Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1901 — BETTER. PROSPECTS IN CHINA [ARTICLE]

BETTER. PROSPECTS IN CHINA

Rockhill Will Propose Arbitration Some Chinese “Schliinmness.” Pekin. ...June 12.—A meeting of the foreign ministers yesterday showed better pr> -pects of their coming to some de .ie understanding, the majority . ’ing the acceptance of China’s •>. : of 465,090,(100 taels, as the am u: • of the indemnity to be paid to U bi wers. Rockhill will present at h icxt meeting an expression of the ? erican desire to finish the business • : The Hague. Rockh . has the translation of an edict by lite wording of which it would seem that the library of the Forbidden City was intentionally set on fire by orders of the court, and was not struck by lightning, as was reported by the foreign guards. The edict orders the destruction of all the archives.