Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1900 — CHINA WAR NEWS. [ARTICLE]

CHINA WAR NEWS.

There are four trains daily from Tong* ku to Yang-taum. Gen. Barry cables from Takow that Gen. Chaffee has everything well la hand. Prince Ching, friendly to the foreigners, is trying to open negotiations with the allies. Maj. Peley of the hospital ship Relief, at Takow, reports 130 Americans sick at the front, 200 at Tien-tsin and many slightly ill. A Pekin message, dated Aug. 26, aaya the British forces met, five miles to the westward of Pekin, 300 Boxera and 2,000 regular Chinese troops The latter fled without a shot, and the Boxers followed suit after losing seventy men. Yu Hsien, Governor of Shanghai, has memorialized the throne to give him a record because he Invited fifty-two foreigners to accept his protection and then murdered them. According to a Berlin dispatch, Li-Hung-Chang is up to his old tricks. A viceroy whom be has proposed as a member of the peace commission ia known to be an enemy to the foreignera. Describing the capture of Ho-Si-Wu, a special dispatch says that the headgear of the Americana waa quite insufficient for the awful beat, and thaLthe conssoueacsa wore direful,