Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1891 — CHINESE BARBARITIES. [ARTICLE]

CHINESE BARBARITIES.

Two of the Wusueh Rioters Decapitated and their Head* Stuck on Poles. The steamship Oceanic arrived on the 11th from Hong Kong and Ybkahoma. Advices from Hong Kong up to July 15 state that the lire of discontent is still smoldering in North China. Occasional riots arc reported. The mission stations near Canton are said to ha ve been attacked, but no particulars were received. Two of the Wusucli rioters voluntarily confessed that they murdered two foreigners during the Wusuch uprising. Tlie prisoners were sent back to the Kuangclji district and the« heads hung up at Wusucli as a warning to evil doers. A correspondent at Tientsen writes, under date of June 29, that all is quiet there and no trouble is anticipated.