Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-30

LONDON, July 80. AIS a. m.-rhe
Shanghai correspondent of the Daily
Telegraph says he is still firmly con-
WINGED that the ministers are SAFE but
with the exception Of an alleged mes
sage from the japanese legation in Pc
kin, dated July 18th, brought by a
runner, saying that the legation was
still defending itself. nothing has yet
been published giving anything il. the
nature of proof.
On the other hand. the daily inereas.
ing reports of the massacre of mission
aries and foreigners, leaves only the
most slender thread upon which TO
hang hope.
The general situation is
Steadily becoming Darker,
and crisis is said to be fast approach.
ing. 1t is rumored in Shanghai that
ten thousand Chinese troops have been
secretly moved into that vicinity, and
that the commander OF the Kiang Yu
forts has been ordered to fire If any
further addition is made to the num-
Der of foreign ships ascending the riv-
er Rioting has already occurred at
Kin Kiang, the mobs threatening death
to foreigners.
With the arrival of the Second Japa-
nese division the allied forces at Taku
and Tien Tsin will number 10000 The
river floods near Tien Tsin are dimln-
ishing.
1t is reported that Russians from
Hardin have arrived at a point one
hundred and fifty miles north Of Pekin.
alter severe fighting.
The Canton correspondent OF the
Daily Telegraph in dispatch datel
Saturday. says:
"The Triads have become
Numerous and Threatening
in Hal Nan. The Taotai and the local
mandarins are terror-stricken and de-
cline to protect foreigners All the
missionaries excep. three have left
with their wives and families. The
natives Of the Nodea district of the
island were so frightened that they
all joined the ranks of the Trlads.
Serious
Disturbances are Expected
between August lat and August 18th,
during the festival TO be held to ap-
pease the shades OF the dead. The
boxers are charging large sums to tho
Chinese for passports from Pekin 10
Tien Tsin. Lao Yum Flu, the black
flag chief, has refused to march on
Pekin unless Viceroy TAX subwill fur
nish him with 10000 soldiers.
"The Chinese authorities have Just
disclosed boxer plot devised by Soon
Nun to blow up the Manoato temple
and to destroy the Cantonese officials
while performing ceremonies in honor
OF the emperors birthday. II the plot
had succeeded. the boxers would have
attacked Canton. footing the city and
numbering foreigners and all persona
favorable to foreigners.
Chinese newspapers assert that
Prince Tuan offered rewards for all
heads of foreigners brought to his
yamen in Pekin. The boxers, finding
it difficult to get enough of these, de-
eapitated all Chinese having high
noses and deep eyes and in this way.
they presented so many pretended for
eigners heads that Prince Tuans ex-
chequer suffered painful strain"
A New Danger.
The Shanghai correspondent OF the
Times, whiting yesterday, says:
Il learn that Ii Ping Hong and Lu
Chuan Lin, governor Of Kiang Su, both
rabidly anti-foreign, are advancing To-
wards Pekin with large bodies OF
troops. Their advancement must ssr-
iousIy affect the situation there.
To-day the consular body decided
that the situation demands the pres
ence Of a military force in Shanghai.
and the consuIs have notified their gov
ernments accordingly"
on for the East.