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Show A CHINESE EXECUTION. . Party of Americans Witnesses, the Decapitation in the Market Place of a Batch of Condemned Pirates Sight Too Much for Western Nerves. (Special Correspondence.) Upon our arrival in Cheefoo the day before, we had called at' the American consulate and had been told that upon the following morning, which was now here, there would be executed in the public market place the .second batch of pirates, who, a little time before, had been taken prisoners in "flagrante delicto," and to whom but short shrift had been shown. ' These pirates were part of a band that had for several years infested the lower reaches of the Yellow river, doing a great deal of damage to merchant mer-chant vessels, and occasionally, In the absence of victims better worth their while, swooping down upon the towns and villages that lie along the banks' of that great stream. for the continuance of close relations between the head and shoulders of his excellency, the vicrroy of Shantung province, the result was an overwhelming over-whelming victory for the properly constituted con-stituted authorities. - With one exception, the condemned men seemed to be between" thirty and forty years of age. This exception was a lad of not more than seventeen, and. while his comrades were going to their fate with a stolid resignation, and even a sort of rude dignity, this boy had evidently worked himself up into a species of. hysteria, and was alternately alter-nately shouting, laughing and singing at the top of his voice. No one tried to silence him, nor seemed to pay the slightest attention to him, for it" was too patent that he was making a last tv" ifuifiik yv fcrriV Manaarin With Attendants. ........ ! frenzied effort to to to his death as a brave pirate sho id, and his dreadful dread-ful mirth did not cea e until the executioner ex-ecutioner stood before him. For the space of & breath there was a terrible pause, while the map and the boy looked into each other' eyes, then the signal was given, the jpapless creature was jerked to his k-'" ' "- head was Dulled forward, ord cut -viiy through 'another less body upon the As knees, another, I, pulls the head Jetch forward by jneck will be well pt an easy mark word, one stroke npletes the grim yld boy was the the assistant ) .At last, grown bold with long im- ( punity, they attacked a fleet of boats which, under convoy of a Chinese ship-of-the-line, was carrying supplies to Peking for the use of the great "Dragon" himself. Not only did those audacious sea rovers attack these boats, with their rich treasure of merchandise and food, bu p-tured p-tured ' them every or" wiping - - I I td to the gronud ihs of our little ind turning, we f out of the je dreadful spot times of freshly-pollut freshly-pollut the ( |
