Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1905-09-08
Rioters Stone Foreigners, Bnrn
Churches and Attack Home
of Government Minister.
HARTMAN PARTY ASSAULTED
Taken to American Legation Under
Guard of eoIdiers-Home Minister'S
House Burned Down by Mob-Gen-
tie Way of Calling Mikado's Atten-
ton TO Resentment of His People.
DIV Associniel Press. !

By Associated Press.)
TOXIC, Sept 60 p. NJ delayed
in transmission)-An imperial ordi-
nance establishes martial law in To
kio. Disorder was resumed tonight.
TOXIC, Sept. IA mob burned
and destroyed ten Christian churches
and one mission house school last
night wednesday,. The Christian
people were not injured.
The Hartman party had an eXct
ing experience Tuesday night while
attending and. returning from dinner
given by baron Sole. minister of
finance. DR.. w. C. Lyle and j. c.
Mcknight were caught in crowd OH
their WAY to the dinner. and were
stoned, DR.. Lyle being struck by It
missile and slightly hurt. After the
dinner was over, Il detachment of sol
ders escorted the party TO the lega-
tiCn.
Did Not Touch American.
A crowd stopped II. p. Schwerin,
Jvice-president Of the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company. and assailcd his
runners. but they did not touch MIR.
: Scliwern.
police kiosk. filed the space in front
of the American legation. and hootcl
aud jeercd the soldiers cscorting the
Hartman party, who, with fixed hay
onets, charged the crowd. cleared the
street and guarded the legation
throughout the night.
The dinner planned for Wednesday
night in honor of the Hartman party
did not take place on account of the
disturbed conditions in the city.
Ministers Residence Burned.
Serious rioting followed tho attack
on the Office of the Kokumin Shin
hun, the government organ. a mob
attacked and set fire TO the official
residence of the minister of home ar
fairs, which stood between the Mobiles
Club and the Imperial hotel, and faced
Hibaya Park. which was the storm
center throughout the day Threaten.
ing demonstrations occurred in tho
neiGhhorhOod of the official homes #
Premier Katsura and Baron Komllra,
foreign minister, who is now in the
United States, but the police succeed
ed in preventing injury TO the occu.
pants or damage to the houses.
The attack on the minister's resi-
dence wns intensely dramatic.
Battered Down Gates.
Throughout the day series Of
demonstrations occurred i'll the neigh
borhood of the building and late in
the afternoon the mob attacked the
house, swept the police away and bat
tered down the gates.
The police and servants resisted
stoutly, hut the mob snrgcd forward
and entered the house One of the
mob leaders. carrying an armful of
burning straw, gained the rear of the
structure and succeeded in setting it.
on fire.
The nolice reserves charged the
crowds, using their swords freely, but
the mob rallied from several quarters
and stoned the fremcn when they ar
rived.
The members of the minister;
household were rescued and escorted
to the Imperial hotel.
When darkness came the flames
from the burning building Illuminated
q wild scene. the mob huoting and
throwing stones at the police and fire.
men and the police repeatedly clear.
ing the streets.
Another demonstration is planned
for September s. and it is believed
that the strongest measures will be
necessary TO prevent serious rioting
and bloodshed.
A member of the mob which burn.
ed the home minister's residence said
to the correspondent of the Associat-
ed Press:
We burned the house for the pur-
posi- Of attracting the attention of the