$4,000 men at Tientsin, but impossible
to move before middle OF August. Sec
rotary Hay, through Consul Goodnow,
Shanghai, answered Ii Hung Chang
this government cannot entertain
proposition to have ministers deliv-
cred at any point outside Pekin until
free communication established be-
tween Conger and Washington. Kaiser
Williams final orders TO troops sailing
for China were to give no quarter,
take no prisoners, and teach Chinese
such a lesson they would not even
wink at Germany for next thousand
years. Kaiser said to have appealed
to England, Russia, Austria and
Italy for harmony. All for
reported killed at Taoting. Massacre
at Shansi. Disturbances increasing in
all directions Pillage at Kwantung.
Wholesale murder at Pao-Ting-Fu.
Car said to have confession from Chi
nese ambassador that movement OF
Chinese soldiers to front was ordered
by imperial government. Rumor Prince
Tuan killed by own Boxers.
Sunday. July 30.
Chinese legation in Berlin received
word from Sheng. director general OF
telegraphs, that General Tung Fuh
Slang at Pekin threatens to kill all le-
gationaries if allies advance on Pc
kin. Note of powers TO China on July
said members of government at Pc
kin would be held personally response
bic for injury to foreigners New i'm
perial edict orders viceroys and gov
errors TO negotiate peace with powers
whose ministers are held as hostages,
to prevent advance of allies and es-
cape of aliens from interior. Imperial
decree of July "a declared to Ii Hung
Chang the unwisdom of either killing
ENJOYS or sending them to Tientsin.
Conshuls at Shanghai decided to ask
their governments for protection.
report Boxers massacred 3
900 to 5000 Christians at FASTING Flu
on July g. Chinese General Ii HO Keh
ordered troops TO eXterminate Chris
tians. Sheng reported admitting muir
ders an dannouncing massacre OF l.
900 at Kwang Ping Flu. Wave of blood
and general rising along the
Yang tse- Kiang expected on Aug. l.
Secretary Hay said situation un-
changed, waiting for reliable news.
Minister WI getting nervous. Gov
eminent still urging on powers earliest
possible advance OF allies on Pekin.
Rockhill en- route to China. Mrs. VI.
S. Woodward of Evanston. H., wrote
her husband from Pekin on June II
that she had a revolver and intended.
if assailed, to use three bullets on
Boxers, one to kill her daughter. lone,
aud another to kill herself
Much Disease at Nome.
Twenty Thousand people at Cape
Nome City, Alaska, are i'll danger or
death by disease. Writing from Nome
Harbor on June -, Surgeon Il. G.
Ebert reports in letter received at
Washington by Surgeon General
Sternberg that within three weeks this
little settlement of tents and shacks
has grown from a scattered village or
2 zoo 10 q Mace of "a 0OO neODle-Set-