Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 August 1895 — OUTRAGES IN CHINA. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

OUTRAGES IN CHINA.

MISSIONARIES KILLED AND THE STATIONS BURNED. . -—Hie Inmates, Most of Whom 'Were . Ladies. Were Killed After Having Been Subjected to Fearful Atrocities - Situation is Critical. - • . Officials Said to Be Implicated. Every day brings new accounts of violence dona to American 'missionaries in China, and there is no longer a doubt that all foreigners in certain districts of the Chinese Empire are in »jurly danger of losing their lives. Already enough violence has been done to Americans to waTrant the speedy dispatch of gun-boats to —-.Chinese waters; i,’ '> ■ '' / ' ~T The massacre at Ku Cheng, with the subsequent immunity of the perpetrators - from punishment" Iras hud'the natural effect of stirring up anti-foreign fanatics in other localities to similar exploits. A mob has looted the American mission at Inghok, ftffy miles from f*oo Chow. The Hit SSionbuildi iigs"af Eat ShaiT, iiea FTTaiTton, have been demolished. From other points nil over the disaffected province of Fukein come reports of hostile demonstrations and increasing danger for all who arc guilty of the crime of being “foreign devils.” Miss Mabel C. Hartford, one of the survivors of the Ku Cheng outrage and the only American who witnessed it, has telegraphed a vivid description of the nffair, wljich makes it clear that the Chinese authorities aided and abetted the murder-

era. Archdeacon IVolfo cables from Foo Chow that Chinese soldiers sent to protect the mission at Ku Cheng plundered it. He says no reliance can be placed on the Chinese authorities. The Shanghai correspondent of the Pall Mall Gazette expresses the opinion that further outrages are Inevitable unless Great Britain “takes swift and deadly vengeance.” Certain it is that the salutary influence of

English nnd American warships cannot too quickly be applied to tho authorities of the localities who refuse to protect the lives of foreign residents. Even the remote presence of a man-of-war has been found effective in cooling the ardor of the murderous fanatics who have taken to braining women and children. The time has come for decisive action to convince the Chinese Government that the most healthful thing it can do is to put down these mobs and punish the murderers. United States Minister Denby to China has taken prompt and energetic steps for the. protec tkm of American- missionaries. Mail advices from him show that he made sweeping and peremptory demand on China for the fullest protection of all Amercans nnd for capital punishment of the perpetrators. What answer was received is not known. Advices to the department indlcnte that no Americans were killed or

injured in the recent outrages. Admiral Carpenter, commander of the naval forces in Chinese waters, was instructed to assist in protecting Americans. It is believed among Chinese officials in Washington that secret societies in Southern China are at the bottom of the present troubles.

The Pekin Government is said to be anxious to keep these societies in check, bnt has difficulty in dealing with them owing to their remoteness from the centers of Government. Three seamen of the steamer Bongerhead, Capt. Brennan, were drowned at v Montreal while going ashore without leave. They were Frank Stokes of Dublin, William Robinson of Shields, and Thomas Monagle of Carrickfergus, Ireland. * A dangerous type of Texas fever has broken out among the cattle at Birmingham, Pa.

WHERE THE MISSIONS ARE LOCATED.

CHARLES DENBY.