Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1900 — OFFICIALS BEHEADED JULY 28. [ARTICLE]

OFFICIALS BEHEADED JULY 28.

Bhenit Confirms Story—Li Ping* Hang Master at Pekin. A dispatch from Shanghai says that Director of Telegraphs Sheng in fin interview confirms the story of the execution of two members of the, tsung-li-ya-men. or Chinese foreign office, for friendliness to tin* foreigners, and adds the names of the officials and the circumstances of their death. He says the victims of Li Piug Hang’s wrath were Hsu Ching Cheng, formerly minister to Russia, and more recently imperial directorgeneral of railways, and Yuan Chang. They had been doing good work in suppressing the Boxers, and had supported the efforts of Prince Ching to save the foreigner ministers and restore order in Pekin. For this they incurred the displeasure of Li Ping Hang, and, notwithstanding their high office as members of the tsung-li-yameu. they were led out on July 28 and beheaded, as a warning to others. Gov. MeSweeney of South Carolina tried to prevent the lynching of*two negroes at Florence, ami when the mob refused to disperse, called out the militia to guard t!»' v jail. Alexander Donelsou. a leading citizen of Davidson County, Tennessee, was assassinated near the Noldiers’ Home at Hermitage, Tenn. The murderer la unknown. The British flag was planted on Nieu or Savage Island by her majesty’s ship Porpoise in June. The island is situated 300 miles northeast of the X° n Ka group, and has a fertile soil. There has been talk lately in Switzerland' of an alliance with the United States. One paper has even favored joining the American Union as a State.