The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-07-24
They Were ALI Safe in the British Legation on
Wednesday Last.
A CABLEGRAM FROM MINISTER CONGER,
He Replies to the Message SEN to Him by the
State Department July 18th Through the
Chinese Minister at Washington.

The message Is not dated, but il is
UNDERSTOOD was sent from Pekin on the
18th.
The following statement was given
out today at the state department.:
"On the 18th of this month the state
department communicated a brief
message asking tidings of Minister
Conger in the state department code.
Minister WI undertook to get this
into Minister Conger's. hands, if he
were alive. He has succeeded in do
ing this. This morning the state de-
partment received a telegram from
Consul Gener Goodnow at Shanghai
saying:
THE governor of Shan Tung informs
me hat he has receivd to-day a cipher
message from Conger OF the 18th"
A few minutes later. Minister WI
appeared at the stat ,artment with
a telegram rom Tai Sheng dated
10th July, which had been received by
Minister WI at $50 O'Clock this morn
ing, reading as follows:
Your telegram was forwarded and,
as requested, l send reply from the
Tsung Ii Yamen as follows:
Your telegram of the 18th day of
this moon 9th july received. The
state department telegram has been
handed TO Minister Conger. Herewith
is Minister Conger's reply to the state
department.
Then follows Minister Conger's re-
ply to he state department cipher,
signed with the word ''Conger'' in Eng
lish.
The state department has just issu-
ed the following bulletin:
The secretary of state received this
morning a dispatch from Consul Fow-
Ter, at Che Foo, dated midnight 18th,
saying a Shanghai paper of the 18th
said all the foreigners were murdered.
Fowler wired the governor demanding
the truth. The governor repliel that
his courier left Pekin on the 18th and
all then were safe, but Pekin, east city,
had been carried by the rebels with
intent to kill"
Secretary Long has sent the follow
ing cablegram to Admiral Remey:
"Conger telegraphs that he is under
fire in British legation, Pekin. Use
n urge every means possible for i'm
mediate relief.
LONG"
MILITIA ORDERED TO RBPRESS
THE REBELLION.
Brussels, July 2O.-The Began Con-
sui at Shanghai sends the following
dispatch under date of July 18th:
'Sheng (the administrator of tele-
graphs) announces that the foreigners
at Pekin were safe and sound July
10TH"
An imperial decree, dated July 18th,
orders the viceroys of Tien Tsin to APP
praise the damage caused by the
troubles and orders the local militia
to repress the rebellion.
The secretary of state today receiv-
ed a telegram from Consul Fowler. at
Che Foo, dated afternoon of the 10Th
saying that he had received the fol-
lowing telegram from the governor of
Shan Tung dated 10 O'Clock.
Received flying express from the
Tsung Lii Yamen forwarding cipher
telegram, dated July 18th, from Amer
lean Minister at Pekin, which l have
transmitted and by which you will see
that the newspaper accounts are en-
tirely rumorS."
The department also has received a
dispatch from Consul Fowler dated
night, July goth, in which he commu-
nicates the following message tele-
graphed to him that day by the gov
ernor Shan Tung:
Il have just received definite infor-
nation that the various ministers in
Pekin are we'll and the proper Chinese
authorities are devising measures fol
their rescue and protection"
Secretary Long this afternoon receiv-
ed the following dispatch from AID
miral Remey dated Che Foo, July
goth:
"Conger has wired me that ne is IT
the British legation under shot and
shell and unless relief is sent at once
he will be massacreed. I urge imme
date relief be sent.
MASSACRED BY BOXERS.
London, July pa dispatch from
Shanghai reports that sixty mission
aries n one hundred native converts
have been massacred by Boxers a
Tai Yuan.
Tai Yuan is a fortified and populou:
city in the province of Shan See, or
the Fuen Ho, an affiuent of the Hoang
Ho, $50 miles southwest of Pekinl
London, July 2O.-Minister Conger':
message TO the state department a
Washington is not regarded here a:
juStifying overmuch optimism, but OF
the contrary is generally accepted a!
a further ChinSese attempt at mystl
ication. Some think the fact that tn
message is undated and the similarit!
OF its contents to Sir Robert Hart
message of June oath suggest that i
was sent of about h same time, bu
intercepted by the Chinese. The skep
teal are confirmed in their suspicion
by the TACT that a message was re
ceiVed by VI. del CaSSe, the Frencl
minister. OF foreign affairs, today
through the chinese minister at Parl
purporting TO come from the emperor
asking Frances mediation with tn
powers and which, it is alleged, wa
dated July 18th and makes no mention
of the foreign legations at Pekin.
The Chinese legation at London ha
been notified by Shang, Chinese ad
ministrator of telegraphs at Shangha
that the governor OF Shan Tung ha
received a message from Minister Con
ger Cor transmission to Washington