Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-06-21

ord June 10. - lnere Is Hol a
| cabiEet in Europe apparently thai
knows what has been transpiring III
Picking for five Gays or in Tlen-tsln
for three days. Nor is there any thar
knows with what difficulties the small
and inadequately equipped information
al column Is contending between those
cities. The German foreign office,
upon learning the report of the muir
der of Baron Won Kettler, the German
minister at Peking. sent a telegram or
inquiry to st. Petersburg. the Russian
government. because of its wires to
Manchuria, being supposedly
In "a Better Position
than. the other governments to obtain
direct news. In reply the German for
eign office was informed that nothing
whatever was known on the subject.
as communication with Picking was
interrupted. The news spread widely
from Shanghai that the delegations
had been attacked and that one minis
ter, probably the German, had been
murdered, has been traced to Ta-tai-
Sheng, who for a few days, as the EN-
press dOwager's agent, has been cen
Soring kilograms from Shanghai. The
lJulll hdli tSIoLbN at
says: ''SEeng. as the government
agent. contended that the wires
Between Ticn-tsin and PekinG
had been down since June Is. and that
they were cut on June II. Neverthe.
less ii is notorious that constant COM
municatiOns have been passing from
Shanghai to Picking over the northern
and Western routes, although Sheng
has refused both ministers and con-
suls the privilege of using the lines.
1t is known that last Friday Sheng
received q message from either Picking
or Tien-tSin. This dispatch said that
Gen. Fung Tub Siang's troops aided
the Boxers in an organized attack on
the legations and that in the course OF
the attack some of the legation build
ingS were reduced to ashes and one
foreign minister was
Shot to Pieces"
Why in the cables it should have
been added that the murdered minis
ter was Baron Won Kcttel2r is not cX-
plaired. According to another tele-
gram from Shanghai, dated June Il,
T:25 p. m, Sheng has fed. fearing that
the foreign authorities were about to
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kilograms. A third cable asserts that
the reports Of the murder Of the Ger
mar minister, emanating from Lon
don, are quite unconfirmed. and are
d~iscredited at Shanghai. The German
minister has
Not Been Captured
is the announcement to the Morning
Post from Picking in a dispatch dated
June -. < p. m., via Tfen-tsin, June Is.
This is the latest press message known
TO have left Picking. 1t continues as
follows: \ crows of Boxers occupies
Legation street. cutting off communici-
ton between buildings. A few Box
ers are parading in the city. Their
superstition in regard to foreign arms
is pitiable. The Boxers hold the Of
ficials Of Tung-chau for redemption.
Anarchy Reigns
at that place. The Americans II the
interior of the two neighboring prov
inces have been advised TO leave, but
several have no means Of doing so.
Unless a relief force is sent there is
danger of a massacre of native Chris
tians. 4 large native army is ready
to oppose the relief column on the way
hNANs NV iiiN cpNNi iAllA'iL NiIl-
not decide whether to adopt the policy
of rigIdly suppressing the Boxers or
that of defying the world. The de-
cision rests with the dowager m
press
VILE Stories From Shanghai.
During the isolation of Picking and
Tien-tSin Shanghai is supplying a be-
wildering bunch of reports and con-
lectures, most Of them picturesque and
threatening Here is one: "Miscellan-
eous crowds have been in progress
nOrthward for some weeks and the
hordes around Picking are being con-
Stantly swelled by these arrivals. Well
informed Chinese here who are not
u~nfriendly toward foreigners declare
that there must now be more than
100000 men outside the city gates,
All of Them Armed,
although some in a more or less crude
fashion. The probability Is that there
are Tot more than 1900 Chinese
troops among them, all told. Informal
ton from Peking, brought hither by
refugees, says that the city is in a
state of panic. Incendiary fires are
of nightly occurrence and cores of out
RACES are reported" The following
summary Of the situation was tele.
graphed to the Daily News from
Shanghai last evening: The situation
Is Critical
and without parellel since the Indian
mutiny. At the yan-tz-ports there is a
grave feeling of unrest among the ma
tives. As yet there has been no out
break, but placar6s have been posted
in Kin-kiang, Ugas-skin and Wu-hu,
calling on the people to XIII and
burn" A body Of rioters 5000 strong
are at Kwei-hsein, in the prefecture OF
Canton. and troops have zone to sup
press them. The powers. unprepared.
are helpless 10 prevent disaster, but
barring trifing local friction, they are
working admirably,
Murder Of German Minister Doubted.
Washington, June 1S-Up to a late
hour last night the foreign embassies
and legations, like TIE American gov
eitment, were without news. Some
comfort was obtained by the officials
Of this government as we'll as the
members Of the diplomatic corps from
the Associated Press dispatches from