Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-07-27
A GOOD CROP OF RuMoRs.

LONDON, July 2I.-4:30 a. m.-All
the powers seem to have received an
identical Chinese appeal for mediation.
Ii 1t could be ascertained beyond
doubt that the reports of a massacre at
Pekln were unfounded, and there is a
disposition here to believe that the
ministers may, after all, be held as hos
tages-Lord Salisbury's policy would
probably incline more toward the con-
Citation attributed to WASHINGTON
than to revenge attributed to Berlin.
But while there is no cessation OF the
deluge of rumors, it is beginning to he
believed at Shanghai, Canton and 9TH
er points that the viceroys are as COM
pletely in the dark as to the affairs in
Pekin as the Europeans themselves.
Meanwhile the doings of Lii Hung
Chang are regarded with ever-increas-
ing suspicion, while the situation in the
southern provinces daily grows worse
With the report that the allies Will
begin to advance upon Pekin in a
fortnight and in view of Admiral Sey-
mour's visit of inspection to the Yang
Use Kiang, the feeling is that no great
time will elapse before matters assume
more definite shape.
There is an unconirmed Chinese re-
port that sixty Protestant and Catholic
missionaries have been massacred in
XII Yuan Flu and vicinity.
The Shanghai correspondent of the
Daily Mail describing the massacre at
Mukden says:
THE bishop had armed 200 converts
to defend the Cathedral, and a body of
Chinese troops had been sent to defend
the converts, but the soldiers were
leagued with the Boxers. While the
Christians were holding a service, be-
lieying themselves safe under the pro-
lection of the troops, the signal was
given and soldiers and Boxers sur
rounded and set fire to the church,
putting The escaping worshippers to
the sword. The bishop was captured
and taken to the viceroy's yamen,
where he was diabolically tortured and
decapitated. His head now hangs in
front of the yamen.
The Daily Mail explains that the
Chinese employe of the British legation,
who, according to its advices yester-
day, escaped from Pekin TO Niu Chwang
and reported there that when he left
Pekin most of the members of the le-
cations were dead and the condition of
the others was hopeless, did not ac-
tually leave Pekin until July s, and
this goes To show, if his statement is to
be relied upon, that general mas
sacre had not occurred on July 6, as
had been reported.
There is little fresh news regarding
the situation in Manchuria. The Rus
slams inflicted another serious defeat
upon the Chinese at Fort Echo on July
%. From Kobe comes a report that
eight battalions of Russians have been
compelled TO leave Vladivostock and
Tien Tsin on account of the Manchuria
trouble.
kilograms have arrived at ST. Peters
burg by circuitous route, dated
Pekin, June Is and June Is, describing
the origin of the trouble. They come
from the director of the Russo Chinese
bank in Pekin. He says in part:
The German legation on June ID,
arrested an anti-Christian brigand.
This was the signal for an anti-Chris-
tian uprising, and at six in the evening
the anti-Christians set fire to the Amer
lean church and burned it to the
ground. The Europeans then barricad-
ed the legations and the rioters sacked
and burned the houses in the European
quarter.
1T further appears from the advices
that by June 18 the legations were be-
sieged, and the Chinese government
had determined to invoke the aid OF NJ.
De Giera (the Russian minister) and
Minister Conger to prevent the ad-
vance of Russian troops to Pekin-