The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-07-07
GRAvEsT ApPREHENsIoNs.
Consuls Argue the Worst From Assassina
ton OF German Minister.

! hal, an Express cable, dated Shanghs
Z July l, says, confirm in the fulles
manner the report of the butchery G
lister, on June IS. The ambassador wa
; riding on Legation street when he wa
: attacked by Chinese troops and Boxers
dragged from his horse and killed. Iii
body was hacked to pieces with swords
The German legation and six othe
buildings were burned, and humble
of servants of the legations were kille,
and their bodies thrown in the flames
Official dispatches of this ghastl,
business has created the utmost con
sternation among the consuls-genera
of the powers who express fears tina
war l'outrauce will be declared agains
the Pekin government. The consult
entertain little hope that any foreigner
are left alive in the capital.
There are 100 foreigners connected
with the Legations, fifty in the custom
house, English and American tourists
and others to the number of $50, and
nearly 500 legation guards.
The British foreign office, the Daily
Mail learns, has learned from the British
consul at Che Foo that Baron Won Ket-
tier has been killed, but has no other
information.
Foreigners Executed Mt PekIn,
A dispatch to the Express from Nan
kin, June 80, says: French priests
here have received reports from Pekin
that the public executions of foreigners
have been in progress since June 90.
The news comes by runners from
| French priests at Pekin, who state that
they administered the last rites to the
condemned men,"
Nankin cables, dated Sunday. say
that Viceroy Liu Yum Yih received q
telegram from Gen. Yulu on Saturday
stating that the German minister had
been murdered at Pekin. Yulu, who
escaped from Tien Tsin to Pao Ting Flu,
also wired:
"Position desperate. Implore your
help. Foreign troops of eightnational-
tiles entering Pekin to the number of
$4,000 or 10000: l cannot hold out four
days"
Liu Yum Yih has received this from
the viceroy of Yum Shikai:
Foreign troops victorious at Tien
Tsin. They will enter Pekin immedi-
ately."
Outbreaks of the Boxers appear to be
iYr1T i'm Mt of hn %
unrest steadily increases. Boxers from
Ping Tu were marching on Sunday on
Che Foo. The governor feared for the
town and sent to the warships for
forces.
A small riot occurred at Che Foo on
Saturday.
Fifty-two refugees who have arrived
from New Chwang aver that the Box
ers have destroyed the railway north of
Port Arthur, and that all the American
and English residents are leaving.
Gen. Yum Shin Kan, commanding the
best foreign drilled troops in China, has
notified the German governor of Kiao
Chou that he will not permit the Ger
mans proposed expedition to Weih
Sien to rescue Chalfont and the Misses
Bowden and Halves, the American mis-
sionaries in the hands of the Boxers.
The missionaries at Pao Ting Flu were
to be safe on June 25.
A correspondent in Shanghai learns
from official sources that the Chinese |
are laying torpedoes between Shanghai
and the Kiang Nan arsenal. Agents of |
the Boxers are busy in Shanghai pro-
voking hatred of foreigners.
Nothing has been heard from the col
umn which relieved Admiral Seymour
FIVE days ago and then proceeded toward
Pekin, but as it takes at least two days
to communicate between Tien Tsin and
Che Foo, there is nothing extraordinary
in this. Troops are going forward
from Taku to Tien Tsin daily, though
some reports from Taku allege that it
Will be three weeks before large force
,an be sent to Pekin.
Russian Barbarities Do Harm.
A dispatch to the Daily Mail from
Tong Ku, without date, via Che Foo
Friday, says:
sit is improper any longer to conceal
The harm done to the allies by the bar
PARTIES and the pillage of the Russians
IN the day of bombardment. They
shot natives and looted every
hing, including the European houses
n Talu. The natives for miles around
we're looted of supplies and labor is
carcer."
The morning papers generally accept
Us conclusive the reports that Baron
kettler has been killed, and express
rave uncertainty as to whether anyof
he members of the legation at Pekin
re safe.
The correspondent of the Times at
shanghai, telegraphing on Sunday,
avs:
Dispatches from Using Tao report u
erious attack upon German railway
ngineers at Kaumi. The Europeans
scaped but many Chinese were killed
nd much property was destroyed. The
Iemorial church at Yeh Chan Flu has
een burned. The missionaries at
Sing Cling have been ordered to leave
" the mandarins. The advance of
roops from Taku is hampered by the {
ack of cavalry transport" S
THE PATIENT IMPROVING.