The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-03-01
THE SLAUGHTER IN
CHINA HAS BEGUN
Expected Outbreak Has Origin
at Nanchang 400 Miles
Inland.
AMERICANS ESCAPE
English Family of Four Reported to
Have Been Slain-United States
Dispatches Gunboat Up the
Yangtse River.

Shanghai, Feb. 2S.-Somewhat con-
fused reports have reached here OF a
massacre of missionaries at Nanchang,
province of Eiangsi. AS nearly as can
be ascertained, six missionaries We're
killed and one child of an English mis-
siOnary was wounded.
1t is alleged that after long continued
disputes between the Catholic priests
and the Chinese magistrate of Nan
chang the priests invited the maglS-.
trate to a banquet, where they tried to
compel him to sign an agreement for
the payment of a large indemnity for
the destruction of Catholic mission
property. According to n report the
magistrate became indignant and COM
mitted suicide, cut the Chinese assert
that q priest attacked and killed him.
The officials, fearing to arrest the
priest, called a public meeting, where
upon the Catholics, according to the
Chinese version of the trouble, set fire
to their own premises.
The public meeting of the Chinese
developed into a riot, in which. accord
ing to one story, six of the Catholics
were killed, though a later account
says the number Of Catholics killed
was four. H. G. Kingman, a Protestant
missionary, and his wife also were
killed and one Of their two children
was wounded, the other being rescued
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ings destroyed were those of the
Plymouth Brethren.
Fourteen Americans escaped in a
boat.
The Nanchang city gates are now
locked.
Washington, Feb. 2S.-Consul Cen
eral Rodgers of Shanghai cabled the
state department today that the Amer
lean missions at Nanchang, province
Of KianSs have been destroyed. The
| probable cause is local.
A telegram received from there
| states fourteen American missionaries
escaped, but the bingham family, Eng
lish, two adults and two children. is
reported killed.
The American gunboat Ell Cano, at
! Nankin, has been ordered to proceed
Immediately to Kin kiang and will
| probably arrive Wednesday.
The scene of the trouble is 400 miles
up the Yangtse river.
Inland British missions are reported
to be safe.
A cable from Commander Fletcher,
senior officer of the Raleigh at Shang-
hal today confirms substantially Rod
gers report.
Reports Conflicting.
A later cablegram from Rodgers
says reports of the Nanchang trouble
are conflicting. 1t is now reported to
have originated in q dispute between
French Jesuits and hines officials.
TIL Chinese magistrate stabbed him
self.
In a riot which occurred yesterday
six Jesuits and two members of the
Kingman family We're killed. Chinese
troops We're protecting the refugees
who were going to Kukiang. The
American mission building is under
stood to ave been saved and order is
now restored.
Pekin, Feb. 26.-The American Meth
odist mission has q station at Nan
chang. No news of the missionaries
has been received here. 1t is supposed
they escaped to Kiukiang.
FiIipinos Would Fight Chinks.
Manila, Feb. 26.-Major General
Leonard Wood has sailed for the is
land of Mindanao on q two weeks tom
of inspection.
Filipinos are anxious to organize a
volunteer regiment to assist America
in China.
The beginning of the expected out
break in China at this time gives color
to the prediction Of a prominent Chi
nese highlander Of San Francisco a few
weeks 6 warning Americans to leave
inland points in China by February "a,
claiming their lives would not be secure
after that.
BOYCOTT AGITATION SUBSIDIES
Washington. D. c., Feb. 2G.-The
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