The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1900-06-22

Moscow, June 16.-According to a
dispatch from Port Arthur, the Box
ers have killed, up to the present, 1,764
Chinese Christians. They have de-
stroyed the telegraph line between Pc
king and Kiachta, on the Trans-Baikal
frontier, whence communication was
had with Irkutsk and ST. Petersburg.
This leaves Peking isolated until the
international force succeeds in restor-
ing Geographic communication be-
tween Tien-Tsin and the capital.
The same dispatch declares that the
Chinese government recently acknowl-
edged Russia's right to increase her
armed force in Peking for the pro-
lection of Russian interests.
Ministers Safe.
Shanghai, June 16.-News of the
safety of all the foreign ministers in
Peking was received here Friday. None
of them has been murdered. The le-
cations have been barricaded and the
foreigners within will thus be able to
resist any attack by mobs. If. however,
the Chinese soldiers should storm the
barricade the diplomats and refugees
would be powerless and many lives
might be sacrificed.
Picking Government Defiant.
The Peking government is defiant on
demands made for the suppression of
the Boxers. Proof of this is seen in
the appointment of four anti-foreign
ministers to the tsung-li-yamen.
The powers. however, are not in
clined to allow mobs to menace for
eign lives and interests further. A
myriad of foreign troops has been
landed at Tien-Tsin.
Burned mt the Stake.
Tien-Tsin. June Is, p. m.-The New
York Journal correspondent cables:
Boxers control Tien-Tsin. The native
city officials have been burned at the
stake. The foreign settlement is ex-
pecting an immediate attack.
r The allied forces, under Vice Admiral
Seymour, now marching of Picking,
are short of provisions and water, and
the railway has been destroyed be-
hind them. They are expected to en-
counter strong opposition. The au-
thorities fear massacre of foreigners
and native Christians at Peking.
China is gathering munitions of war.
More reenforcements are demanded by
the commanders of all foreign forces.
A great panic prevails among the Chi
nese. Most important news is expect
ed every moment.
Virtually a State of War.
London, June 16.-This is the situa-
tion in China as it appears to the
Shanghai correspondent of the Daily
Express. cabling Friday evening:
'It is really a state of yelled war.
The members of the foreign legations in
Peking are virtually prisoners. and the
Chinese troops are only restrained from
attacking them by fear of the legation
guards. Meanwhile the ministers are al
together unable to communicate with the
officers commanding the relief column,
which is making an enforced and iso-
lated halt between Tien-Tsin and Picking.
The walls of the capital are guarded by
100000 imperial troops. The gates are
heavily defended with modern guns. Gen.
Tung. acting under orders from the en-
press dowager. says that no more foreign
troops shall enter the sacred city. On
MONDAY tne ministers sent demand TO
the tsung-li-yamen that the gates be
opened, declaring that otherwise the for
efgn troops would enter forcibly. To this
no reply was given. A second message
went unanswered, or had not been an
swered when the latest news left Picking.
Sir Claude Macdonald's latest message
says that the legations are capable of sus-
tanning an effective defense unless at
tackled in force.
1T is still felt here that the foreign
force is wholly inadequate to battle with
the hordes of Chinese troops massed out
side the gates. which now include the
imperial troops from Shan-Hai-Kwan."
May Send Troops.
Washington, June 16.-The POSSIBLE
fly that United States troops from
the Philippines would have to be sent
to China was Friday discussed seri-
ously by President Mckinley and the
cabinet. At the meeting it was prac-
tically decided to send the Brooklyn
and the New Orleans from Manila to
Taku with 800 marines, and if this
force proves insufficient the army will
likely be called upon. At the state
department it was officially said:
1.-THE president is making thorough
inquiry and is preparing to give all
the protection possible to Americans
in China. If soldiers are needed there
they will be sent. But the policy of
this government will not be in the
least altered"