The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1906-03-07
ON THE CRUST
OF A VOLCANO
Eruption in China Likely at Any
Moment.
wARSHlPS FASTENING TO CHINA.
Deslte the Fact That the State Department
Refers to the Outbreaks as Spasmodie,
II Is Believed An Foreigners In China
Are Ia Danser--Tbe Empress at Mercy
Of Vieeroys.

Washington, d. c. (Specia) AT the
State Department it was stated that no
further news had been received from
Peking concerning the massacres of mis-
sionaries in China In view Of the fact
that none of the victims OF the massa-
ere were Americans no official action by
this government is called for The
State Department repeated its assur-
ances that these outbreaks against for
eigners were sporadic and were not
the results of a concerted movement ike
the Boxer uprising Of 1000 At the same
time every representative Of this gov
ernment in China has been notified by
the State Department to keep this gov
ernnent thoroughly posted and to make
necessary arrangements to warn all
Americans from the dangers that may
threaten them
In spite OF the confidence expressed
in Washington that there is 10 serious
danger OF a general uprising in China,
it is held in nonohicial quarters here
that Americans residing in China es-
pecially in those portions OF the empire
removed from the large cities are in the
gravest danger China, it is believed, IS
in a condition OF fernent exactly similar
to that which existed in Russia year or
two ago, and which led to the frightful
| revolts and ghastly massacres in so many
portions OF the Cars empire. 1t is be-
| lieved that there is distinct body OF re-
volutionaries in China, who are constant
ly string up the people, just as did the
n fFWg ID, H. 81
ernment has felt itself strong enough to
repress these rebellions with an iron
hand but the Empress OF China has
no Cossacks and no army on which She
can depend. The Empress undoubt-
edly regrets these uprisings against for
eigners when they threaten to cause
| her serious danger from the govern
ments of the victims OF her people.
But there is no disposition 10 prevent
the feeling OF hatred against foreigners.
| That the Chinese government is secret
| ly encouraging the boycott of American
goods there is no doubt but it is equally
| certain that the government at Picking
would protect the foreigners If it dared.
1t must be remembered that the EN-
press at Peking is after all largely at
the mercy of the viceroys OF the great
provinces of China. The greatest Of
these viceroys was Ii Hung Chang, and
because Ii was loyal to the Empress
and suppressed the Boxers, in 1000, that
uprising proved futile But Ii Hung
Chang is dead, and none of the present
viceroys has taken his place Every vice
roy in China is practically the king OF
his own province, and his allegiance 70
the government at Picking is as earnest
only as he chooses. Every viceroy has
his own army which he pays himself
and as rule the soldiers know only
their viceroy, and the government Al
Peking is a shadowy conception that re
presents little or nothing to them.
Peking. - American Consul Genera
Rodgers telegraphs from Shanghai tha,
the IA American missionaries who fed
from Niuchwang all reached Kiukiarg
in safety,
The gunboat FL Cano is proceeding
from Marking TO the scene Of the trou-
BILE
The battleship Ohio, flagship of Tic
American feet on the Asiatic Station
has sailed from Manila for Hongkong
where she will dock and rush repair,
so as to be prepared for possible exj-
gencies