Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-07-02
bUTCHERED HIM
GERMAN MINISTER KILLED b.
BOXERS ON JUNE 16.
HIS BODY HACKED TO PIECES
It Ia Feared That None OF the For
eigners in Pekin Have
Escaped.

London, July 2.-Oficial dispatches re-
ceived by the consular body at Shanghai.
an Express liable dated Shanghai, July
l, says confirm in the fullest manner
the report of he butchery Of Bardh
Won kettefer, the German minister, on
June IL. The ambassador was riding in
Legation street when ne was attacked
by Chinese troops n Boxers. dragged
from his horse and killed. His body
was hacked to pieces with words. The
German legation and six other buildings
were burned and a number of servants
of the legations killed and their bodies
thrown into the flames. "a III
Official confirmation of this CHASTITY
business has created the utmost conster-
powers, who expressed fears that war
will be declared against the Pekin goy-
eminent. The consuls entertain little
hope that any foreigners are left alive in
the capital. There were 100 foreigners
connected with the legations, SO in the
custom house, English a~d American
tourists and others to the number of $50
and nearly 500 legation guards.
! The British foreign office, the Daily
Mail learns, has received news from the
British consul at h Foo that Baron Won
Ketteler has been killed, but no other
information.
A dispatch to the Express from Nankin.
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received reports from Pekin that h
public execution of foreigners has been
in progress since June 20. The news
comes by runners from French priests
at Pekin, who state that they admins
tered the last rites to the wounded men.
Liu Yin Yih is said to have received
a telegram from General Yulu stating
that the German minister had been muir
dered at Pekin. Yulu, who escaped from
Tien Tsin, also wired:
Position desperate. Implore you help.
Foreign troops of eight nationalties en-
tering Tien Tsin to the number of 5000
or 10000. I cannot hold out four days
Liu Yin Yih has received his from the
viceroy of Yunshiki: Foreign troops
victorious at Tien Tsin They will enter
Pekin Immediately"
Outbreaks of the Boxers appear to be
imminent at Canton. The feeling Of un-
rest steadily increases. Boxers from
Hing Tu were marching Q n Sunday on
Che roc The governor feared for the
town and sent to the warships for forces,
"A small riot occurred at Che Foo on
Saturday. - -5.
Fifty-two refugees who nave arrived
from New Chwang, aver that the Boxers
have destroyed the railway north Of
Port Arthur In that all the American
and English residents are leaving.
General Yuansinikan, commanding thu
best foreign drilled troops in China, ha!
HOLlIIeu CHe IeFIldu SONtfuOI OI FIdt
Chou that he will not permit the Ger
mans proposed expedition to Weihsiel
to rescue Chalfont and Misses BOwdel
and Halves. the American missionarie
in the hands of the Boxers. The mis-
%sionaries at Pao Ting Flu We're reported
to be safe on June rs. a.
A correspondent in Shanghai learn
from official sources that the Chimes
are laying torpedoes between Shanghai
and the LANG Nan arsenal. Agents O
the Boxers are busy in Shanghai pro
voking hatred of foreigners.
Nothing has been heard from the col
umn which relieved Admiral Seymou
five days ago and then proceeded to
wards Pekin: but as it takes at leas
two days to communicate between Tie
Tsin and Che Foo there is nothing ex
traerdinary in this. Troops are goin
forward from Taku to Tien Tsin daily
though some reports from Taku aleg
that it will be three weeks before
large force can be sent to Taku.
/ A dispatch to the Daily Mail fror
Tong Ku, without date via h Fot
Friday,
cit is improper any longer to concea
the harm done to the cause of the allie
by the barbarities and the pillage of tn
Russians on the day after the bombar
ment. They wantonly shot natives an
looted everything, including the Euro
pean houses in Taku. The natives fo
miles around were looted of supplies an
, labor Is scarcer.'
The morning papers generally acceI
the reports that Baron Won Ketteler ha
: been killed, and express grave unce1
tainty as to whether n of the men
bers of the legations at Pekin are saf