New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-07-24
REBELLION FEARED AT CANTON.
MISSIONARIES DREADED RESULTS OF LIS
BEING CALLED AWAY.


BEING CALLED AWAY
The last mail from China brought batch Of
letters, written the middle Of June. which have
more or less TO say about the Boxer uprising.
letter was received at the office OF the Pres
byterian Board yesterday from DR.. John NJ. Swan.
who has charge Of the Boards hospital al Canton.
1t is dated Canton, June IS and says:
The general opinion Is that the Boxer movement
Effort nG has s baef a9 6E a @ T no
however. that this Province has been the border
OF rebellion for more than year, and during the
last year enormous quantities Of and ammu-
milton have been introduced into the country round
about There are pretty strong indications that
this rebellion will break out in the near future.
elsewhere. as it is reported he will be, our work
moves on as usual the people are friendly and
Nieerqy has ruled with hand that brings terror
10 a large extent the number Of piracies and rob
berries which have devastated some districts about
oughfare not ten minutes walk from R here as
warning 10 evil doors. having been tortured TO
Lien-Chow field. especially the women and chill
s s5fsty but hope and pray tina" they may be kept in
A letter received by the Presbyterian Board from
the Rev. W o. Elterich dated Che-Foo June ls
saws.
.. There have ave been great many rumors on the
dred Of the Boxers here and all foreign dwellings
were to be looted and burned this week Our able
precaution. demanding Of the Chinese authorizes
protection for American citizens and their prop
erty- A guard Of fifty Chinese soldiers Is encamped
on the hill just above US and there others in
the settlement The Yorktown has also been or
dered mere we 90 not IeeI that We are IN any
immediate danger, and our ladies are not worried.
Dr. H. X. Carroll, OF the Methodist Missionary
Society. received letter yesterday morning from
the Rev. J. H Pyke. treasurer Of the North China
Methodist Episcopal Mission. dated Tien-Tsin,
June s. which said that the Boxers were active
and that the government was refusing 70 give the
regular troops orders 20 fire upon them, even
when they were engaged in the work Of destruc-
ton. The letter also confirms the fears of the
officers of the American Board that their mission
aries stationed at Tung-Cho went 10 Picking for
safety when the Congregational College at that
place was burned II says:
Yesterday June = the mission Of the Board at
Tung-Cho. where the annual meeting was in ses-
residences of foreigners were all destroyed Thir-
ty-two native Christians were killed. The foreign
at the mission rescued by party OF
United States Marines that arrived in the nick OF
time from Picking. The party is now safe in Pc
king for the present
The Congregational missionaries stationed at
Tuug-Cho and supposed TO have been there when
the college was burned were: Miss Mary A An
drews Miss Abbie c. Chaplin Miss Jane G. Evans,
the Rev. and Mrs. Howard s Gait the Rev. DR..
and Mrs. Chauncey Goodrich and family Of three
children, DIT. and Mrs. James II. Ingram and two
children. Miss Luella Miner. and the Rev and Mrs.
z. G. Tewksbury and children.