Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1900-06-29
ARRANGING PEACE.
Chinese Advices Said Foreign
Ministers Were So Doing.
AMERICAN MISSION DESTROYED.
Missionaries Escaped at wuh sien-Fate
of Foreign Ministers Was In Doubt.
Dispatch From Iii Hung Chang saying

They Were With Seymour, In Question.
Chr Foo, June 29-The American
mission at Wuh Sien, Shan Tun PROV
ince, was destroyed. The missionaries
escaped. The governor notified foreign
ers inland that he was unable to pro-
tect them.
SHANGHAI, June 29.--It was asserted
here that Liu, the yieeroy OF Nankin, re.
ceived instructions from Pekin 10 in
form the foreign consuls here immedi-
ately that the legations at Pekin ''haye
been arranging peace terms. :"
LONDON, June 29.-Admiral Bruce,
in command of the British fosces at
Taku, reported to the British admiralty
the following casualties:
At Taku, June "a, seaman wounded.
At Tien Tsin, up to the forenoon of
June %, ! seamen killed and Lieuten-
ants Stirling Powell and Wright, Com
mander Beatty, and A midshipmen and
seamen wounded. !"
WASHINGTON, June eft was be.
lieyed here that the messages received
several from Kempff and one from Ii
Hung Chang not be accepted az
settling the important question as to the
fate of the foreign ministers at Pekin
and their families and attaches. The
secretary Of the navy, by special in
struetion Of the president, had been par
ticular to cable Admiral Kempff several
days ago to keep the navy department
informed of everything that happened
within the zone Of disturbance i'll China,
and it was believed that his omission to
make any reference III his messages as
to the whereabouts of the ministers was
based on the absence of any information
on that subject at Taku, where the ad
miral was with his flagship, Newark.
And If no information could be had at
Taku, only about 30 miles down the
river from Tien Tsin, Of the presence of
the ministers i'll Admiral Seymour's
column, but about eight miles distant,
then officials here could not understand
how any other government could have
superior facilities, and SO they felt JUST.
fed IN waiting for further adyices before
accepting the Chinese statements on
that point as accurate.
Minister WI, who brought Lis mes
sage to the state department, could not
explain away the points at variance be-
tween the vleeroy's statements and the
cable messages received from other
sources. However, he pointed out that
it agreed closely with Admiral Kempff's
message of Wednesday, stating that
the ministers We're reported to be with
Seymour.
One consideration which made against
the unreserved acceptance by the off
Gals OF the assurance of minor Chinese
L. .1l,, Il, I
Minister Wu, that a state of war does
not exist, was the fact that Mr.. Conger
was not permitted to communicate with
his own government by the same means
employed by the Tsung Lii Yamen in
getting news to the outside world, lead
ing to a suspicion that he was not at
that perfect liberty which marked the
existence of a state of peace. 1t might
be possible that the Chinese govern
ment may be able to offer satisfactory
explanation on this point, but at pres
ent the officials said our future rela-
tions with China depended altogether
upon what Minister Conger has to say
when he is finally brought again in
touch with the state department..
A significant piece of information
furnished by the navy department. was
the report Of the sailing of the Scindla
from Gibraltar for Cardiff for d cargo
of Weclh coal, which she was to carry
back to Manila or China The ship
was on her way from Manila on the
Mediterranean route.
Minister WI called at the state de-
partment and exhibited the following
cablegram to Secretary Hay:
''CANToN, June 29.-The legation min
listers, having left PelSin, are now 12I
miles from Tien Tsin, with Admiral
Seymour
(Signed) oh HUNG CHANG"
The minister explained that the cable
gram reached him from the Chinese
minister in London.
BERLIN, June 29.-The Cologne Volkes
Zeitung received eablegram, saying
that the situation in the mission dis.
tricts i'll the southern part of the prov
inee of Shan Tung is now extremely
threatening. Pro-Vicar Freinadmetz
telegraphed from Zeining, on the Grand
canal, that the missionaries there were
without protection, and that their lives
Were III great danger.
According to the same paper, there
Were in Pekin about 10000 Catholics.
with about 20 Catholic missionaries, and
about 100 Protestant missionaries. The
Volks Zeitung expressed astonishment
that none of these people had been able
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