Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-07-02
CHINESE INsURRECTIoN.

washington officials have received no
authentic news from Pekin since June
IA
Lii Hung Chang declined to go to
Pekin, alleging fear of a uprising IN
Canton.
Japan has been asked by the powers
to restore order in China with an army
OF 100000
Twenty-four American missioners
are thought to have been murdered at
Tien-Tsin.
Rear Admiral Kempff has received
no news direct or indirect from Pekin
since June II.
REPORTS indicate that Russia will not
cooperate with the powers beyond q
certain point.
The Chinese in Pei-Ho River shot
the American gunboat Monocacy
through bows.
Lii Hung Chang is commissioned TO
suppress the Boxers and make peace
with the powers.
The British landed Indian troops
with three Maxims on the mainland
opposite Hongkong.
England may send 10000 troops from
south Africa in addition to the regl-
ments from India.
German authorities believe conquest
of China would be the biggest TASK
Europe ever undertook.
Ambassador Choate's conference
with Lord Salisbury showed England
and America in accord.
Diplomats in Washington regard the
present situation as removing the
chance of European war.
French armored cruiser and a
transport left Saigon with 500 marines
and battery of artillery.
Unrest is growing in Marking ana
five Chinese cruisers have been or
dered there from Shanghai.
Japan has sent four more ships to
Taku, has twelve others ready, ana
chartered fifteen transports for troops,
The United States and other powers
will from now on act as they consider
best regardless of the Chinese govern
ment.
Extensive preparations by the allies
are going forward and the British
war Office is anticipating long cam
paign.
General Miles may assume command
of the American forces in order 70
have an officer there to rank forelgn
commanders.
One thousand British troops effected
a junction with the American, German.
and Russian forces nine miles outside
of Tien Tsin
DR.. T. B. Gregory and Rev. w M.
Barkus in sermons at Chicago said
missionaries are responsible for
Chinese situation.
Foreign officials in Shanghai believe
that the worst has happened to the
legations of Pekin as well as to
Admiral Seymour
The Boxers Chinese attacked the
foreign quarters Of Tien Tsin on June
Is and destroyed the American Con-
sulate and other buildings.
Lord Salisbury incllnes to the belief
that the Chinese government will re-
assert itself shortly and oppose any
scheme of territorial indemnity.
Admiral Seymour has not been heard
from directly for more than week.
A report that he had been killed,
though doubtful, excited foreign CAPT
tails.
It is stated the Chinese force around
Pekin number 100000 men, with 220
Creusot guns, Is Krupps, $50 Maxims
and an inexhaustible supply of am
munition.
The Berlin r<ruez zeitung warns the
public against crediting dispatches
from Chinese sources. The same paper
complains that Russian communica-
tions place the facts in false light.
A Hongkong correspondent cabled
that reports from Chinese sources
were again current that the empress
dowager had committed suicide and
that the Prince Tuan had been assassi-
mated.
President Mckinley refused the re-
quest of WI Ting Fang, the Chinese
ambassador at Washington, for an
armistice in the operation of American
troops until Ii Hung Chang arrives in
Pekin.
Minister Delcasse in the Chamber OF
deputies intimated that the powers had
agreed upon program which includes
the removal of the dowager empress,
and government by a new ruler with
the aid of foreign troops.
Admiral Remey, who commands the
Asiatic station, was ordered to Tauk
with the Brooklyn to take charge OF
American forces in China. Three
regiments of regulars are under order
to go to China from Manila.
Admiral Kempff cabled that on June
81 four American marines were killed