The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1900-07-02
AMBASSADOR.
Won kET'TELER.
B.UTiC,HERED. ] !! I i;
Chinese Drag ged the German Minister
From His Horse and Hacked
{ His Body to Pieces. 81
WAR WILL Be 3yaaDlECLARED!III
It Is Thought, at once-Fear IIxs5
pressed That All Foreigners at the
Capital Have Shared Same Fate. 4,

pressed luuL allsEoIelS uefS aI sLAVit =
Capital Have Shared Same Fate. Il
LONDON, July 30 ofaclal dispatchea
received by the consular body ut
Shanghai. an Express cable dated
Shanghai. July /. says. confirm In tho
fullest manner the report Of the tbntchs
cryiof Baron Won Ketteler, the German
minister on June Is. The ambassador
was riding on Legation street when he
was attacked by Chinese troops and.
boxers, dragged from his horse and
Killed. His body was hacked to pices.
with hiswords. The German legation and
six other buildings were burned, and sas
number Of servants Of the legation were
killed and their bodies thrown into tho
flames. .i3i, 4 h. II Z,
Official confirmation of this chastity
business has created the utmost cons
sternation among the consul generals o.!
The powers, who expressed fears that
war al 'outranee will be declared
against the Pekln government. The
consuls entertain little hope that any
foreigners are left alive in the capital.
There were 100 foreigners connected
with the legations. fifty in the custom
house. English and American tourists
and others to the number OF $50, and
nearly 800 legation guards. 5i5...si' ~
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British Receive Authentic News.
The British foreign Office. the Daily
Mail learns, has received news from tho
British consul at Chez Foo that Baron
Won Ketteler has been killed. but no
other information.
"A dispatch to tho Express from Nan-1;
kin. June 80, says:
French priests here have reveiced re-
port from Pekin that the public execu.
tlon of foreigners has been In progress
since June 20. The news comes by run
ners from French priests at Pe!in. who
state that they administered the last
rites to the condemned men,"
Nankin cables. ated Sunday. say that
Viceroy Liu Yum Yih received d tele-S
gram from General Yu lLu on Saturday
stating that the German minister had
been murdered at Peiin. Yu SLu, who
escaped from Tien Tsin to Pac-Ting -Fu,;
also wired: <:
Position desperate. Implore your
help. Foreign troops OF eight natlonali-
ties entering Pekinto the number Of so,-
900 or 10000. The city cannot hold out
four days" y X 5i55 5Sii Z y =.
Liu-Yun-Yih has received this from
viceroy OF of-I1zanshikai: J.
Foreign troops victorious at Tlen 1
Tsin. They will enter Pekln immediate-
ly."
Outbreaks Of Boxers at Canton.
Outbreaks of the boxers appear to be
imminent at Canton. The feeling OF un-S,
rest steadily increases. Boxers from
Ping Tu were marching on Sunday on.
Che Foo. The governor feared for the
town and sent to the warships for
forces.
A small riot occurred at Che Foo on
Saturday. ~
Fifty-two refugees who have arrived
from New Chwang aver that the boxers
have destroyed the railway north Of
Porth Arthur, and that all the Ameri-
can and English residents are leaving.
General Yuanshihkan, commanding the
best foreign drilled troops in China, has /
notified the German governor Of Kiao
chau that he will not permit the Ger
mans proposed expedition to Weihsien
to rescue Chalfont and the A1isses
Bowden and Hawes, the American mis-
slonarles In the hands OF the boxers. !
The missionaries at Pao Ting Flu we're
reported to be safe on June 25.
Busy Provoking Hatred.
Agents OF the boxers are busy In
Shanghai, provoking hatred OF foreign- !
ers. s. X al II
Admiral Seymour left Tien Tsin five
days ago and then proceeded towards
Pekin, but as It takes at least two days
to communicate. between Tien Tsin and
Che Foo, there is nothing extraordinary
IN this. Troops are going forward from
Iakn to Tien Tsn. daily, though some 1
reports from Taku allege that It will be
three weeks before large force can be-
sent to Pekin. p K NJ 4
The morning papers generally accept
as conclusive the reports that Baron
Won Kettler has been killed and cx.a