New Ulm review., 1900-07-18
THE S|LENC[OT THE GRAVE.
Continued Lack OF News from
China Strengthens the
Worst Fears.
THE KILLING OF THE RUSSIAN MINIS TER
Tortured and Then BOiIed-His Wife
Horror Through Washington Lee
z cations - Situation at Tie ntsfn
. s..
81 Growing Worse. &N&s

London, July 16.-Though hope still
struggles against the conclusion that
| the silence at Peking is the silence of
/ the grave the official admissions in
both the United States and Europe that
| the diplomatists have adopted the pes
I simistic views held by the consuls at
| Shanghai have almost silenced those
attempting to reason against the cir
| cumstantial evidence which is becom-
| ing so cogent. The Chinese assurances
and edicts appear to observers here to
be merely part of plan to cautiously
! break the news of the tragedy and
delude the foreigners with a tale of
imperial guiltlessness. But if the bonn
bardment mentioned in United States
! Consul Goodnow's last message oc-
CURED, it must have been carried out
! by the Chinese regulars, so the plea of
| imperial defense of the legations seems
to fall to the@ground. r.
| Situation at Tientsln Grows Worse.
The situation at Tientsin appears to
| be slowly but surely growing worse.
The allied forces are experiencing the
| greatest difficulty in sending forward
reenforcements, as the Chinese have
rendered the navigation of the river
most difficult by diverting its waters.
Happily St. Petersburg announces
officially that the telegraph between
Taku and Tientsin has already been re-
stored and that railroad communica-
tion will shortly be reestab blished. To
the other trials of the besieged persons
at Tientsin has been added the out
break of scarlet fever.
Dispatches from Tientsin report tn at
number of ladies there have become
whitehaired through the horrors of
the siege.
international Council CT War.
St, Petersburg, July 16.-A dispa tch
from khabarovsk: dated Thursday,
July y, says an international council
Of war. held at Tientsin. has decided,
for the present, TO confne the efforts
| Of the allied. forces to fortifying Tien-
! tsin and esta blishing safe communica-
tion with Taku forts and arsenals
| lien tsin, it Is added. is being rearmed
| wit guns Of the highest class.
Tortured and Boiled.
St. Petersb burg, July11 (via Paris, July
| 16).-Ihe czar has received with great
emotion the dreadful details of the ca
| tastrophe at Pekin. Tears coursed
down his majesty's cheeks as he read
the cablegram from Admiral AleXyeff
at Port Arthur confirming the horrible
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Glers, which merely in form of rumors
had already reached Russia. The ad-
miral declares that the Russian envoy
was dragged through the streets by the
Boxers, insulted, beaten and tortured,
| ana even thrown into a great kettle
and boiled to death. Then the remains
were thrown to the dogs. While NJ. de
Giers was being disposed of the fanatic
| mob danced around the caldron.
Nine. de Giers. Admiral Alexyeff's s
advices declare. suffered a fate worse
than death, and was beaten and tors
tured with sharp sticks until life was
| extinct. The legation officials are said
to have been tortured fendishly until
death ended their sufferings. NJ. de
Giers and his legation officials resisted
desperate y, and his brave body-guard
| killed many of the attacking mob. In
the midst of his tortures the envoy is
said to have heroically proclaimed his
faith in Christianity. encouraged by the
| wife who SO soon shared his MARTYR
dom.
Immediately upon the receipt of Ad- :
mral Alexyef's dispatch the car or
dered the cabinet and council of state
| to go into session a once
Comes with Thrill Of Horror
Washington, July 16. - The Russian
embassy here has received no Informal
tion of the killing of the Russian minis
ter at Peking. The officials do not dis
credit it, but say that the Russians are
under the same disadvantage as the
other powers in getting telegraphic
information. from Peking.s They think
that if this proves true it win entirely
and very seriously alter the whole sit
ua ton. -&.ss .
The report from ST.. Petersburg of
| the slaughter of the Russian minister
and his wife at Peking sent a thrill of
horror through the foreign establish
ments here, none of whom, however,