The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 23, 1900, Page 2

1 THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, MONDAY, JULY 23, 1900. UZON WAR HAMPERS THE ADMINIS ; i TRATH@N : A SAN FRANCISCO BOY Chinese [linister in London Promises That the Brit= ish llinister at Peking ecre A tary Root Att@mptingj Withdraw Troops From Knowledge of Insurgents. Special Dispatch to The Call. beginning of vor ¢ Ti an garrison town ge a s constit this time the me known to Aguina t of not only pr but when ands are E the ymen are ig t ed weakening of the American f« 1 r regiments may be sent w ar returned to the season begins and e renewed. It is claimed lost in this seem- nobilizing of re e cence easier for General MacArthur to mobilize spare regime Manila tk it will be to provide conveyance them to Taku, or whatever China may need MARTIAL LAW IN WYOMING Many Chinese in Danger. Troops to Be Hurried to Rock SpringstoPro- tect Asiatics. 'y July have ordere f militia to t proceed to amp 20 mile rd of 500 ¢ and z m Rock west t a moment's notice ber of foreign several namen ndled during the probability orders » Rock 1 . w eve the ials. ATTORNEYS KEEPING THE EVIDENCE SECRET Refuse to Disclose Future Plans Prosecution of the Goebel Case. in oo coc e e 0e e them As matters now stand, there are but two transports in the islands—the Pennsylvania nd - the Westminster which cannot be spared for a trip to Taku, since their absence would leave the ar ports, and even riously ha ations the other transpc service tl should to-da rieenth in the P and the ring Taku ttery of of the H accompanic and the Port Albert the artillery. The affee and the Sixth approaching Taku, een received from lint- with the na 1 Infant and the me st ire he Fe Fifth Artillery Corps. The with supplies horses with General € v, is likewise ithough no report h her at Na pital Wryefield them carr asaki. The Sumner left & Francisco on July 18 for Nagasaki, which she ought to ake b August 5 From that point she will he diverted use in waters, prcbably plying between 1 Taku, The M le¢ will nd 500 ifteenth Infantry the Hancock batteries of the Third tioned at the Presidio Both transparts wiil ronne leaves Seat- with the First Cavairy the Sherman and Logan, which car- i the Ninth Infantry u, are now way back to Francisco. It he inteation to order the Logan back 1, but she missed her instructions <aki and sailed on Tuesday. s statement it is plain that no rable body of troops could be ut_once from the Philippines and ar Department feels that it is safer ntentions secret until the mo- n ean be taken. S: Howard and others in- incipals and ac yries wyers r the defense de to hether the defendant will be put on d in his own defense. Although d statem nt has heen made, ely un tood that neither avis, Comhs nor Whitaker, in jail' here. charged with being ssories, ‘will be allowed by their at- tor 1eys to testify in the Powe TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. MUSCATI case. NE, Ia.. July Huttig Sash One of the ware- Door Company soss, $80,000. ecretary Hay will nd to-morrow to »f his mother-in-law, July 28 add aragua ssed a com- the directors of the Pan-Ameri- . declining to participate. Mi, uly 22.—Joseph Mitch- a cigarmaker, was shot an Mitchel el q instantly Kili- Menominee policeman. a d resisted arrest. atural gas has been req in § township. An Ohio ofl rator has leased 5000 acres of land in the vicinity and will pipe the gas to St. Louls and interm e voints. A, B. C., July mber of 4 the fishermen will g0 to y or Tuesday under Gov- The Attornev General s ngements to provjde adequate pro- Chris E 1 was K —The Fraser River JOSEPH, Mo.. July o men were found to-day on the Maple Leaf right of way thirty miles north of here unds in the head in the same spot on each dicated murder. The lotal police are = bellef and they and the detectives out nothing. 22.—A laborer 22.—The bodies of July ved a pile of ties from the | cks that been placed the night just in time to prevent r train due here at 4:30 p. m. from oved a number of < club who were on the train. PITTSBUR July c. presiden the National nounces that five of the com be removed from s plants will Indiana to the Pittsburg dis- as proper sites can be secursd t over 300 workmen. The reasons given for the change are that the supply of natural gas in Indiana is diminishing and that the Ohlo River provides facilitles for reaching the southern markets —_——— Insist Upon New Scale. PITTSBURG, July 22.—The members of the Am cided to in trict amated Association have de- ist o A n the Republic Iron and Steel Comp signi; the scale for the new base 4 550 per ton for pud- dling. The American Tin Plate Workers have voted to give discretionary powers to their committee, and it is probable that the tin piate scale will soon be adjusted. | Over 15,000 men are interested. 2 OFFICLAL LIST OF : 0 Wo Y Copyright, para and the bod dees }® 80 000000 ELATER and PARTLAND and ¢ Company C—BARNEY ERT B. GORDOX Company D—JOHN PORTER any F—OSCAR OLSEN, JOHN D, R, ALEXANT HRERG ASPER WERTF) MES B. G—CLYDE B. JAMESON, PARTLOW. FREDERICK CHT. JOHN P. SMITH ROGERS. WOUNDED. Company A—Arnold Pernzsy, John J. Dimond, Martin Duniphy, George F. Mur- and John Seymour. rporals Myrtle Conrow. phy ant and Privates Arthur W. Robert Crawford, Henry Sta:- lings, Marry Van Leer, Patrick Cox, ank W. Southworth, William 8. Rowley rence C. McBride. Sergeants E. Omey, T. Per. Dory and Adelbert Walker, R. Burton and Peter A James avage, Musician Harfy K. Eilis and Pri- es Samuel F. Whipps, Richara W ebb, Calvin Matthews, John D. Closson. Ulysses Jumper, James J. O'Nell, Henry 3. Scharer and Robert H. von Schlick. WoOe SO0 O 9P OeO0eOees 8O UNDED AT TIENTSIN €00, by the Associated Press. e 60000 00000 KILLED mpany D—Sergeants George Balley and Edward Gorman, Corporals Sherman Jack- #on and Silas A. Christenberry and Pri- vate as L. Maloney, Joseph Munch, Newhall, Davis Kennedy, Carroll ee, Willlam Murpby and Joseph E—Privates Willlam Gilbert, hon and Patrick J. Murphy. —Corporals Frank M. Leon- ard and Gustav Barth and Privates Fran- cis J. Macgee, Frederick E. Shoecraft, Bd- ward Wright, Arthur Ables, Orin C. Wes- ton, David A. Murphy, David H. Ham- mond, Harry A. Norton, John P. Dimond 14 George F. Murphy. Company G—Corporals Dennis Morfarity, phen Oda and Thomas H. Curren and ates L. B. King, Philip Wubing and ker F. Coleman pany H—Westley Beckhart, Cor- Albert Juhl, Jacob Mengel, Gerhart Hockermann and George Hoar and Pri- vates Andrew Roden, Ross Westervelt, Irish, John McSweeney, Charies Raiph Richards and David Morris. MISSING. Company B—Private Myron C. Miller. PRSP AR Joseph MeM Following is a list of the casualties to the marines: KILLED. SERGEANT CHARLES J. KOLLOCK, CORPORAL THOMAS KELLEY and IVATES J. E. McCONKEY and ISAAC PATRIDGE. WOUNDED. Sergeants Frederick Winters and James Murphy, Corporals J, McDonald and_ Jo- seph W. Hunt and Privates A. 8. Chap- n. J. Cooney, Robert Desmond, F. T. glezen, . Kelleher, Laurin Larson, E. Mcivor, C. D. Miller, Calvin J. G Matthews, J. C. MecGonegal, A. B. Pen- Henry A, Relkers, John Stokes and ankorn. £ 0653 3-0-0000 2000 Mrs. | shermen came to an | . 0 60 9000000000006 0 0600600060660 0000 U.d o F ; B+ OO T IFDLOIOTDID 1 Ok Qo B3 O+ D1 OO $ NE bright San Francisco boy not | the taking of the Taku forts, but stirring tale McLellan of 112% Oak street, apprentice aboard the full bellef that he will be homeward bou In two letters received on Saturday son tells of his adventures in China, his account of international , events being American and refreshing. Under date of of the bombardment. now “We have been lying here three weeks to-day and are the first ship in here since last vear. Since been a number of men-of-war of differel there are forty-seven of them in a row of us ‘couldn’t do a thing’ to China. * TJake ; 3 b o + o o ° b [ He is Arthur McLellan, the son of Mrs. E. United States flagship Newark in the DESCRIBES TAKU FIGHT ;«m L7400 Dean Mother . - FIRST-CLASS APPRENTICE ARTHUR McLELLAN. only bore his part in has lived to tell the morning until7 render. serving as first-cla 5 minutes to 1 all the nd by October 1. by Mrs. McLellan her ingenuous and brief particularly young Taku, June 17} he tells young comrades, ark. “We They were shell bre over their head we arrived there have nt nations, until now and I tell you that all * * Last night we the shell, which was and knockeu two of STATE DE l | PA ASHINGTON, July 22.—Preai- dent McKinley has recelvel what purports to be a direct appeal from the Chinese imper- ial Government to use his good offices to extricate that Government from the position in which it has been placed as a result of the Boxer uprising. Al- though the exact text of the appeal made | by the Emperor of China to France, as | outlined in the cable dispatches of ye: | terday, believed gfat the dispatch to the nt is sit®ilar in terms. In our case the communication was made Minister Wu to the State Department. Thus far a final answer has not been re- turned. The French Government answer- | ed at once, but that answer will not serve The United States Government is us. proceeding upon an entirely new line of policy in the treatment of the case. Unfortunately the State Department finds itseif alone in this, but nevertheless it 1s convinced its plan is the best, and it has behind it the consoling assurance that at present all of the Buropean Governments re tacitly admitted that an error wa made in the beginning in' not following | the common sense advice of the United | States naval commander at Taku, Attitude of Europe. The point of difference between the State Department and the European Gov- | | ernments is_that the latter are proceed- ing on the belief that all of the foreign Ministers and missionaries and guards at Peking have been killed and insist in dealing with the Chinese Government ou that basis, thereby assuming a hostile at- titude that tends to destroy the last chance of availing of whatever friendly sentiment may yet exist among the pow- erful Chinese Viceroys and the imperidi | Government itself. Thus the French re- ply, as indicated in the four conditions | laid down by M. Delcasse yesterday, se's | an_impossibie task for the imperial Gov- ernment in its present straits and tends | to drive. it at once to make terms with | the Boxers and Prince Tuan's party. | _On the other hand our Government, advices from the Chinese Government as to the safety of the foreign Ministers, is ! willing to accept the statements tempor- arily, in the meantime remitting none of its efforts to get access to Mr. Conger, through the use of military force if need be. By following out this policy the State Department argues that it retains twe chances instead of one. It may reach Mr. | Conger with troops and also may secure his deliverance through the friendly of- | fices of some of the powerful Chinese of- | ficials, which the powers are not likely to | obtain for their own people by following out their present policy. it may be stated | aiso that the United States Government has not and does not intend to relinquish | any part of its clwm for compensation | and reparation in the ultimate settiement. | Its position in that respect, it holds, will | not be affected unfavorably by prosecut- | Ing its efforts to make use of the friendly | sentiments of the Chinese officials. Means Unnecessary Delay. A particularly deplorable eifect of the reasoning of the European governments | on this point, in the estimation of our | chances in the effort to get the interna- | tional relief column through to Pekins. It js true that the latest advices fromi Taku indicate that, whereas it was orig- inally estimated by the foreign command- ers that the expedition could not be start- ed before August 15, it is now regarded by Them as possible to make a beginning about the 1st of August. But the military experts here, who have been closely scan- ning all the reports from Tientsin that ap- pear to be worthy of credit, feel that even now the way is open to Peking and that the march should begin with the force at ! present on the Peiho, leaving the powers to bring up reinforcements to reopen the base, should the first expedition be cut off. According to the latest official reports, the country around Tientsin is clear of hostile Chinese. The flower of the Chi- nese army in that section has been de. feated at Tientsin, and these army ex perts calculate that its power is so broken that that particular army never can be reorganized in season to offer formidable ! resistance; so they agree that the time js i ripe for a stroke of bold generalship, such }llur instance, as French's ride to Kimber- ey, | Further proof of an official character of | the mistake made by foreign commanders !in the attack on the Taku forts is con- tained in a communication received at | the State Department from United ! States Consul = Fowler at Chefu. | He has transmitted an imperial edict | which was supplied to him by telegraph has not been made known here, | through | while not guaranteeing the truth of the | Government, is the abandonment of the idea that there is particular need for | | haste and for taking even desperate RTMENT DE Is Imperative. { Yuan Shi Kai, at Tsinan, the capital of | | the province. It was issued on July 17| | and relates to the present hostllities be- | tween China and the foreign powers. Protection for Foreigners. The dispatch containing the edivt came | to the State Department in such confused | phraseology that it is impossible to do | more than approximately state its sense, The edict appears to state in_ beginring that, owing to the trouble existing be- tween the Christians and the populace, and to the subsequent seizure of the Taku forts, which aroused the military to arms, the 'imperial court was laying great welght upon its international relations. | The Manchu generals, Viceroys and Gov- ernors are therefore ordered to ascertain | whether the merchants and missionaries of the various nations residing in the open ports are being protected, and the asser- tion is being made that prefects and mag- istrates have sent repeated edicts to pro- tect the legations. Orders also have been sent to the provincial authorities to pro- tect the missionaries. While hostilities have not yet ceased, the Chinese officials are directed to give protection to the mer- chants and others of the various nations ies and must not in accordance with tr fail to obey. The edict refers to the killing last month | of the Japanese Chancellor, Sugl Yama, | which it ¢ acterizes as startling. It says | that a short time thereafter the Gormn‘ Minister was murdered while residing in the capital conducting international af- | fairs. The edict expresses the deepest | | sympathy on account of his death, and | asserts that stringent instructions would | be issued to seize the murderer, who must | be caught and severely punished after the | termination of the Eresen[ hostilities, to- gether with those who have murdered for- | eigners and missionaries or taken thelr | property without cause. The language of | the edict as given by Mr. Fowler on this subject is very much involved, but it ap- pears to exempt from punishment those who have killed foreigners ‘‘connected with the war.” Punishment for Rioters. The Governor of Peking and the Viceroy of Chi Li are‘charged to issue instructions | to investigate and then to deal intelligent- ly with each case of wrongdoing. The edict states that recently evll-doers cre- ated riots, deliberately rebelled and mur- dered good subjects—certainly. it says, a deplorable state of affairs. All Vicero Governors and high military authorities are ordered to ubtain accurate detalls, pre- | sumably of the outrages committed by Chinese, and to make such selzures and to tike such actlon as the cases warrant in | order to stop the disturbances. | The administration is determined to keep aloof from any movement that would un- | recessarily entangle the Government of the United States in Chinese affairs. TIt, of course, must join heartily with the | other powers in the effort to get to Pe- king. but it does not follow from that co- operation that it will be led into taking | part in the bickerings or dissensions that | ensue over the future of China after our | people have been taken care of. It is the intention of the administration | to withdraw cur forces, military and naval, after the Americans in Peking have been relieved and wash its hands of Chi- nese affairs, looking only to the preserva- tion of such privileges as it has a right to retain for Americans. A brief cablegram was received by Sec- retary Long to-day from Rear Admiral | Kempff at Taku. He announced that the | Newark was going over to Nagasaki to be | docked and cleaned. Although he did not | say so, it is assumed that he is going with her, as she is_his flagship. Five hundred United State | started from this city to-da. China. They were placed unasgeclnl train bound for San Francisco, whence they will cross the Pacific in an army trans- port. This is the largest body of marines that has yvet been dispatched to the Orient, and the departure was made conspicuous by the presence of General Heywood, the commandant of marines, and the full ma- rine band. Major Dickens commands the detachment. marines direct for — - | PRESIDENT BELIEVES IN CONGER'S SAFETY Special Dispatch to The Call. CANTON, Ohio, July 22.—President Me- Kinley has in his possession the dispatch from Emperor Kwang Su, but official ac-| tion has not yet been taken on it and its | contents cannot be learned. Following | | his hahit to make haste slowiy, the Presi- | | dent will give the message deep considera- | tion before replying to it. | The President has decided that there | | shall be no cessation in the efforts of the | | Government to carry out its policy of | | protecting Americans and looking after | the interests of American eitizons now in D +* [4] bombarded three China forts and it lasted from 1 o’clock in the 35 this morning before the Chinamen would sur- It was all their own fault that we ‘put them on the | bum, as we asked them to surrender and they said no. | Nevertheless, no one in England believes thing awful to see the pigtails flying in the afr. “They surrendered to the Russlans, and the poor Chinamen dtan't like to do it but it was In his second letter he describes the wounding of one of his John Welsh, also an apprentice on the New- e savs,'‘'was t ving in the injured two and wounded John. but he will have a scar forever BATING ITS REPLY TO THE CHINESE EMPEROR Administration Still Proceeding on the Theory That Foreign Lega- tions in Peking Are Safe, but That Their Early Relief | panies of the regiment were delayed by a | Riley | China. To that end the (roops now or- . by the Chinese Governor of Shantung,|dered to proceed to China will be trans- | troops have arrived off Hongkong. OO OO OO HCOID + O O3 O O+ OO LN OO OO0 & < B3 (é So at ships commenced firing and it was some- compulsory."" he last one of four men wounded. surrender, when a an arsenal near by. It killed hit on the jaw by a plece of It went through his cheek It did not hurt him at all, He w very s m: his teeth out. ported as hurriedly as possible and or- ders to the American military and navy commanders in the East will be allowed to stand. | There are only two contingencies that | can change this stand of the President. The one is direct and reassuring news that the Americans have not suffered in China; the other that the Americans have been butchered. In the event of good news there will be less disposition to push forward additional forces. Should the worst reports be officially confirmed, then every resource of the Government will be taxed to secure proper reparation from the Chinese vernment. The Government will use every effort to prevent actual war | between China and the United States and | will also continue to offer its good offices to prevent international complications and to_preserve the integrity of the empire. Not only is the President looking direct- ¢ after the situation in China, but he is also watching the trend of affairs throughout the world, especially as they affect the European powers directly con- cerned in the march on Peking, Informa- tion has been sought by Mr. McKinley from attaches and former attaches to these powers, as well as to Oriental countries, | and the mass of details in possession of the President, it is said, is astonishing. Embassador Tower of St. Petersburg is likely to be in Canton in a day or two. He comes here with valuable information as to the Czar’'s position in the Far East. It can be stated on authority that the President still feels the United States is a favored nation in the fight of the Chi- nese officials and he has not yet aban- doned the hope that Minister Conger and other Americans in Peking will be res- cued, if not by the allied forces, by the unaided efforts of the United States, first through appeals to the Chinese Govern- ment and second by hurrying American troops forward to assist the Chinese in quelling the rebellion, if such rebellion is not authorized by the empire. i = MOVEMENTS OF TROOPS ORDERED TO THE ORIENT NEW YORK, July 22.—Two companies | of the Eighth United States Infantry | moved off the transport McClellan this | morning and started for Fort Snelling, | Minnesota. Other members of the regl- ment are en route from Cuba, and after | the recruiting of the organization to its | full number it will be sent to China. The men have been in Cuba eighteen months, but they looked to be in fine condition. | About 2500 persons were at the docks to meet the soldiers, and the Young Men's Christian Assoclation provided coffee and other refreshments. The other eight com- | | | | storm off Cape Hatteras. FORT RILEY, Kans., July 22.—Rush or- ders have come' for the Seventh United States Battery of Heavy Artillery at Fort | to proceed with all haste to the Orient, ~calling for orders at Nagasaki. General Merriam promulgated the order in Denver. The battery was organized dur- | ing the Spanish war and since that time | has been idle. The equipment embraces | the heaviest caliber guns in the service, with a full complement of mortars, the battery being composed of 250 men and ten officers. DOUBTS NOT THAT ALL FOREIGNERS WERE KILLED| CHICAGO, July 22.—John P. Roberts of | Shanghal, a civil engineer, who has spent | thirty-eight vears in China and who left Shanghal last May, passed through Chi- | cago to-day on his way home to New York. Knowing the Chinese as T do.” said Mr. Roberts, “I have little doubt that all the foreigners in Peking were murdered long ago. The Government power is weak and the mob undoubtedly. got the upper hand. 1 know too much of what Chinese mobs have done in the past to doubt that they murdered the foreigners. “An army of 40,000 regular troops is all that is necessary to take ¥Weking." he > Hied. "The Hiorion 1o 1he cifect that the | Chinese have an army of %000 men are rid’culous. There are not more than 2,000 drl.'ed troops in China. The Test are poor,: organized and poorly armed. It they had modern arms they would not know: how to use them. and they do not constitute an cifective fighting force.” b ‘Warship Reaches Hongkong. HONGKONG, July 22.—The Second_ In dizn Brigade has been ordered to remain here. The British first-class bat: &oath and the Tndlan (ransporte ol | like a backward movement, but it is real- | had to take a fling at the missionaries—. | bie in China would have been stopped loni | | | know. God knows, and I see God in the ! Christianity will come out of th: ‘ backward movement will Will Be Heard From. ONDON, July 2. 4 a. m.—Sir Chih Chen Loh Feng, the Chinese Minis- ter in London, took the unusual step yesterday of paying a Sunday call at the Foreign Office. As Lord Salisbury was absent the visit was without. special result, but its importance may be gathered from an interview with the sec- retary of tbe Chinese legation, Sir Halli- day McCartney, in which the legation of- ficials seem to have assumed at last some- thing like personal responsibility. Sir Halliday admitted that cnmmunlca-l tion had been practically reopened with | Peking and that messages from Sir Ciaude Macdonald, the British Minister, and the other foreign Envoys might be expected almost immediately. He said that he hoped the trouble would scon be over, since the Chinese Government was doing its utmost to overcome the difficulties and to control the lawless element. In his cpinion the Americans had taken the most common sense view of the situation, and he insisted that China ought not to be misjudged. Against the suspicion that Li Hung Chang had any but a sincere pacific object in view he protested warmly, de- claring that all stories about the perfidy and treachery of Earl Li were “abso- lutely baseless.” ‘With regard to the prospects in the southern provinces the secretary admit- fed that there might be small outbreaks, but he said there would be nothing seri- ous and that Europeans would be quite safe in the treaty ports. The long silence he explained as ‘“'due probably to the rebels, who have cut the wires and blocked the soldiers.” Finds No Belief. Thus, according to the secretary of the Chinese legation, a few days more should bring a solution of the great mystery. that the alleged dispatches and edicts are anything but subterfuges to hide the real situation as long as possible and to avert retribution by sowing discord among the owers. P Necording to the Chefu correspondent of the Daily Malil the fall of Tientsin has so disheartened the Chinese that they are eeking terms of peace He says that several attempts have been made to send messages to Peking, but so far without any known results, and adds that rumors are again_current that the Russians are reaching Peking from the north. It is fmpossible to confirm or deny these state- ments, but either one might explain China’s efforts to gain time. Li Hung Chang's seems to be a complete failure. the Chinese customs officials, no one has visited him. Sheng, the Taotai Magistrate), gave the Consuls a e invitation to meet him at luncheon, all declined. The Shanghal correspondent of the Daily. Express pretends to have authority for the ertion that Great Britain will visit to Shanghat Except repudiate any credentials Li Hung Chang may bring from the Empress Dowager, and he adds: “Russia, however, is willing to make terms with Li Hung Chang, whose real mission is_to sow dissension among the powers. The British, German and Amer- ican representatives were resolute against recelving him.” Chinese Frightened. The . Shanghai correspondent of the Daily Mail declares that the Chinese of- ficials are thorcughly frightened by the fall of Tientsin and desire to open ne- gotiations. ““Therefore.” he continues, “although all are aware of the horrible Peking mas- sacres, every official, down to the hum- blest retainer, has been sworn to secrecy upon the penalty of wholesale executions should the details leak out. They hope, if the powers once begin negotiations, to stop the military operations and that mat- ters might cool down." There is_the usual crop of Shanghat rumors at hand this morning. One is that Prince Tuan has been abducted and that the Empress Dowager is again supreme. Another is that the notorious Kang Yi, president of-the Board of War, has been appointed Viceroy of Canton. The Tientsin correspondent of the Daily News says the allies have issued a proc- lamation announcing that they are not fighting China but only the rebels who have been guilty of attack upon the for- eigners. The decision to keep the Indian dtviston at Hongkong is supposed to be due to the disquieting proceedings of the “Black Flags" at Canton. It is reported that the Bogue forts are being rearmed by the Chinese with quick-firlng Krupps and large stores of ammunition and that the Chinese are mounting guns and laying torpedoes at various advantageous points between Woo Sung and Wu Chang. The foreigners and Japanese traders have evacuated Niuchwang. where the roads are now guarded by Japanese marines. All foreign women and children have been advised to leave the forts on the Yangtse Kiang. Slight skirmishes are Manchuria between Chinese. reported from the Russians and SEES GOOD I THE UPRISIG N FAR CHIN Rev. John Hemphill Finds in It a Repetition of World History. Says Blame for the Fearful Bloodshe: Must Rest Upon the Diplomats and Not Upon the Missionaries. ST The Rev. John Hemphill, D. D., pastor of Calvary Presbyterlan Church, ad- dressed a large congregation yesterday morning on the Chinese question, his ser- mon being mainly a defense of the mis- sionaries, who have by some been blamed for the present Boxer uprising. The topie | announced was, “The Backward and For- | ward Movements of History, With Special Reference to the Present Uprising in Chi- na,” and the text, from Numbers, Xiv:25, Fo-morrow turn you and get you into the | wilderness by the way of the Red Sea.” “The Israelites,” said Dr. Hemphill, “did | not reach the promised land in a straight | line, as the crow flies. They went for- ward, they stood still, they went around and sometimes they went back. Here they | are at last on the borders of the promised | land, and God’'s command to them is to get back to the point from which they | arted. It was a wise command. A long bondage had made them cowards as well as slaves. They needed the discipline of the wildernes to make them brave | enough to cope with the glants who pos- | sessed the land. They had the taint of Egyptian ldolatry upon them and needed to be brought back to the simple mono- theistic religion of their fathers. So the backward movement was a forward move- ment after all. The marchings and counter-marchings of the Israelites in the wilderness are typical of all the history of our race. There have been forward and | backward movements all through it. We have not reached our present high state of civilization in a straight line. The light has not increased continuously unto the | perfect day. It has been light and dark- ness and light again; progress like that of the incoming tide, progress with fre- Qquent relapses, but progress on the whole. | “The present uprising in China seems ly a forward movement. The wheels of | providence never go back. The prophet | Isaiah warned the people of his day not | to call good evil and evil good. I have no | match race against desire to do so. Perhaps I feel the dread- ful things which have come to pass in | China as keenly as any of you. Shall we | call it a great calamity to civilization and | the cause of Christian missions? To short- | sighted and timid reason it does seem like a work of destruction, and that only; but | to the eye of faith it is a work of de- | struction coming before a noble work of | construction. The hovels of Oriental pa- | ganism must be torn down, that in their | lace may gleam forth the ‘temple of our | od. | “A few weeks ago the blame for the | Chinese uprising was laid at the door of | the missionaries. The Chinese Consul in | our own city, & most suave and highly cultivated gentleman, sald it was a c flict of religions. And even Lord Salis- bury, the Premier of Christian England, fling unworthy of Lord Salisbury and of | the great Christian nation he represents. Shafts of thl are breaking through the darkness and we are beginning see that | wherever the blame lies a very small modicum of it belongs to the missionaries, “Had Minister Conger and the other Ministers within the walls of Peking lis- tened to the warning voices of the mis- sionaries, instead of listening to thewsoft | words of mendacious mandarins, the trou- ago. The secular papers see with commendable candor age tl:ll‘flfigm:ls that it was not the missionaries who caused the trouble, but credulous Minis- | ters and greed of gain on the part of the | | European nations. “Our own nation stands | one power that wants no parc of Chin | Secretary Hay's letter to the powers is a | credit to himself and an honor to our country. We stand with Secretary Hay. We want no divided China. We want to see carnage stopped and China regener- ated. How this Is to be done I do not Chinese uprising. It is but another illustr. | of ‘progress o forward meverent int Y seemingly backward one; a condition of | conflict and disintegraticn, the prelude to a condition of unification ‘and victory. T | have an abiding faith that God stiil gov. erns his world, and that civilization and | with barbarism and paganism n::rl;nnm:s' erful and prosperous than before. I have | an abiding conviction that the seemingly before long prove to be only a part of a great devel opment—an evolution. of that divine wi dom which, overruling man’s Iniquitou purposes, delights to bring good out « seeming evil. We have no sympathy w the German Emperor’s cry for vengeance. ‘Vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord.’ We want no vengeance. We want blood-letting stopped. We want justice done. We want our missionaries and our citizens to feel as safe in China as in their own land. We want all the nations to ‘bring forth the royal diadem and crown him Lord of all BOERS ATTACK A POST NEAR HE!DELBERG Beaten Off by the Garrison After a Sharp Engagement Lasting Several Hours. LONDON, Juls The War Office received the following dispatch from Lor Roberts: “PRETORIA, July 22.—The Boers made a determined attack yesterday to destroy a post at the railhead, thirteen mil east of Heidelberg. which they attacked with three guns and a pompom and surrounded. “They were, however, beaten off after a sharp engagement before reinforcements, summoned from Heidelberg, had arrived i KRAMER THE WINNER. Captures the Five-Mile Professional Bicycle Race at Vailsburg. NEW YORK, July 22—There was a large attendance at the Vailsburg (N. J.) cycle track to-day. In the five-mile pro- fessional handicap J. P. Jacobson of New Haven, Conn., mgt with a serious acei- dent. His wheel Yipped and M. H. Col- lette of New Haven, who was so close behind that he could not turn out, ran directly over Jacobson's neck, injuring him so badly that he had to be carried off the field. F. G. McFarland of San Jose, who was down on the programme, paired with Orlando Stevens of Ottumwa, lowa, for a Jay Eaton of Vails- burg and Frank Kramer of East Orange, was unable to appear and Tom Cooper of Detroit took his place. Cooper and Stevens won the race from the Jersey men in two hea scoring 7T out of the 11 points in each heat. . Sum- maries: Team match race, three mile heats between Tom Cooper of Detroit and Orlando Stevens of Ottumwa, lIowa, and Jay Eaton of Vailsburg and Frank Kramer of Fast Orange, for points— Won by Cooper and Stevens in two heats. Five-mile professional handicap—Won by Frank Kramer (scratch); W. A. Rutz, New Haven (150 yards), second; Tom Cooper (scratch), third; Bob Walthour, Atlanta (0 yards), fourth. Time, 11:M4 4-5. B — Sons of Benjamin Picnic. 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