The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-06-23

London, June 10. - There is not a
cabiEet in Europe apparently that
knows what has been transpiring in
Picking for five days or in Tien-tsin
for three days. Nor is there any that
knows with what difficulties the small
and inadequately equipped internatiOn-
al column is contending between those
~'cities. The German foreign Office,
upon learning the report Of the MUIR
der of Baron von Kettler, the German
minister at Picking, sent a telegram Of
inquiry to st. Petersburg, the Russian
government, because of its wires. to-
Manchuria, being supposedly
In a Better Position
than the other governments to obtain
direct news. In reply the German for
eign Office was informed that nothing
whatever was known on the subject,
interrupted. The news spread widely
had been attacked and that n minis
ter, probably the German, had been
murdered, has been traced to Ta-tai-
Sheng, who for few days, as the. en-
press dowager's agent, has been Gen.
soring kilograms from Shanghai. The
Daily Mail correspondent at Shanghai
says: "SEeng, as the government
agent, contended that the wires
Between Tien-tsin and PekinE'
had been down since June Is. and that
they were cut on June Is. Neverthe-
less it is notorious that constant com.
munications have been passing from
Shanghai to Picking over the northern
and Western routes, although Sheng
has refused both ministers and con
suls the privilege of using the lines.
1t, is known that last Friday Sheng
received a message from either Picking
or Tien-tsin. This dispatch said that
Gen. Flung Tub Siang's troops aided
the Boxers in al organized attack on
| the legations and that in the course Of
the attack some of the legation build
ings were reduced to ashes and n
| foreign minister was
Shot to Pieces"
Why in the cables it should have
been added that the murdered minis
ter was Baron Won Ketteler is not ex-
planned. According to another tele-
gram from Shanghai, dated June Is,
7:25 p. m, Sheng has fed, fearing that
the foreign authorities were about to
arrest him because of the stoppage of
kilograms. A third cable asserts that
the reports Of the murder Of the Ger
man minister, emanating from Lon
| don, are quite unconfirmed, and are
| discredited at Shanghai. The German
minister has
Not Been Captured
is the announcement to the Morning
Post from Picking in a dispatch dated
June Is, 8 p. m., via Tien-tsin. June Is.
| This is the latest press message known
to have left Peking. 1t continues as
| follows: A crows of Boxers occupies
Legation street, cutting off communica-
ton between buildings. A few Box
ers are parading in the city. Their
superstition in regard to foreign arms
is pitiable. The Boxers hold the Of
| acials of Tung-chau for redemption.
Anarchy Reigns
at that place. The Americans in the
interior Of the two n%eighboring prov
inces have been advised to leave, but
several have no mean of doing SO.
Unless q relief force is sent there is
| danger Of a massacre of native Chris
tians. A large native. army is ready
to oppose the relief column on the way
here. The Chinese government can-
not decide whether to adopt the policy
Of rigidly suppressing the Boxers or
that of defying the world. The de-
| cision rests with the dowager m
press"
wild Stories From Shanghai.
During the isolation Of Picking and
| Tien-tsin Shanghai is supplying a be-
| wildering bunch of reports and con-
| lectures, most of them picturesque and
threatening. Here is one: "Miscellan-
eous crowds have been in progress
northward for some weeks and the
hordes around Peking are being con-
! stantly swelled by these arrivals. Well
!. Informed Chinese here who are. not
unfriendly toward foreigners declare
that there must now be more than
10000 men outside the city gates,
All Of Them Armed,
| although some in a more or less crude
fashion. The probability is that there
are rot more than $4,000 Chinese
troops among them, all told. 1nforma-
ton from Picking, brought hither by
refugees, says that the city Is in q
state of panic. Incendiary. fires are
Oh Ul&QLly UcCuEACASc oAo
RACES are reported" The following
| summary of the situation was tele;
| graphed to the Daily News from
| Shanghai last evening: The situation
IL Critical a5&
and without parellelS since the Indian
mutiny. At the yan-tz-pOrts there Is q
| grave feeling of unrest among the ma
tives. AS yet there has been no out
break, but placards have been posted
in Kin-kiang, Ugas-skin and Wu-hu,
calling on. the people to xiii and
burn" ASbody of rioters 5000 strong
are at Kwei-hsein; in the prefecture OF,
Canton, and troops have gone to sup
press them. The powers, u~nprepafed,
| are helpless to prevent disaster, but
| barring trifiIng local friction, they are
| working admirably.
Murder of German Minister Doubted.
Washington, June 1S.-Up to g late
hour last night the foreign embassies
and legations, like tie American GOV.
eminent, were without news. Some
comfort was obtained by the officials
Of this government, az Well az 3
members Of the diplomatic corps from
the Associated Press dispatches from
Paris that there was 9 show Of8dOubt.
O. to the occurrancesof the reported at:
tscks on the legations and the killing
of 4 foreign minister at Peking They
felt shpresSthat hareningsSsSof shchi