Show TROUBLE CHINA aLi a-LI Huns Chang ha Informed the lega tions of the poisoning of Yu Ilslcn The reformers threaten that If the French attempt to seize Canton the Cantonese Can-tonese will lay the city In ruins IL Is I reported In St Petersburg that Emperor Nicholas will propose another conference with a view of settling the Chinese question The foreign envoys in Peking have hold further meetings and the French noto has been accepted In principle as tho basis of discussion The International column now returning from Pao Ting Puis burning the villages en route The armed population Is being punished and all arms destroyed A meeting of diplomatists was hold In Peking Sunday morning to consider the form of the negotiations for a settlement of Uio China dllUculltles The decision arrived at Is kept secret Sir Alfred Gascleo bus appointed an in ternational commission to inquire Into the murder of tho missionaries and all i way ofliclas at Pao Tine Fu whit a view of fixing the responsibility In pursuance of instruction from Field Marshal Count von Waldersce the British trozpt R will return from Pao rink Fu to liking and Tien Tslnrcacnlng des tinations about November Ctli A company of French troops sent for a clays march west of Poking to rid a dls tHct Unit was reported to ba infested with Boxers killed eight rebels took one prisoner pris-oner and captured a mitrailleuse It is rumored that the French are lire pared to send a thousand troops from balynon This report together with tho nrcacncu of numerous French warships has aroused suspicions among the Chi hose rosardln French designs The explosion that occurred In Canton Sunday morning destroying tour houses near the Governors yamen in which six persons wore killed IB likely to prove se rious to the reformers The oMlcials nc prulng to the advices arc convinced that tio destruction oC the yamene and the murderof the ofllclals was contemplated |