The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-08-06
BOXER DO|NGS At CHI i
REV. FATHER MARQUET WRITES
INTER ESTING LETTER CON-
CORNING THE FANATICS
SAY THEY CANNOT BE HURT
Invited Christians to Fire on Them
and Three Were Ktlled-Native
Converts Defeated Their
AssaiIants.

NEW YORK, Aug. Sin a letter from
the Rev. Father Marquet, the superior of
the Roman Catholic missionaries in the
here, he says that at the beginning of
the Boxer outbreak the Chinese authori-
ties sought to protect the Christians. He
tells how the native Christians fought
against the Boxers and defeated them.
THE Boxers say that, by the help of
certain incanta TONS" writes Father Mar
quet, they become inVulnerable as soon
as the spirit to which they surrender
themselves has taken possession of them
But whenever a Christian is present or
wherever a Christian dies the spirit, they
say, does not descend upon them, and so
they cannot become invulnerable. In
fact not far from the Christian establish
ment of Tchu Kin Ho (King Tcheou
three of those who had been initiated
volunteered after their nominations to be
fired at. The first of them was instantly
killed, while the two others were wounded
MORALLY.
ut was market day. and the Boxers,
afraid of losing their prestige before the
people, proclaimed loudly that this was
the fault of the Christians. They spread
the ncws that neophytes had killed one
of their adherents and wounded the
others, and declared their intention of
getting rid of the Christians, sacking
their houses and burning their churches
OF the beginning of the actual trouble
Father Marquet writes:
with the exception of three communi-
ties which foreseeing what was about to
happen, had armed themselves, and two
others, which were protected by pagan
village chiefs, every Christian establish
ment ut King Tcheou was sacked. At
Leou Pa, Tchouang, a Christian, who
wanted to save his house, was stabbed,
then an in1ammatery fluid was thrown
over HIS body and set on fire while he
was still thing. A few days later 1t
was the turn of the Christian establish
ments of Pou Tcheng, Kea Ho and To
Hong The district of Father Andlar,
the real hotbed of the Boxers, suffered
most.
First of all, the Christians were asked
to apostaciZe, but, so far as Is known,
none did 80, and every Christian COM
munity, with the exception Of that of Flu
III Ching, whose residents had taken
flight, were destroyed. Father Bebers
was compelled to retire to Obi Kiau. The
Boxers crossed the imperial canal, in
vaded his district and effected a junction
with the Boxers of Cham Tong. Though
surprised, the courageous Christians de-
Tended themselves valiantly until all their
ammunition was gone; then, when there
was no more powder left they hurled
bricks from the roof tops on the heads Of
the bandits From Chem Tschou, the
Rev. Father Wilbur writes that already
twenty-one establishments have been
plundered and that he himself was in
great danger.
1.-THE southern district enjoyed rela-
tive tranquility. The sacking of some
houses belonging to Christian Neophytes
by the sect of the Great Daggers was
atoned for. Some heads were cut off and
an indemnity OF 300 or 400 francs was
given to the aggrieved families.
so as to neglect no human means, we
applied for assistance to the French con-
sui at Tien Tsin, and through him to the
viceroy of Chi Ii, and requested that a
sufficient force of soldiers be sent to OPP
pose the progress of the rioters, who be-
came more numerous and more desperate
every day. Meanwhile we wiped away