The evening times., 1900-07-27

startling fact merely incidentally. Here
tofcre il has been generally supposed that
the members of Mr. Congsr's family were
with him. Where they could have been
sent is merely conjecture. Certainly they
have not reached any coast towns and it
is hard to see how immunity from danger
could have been assured by sending them
any further north or into he interior Of
the troubled empire.
Miss Miller says 4 hope you have not
seen the telegraDhic reports about the
burning Of Tungchow and think il is this
place. Tengchow.
-TUngchow has been burned, the mission
property, schools, etc, and the miss.ora-
ries have had to fec, where l do not know.
The American Board Mission is the chief
one located there.
'Paoting-fu has also been burned and
the missionaries forced away. l kros sew
eral families Of our mission there. aud
know Of others Of the American Board and
c J. NJ. who are stationed there. We
can get little news in detail. Olly the main
facts, and Pekin Is in lot OF trouble
We cannot get definite word from there We
have heard that the foreign soldiers have
had conflict with the Boxers in which the
latter were defeated. and that the miss on
aries have gone 10 the various legations fer
protection. We know that the Empress IA
voTs the Boxers, although heretofore Sc
cretly. Now we know that Price Tuan,
father of the boy who is to succeed Kwang
Hsu, is at the head OF the Boxers. and re
is in high favor with the Empress Dowager.
| must confess | do not love the old LADY
very much.
In Tientsin there have been threats
made that the foreigners are 10 be burned
out. and so none OF the ladies have been
able to sleep comfortably any night They
dare not undress and lie with their most
valuable pOssess4ons done up in a package
beside them Asfew thousand troops have
been landed from American and English
gunboats. Five,s thousand Russians have
gone up to RekR, declaring that their only
idea IS to put down the Boxers IL is re-
ported that 11,e0o of English troops who
were en- route for Africa have been ordered
to China instead.
Sir Claude Macdonald and Major Con-
ger, the English and American Ministers.
have been reused at last. II is a crying
shame that they have taken no action be-
fore. But Conger cannot compare with
Fowler. our consul at ChefOo. Mr. Fowler
has been sending him letters and exhort-
ing him to do something TO protect Ameri-
can missionaries and Christians. but
you see, we are only missiona-
Ties, and a big full would not
be made over us il We were killed, so ne
rested easy. willingly blinded by the fiat
men. But he is aroused now We are
all glad that this has happened TO Pekiu.
for now something will be done. The mur-
der OF Mr.. Brooks here in Shantung. the
Fuchow massacre several years ago the
trouble in Kwang Shi. 81 Tswan. Kwei
Cho. and Yum Nan were smOOthed over
with a few words and a little money, and
the ministers still had whole skins. But
now they, their wives, and children are in
danger. and maybe they viii use their au-
thority for their own flesh and blood. as
they did not for their fellow-citizens 1t
makes me rather wrathy. you see because
Conger has not listened 10 the warnings
he has received from Amricans. principally
missionaries, who fed TO avoid arrest.
In other places things seem 10 be quiet.
but for how long?
"Conger took warning in time TO get his
family out of danger before the Boxers
tore up the railroad
Two Of the PJxers we're in Tengchow
last week. but could not stir up any mis-
chief. and so they left in disgust Teng-
chow is loyal to the missionaries"