Connecticut western news., 1900-07-19
COLONEL LISCUM.

the foreign ministers, the yiceroy answer ed that he had had no news from Picking within the last week. His previous ad- vices had assured him then of their safe ty. If they were alive, he was almost certain that matters could be satsfac- torily arranged with the allied powers. If they were dead-here he shrugged his shoulders significantly and added with lowered voice:
 '''It is hard to tell what may happen. 1 am going to Picking practically unarm- ed. except for my bodyguard of 200 men,
 He added. That ought to be evidence to the whole world that 1 do not favor any fighting and of my pacific intentions He was evidently exceedingly anxious about the ministers, for, returning to the subject, he said:
 My heart is sore about them. know them all personally and am on the best of terms with them '"The news of Iii Hung Chang's coming | departure has caused n fresh exodus of | wealthy natives and foreigners and has | intensified the feeling of uneasiness." Chinese Attack Russians. The Daily Mail publishes the following | dispatch from its special correspondent | at St. Petersburg:
 'There is no doubt now that China | has declared war against Russia. Hos 1 tilities are beginning, the end of which | it is impossible to see.
 | Probably the truth will take d long time to filter through to Europe, but the | situation i'll eastern Siberia is extreme I ly grave-as critical, indeed. as it well can | be. The Boxers. or, rather. the regular | Chinese troops (for these are doing the real fghting), have seized Russian | T Al. s.s | Aigun, on the river Amur. and fired on | and killed almost the entire Russian es- | cort.
 "They next made sudden attack upon | Blagovetchepsk, bombarding the town. The garrison held out bravely, but were | overwhelmed, and nearly all perished. l The town was burned.
 | ''It was on July that the news reach 1 ed the general staff that this declara- tion of war had been made by China at the town of Aigun, on the Amur. In con sequence of this General Gribovski at- tempted to push his way through to ! Aigun on the steamer Gelenga, but found at a point 12 miles from Aigun further progress barred by Chinese. who had thrown up Qualifications. in which had been placed 10 guns. Consequently he had to relinquish the attempt to reach Aigun.
 "The situation in Manchuria has be- come very critical since the bombard- ment of Blagoyetchensk and the holding up of the Russian transport with muni- lions. On the Eastern Siberian railway almost all the stations have been burn ed to the ground, bridges have been de stroyed, and the tracks have been torn up.
 1.-The Russian consul at Kuldsha has telegraphed urgently for re-enforce- | ments."
 Heavy fighting has been in progress at Tien-tsin for several days. The allies were repulsed in an attack on the native city on Friday, and the Americans lost heavily, Colonel Liscum of the Ninth infantry being among the killed.
 The Shanghai correspondent of The Daily Mail cables:
 "The allied troops resumed the attack upon the Chinese walled city of Tien tsin on Saturday morning and succeeded in preaching the walls and capturing al the forts. The Chinese were completel, routed. and the allies took possession o1 the native city and its defenses. | "The total losses of the allies in tn, | engagements Of Thursday. Friday an,
 Saturday were about 800 killed o | wounded.
 | The guns or the allies did immenst
 damage to the native city on Friday
 causing many large confagrations an,
 finally silenced the majority of the enc
 my's guns simultaneously. Then 1,50t
 Russians, assisted by small parties O
 Germans and French, assaulted and cap
 tured eight guns that were in position ol
 the railway embankment and the fort
 the magazine of which the French sub
 sequently blew up.
 "A body of American, British, Japa
 nese and Austrian troops then made , sortie and attacked the west nrsennl