Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 September 1900 — RIOT RIFE IN PEKIN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

RIOT RIFE IN PEKIN.

Fire, Fiuhtinjr and Dissension Mark Rule of the Allies. Fires, fighting and dissension are apparently following in the wake of the relief of Pekin. The London Daily Mail publishes dispatches from the Chinese capital declaring that a great fire was raging in the imperial city. The Russian commander had declined to accept the decision of the other generals not to trtohrtw the nnperia.l precincts. and street fighting was going on. Gem Chaffee, so it is asserted, maintained that the Chinese had been adequately punished already, and that it would be unwise to take the imperial palace. This explains the withdrawal of the Americans after breaching three gates, as cabled by the correspondent of the Associated Press. The Russian general maintained that his Government had declared war against China, and that therefore there was no reason to prevent him carrying hostilities hito the sacred precincts. The tires appear to be incendiary and to be caused by the Chinese themselves. A report from St. Petersburg says the Japanese legation there has received a dispatch from Pekin with the news that the legationers are all liberated, but that the allied forces are powerless to quench the terrible fire which is making great Inroads in a thickly built portion of the city. The soldiers are too fatigued to master the disastrous Hames, iwhich are threatening the whole of the capital. The leaders of the rebels, Prince Tuan, and others, are still in the city, but-too securely concealed to be found, although they are being carefully sought. The Dowager Empress has fled in an unknown direction. A report from Pekin says that Gen. Llneviteh Ims been given full authority to guard and defend the city. Fierce fighting is nlso said to be still going ou inside the Walls. Gen, Lineviteh’s Siberian army corps has become practically inoperative on account of the* warm weather. All the dispatches point to the fact that the commanders were somewhat at sea regarding their future action, all awaiting instructions from their governments. The foreign residents tippear to have been sent to Tien-tsin, although the St. Peters-

burg correspondent of the Daily Mail says the ministers will not leave Pekin until negotiations for indemnity are under way. Berlin learns that there has been further fighting west of Tien-tsin, whieh creates the impression that the province of Pe-Chl-Li must be effectively occupied before peace negotiations will become feasible. CHINESE USE TORCH. Mob at Amoy Attacks mid Barns Jap* unrse Temple.’ United States Consul ‘ Johnson ut Amoy, Chiun, cabled the State Department Friday that a motj burned the Japanese temple at that place. Marines were landed to protect Japanese officials nnd restore order. Pekin advices stated thnjj the allied troops had surrounded the imperial city and stationed sentries at the gate*. They refrained from entering pending instructions from their government*.

TYPES OF CHINESE SOLDIERS.