The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-08

IOhlOp Sept. O.-- NDeldyeu IN lTdliS-
mission) An imperial ordinance es-
tablishes martial law in Toxic. Dis
order was resumed tonight
Toxic, Sept. "a mob burned and
DESTROYED ten Christian churches and
one mission house school last night
Wednesday,. The people were not
injured.
Printing Onice Wrecked.
Toxic. Sept. -Noon.-The only
serious disturbance this morning was
the partial wrecking of a printing
office. which was assisting the kollu-
min Shimbun to publish it's edition of
today. A crowd Of people attempted
to enter Hibaya Park but the sol
dicrs prevented Them. Some fighting
resulted.
The police are being Withdrawn or
kept in the background because Of the
fact that they have fallen into popu-
ar disfavor. The soldiery and gen
larmes are performing guard duty.
soldiers are guarding the foreign le
cations.
Apparently the outbreak is not due
to anti-foreign sentiment. but the gov
arnment is anxious to prevent injury
% any of the legations or members
Of the legations. Foreigners. how
ever. who are car sht by the mobs are
roughly used.
An Interval OF Quiet.
D. m.-The city continues quiet
There are small crowds of people
around HibaYa Park but no further
trouble has occurred. The offices of
the Kokumin Shimbun continue TO be
beseiged. The doors and windows
are barricaded. Lines of police
closed the entire block and heavy po-
lice reserves are within call. A de-
tachment of mounted gendarmes is
stationed in front of the Foreign Office
prepared to meet emergencies in the
disturbed district. About the gov
crnment buildings the military dis
play is inconspicuous. A few sem
tries are patrolling the front of the
buildings and the official residences
of the ministers. The main forces Of
the military are concealed.
An irritating feature of the situA-
ton results from the continued fail
ure of the government to inform the
public of the exact results of the
Ports mouth conference. Not a single
feature of the negotiations has been
communicated officially to the people
arguing that they fought and paid
for the war and are entitled to know
the results.
About two hundred arrests have
been made since noon yesterday. The
police captured eighty of those who
were engaged in the attack on the
home minister's residence.
1t is now reported that four per
sons We're killed.
Party of Americans Stoned.
The Hartman party had an exciting
experience last night while attending
and returning from a dinner given
by Baron Some, Minister of Finance,
DIR. w. G.. Lyle and J. G. Mcknight
were caught in a crowd on their way
to the dinner and were stoned, DR.
Lyle being struck by missile and
slightly hurt. After the dinner was
ed the party to the legation. a crowd
stopped r. p. Schwerin, Vice-president
of the Pacific Mail Steamship Com
pany, and assaulted his runners, but
they did not touch Mr.. Schwerin.
Crowds menacing a neighboring
police kiosk filed the space in front
of the American legation and hoOted
and jerred the soldiers escorting the
Hartman party, who, with fixed bay
onets, charged the crowd, cleared the
street and guarded the legation
The dinner planned for tonight In
honor of the Hartman party will not
take place owing to the disturbed con-
Gitions in the city
Minister'S House Fired.
D. m.-Serious rioting followed
the attack today on the office of the
Kokumin Shimbun, the government
organ. A mob attacked and set fire
to the official residence of the Minis
ter of Home Affairs which stood be-
tween the MOBILES Club and the Impe-
rial Hotel and faced Hibaya Park,
which was the storm center through
out the day.
Threatening demonstrations occurr-
ed in the neighborhoOd of the official
homes of Premier Katsura and Baron
Komura, Foreign Minister, who is now
in the United States, but the police
succeeded i'm preventing injury to the
occupants or damage to the houses.
The attack on the minister's resi-
dence was intensely dramatic.
Throuehout the day a series of DEM
ontsartions occurred in the neighbor-
hood of the building and late in the
afternoon the mob attacked the house,
swept the police away and battered
down the gates. The police and SER
wants resister stoutly, but the mob
surged forward and entered the house
One of the mob leaders carving an
armful of burning fire. The police
reserves charged the crowds. using
their swords freely but the mob raj