Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1900 — Reports 5,000 Are Massacred. [ARTICLE]

Reports 5,000 Are Massacred.

It is reported from Shanghai that the Boxers attacked the missionaries and native Christians at Paoting-Fu July 8. A foreign physician and 2,000 converts were innssacred. The Chinese general. Li Ho Keh, is now inarching ou Pekin. He has ordered bis troops to exterminate all Christians. Already one French prjest nnd from 2.000 to 3,000 natives have been slaughtered.