The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1900-07-18

cent, Admiral Remey reports the to-
tai losses are 725, which reduces this TO
about seventeen per cent, Even this
is very large proportion
WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE fol.
lowing dispatch was received by the
bureau of navigation this morning:
Che Foo, July 17.--Today l hope
to get the wounded from Tien Tsiu
either in hospitals at Taku or aboard
the Solace. Communication is very un-
certain. The following casualties are
apparently confirmed: Marines, Capt.
Davis killed, Capt, Lemly and Lieuts.
Butler and Leonard wounded; army,
Colonel Liscum killed, Majors Regain
and Lee, Capts. Noyes, Brewster and
Bookmiller, Lieuts. Naylor, Lswton,
Hammond and Waldron wounded.
The total killed and wounded are re-
ported at ITO. The Russians and Jap
anese lost heavily. Our total loss is
reported 215, about 40 of whom are ma
rines, but the number is believed exag-
gerated. have officer on shore espe-
cially TO get authentic numbers aud
names which will be promptly tele-
graphed. The city and forts are now
in the hands of the allies Admiral
Seymour has returned to the fleet.
The ranking officer here is Admiral
Aexieff at Tien Tsin.
Signed. REMEY.
LONDON, July 17--Still nothing is
known later from Pekin than the hor-
rors reported by the Shanghai cor
respondents. 1t is doubtful now if
there was any official Chinese an
nouncement Saturday of the massacre
in Pekin. The first secretary of the
Belgian legation al PekiD, now in
Shanghai, wires under date of yester-
day (Monday.) cat the present mo-
ment Director Sheng has not received
confirmation of the reported massacre
at Pekin." Sheng was the official cred
tied in the press dispatch with having
received such confirmation. Thus
there remains chance that the Pekin
news is not true, though the chances
seem slender.
WASHINGTON, July 17.--Colonel En-
erson Liscum of the Ninth Infantry,
killed at Tien Tsin was one of the most
gallant old civil war veterans still in
the service. At the outbreak of that
war he volunteered as a corporal of
Company IL, First Vermont Infantry.
He was born in Burlington, and was
mustered out OF the volunteers in Au-
gust, 1861. He Immediately entered the
, , regular army as private of the Twelfth
,, Infantry. His promotion was rapid
and he received his Grst commission in
the regular army as q second lieutenant
in February, 1868. He was transferred
/, to the Thirteenth Infantry in 1866, and
=. later became captain of the Twenty
fifth. He also served in the Nineteenth
Infantry as captain, in the Twenty
second Infantry as major, and in the
Twenty-fourth as lieutenant colonel.
> He became colonel of the Ninth In
fantry, April %, 1899.
: The war department had taken note
= Of his splendid service and his name
! was to have been presented to the next
: session of Congress for promo ton to
! the rank of brigadier general.
: After cabinet meeting lasting all
: day Monday it was decided that the
, United States government is still not
: at war with the government OF China.
: The big happenings at Tien Tsin COM
! ing on top of the stories of the last
struggles at Pekin have not affected
I this point; the United States and
China are technically at peace. But
this statement should not be accepted
|
> the United States government to hold
> its hand in the administration Of swift
and adequate punishment upon the
Chinese, without regard to station,
| who may be responsible for the out
RACES of the past few weeks. 1t means
simply that the government of the
: Uuited States feels that it can best
4 achieve that purpose by regarding the
status officially as one of peace. To
hold otherwise would seriously cripple
, the government in its efforts to obtain
satisfaction for the outrages the Amer
icaas in China have suffered.
WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE State
: department has just issued the follow
ing bulletin:
+. "The Chinese minister inWashington
: received today telegram from Vice.
i roys Lin Kun vi and Chang Chih
Tung, having their residences at
i, Nanki and Wee Chang. and from
Sheng, director general of posts and
telegraphs at Shanghai dated July Is,
retransmitted by the Chinese minister
in London under date of July II. The
dispatch reads: THE utmost efforts
have been made to protect foreign min
listers who were we'll on July Is (cor-
,, responding in our calender to July 81.
If Tein Tsin city should be destroyed
it will be difficult TO restore the same in
100 years. Request the powers to pre-
serve it as the consequences would
affect Chinese and foreign commerce.
: Ii Hung Chang is transferred to North
, China as viceroy at Chilli. This
same despatch has been sent to other
Chinese Minister'S
WASHINGTON, July 1.-THE Secre-
tary OF State received despatch from
Mr.. McWade, consul at Canton, in
forming him that Viceroy Ii Hung
Chang sailed to-day for Hong Kong.
He received an edict last night appoint
ing him viceroy at Chik Ii and COM
manding his immediate presence there,
Fears are entertained at Canton that
his absence may occasion disturbances.
French gunboats have arrived at Can
ton