Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1898 — HOSTILE TO MISSIONARIES. [ARTICLE]
HOSTILE TO MISSIONARIES.
United States Troops Land-at TienTain to Protect Amer'cans.
The Navy Department received a dispatch Saturday morning announcing that hostilities against the American missionaries in the neighborhood of Tien-Tsin have broken out again. A detachment of marines was landed from the Boston to protect the lives of the Americans ami to restore order. The Boston is the only United States warship at Tien-Tsin, as the Petrel, which was recently there, has been sent to Shanghai.
