The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1900-09-29

Fleeing in China to Avoid the Fozer
Uprising.
The following letter is from Rev. AL
fred Jennings, a missionary in Pingiao,
Shangsi province, China, where Miss
Rose Palmer, daughter of Mr.. G.. H.
Palmer of Monroe avenue, was sta
toned That she was not in Mr.. Jen-
nings' party is due 90 the fact that
she left Pingiao just before the Boxers
attacked the missionaries. going on a
Journey Of five days travel to attend
a convention in ping-iang, and to
visit Mr.. and Mrs. Drcyer, who, 1t VIII
be remembered, went from this ricln-
ity.
Nothing more is known of her be-
yond the fact that despite the reiter-
atcd statement i'm the press of this
country and Europe, that she had been
killed she has reached Shanghai and
will send the particulars of her Jour-
ney as soon as she Is able.
Rev. Alfred Jennings, who sends the
Interesting letter which follows, is a
aative of Bath, England, and is the
clergyman whom Miss Palmer is to
marry in the near future. Their ac-
,1uaintance contains may romantic In
cidents, not the least of which was
their separation OF more than htty
days. when each supposed the other
had been massacred
THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM.
Aib,,,,r adioiriny tbn Province Of Chilli
,.hnr,, ,hn .Rcvor.', ,,crc creating disturbance,
anS o,,,sir,, much trorI,lc our Province %;
sta,i ror,nirod f,ir,,. n,,rcfrI and oilict until
,t a,,r,doI ,ro,or,or If Sbantunp Thsien came
80 ,aLo ,,r Lis residence in Tai Nucn Tu in
t,r;i =, Co,ornor ot Sbanj Then things as.
80. a diCor.r, ,.nact Notices were po,tcd
~ .,,.i ,ilin,, nm tb, noonic In ion
,Lo s,povor.,, aud trrn ont tho Protestants and
-, C,L,,ios. s,yin, ,b,t tho drought ,yls
Loo,o,,s rrnisbr,ort for receiving tho foreign.
ars and i,oir to,cbing Al IIong.topr and Ping.
;n. H., so,,,roI ~ tbo native Christians were
ttp,tod robtol aud bo,ton and much threat.
srirg language ,ras used arainst the foreigners
ThoSo +broats soo, l,ec,,rc goncral throughout
,ho so,,h Of tbo provinoc and in nearly every
oit,, +bo poxors commenced n drill and enroll
,rnr,hcrs
In orr ou,, citv of pirc.iao. Boxcr notices
we've r,s,od o,rIy in Nav but beyond rumors
% u,bat wos 70 ho done to us. nothing serious
,,,ad TL soc,,d Surd,,, in I,tne 1Otb)
49, h,.I ,bt tr, mon h,d birod u, rentcd a
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pG Ali w.. Coo. socr, 70 ba,o ioirod
81 d hut tho r,idlio of ,ho ,veok tbe
,a ei amI ru%" sor, tor them and told them
that hearing they profcsscd 10 be invulncrablC he
would like TO try foreign rifle on them. They,
as NAV he supnoScd begged Of and he had
them escorted TO the boundary Of his district,
telling thcnt not TO return A few DAYS later,
he the magistrate, issued very good proClama-
ton in which he spoke Of the Boxer movement
as vile and called on the people to have nothing
to do with it in any way, but to hand over for
punishment any who were propagating or prac-
ticing the teaching This quictcd things down
somewhat, and we began to feel that our city
would be kept free or nearly so from this dis.
turhng element, though we knew provincial
governor was doing nothing to stop the rnnors,
or disturbances, but rather 10y his ambiguous
proclamations, giving these evil men more hh-
ertv and license A few DAYS after the proca-
nation Of our magistrate was posted about tie
end OF the third week in June the Cin.rhong
magistrate, an nti.forcign Manchu, returning
from visit to the governor, passed through
Png.iao lie saw the favorable proclamation,
and told the magistrate that he should not issue
such as that Our magistrate then had it
'washcd down" and this naturally conveyed to
the people the idea that he had made a mistake
in issuing it, During the next few days, al
though hearing plcnty of runorS and news of men
and boys drilling in the city and surrounding vii
lages, we did not fear anything serious, and on
Sunday worship was held as usual in all our viii
lage chapcls.
ATTACKED BY 4 MOB.
The solIo,,irc yuosdsv limo og Mr. Saunders
.rd ,,ysoIf ,,cro aLo,t tbo city and o,,r nrcacb-
inc sbon WAS omen as uvol and ,yo noticol
nntbino tb,t would Iood nc a. s,,rnoso or,,
threatened disturbance. About Ia'E news was
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