The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-24

whole body" and while the expert
ment failed, but the principle remain
ed the same" all were satisfied, even
the friends of the deceased, who were
paid a handsome indemnity out of the
Society's funds.
OFFICIALLY RECOGNIZED.
When this organization reached Pc
king, about the first Of May, it was
already under the patronage OF the
highest nobility in the Empire. Its
headquarters were at the Palace OF
Prince Chuang. near the northwest
corner of the Imperial City, and its
great and powerful patron was Prince
Tuan, father of the youth who was re-
Gently made Heir Apparent" There
seems good reason to suppose that the
greater part of the Manchu and Mon
gol princes lent their active aid to the
movement and the rest must have ac-
ouiesced, for it does not appear that
single note of protest was raised from
any influential quarter, or. If there was
such a warning, it was lost in the gen
eral madness Of the hour.
MURDER OF JAPANESE DIPLO-
MAT.
The murder of the Chancellor Of the
Japanese Legation, on the 18th of June,
was a first gun in the coming battle.
1t had been preceded, however, two
weeks by the destruction of the railway
shops, locomotives, and other rolling
stock at Fengtai, the junction OF the
Peking- Tien-tsin and Picking
lines This was easily accomplished,
ri Iafa a.
ing the place, and 1t was especially
useful as convincing even the easy
going residents of Picking that trouble
was impending fact of which they
had long been warned, but to which
they turned ears that were deafer
than those of the adder.
AS an important and immediate re-
suit, marines were at once ordered
from the war vessels lying off Taku,
and without the presence of these ma
rines all foreigners in Picking would
have been exterminated within week
from that time.
ED.
On the 18th of June the first attack
was made in Picking on the property
of foreigners, and made in an organic
ed way such as to show the breadth
and comprehensiveness Of the move
ment Beginning with the American
Methodist Street Chapel, and extending
in widening lines, all foreign-built OF
foreign owned houses in the city were
destroyed. either on that night or those
which Immediately succeeded. This
included all the property of all the mis-
sions-American Board, American
Presbyterian. Anglican, London Mis-
sion (east city and west city,, Chris
tian Alliance Mission, Murray's Schoo
for the Blind, as we'll as many dwell
lighthouses and buildings belonging t
the customs, situated at distance
from the sphere of influence" Of thu
foreign guards. The large premises o
the American Methodist Mission, bs in,
guarded, for the moment escaped.
INDISCRIMINATE DESTRUCTION
From this time on the ravages of tn
flames were continuous and terrible
They included the Russian establish
ment in the northeast corner OF tn
city, almost two hundred years old, tn
eastern and southern Roman Catholi
Cathedrals (the northern being bravel
: and successfully defended by Monsig
> nor Favier and forty marines for NOR
than two months). the Imperial Chi
nese Bank. the Mint. the Electric Ligh
Works, the Russo Chinese Bank, an
] the Austrian, Belgian, and Dutch lie
cations. as we'll as many other estab
lishments and private houses. and
more important and significant than a
Houses and Offices. and the new Pos
Office. These latter were not only tn
property of the Chinese Government
| but the arteries through which a con
siderable part of it's financial life-bloo
flowed. To destroy them meant If Their
is any meaning in insanity determin
alton in the Government to sever it
own jugular vein. The railway to Tlen
Tsin was absolutely destroyed. TIL
p telegraph poles were sawed off nea
: the ground. Everything which had
4 foreign aspect, everything which wa
r in any way suggestive of foreigner!
t was included in the general ruin. A
2 the numerous summer houses at tn
3 Western Hills. including the new one
. just built at great expense by the Brit
! ish Legation, were reduced to a wreck
DISSERTATION OF CEMETERY.
:. The race course and grand stan
!, were obliterated and tie Foreign Gem
etery desecrated past belief, willow
/, thirty years old being sawed down an
+, carried away, the irciosing walls du
up and actually carried off entirel,
the grave-stones and monuments ovel
" thrown and pulveriZed as far as poss
bic, and thirteen of the graves dug int
q the corpses taken out and burned. til
: ground being still strewed with fIas
O. ments of bones. cloth, anu buttons.
, Before ali this had been accomplishe
!, the storm had burst in full upon II
y native church, which seems to hay
:, been well-nigh exterminated, excel
\ the few hundreds taken into the ark
safety with the foreigners. The hi.
tory of the terrible atrocities connecte
with these murders 1t is too soon yet
write. but they form an integral IA
y Of our theme, and should be mentione
:" MURDER OF GERMAN MINISTER
d On the morning of the goth of Jun
In Baron Won Ketteler the German Mini