Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1900 — CONGER MESSAGE A FORGERY. [ARTICLE]

CONGER MESSAGE A FORGERY.

State Deparment Convinced that Fain oua Dispatch Is Not Oennine. A Washington special says: “The cipher dispatch signed ‘Conger,* which was supposed to have been dated July 18 and was received through Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese minister here, .is a forgery. The State Department, which has regarded the dispatch as genuine, has received absolute proof that it is a fraud.”