The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1900-07-31

that one of the last acts of the late
Col. Liscum before his death at TEN
Tsin was to undertake the dispatch
of a spy to Peking. Gen. Dorward,
the British commanding officer at
Tien-Tsin, also sent out two messen-
gers, and it is believed that the jana
nese did the same. Up to date not
one of these messengers has returned
to Tien-Tsin, nor has there been a
single word heard from any of them.
This fact, however, has not caused the
abandonment of hope, and this is
true in particular of the message ex-
pected from Mr.. COnger. Minister WI
is perhaps the basis for this hope on
our part, and he maintains an I'M
shaken confidence in his original as
sertion that the news, when it does
come, will show that the legationers
are alive.
Toxic, July est is reported from
Shanghai that the Boxers attacked
the missionaries and native Chris
tians at Pao Ting Flu on July s. A
foreign physician and 1000 converts
were massacred.
The Chinese general, Ii Ho KEN, is
now marching on Picking. He has
ordered his troops to exterminate all
Christians. Already one French
priest and from 1000 to 5000 natives
have been slaughtered.
Berlin, July 3O.-The Chinese lega-
ton in Berlin has received a message
from Sheng, director general of rail
ways and telegraphs, saying that he
had received a dispatch from Picking
announcing that Gen. Tung Fuh ST.
ang threatens to kill all the members
of the legations if the international
forces advance upon Picking.
Evidently the legation is embar-
raised by the receipt of this dispatch
as the Chinese minister has not COM
municated it to the German govern
ment.
The legation has cabled the viceroy
of Nanlin requesting him to try to
get information as to whether the
widow of Baron Won Ketteler, the
murdered German minister, is still
alive.
London, July 27.-The Hong-Kong
correspondent of the Daily Express
wires as follows:
IAN Italian priest has just arrived
here from Hen Sien Flu, in southern
HUI An, where the Italian bishop and
three priests have been massacred
after revolving tortures. This took
place on July 4. Six hundred con-
verts were massacred after the wom-
en- had been subjected to hideous bru-
talities. Six other priests fed to the
hills, where they were probably kill
ed. The priest who escaped had a
perilous journey to Hong-Kong. He
hid in a coffin on board a river boat
for II days"
Washington, July 2S.-Secretary Hay
signalized his return to Washington
from Canton Friday morning by the
announcement that under no circum-
stances will the United States accept
the Chinese offer to turn over the for
eign ministers to the internationals at
Tien-Tsin in consideration of a sus-
pension of the campaign against Pc
king. A long cablegram was dispatch
ed Friday to RI. Adm. Remey at Taku
and it is believed that this instruc-
ton was laid upon him.
The state department claims to be
pursuing an entirely consistent course
in this decision. The officials point
out that all of the bitter criticism in
the European papers directed against
the United States policy is based up
on total misunderstanding of the
fundamental principles which have
governed the actions of the depart
ment. At no time, it is said, has the
state department allowed the belief
that the foreign ministers at Picking
were alive to interfere in the slight
est degree with the prosecution of it's
military plans for reaching Picking.
On the contrary, the news that the
ministers were alive was accepted
by the state department, not as con-
veying absolute verify, but as an adj
ditiOnal reason for Fastening the re-
lief column forward to Picking. 1t
was the departments contention that,
even though a degree of improbable
ity surrounded the Chinese news as to
the state of affairs in Peking, yet
every consideration of humanity and
policy demanded that it should be
given careful consideration and
that it should be acted upon
as if true provided that ac-
ton went toward the relief of the
foreign ministers, and did not operate
to prevent the contamination of any
of the objects laid down in Secretary
Hays identic note. The department
is absolutely satisfied that its atti-
tude was perfectly correct, and that
even European critics will, in time,
admit the fact.
Relief Arrives at Nagasaki.