Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1906-03-02
FOur English Miss onGrics. Nan.
Wife and Two Children. Mas.
sacred in Nandian@.
FOURTEEN kliIRICAhS ESCAPED.
The Unite,i States Gunboat ElGanO
Has Been Ordered To King Kiamg
TO PROTECT the Americans.
Foreign Office Officials at Picking Say
That There Is No Symptoms CT
Movement against Foreigners
The Trouble is Local.
ficials at Pekino Say

Picking, Feb. 27.-The British Legal
English missionaries, man, his wife
and their two children have been mas
sacred at Nanchang, in the province
of kiangsi The city is the prefec-
tural capital ami with the troops there
foreigners should be assured Of pro-
lection No details have been re-
Ce!ved.
Vt a meeting of foreign Office Off
Gals Sunday il was decided, i'll effect,
with reference to the representations
of the United States regarding the
sending OF troops TO the Philippine Is
lands for Chinese contingencies. that
there are no symptoms of movement
against foreigners, that the Boxer ris-
ing will never be repeated and that
the government is able to handle all
local disturbances.
LONG Continued Disputes.
Ii is ALLEGED that after long contin.
ued disputes between the Catholic
priests and the Chinese magistrate OF
Nanchang the priests invited the mag
istr3te TO banquet, where they tried
to compel him TO sign an agreement
for the payment of large indemnity
for the destruction of Catholic mis-
sion property According TO one re-
port the magistrate became indignant
and committed suicide, but the Chi
DeSe assert that a priest attacked and
killed him. The officials, fearing to
arrest the priest, called public meet
ing, whereupon the Catholics, accord
ing to the Chinese version of the trou
bic, set fire to their own premises.
The public meeting of the Chinese de-
velOHed mao riot in which, accord
lag to the story, six of the Catholics
were killed, though a later account
says the mum er CT Catholics killed
vas four II. G. Eingman, q Protest
ant missionary. and his wife also were
Killed and one OF their two children
was wounded, the other being rescued
The only Protestant mission buildings
destroyed were those of the Plymouth
Brethren Fourteen Americans escap-
Ell in IA boat The Nanchang city gates
are now locked.
Ready For Emergencies.
Washington, Feb. 27-The gunboat
E]cano has been ordered to Kingki-
ang, where she is expected to arrive
Wednesday, and will protect the AM
orleans in that locality. American ma
val officers on the Asiatic station are
III possession of complete and accu-
rate list of American missionaries in
the danger zone, and are prepared to
afford every protection.
President Roosevelt has grown sus-
picious Of the good faith Of the Chi
nese government, as a result of the
policy of duplicity which il seems to
be pursuing. He has been given as
surances through Minister Rockhill
which are not in keeping with the
acts Of the Picking authorities.
The state department is advising
mission boards to bring in all mission
aries stationed in outlying districts,
inaccessible to warships OF troops and
place them at points where they can
be protected. RI. Adm. Train, COM
mander-in-chief of the Asiatic fleet,
has been notified to be in readiness
for any emergency.
Shan ghai, Feb. 27.-Somewhat con-
fused reports have reached here of
massacre of missionaries at Nanchang,
province of Kiangs. AS nearly as can
be ascertained, six missionaries were
killed and one child of an English
missionary was wounded.