Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-02
MURDER rs CONFIRMED
DEATHS OF FIVE MISSIONARIES
IN CHINA.

NEW YORK, November 2.-The Presby-
terrain board of foreign missions today re-
ceived a cabegram from Canton, China,
telling of tho murder of FIVE American mis-
sior aries at the Presbyterian station at
Lienchow. news of which was received in a
dispatch to the Associated Press from
Horgkong yesterday. The cableeram TO
the board reads as follows:
'Lienchow station has been attacked.
Mrs. Machle. Annie (Mrs. Machle's
daughter). Mr.. Peale. Mrs. Peale. Chestnut,
killed DR.. Machle and Patterson safe.
Buildings destroyed"
The Chestnut referred to is DIR. Eleanor
Chestnut.
Dispatches flom Hongkong in The Star
yesterday told OF the murder of five Amer
lean missionaries and a child sent into
China by the foreign board of the Presby-
t6rian Church located In New York.
AS soon as DIR. Arthur j. Brown. sscre-
tary of the foreign board, heard the report
yesterday, he cabled to Rev. DR.. Henry V.
Noyes the oldest missionary in Canton and
treasurer of the local mission there, this
query: rs there any foundation for re-
ports that Lienchow station is in danger
frcm fanaticism?"
Mrs Ella c. MachIe was a Philadelphian.
DR.. and Mrs. Machle went to China In
1889. They were sent out by the Presby-
terrain board Of foreign missions. Mrs.
Machle bride Of only day when she
bade good-by to her relatives In Philadel-
phia. She was married to DIR. Machle. who
had but recently graduated from the Jeffer-
son Medical College. on the evening preced-
ing the day she left. DR.. Machle had also
been connected with the Wharton Street
Mission. He is a native of Ohio.
During the Boxer uprising they nearly
lost their lives. Although continually
threatened, they refused to leave their posts
until the natives of Lienchow, to whom
CIV hao orpd
them to leave, saying they were unable to
give them any protection. DR.. Machle was
captured and would have been massacred
had 1t not been that a mandarin, whose life
DIR Machle had once saved, interceded Tor
him and resuced him from the mob. They
finally went to Canton. where they re-
manned until the uprising had been quelled.
Mrs. Machle was forty-five years of age
She had been doing missionary work for
sixteen years. Mrs. Machle had charge OF
the mission school at Lienchow. while Dr.
Machle had charge of the hospital. Amy,
the child who was murdered. was the only
one of the children with them. She was
eleven years of age. The two other chill
dren, Elsie, aged fifteen years, and Victor,
aged eight, are in Worcester, Ohio, at
tending school,
Dr. Eleanor Chestnut, who is also reported
killed, was from Illinois, and she was sent
out as a missionary by the western branch
of the board of foreign missions in Chicago
DIR. Chestnut received her medical educa-
ton and Bible training in. Chicago, and IL
well known in that city. DIR. Chestnut re-
ceived her appointment as head OF the Wo-
mans Hospital at Lienchow in 1891. She
also had supervision Of the medical work in
stations at Sam Kong, Kang Han, Lam Mo
and Ka Wo. in the province of Canton.
John Rogers Peale was new missionary
who sailed from this country last August
He was born at New Bloomfield, Pa, in
1879. He was educated at the Lafayette
College and the Princeton theological
To nf
Port Deposit, Md, last summer before go-
ing to China in August