The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1900-07-07

London, July 3.-Oficial dispatches
received by the consular body ut
Shanghai says an Express cable. dateo
Shanghai, July 1, confirm in the tullese
manner the report. Of the butchery OIL
Baron Won Ketteler, the German am
bassador, on June 1S. The baron was
riding in Legation street When ne was
attacked by Chinese soldiers II BOX
ers and dragged from his horse. Ills
body was hacked to pieces VIII
swords. The German legation Dull.
digs were burned and a numDe OF
servants of the legation were kllleu
and their bodies thrown into the
flames. Official confirmation OF thls
CHASTITY business has caused the utmost
CONSERVATION among the consul gen
erals of the powers, who expressed 'pe
fear that
War a la Outrance
will be declared against the Peking
government. The consuls entertain III.
tie hope that any foreigners are let
alive in the capital. There were lUO
foreigners connected with the lega-
tions,S so in the custom house, Engllsh
and American tourists and others 70
the number of $50 and nearly $40 le-
CATION guards. The British foreign OF
flee, the Daily, Mail learns, has re-
ceived news from the British consul at
Chefu that Baron Won Ketteler a
been killed, but no further inforula-
ton. A dispatch to the Express from
Nankin, June so, says: "Frencn
priests here have received a report
from Picking that public executions OF
foreigners have been in effect since
June 20. The news comes from run
ners from French priests In Peklns,
who state that they administered
. The Last Rites
to the condemned men," Nankin ca
bles dated Sunday say that Viceroy
Liu Hun Yih received n telegram from
Gen. Yulu on Friday stating that the
German minister had been urder
at Picking. Yulu, who escaped from
Tien-tsin to Fac La Fuh. wires also:
'.Position desperate. 1mplore your
help: Foreign troops of eight national.
tiles entering Picking to the lumber OF
90, 1000 OF 10000. l cannot hold u FOR
four days." Liu Hun Yih has re-
ceived this from viceroy of Yunshakai:
'tForeign troops victorious ut Tien-tsln:
They will enter Picking Immediately"
Outbreaks of the Boxers appear to De
imminent at Canton. The feeling OF
unrest steadily increases. Boxers from
Ping Tu were marching on Sunday to
Chefu. The governor '
Feared for the Town
and sent to the warships for forces. A
small riot occurred at Chefu on Sun
day. Fifty-two refugees who have ar
rived at New Chwang aver that the
Boxers have destroyed the railway
north of Port Arthur. and that all the
American and English residents are
leaving. Nothing has been learned OF
the column which relieved Admiral
Seymour four days ago and then pro-
ceeded toward Picking, but as it takes
at least two days for dispatches to
reach Cnefu there is nothing extraord-
mary in this. Troops are arriving Mt
Taku daily, though some reports from
Taku say it will be three weeks be-
fore a large force can be sent to Pc
king. The morning papers generally
accept as conclusive the reports that
Baron Won Ketteler has been killed,
and express grave uncertainty as to
whether any of the members of the le-
cations at Picking are saved.
Small Grain Of Comfort
Washington, July 3. Yesterdays
advices to the state department. made
up of two kilograms from Consul Gen
eral Goodnow. at Shanghai. brought
the foreign ministers at Picking along
one day further in safety, showing
that they were all alive with the posi-
BILE exception of the German minister,
who, 1t seems likely. has been MUIR
dered. Some encouragement is drawn
by the officials from the fact that the
other ministers were alive on the later
date. for the officials believe that the
diplomatic corps at Picking could not
Have Beer Preserved
through the fury Of the first stages of
the outbreak only to fall victims to
sober seaa"d thought. There is ut least
the indicu i'm that the Chimes govern
ment itself was protecting them. On
the other hand the statement that the
%anti-foreign Prince Tuan
was in complete control at Picking was
regarded as an exceedingly grave de-
velopment and as tending to fix clearly
responsibility for the happenings Of
the past three weeks directly upon the
Picking government. An ameliorating
condition Is the refusal of the great
yicerOys themselves of almost absolute
power in their provinces to be con.
from Peking in their attitude
toward foreigners.