Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-08-06
TELEGRAMS IN BRIEF.
CHINA.

Russia is rushing many troops into
Manchuria.
Minister WI hopes to get direct
word from Conger within week.
Twelve missionaries were mas
sacred at an English station north Of
Ning-Po.
Chinese still assert that the foreign
ers in Pekin are well and ready to
leave for Teintsin.
Some Italian priests and 900 converts
we're massacred with revolving cruelty
in southern Human.
More than $300,O00,000 has been
voted for war expenses Of the British
in south Africa and China.
The Chinese army is advancing on
Pekin the soldiers being instructed to
kill all Christians on the way.
Admiral Kempff makes the direct
charge that the Chinese government
was in sympathy with the boxers.
The state department has received
proof that the dispatch purporting to
have come from Minister Conger July
Is is forgery.
China has offered to produce the
foreign diplomats shut up in Pekin Oh
condition that no further advance be
made by the allied armies.
A Shanghai dispatch to Toxic quotes
a Pelkin letter as saying that fighting
about the legations had ceased July Is.
The fate of the ministers was left in
doubt.
Major General James H. Wilson, on
his way to join Chaffee as second in
command, predicts dynastic war in
China, as we'll as a revolution by lower
classes.
The czar is said to have a confession
from the Chinese ambassador that the
movement of Chinese soldiers to the
front was ordered by the imperial
government.
Lii Hung Chang said some members
of the legations had already left Pekin
and might be expected soon. He him
self has sought the shelter of an
arsenal at Shanghai.
A cable message received by the
Woman's Presbyterian board of
missions from United States Consul
Fowler at Che-Foo declares the
foreigners in Pekin were safe July 20.
Mrs. M. IS. Woodward of Evanston
wrote her husband from Pekin June IL
She had a revolver and intended, il
assaulted, to use three bullets on boxers,
one to kill her daughter, Iona, and the
other to kill herself.
Two Presbyterian missionaries in adj
dresses at the Moody Bible institute
in Chicago upheld the cause of the
boxers in China and placed the
blame for the present trouble on the
European nations.
Shanghai reports that the boxers
massacred 1000 to 5000 Christians at
FASTING Flu July 8. The Chinese Gen
eral Ii Ho Keh ordered the troops to
exterminate Christians. Sheng re-
ported, admitting murders and an
nouncing the massacre of 1000 at
him. The wave of blood is spreading
Kwang Ping Flu. A majority Of the
consuls favor strong measures against
and a general rising along the Yang
tse-Kiang is expected.
Kaiser Williams final orders to his
LTOODS Sdl1lLS
no quarters, take no prisoners, and
teach the Chinese such a lesson that
they would not even wink at Germans
for the next thousand years. The
kaiser is said to have appealed to Eng
land, Russia, Austria, and Italy for
harmony
Admiral Remey telegraphed Wash
ington that heavy reinforcements had
been thrown into Pekin, making it i'm
possible for the allies to capture the
city except with overwhelming force.
He said the allies had $4,000 men at
Tientsin, but it is impossible to move
before the middle Of August. Secre-
tary Hay, through Consul Goodnow 1T
Shanghai, answered Ii Hung Chang
that this government cannot entertain
the proposition to have the ministers
delivered at any point outside Pekin
until free communication is established
between Conger and Washington.
A new imperial edict orders the
viceroys and governors to negotiate a
peace with the powers whose ministers
are held as hostages to prevent ad-
vance of foreign troops and the escape
of aliens from the interior The i'm
perial decree of July "a declared to
Ii Hung Chang the unwisdom of
either killing the ENJOYS or sending
them to Tien-Tsin Chinese legation
in Berlin received word from Sheng
that General Tung Fuh Slang at Pekin
threatened to kill all Iegationers if
allies advance on Pekin The minister
did not communicate the message TO
the German government.