Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1891 — PILLAGED AND BURNED. [ARTICLE]

PILLAGED AND BURNED.

Methodint Mission Buildings Attacked and Destroyed by the Chinese Babble The steamer China arrived at San Francisco on the 3d from Hong Kong Yokohama. The threatened riot atNanking took place. The Methodist girls' school was attacked, pillaged and burned May 35, by the Chinese rabble. Several other mis-, sion buildings were attacked, and would have been demolished but for the inter - ference of soldiers sent by the Viceroy, after urgent appeals from the missionaries. On the Sunday previous, the missionaries were semi-ofHcially notified the premises would be burned and accordingly all took a steamer for Shanghai the day before tho rouble. Further rioting is anti cinated at Kiang. The outbreaks are said to be the work of secret societies, the prime object being not to Injure foreigners, but to entangle the Chinese govern - ment in foreign complications in the hope that thereby successful Insurrection may oe started. At Taniang on .Tune 1 a mob pillaged the mission buildings, overpowering the nandarin and soldiers. The Christian cemetery was dug up, the heads piled in a heap, and the mandarin dragged to the ipot by his queue. The Governors of Annan repo t the bemad! ng of twenty-five ringleaders in the trouble at Nichu. Andy Roy, the wealthy stock man and mine owner, was taken from the eastM>und train at Waseka, Minn., Wednesday. in a violent state of insanity. H» .vas on ids way to Europe. On his person •vere found drafts on a bank at Spokane Fall, Wash., for 11,000, and 1300 in money. He imagines that the train is off the track ind thinks he is to he killed. His valise, containing deeds to valuable mining property, is either lost or stolen. The entire population of Averyvilla, (H., have been fruitlessly searching for three little children-David and Luther Crandall and Arthur El warm—who disappeared last Tuesday afternoon.