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SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS DEVOTED TO GIVING THE NEWS, ENCOURAGING THE PROGRESS AND AIDING THE PROSPERITY OF SCHLEY COUNTY. 8, E. ELLIOTT. Editor ani Business Mawr. THE WORST IS NOW KNOWN Murder of Foreigners In Pekin Is Officially Announced. MESSAGE FROM SHAN TUNG A List of Foreign Ministers and Attaches of Legations In Pekin Who Were Victims of the Fanatical Boxers. An official telegram was received at Shanghai Sunday night from the gov ernor of Shan Tung stating that a breach was made in the wall of the British legation at Pekin after a gallant defense and when all the ammunition had given out. All foreigners were killed. BUTCHERY WAS COMPLETE. The Shanghai correspondent of the London Daily Express, on the alleged authority of couriers who brought the story, gives a very sensational ac count. He says: “Maddened with hunger, after hav ing been without food for many days, the members of the legations and the guards made a sortie on the night of June 30th and killed 200 Chinese in ' an unexpected attack. General Tung Fuh Siang, enraged over the loss of so many men, brought up heavy guns and Prince Tuan gave the order that every foreigner must be destroyed. His words were: “Destroy every foreign vestige and make China a sealed book to all west ern powers.” The following is a list of the foreign ministers and attaches of the legations at Pekin: United States—Edwin II. Conger, Minister; H. G. Squiers, Secretary of Legation; W. E. Bainbridge, Secoud Secretary; F. D. Cheshire, Interpreter; Mrs. M. S. Woodward and Miss lone Woodward, of Chicago, guests of Mr. and Mrs. Conger. Great Britain—Sir Claude M. Mac donald, Minister; H. G. O. Bax Iron side, First Secretary of Legation; H. G. N. Dering, Second Secretary; H. Cockburn, Chinese Secretary; Clive Bigham, Honorary Attache; G. F. Brown, Military Attache; Lieutenant Colonel Dr. Bushel. Germany—Baron Von Ketteler,Min ister; Dr. Von Prittwitz and Dr. Von Gaffron, Secretaries of Legation; Baron Von Der Goltz, Secretary and Inter preter; H. Cordes, Second Interpreter; O. Felsenau, Chancellor. Russia— M. De Giers, minister; B. Kroupeoski, First Secretary of Lega tion, B. Evreinow, Second Secretary; P. Ponow, First Interpr^te - ; N. Koles sow, Second Interpreter. Pickon^ France—S. Minister; M. D’Authoavd, First Secretary; H. Le duc, First Interpreter; M. Vidal, Mili tary Attache. Japan—Baron Njski, Minister; Ishii Kikoujiro, First Secretary. Minister. Spain—B. J. De Cologau, Italy—Marquis Salvago, Minister. Austro-Hungary— Baron Czikann Von Waklborn, Minister; Dr. A. Von Rostkorn, Secretary of Legation. Belgium—Baron De Viuck, Minis ter. Portugal^-F. A. Galhardo, Miiu/ster. ------ — The European governments have received from their respective repre sentative at Shanghai a dispatch front the governor of Shan Tung, dated July 7th, reporting that the European and troops made a sortie from Pekin killed 200 of General Tung Fuh Siang’s forces and that the breach boxers were mounting guns to make a in the defenses. Under date of July 12th the gov ernor of Shang Tuug wired as follows: “Native soldiers and boxers have been attacking the legations for some hours, but have not yet effected an en trance. They are now all bombarding with cannon to make a breach for a heavy onslaught. I fear that all the ministers, and the government as ^ell, are in great danger. The gov ernment is intensely anxious.” Finally came tho news from Shang hai that a breach had been made and ELLA VILLE, GA.. THURSDAY. JULY 19. 1900. the foreigners killed. All the dates probably refer to a much earlier period, but the presumption is that the suc cessive dispatches give an outline of what has happeued. The Europeans having reached the end of their re sources, made a desperate sortie and then bravely met their fate. The de tails of the horrible story will proba bly never be known. GOOD WOBK AT TIEN TSIN. Admiral Selymour’s dispatchs give the latest news regarding the situation at Tien Tsin. Telegrams to the Asso ciated Press show that the operations on July 11th were a brilliant success. The Japanese cavalry and a mobile mounted battery did splendid work. It was unfortunate that the allies did not have more cavalry to purse the flying enemy. Four hundred Chinese were killed and six guns captured. At uocn the settlements were again vici ously shelled from the native city and the hospitals and other buildings were repeatedly hit. The moral effect of the successes of the allied forces upon the Chinese is believed to be very great. RUSSIAN ENVOY BOILED TO DEATH. A dispatch to The Chicago Record from St. Petersburg, July 11, via Paris, July 14, says: The czar has received with great emotion the dread ful details of the catastrophe at Pekin. Tears coursed down his majesty’s cheeks as he read the cablegram from Admiral Alexieff, at Port Arthur, con firming the horrible details of the assassination of M. DeGiers, which merely confirms rumors that had al ready reached Rtissia. The admiral declares that the Rus sian envoy was dragged through the streets by the Boxers, insulted, beaten and tortured, and even thrown into a great kettle and boiled to death. Then the remains were thrown to the dogs. While M. DeGiers was being disposed of, the fanatical mob danced around the caldron. Mme. DeGiers, Admiral Alexietfs advices declare, suffered a fate worse than death and was beaten and tor tured with sharp sticks until life was extinet. The legation officials are said to have been tortured fiendishly until death ended their sufferings. M. De Giers and his legation cjjjfli^ls resisted desperately and hi killed mauy of * mob ' In the said midst have of her™ hi^| un!s proclaimed the envoy his is to y faith in Christianity, encouraged by the wife who so soon shared his mar tyrdom. The announcement of this intelli gence to the relatives of the Pvussian martyrs in China was accompanied by heartrending scenes. WU SETS ANSWER. Cablegram From Shengat Shang hai Is Brief and Is Couched In Seemingly asive Terms. Such news as ached Washington Sunday from China was distinctly bad. It consisted of a cablegram to Minister Wu, from oheng, the unpe- . rial director of posts and telegraphs at Shanghai, and, according B to the min ister, was in reply to the urgent mes sage he himself had sent Saturday to that officiol asking him to try to secure some news from the Chinese capital. This cablegram Mr. Wu regarded as of sufficient importance to carry in person to Secretary Hay, who was waiting at his home for news. The message as resolved from the cipher was as follows: “Pekin news of July 7th says that General Tuan Fuh Siang, in disobedi ence of imperial orders, was about to use guns. Legations and the govern ment will be in peril.” There still remains a suspicion that, while Mr. Wn is undoubtedly acting with sincerity, Sheng, who is repre sented to be a clever and adroit man, may know more of the actual happen ings at Pekin that he is willing to re veal at once. SENATOR GEAR DEAD. Succumbs Suddenly to Heart Dis ease at His Home In Wash ington, D. C. United States Senator John Henry Gear, of Burlington, Iowa, died at 4:30 a. m. Saturday, of heart failure, in his apartments at the Portland in Washington. While Senator Gear had been in bad health for a year or more, death came unexepected. Ho was in excellent spirits Friday evening, when, accompanied by Mrs. Gear, he went out driving with Secretary Wilson, of the agricultural department. They returned about 10 o’clock and the sena tor retired an hour later in his usual health. Shortly before 2 o’clock Saturday morning the senator summoned his confidential secretary and informed him he was troubled with congestion in his chest. Mrs. Gear was called and she concocted some simple remedies which seemed to give the senator some relief. At 2:30 the senator complained of serious difficulty in breathing. His condition became critical and his fam ily physician, Dr. Davis, was sum moned. An examination convinced Dr. Davis that his patient was suffer ing from heart trouble and announced that Senator Gear could scarcely last an hour. About 4 o’clock the senator seemed to be easier, and when asked by Mrs. Gear as to his condition replied faint ly: “I feel a trifle better.” These were his last words. Fifteen minutes later he was dead. Sergeant-at-Arms Randells, of the senate, was notified of Senator Gear’s death and began to make arrangements for it. The remains were taken di rectly to Burlington, Iowa, which, for many years, has been the home of the senator. A special car was attached to the 3:30 p. m. train Sunday for ac commodation of the funeral party. ACCIDENT OK SUICIDE? Daughter of Theodore Havemeyer Dies Under Suspicious Circumstance*. A New York dispatch says: Mrs. Natille Mayer, wife of John Mayer, and eldest daughter of the late Theo dore Havemeyer, died in the Mayer madsion, near Mahwah, N. J., late Saturday afternoon. Little definite was known concern ing the cause of death until Saturday, when Commander Winslow, United States navy, who is married to a sister of Mrs. Mayer, gave out the following statement “Mrs. Mayer died from the effect of a pistol shot accidentally fired. The wound was not at first believed to be q iTZ four hours before .he time of Mrs. Mayer’s death, that the pistol shot was fired. Commander Winslow’s state ment does not cyan tell «ho held the weapon On: this point however, Dr. Albert Seabnskie, the first physician to be called after Mrs. Mayer was hurt, Ba ^r “I understand , . i x, that . Commander r ■. Winslow said to one of the members of the family that he M ould have some body before the coroner who would testify that Mrs. Mayer said she acci dently shot herself.” CHARGES AGAINST IUY. Major Will 15© Arraign e<l Before a Court martial in Alaska. Charges have been fiied at Nome, Alaska, against Major Patrick Henry xiay, ^ho previous to the arrival of Brigadier General Randall commanded the troops in Alaska, by Captain W. K. Wright, of company L, Seventh United States infantry, who in turn has been the subject of a counter com plaint by Major Ray. The charges against the major con tain over twenty specifications—allega tinns involving his inteoritv WnghVia and enn duct as an officer. charged with disobedience of orders. General Randall is expected to hold a court of innuirv is^now at Fort Esrbert. where Maior Ray stationed — COSSACKS FIGHT BOXERS. Czar'4 Troops Wipe Out Three Thousand Fanatics and Capture Six Krupp Guns. The London Daily Mail’s St. Peters burg correspondent says that in a six . °5j S1<i0t lie “ TsI “ °. u July 9th, tto*€/OSsacks u captured six Krupp guns and killed numbers of boxers. due Chinese lost 3,000, meludmg General Jek. MINISTER WU GIVEN TEST Secretary Hay Sends a Cipher Message to China. WE MUST KNOW THE TRUTH China’s Representative at Wash ington Is Delegated the Task of Getting News of Conger. A Washington special says: The Pekin mystery has not yet been cleared up. No word of an authentic character has come from the Chinese capital in weeks. The fate of the Americans there is unknown. The reports and rumors from China are untrustworthy and conflicting. It is idle to speculate on the course of events in the Chinese city until some thing definite is heard from the for eigners direct. Observation has shown that Chinese news is wholly unrelia ble and exaggerated. This state of affairs is a source of annoyance to the American people and the officials of the United States and the time is rap idly approaching when tho uncertain conditions will become intolerable. Nothing from the great empire is cer tain except the uncertainty of news. Shanghai is the breeding spot of the countless rumors and tales from China. It is from that place that come the reports of the massacre cf foreigners in Pekin and of the great Boxer out rages. The reports are conflicting to the point of absurdity. The alleged massacre is Said to have occurred on June 30tb. Then came reports that Hie l e 8 ft ti° n8 were safe as late as July 4th. AH foreigners have been reported ® eat * ana then came the report that the German m,n * 8 ^ er wa9 only victim, The Chinese government has permitted no uews of Hie ministers to escape the censor. In view of this state of affairs H w ell for the public to wait for more tore a '^jilflHKAdvices l||^BBhemselves from to be Pekin alarmed be e of murder and jlffMDf A ‘l , ma Y b® * rue hut the chanfKSp » «>«* are not. a test op minister wu. After waiting an in^ifeftablv lone ascertain officially -■* » wlrctlY—Xer f to Conger and other Americans at the le gation in Pekin are still alive. The Chinese minuter. Mr. Wn, baa undertaken to get through a cipher message from Secretary Hay to United States Minister Conger, at Pekin, and ‘Oliver hack the reply of Minister Conger, if he be alive. Mr. Wu has forward*! the cipher dispatch, to gether with an extended explanatory message of his own, and the results. are now being . . eagerly , awaited, . , , both by Secretary Hay and the Chinese minister, although it is appre^gted that some days must elapse Ibefore runI1 ® rs CP ' n carryout this plan of opening up communication between ‘ne American government at W ashing *°. u aut * *“6 American minister at Pe ®in. It was soon after Minister . Wu pre- ; rented the text of the edict issued1 by the Chinese imperial government that requested him to get through a message to Minister Conger. Since Chinese government bad succeed- 6(1 in getting through its own comma nioation from Bekin, Mr. Hay felt that ^ was Quite reasonable that like com munition be opened between our minister and the government here, Mr - Wu readily assented to the sition - Mr - Hay thereupon wrote the mes8a f?« ^ ^ it translated into the official cipher of the state department, The contents were not made^ya^n to^Minister gible cipher Wu, form but in its entrt^^S it was to him to be placed in the hands of Min ister Conger at the earliest possible momeQ t. Mr. Wu determined to act through the medium of an influential imperil official at S hanghai, who by reason of his e^^^Khina is better able than any issionW^^^ one to execute a m 1 ! VOL. x: NO. 29. SEYMOUR CABLES LONDON. - British Admiral Notifies His Gov ernment Hard Fighting U Under Way at Tien Tsin. The British admiralty in London re vived the following from Vice Admiral Seymour on Thursday: “Turn Tsin, Saturday, July 7.—The Chinese continue fighting, often shell ing the settlement. They are extend ing their lines along the Lu Tai An • anal to the northeest and are appear ing in greater force west of the city. “Yesterday we bombarded the city and immediate suburbs whioh stopped the Chinese gnn fire for some time. The French settlement and station are most subject to attack. Today there wns another bombardment. “Am steadily getting up more guus. Ten thousand troops are now here. Mora are required, but both the Rus sian and Japanese are expected.” EDUCATORS ELECT OFFICERS. Meeting of National Educational Society In Charleston Brought to a Close. The National Educational Society in session at Charleston chose their officers for the coming year as follows: President—J. M. Green, Trenton, New Jersey. First Vice President—C. T. Corson, of Ohio. Second Vice President—J. A. Fo shay, of California. Third Vice President—H. P. Archer, of South Carolina, Fourth Vice President—H.B. Brown of Indiana. Fifth Vice President—Francis W. Parker, of Illinois. Sixth Vice President—L. W. Buc holtz, of Florida. Seventh Vice President—W. H. Bartholomew, President—O.ff-'Cooper, of Kentucky. Eigth Vice of Texas. Vice'President—William Ninth M. Davidson, of Kansas. Tenth Vice President— B. B. Ful ton, of Mississippi. Prominent—Gertrude Elevqptb Vice Edmonds, of Massachusetts. Twelth Vice President—H.E.Kratz, of Iowa. Treasurer—L. C. Greenle, of Col orado. Mr. Irving Shepard, the secretary, holds over. The selection of the convention city for 1901 was left to the executive corn* mlttee. NEBRASKA FUSION TICKET. *r Popull.t* Secure tliu Gubernatorial Cau * t : i 11 speeia • , 8a v ;V _ e . ras , a - r mi «-££• ir ” Dr f “‘U ;S r P - “• ' Governor—William A ’ Pointer Boone LieutenantGovernor^. countv Ponulist A. Gilbert, York couuty, Silver Republican. Howard Hecretarv of Stato—H PoDulili V q n nhnd« county Attorney General—VBllis DmScrat D. Old ham Buffalo countv oKoountr *Xt S 7 * p 0 - Land - Commissioner—P. J. Carey, Saunders couuty, Populist, The three state central committees f 0 w hicli had been delegated electiMforted. th*#elec tiou of presidential the following and their action was adopted: Frank Ranson, J. T. Feller, W. A. Garrett, W. G. Swan, Peter Ebberson, Robert Oberselder, L. M. Weute and y H U gii C . 3j w"— UpJJANYflS SKEPTICAL. . §lo Imporfsmec i» Attached to Decree ; JEinanatlnsr From tho Chinese. Official circles in Berlin, Germany, attach little importance to tb« commn nication of the Chinese minister at Washington, dated June 29th. At best it is interpreted as an attempt to over the recent outrageous deeds, A number of statements made in it are declared to he notoriously false, such as for instance, the representations regarding Baron Von Ketteler’s death J and the Taku seizure, The main objection urged in Berlin is that nobody knows whose govern ment it is which the^atement repre seats—whether the gvoernment of the dowager empress and Kwang Hsu or that of Prince Tuan. The document bears date of June 29th, and nobody knows ‘what government, if any, has since succeeded,
