The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1900-07-26

London, July 81. - A dispatch from
Shanghai received here Friday morn
ing reports that 60 missionaries and
100 native converts have been massa-
cred by Boxers at Tai-Yuan.
Gloom Deepens a London.
London, July 81. To add to the
gloom occasioned by the extremely Sc
rious import of news showing the daily
developing strength of the anti-foreign
movement in the south of China, comes
Friday morning from Shanghai a re-
port that 60 missionaries and 100 native
converts have been massacred at Tai
Yuan. Though the report is not yet
corroborated, it tends to confirm the
belief that hope that the central and
southern viceroyalties would hold
aloof from the Boxer rising has never
had much foundation. If this massa-
ere has occurred in the province of
Shan-See there can be little question
that the intense anxiety for the safety
of the international colonies at the
river ports, and even at Shanghai, is
fully justified, for an attack later by
the masses of Chinese gathering in and
about the international concessions
would mean horrors compared with
which the massacre at Picking would
be insignificant.
Echoes of the Tientsin Fight.
London, July 21.-The Daily Express
has received the following from Tient-
sin, dated July IS:
THE casualties of the allies in the three
days fighting before the native city of
Tientsin exceeded 1000. 1t is now certain
that there were several Russians and
Frenchmen fighting on the Chinese side
The Chinese killed their own women whole
sale to prevent them falling into the hands
OF tine Russians. Yesterday the whole
native city was in flames, and the stencil
OF the burning thousands of corpses was
unspeakably horrible. Among the Incl
dents of the fighting on July 10 was the
precipitate flight of 500 French troops from
AMMAN. They had been ordered to hold
an important front, but on being charged
by the Chinese with bayonets the entire
detachment bolted panic-stricken. The
Russians killed all the Chinese wounded in
revenge of the Picking massacre"
Asks France to Mediate.
Paris, July 21.-The Chinese minis
ter at Paris has transmitted to NJ.
Delcasse, minister of foreign affairs,
for communication to President Lou
bet, telegram from the emperor of
China, which was dispatched by the
governor of Shan-Tung Thursday, July
10, asking the mediation of France
with the foreign powers. The tele-
gram makes no allusion to the foreign
ministers at Picking.
NJ. Delcasse informed the minister
that President Loubet's reply would
be addressed to the French legation
at Picking, where the imperial gov
eminent can obtain it; but first, the
government of the republic will wait
until it is certain that the French
minister at Picking is safe and sound.
LIS Mission to Picking.
. Rome, July 21.-The Italian consul
at Hong-Kong telegraphs under
date of Tuesday, July II, that
Ii Hung Chang informed him
that he was going to Peking
to negotiate with the powers
in compliance with a dispatch signed
by the emperor and the empress dow
ager. The consul asked him to for
ward dispatch to the Italian minis
ter, Signor Raggi, but Ii Hung Chang
replied that he had no means of doing
so. Ii Hung Chang, the consul re-
ports, notified the directors of Gus
toms that they must obey orders from
Canton, not from Picking The vice
roy of Marking has given similar in
structions for Shanghai.