New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-06-16
TsUNHUA MISSIONARIES SAFE.
CABLE MESSAGE RECEIVED BY METHODIST
sOCIETY-VIEWS OF a PROFESSOR
FROM PEKING.

The Rev. A. B. Leonard, secretary Of the Mis-
sionery Society Of the Methodist Episcopal Church,
yesterday received a cable message dated from the
Methodist mission at Tien-Tsen, June Is. II was
IN code. and when deciphered read:
Tsunhua people safely arrived here. shan-Tung
people ordered to Chin-ki-Ang. Picking in very
The first sentence IN the above dsposes OF the
rumor circulated day or two ago that Miss Terry
had been murdered. She at Tsunhua. and ali
the Methodist missionaries there have 1t appears
arrived safely IN Tien-Tsen hin-h-Ang is on the
Yang Use River. about two hundred miles above
Shanghai. The shan-Tung missionaries will go
there If they can. The message was sent in re-
Spouse TO an inquiry sent by DR.. Leonard two days
ago. This inquiry was: Are all safe-Peking,
Tsunhua Shan-TunG?''
Tsunhua mission is made up Of these members:
Dr. y 5. Hopkins and family. two boys and girl;
the Rev. J. Fred Hayner and family, boy and two
girls; DR.. Edna G. Terry and Miss Miranda
Croucher. The missionaries in charge Of the Shan
Tung station are the Rev. and Mrs. George w.
Verify. and DR.. Mary H. Barrow and her little
daughter
isaac Headland a professor in Picking University,
said on the situation:
There IS no danger now, feel sure. TO any for
egner. The Boxers have been destroyers OF prop
the world has taken notice OF them. II they meant
fbig Indeed the fact that they have not harmed
missionaries shows that their object is something
OF a different They desire only TO rob and
plumber. and they have placed on their banners
tFor the great Ching dynasty and against all for
eigners" that they may have the goodwill OF the
Government and be left undistuThed in their rob-
hing They 90 all they injure the converted
natives. They commit offences against Christian
native trusting IN the prejudice the Government
magistrates have against him and his brethren.
Two years age the Boxers had trouble in the
courts, brt the Catholce priests, who have the
power OF magistrates opposed them and got the
better Of them. Since then the disturbances have
increased n number and violence.
The American Board OF Foreign Missions has had
no word from their workers in China since last
Monday There seventy five OF them in the
Peking district with but few in the capital under
The protection Of foreign soldiers. The district
secretary, DIT. Charles Creegan, feels some anxiety
about the safety Of those in the interior.
T. A naval officer who has just returned from the
Asiauc station spoke yesterday Of the difficulties
Navy officers have in reaching Picking. He said:
e. When a naval officer has occasion to visit Picking
he must drop from his ship into a little launch.
RHd in this light craft make the journey across
the bar and TO the point where he IS 10 take the
train for Tien-Tsin The foreign residents at
Picking are members Of the legation, the mis-
sionaries and their households. Each household
lives in 2 compound of its Our own lega-
ton occupies a neat but far too small compound.
pear the city wall The presence Of large Rus
sian force at Port Arthur Just across the Gulf Of
Pech from the TakU forts. does not tend 10 lessen
the Uneasiness Of life al the legations.