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Oar Gofernment Awaits Result. Special Commissioner Ap pointed to Visit Cnina and Ascertain the Situation. Wasbingtoo, July 19.?Io the absence of direct news from China this morning attention was directed mainly SO tbe more or lees speculative stories emanating from Earopeao capitale in dicative of discord among the powers. It ?9 realized that these little bulletins of mutual suspicion always character ise allied movements and so are to be expected ia the present case. It can be stated that, so far as official record discloses, there is absolutely do ground for them. Oar government having folly defined its intentions in Secretary Hay's note of July 3, the other govern ments interested io the Chinese situa tion have eotered into the spirit of tbat declaration of priaoiple with perfect accord it is, of coarse, possible that some of the powers are swayed by mo tives that do oot appear in their formal declarations. Tbe state department, however, cannot go behind their formal expression and cao now only await re solte. There is not tbe slightest dis position on the part of our government to follow the example of certain Euro pean powers and restrict io any meas ure tbe liberty of the Chinese minister here, Mr. Wu, in communicating with the Chieesa viceroys and whatever re mains of the titular Chinese govern ment. The department doss sot credit the-stories that any of the Chinese ministers in Europe have been given their passports. Minister Wu and Mr Woilant, the Kassian charge, again called on Secre tary Hay this morning, but neither bad sews from China TO. INVESTIGATE THE SITUA TION. W. W. Bockhill, direotor of the bu reau of American republics, bas been appointed special commissioner from this country to go to China aod investi gate aod report upon the situation. For some reason, tbe officials did not eare to have it known that Mr. Rook hill had been selected for this respon sible duty. With io a week be will hava a final conference with the presi dent and Secretary Hay aod will leave fer China. INSTRUCTIONS TO CHAFFEE. At today's cabinet meeting tbe qaes tienfof instraotioos to Gen. Chacee was gone over at considerable length aod a cablegram was drafted which will be forwarded to rea o h him on bis arrival at Nagasaki. These iostrocuoas are of a diplomatic as well as a military na ture aod indicate the lice-of policy to be pursued by the commander of the United States forces in China The exact mature of the instructions was not disclosed, but it cao be stated on good authority tbat they follow the same line of policy that already bas been outlined io statemeots from tbe state depart ment, i SAID TO BE SAFE AND SOUND. Paris, July 19 ?Ao official telegram df Shanghai dated Wednesday, July 28tb, states ihat, according to tbe governor of Shan Tung, tbe foreign ministers aod their .families a?* Pekin are safe aod e a a, but tbat the danger is still very great Tbe viceroy, according to this dispatch, i o for oo ed toe coosuUr corps that he had telegraphed to Pekin urging the protection of tbe foreign legatioo CHINA AT WAR WITH THE WORLD London, July 19 ?Tiie action of Count von Buelow. the Gorman minis ter of foreign affaire, in informing the Chites^ iegatioD at Bert-a that ail tele graphic merecges mus; bs in plain language aod eabaaitted for approval by the censor, aod the suggestion of M. Deleave, tbe French mioiscer of foreign affairs, tbat exportations from China be prohibited, wbich are generally regard ed bere a* long steps in tno righe direction of treating China as a state engaged io war. bave been supplement ed today by tbe officiai announcement from St. Petersburg that certain por tion* of the Amar territory, including partei of Khabarovsk district and (be coaer territory as well as the 'owns of Biagovestcbeosb. Khabarovsk aod Nikolsku-suri. bave been declared in a state of war *ioce Joly 17 Kassia'e aooouncetnent is regarded in Lindem as at least foreshadowing a speedy a accodi trouai recognition of the ; f fact tbat a condition of war exists j . between Cbioa aod the civilized world, j ( aod tbe general opioion seems to favor j , such recogoition as the bes: means of meeting tbe barbarian upheaval while at the (?atee tine endeavoring to isolate the icdepeodeot viceroys from the general conflict. MORE THAN THREE THOU 8 AND. A dispatch from Shanghai received here today reports tbat tbe losses of the Chinese io the fighting at Tien Tsin was upwards of 3,000. It is understood that Lieut Geo Sir Francis Grenfell will have command of the British forces ia China. HORRORS OF THE MASSACRE. The Shanghai correspondent of the Daily Express says : "A Chinese merchant who has just arrived from j Pekin gives horrible details of the j massacre. He says be saw European ! women hauled into the street by > shrieking Boxers who stripped them and hacked them to pieces Their dissevered limbs were tossed to the crowd and carried off with bowls of triumph Some were already dead having been shot by foreign civilians " He says he saw Chineso soldiers carrying the bodies of white children aloft on their epears, while their com panions shot at the bodies He gives other details too horrible to be particularized here. Conflicting Stories Continue; Coming. London, July 20, 4 a. m.?"The Washington idea of sending Mr Rockhill to China is an excellent one, and might advantageously be imitated by the British and other govern ments," says Tbe Standard editorial ly this morning The Cabinet council convened by Lord Salisbury, it is expected, will be followed by a statement in parlia ment throwing light upon tbe situa tion. Tbe Chinese assertions that the members of the foreign legations ara el?l safe have been ec often re peated that they are again beginning to raise hopes in some quarters According to tbe Daily Telegraph's St Petersburg correspondent, how ever, the Russian government is al ready in possession of definite news that all the foreigners in Pekin were maseacred on July 6. Very little further news is availa ble ?hi3 morniug The Yokohama correspondent of the Daily Mail who repeats hi?? statements regarding the . , jealousy felt among the allies on the I - subject of a Japanese commacder in- !1 chief, adds : "The Japanese corres- | j pondeuts charge the Russian soldiers with appalling barbarity toward the Chinese They declare that the Pei Ho 13 fall of the corpses of women and children and that the Russians loaded 300 bodies on a junk and burned them '* Shanghai reports that three mis sion stations on Po Yank Lake have been destroyed, but it is believed that the missionaries escaped All tbe missionaries at A She Ho, Kerin ind Kuan Cheng Tzu, in Chinese Manchuria, have arrived in safety at Vladivostock It is rumored that Yu Lu, the miss ng viceroy of tbe province of Chili, )ae committed suicide. It was stated that when the allies entered the native city of Tien Tsin bey found tbe Chinese dead piled ligh, and it was feared that this voold result in an outbreak of pesti enee. Sixteen of tbe captured guns \re quite modern weapons. The Times understands that the ?hief representatives of the Moham nedan clergy in Constantinople have seued a strong protest based upon Coran, against palace sympathy with he Chinese massacres. According to the Canton corres tondeut of the Daily Telegraph six /b?nese soldiers have been beheaded or assaulting an American medical liesionarv. Hie Life Was Sarc d. Mr. J. E? Lilly, a prominent citizen of Han ibal, Mo., lately bad a wonderful deliverance rom a frightful death. In telling of it he Say?: I wa? taken with tjphoid fever that ran into Qeuoionia- My lungs became hardened. I ras weak I couldn't even fit up in bed iothing helped ?? I expected soon to die of 'onsumption, when I heard of Dr. King's New >iscovery. One bottle gave great relief. 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In such a matter each ndividua! is governed by his own new3 as to the relative importance >f the issue The Democratic piat omi declar<?s tbe questiou of imperi iliem to be paramount issue If any opponents of imperialism refuse to support tbe Democratic ticket be cause of the eiker plank it must be I 8 because he considers the money j 1 question more important than the ! * Philippine qnestion ; that is, he pre- j * fers a gold standard to a bimetallic j 3 republic. When the test comes, I if believe that those who adhere to the 1 doctrine that governments derive 1 their just powers not from superior j 8 forces but from the consent of the I 1 governed, will support our ticket j 1 even though they do not endorse the '( B?iver plank A large majority of the Democrats believe that a restora tion of bimetallism would prove a j \ blessing, but the anti imperialists s who dispute this will admit that any f evils that might arise from bimetal < liem could be corrected moro easily than the evils which wouid follow ] from the deliberate endorsement of < militarism and imperialism v i < Dispatch Received From Minister Conger. HE WAS STILL ALIVE ON LAST WEDNESDAY. Washington, July 20 ?Like a flash of sunlight out of the dark sky came the intelligence at an early hour today that United States Minis ter Conger had sent a cipher cable dispatch from Pekin to the state de partment at Washington, making known that two days ago he was alive and that the foreigners were fighting for their lives The message was received by the Chinese minis ter, Wu Ting Fang, at 8 30 a m. Within an hour the welcome intelli gence that Conger had been heard from, after weeks of silence and evil report, was flashed through the coun try and indeed throughout the world, dispelling the gloom which had pre vailed everywhere and bringing to officials and to the public generally a eense of profound relief The dispatch was in reply to Sec retary Hay's cable inquiry to Min ister Conger on Jaly 11. and as both | messages were in the American 1 cipher code they were regarded by the officials as above the suspicion of baving been tampered with in the course of transmission through Chi nese channels Mr Wu promptly communicated :he dispatch to the statt* department, I ?vhere the translation was made from :he cipher figures and soon ail V?'ash j ngton was astir with the inielli j ^ence It was telegraphed by Sec | etary Hay to the president, who j esponded with a hearty expression )f gratification, and word of it was lent to the various cabinet officers They gathered in Secretary Hay's >ffice and au impromptu cabinet con ?ronce was held in the diplomatic ihamber, mainly for tbe purpose of ixchanging congratulations and of aking a survey of the situation to ee if it had been materially changed >y this important development. First of all, from tbe standpoint of he administration officially the most welcome feature of the message was te assurance that tbe American min ster himself was alive two days ago tat with this cheeriug news came he ominous statement of Minister longer that the besieged foreigners rere in tbe British legation under ontinued shot and shell from Chinese roope and that only quick relief ouid avert a general massacre, ifter tbe first flush of thankfulness ais graver feature of the message be an to impress itself upon cabinet fficials most deeply As one of sem remarked : "There are the oor creatures, penned up under fire f shot and shell appealing to us for elp 99 The consultation brought about no ronounced change of policy, for it ras felt ihat already every energy ad been bent toward meeting tbe ituation and that there was absolute f nothing more that couid be done ifter all, the cabinet officials felt, and o stated, that the message was an vidence of the friendliness and good r"th of the pro foreign element of ae Chinese and that wisdom dictated course which would continue to tilize this friendship. The govern lent accepted the message as authen ?C and Secretary Hay transmitted it ali our ambassadors and ministers broad with instructions to lay it before ae respective governments to which bey are accredited and to urge upon bem the necessity of cooperation for be immediate relief of the foreigners t Pekin ORDERS TO REM A Y A message was sent by Secretary long to Admiral Remey couveying bo intelligence of the desperate ituation in Pekin and instructing him "use and urge every possible en eavor for relief This message, iecsetary Long explained, meant for I Ldmiral Remey himself to "use" and | i> "urge" upon the commanding fficers of the other powers the nee f every endeavor for the relief of 'ekin Secretary Root senta similar otificatiou to Col Coolidge the senior Lmerican officer ashore at Tien Tein, ut without injunction This action 788 tbe result of the conference of ecretaries Hay, Long and Root. It ras realized that the land and naval orces of tbe United States now in I Jhina could not s?Dglehauded push! m to Pekio and the othor powers ac I ?ordingiy were appealed to, on the ? " lasis of Minister Conger's message to ! L ?ooperate for inetaut relict ! a Secretary Hay explained hi? rea- 1 ons for placing reliance in the au ' henticity of Minister Conger's die \ ? >atch by saying that it was a com pete reply in code to the code mes ;ag"? Rent to him and that its authen icity was vouched for by the tsueg i yaraen "Of course," said Secretary Hay, ; mailing. "I am not omniscient and I j nay be fooled, but I cannot see how ? c he authenticity of Minister Conger's ! ;able can be questioned " CONFIRMATORY M H^SAGES. Liter io the clay several messages ( tfcrt! received from United Crates Con-' ' ml Fowlor at Chefoo. ail Wrongly oon- : 1 irmatory of the oews that, tbe foreign- ' ;rs were alive The fact that the cablegram froai ; VI i o i s t e r Conger was giv?o scant ere i ' iecoe in London officia! c;roice bad no j 3amp6uing effect on the optimism of; I the administration officials. It was i pointed oat by one of the officials most ! interested that the weight of internal evidence in the dispatch was in favor i of its genuineness. Besids there were the several strongly oorroborative dis patches from Consul General Goodnow and Consul Fowler. The fact that Minister Conger mentiooed the bom bardment ef tbe British Isgatioo was considered good evideooe that tbe dis patob waa written subsequent to tbe 6th, as the bost information hero is that tbe bombardment of the legations did not begin prior to that date. It was said at the state department that it was not thought expedient to give out either the text or a paraphrase of the message sent by the state depart ment on July 11 to Minister Conger. MINISTER CONGER'S DISPATCH. Washington, July 20.?Tie state department this morning received tbe following cablegram from Minister Conger at Pekin : "In British legation. Under con tinned shot and shell from Chinese troops. Qaiek relief only oao prevent general massacre/' Tbe rues-age is not dated, bue it ie understood was sent frcm Pekin cn tbe 18.sK. WU'S PLAN WORKED WELL. Washington, July 20.?The follow ing statement was given cut today at the statement department : "On the 11th of this month the state department communicated a brief message asking tidin ss of Ministor Conger in the state department cods, j Minister Wc undertook to gc* this in"o ! ? Minister Conger's hacd.5, if he were j ?livc He has succeeded in doing this. I This morning the state department j 't?ceived a te legra si from Consul Gene- j a! Goodnow a: Shanghai, saying : 'The governor of Shan Tung imfortES ne that be has received today a cipher nessage from Conger of tbe 18:h " A few minutes iater Minister Wu appeared at tbe state department with a elegram from Tactai Sbeog, dated luly 20, which bad been reoeived by tfioistar Wq at 8 30 o'clock this morn ng, reading as follows : "Yoar telegram was forwarded and s requested I send reply from the sung liyamon as follows : 'Your tele gram of tbe 15th day of this moon 11th July) received The state de artmeot teiegram bas been banded to Jioister Conger. Herewith is Minis er Conger's reply to the state depart ment ' " Then follows Minister Conger's reply o tbe state department cipher, signed ?itb the word ' Conger" in English. IEPORTED SAFE AND SOUND. Brussels. July 20?The Belgien oosul at Sbaoghai sends the following ispateh under date of July 19 : 'Sbeog. tbe administrator of tele - rapbs. announces that tbe foreigners t Peki* were safe and sound July 19. "An imperial decree dated July 16 rdere ;be viceroy of Tien Teio to ppraise the damage caused by the roubles and orders tbe local militia to epress the rebellion." THEY HAVE NOT BEEN MASSACRED. Paris, July 20 ?The foreign office as received information from a Chi ese source in which, however, certain eliance may be placed, that the foreign ministers at Pekin bave not been mas acred. Accordiog to this information July 7 the ministers were attaoked nd the legations burned, but tbe areigoers succeeded in orossing tbe city r> Prince Cbing's palace, which was ben barricaded and the European? ?ere holding their own up to the time he news left, July 9. Since then othiog has been beard from Pekin. ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY MASSACRED. 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