Show ALMOST BEYOND BELIEF An Awful Mission Slaughter of Men Women and Children by a 4 r Chinese General > < Priests Invited to His House and then Cruelly Slai nSix Marseilles Sisters and 200 Orphans from 3 to 16 Years of Age Butchered i by Yu Hsien Who Poinarded Them All Prelates Put in a Hut I and Cremated Alive I r Berlin Dec 3A special from China to the Yolks Zeltuns reports a fearful missiOn slaughter In the province of Shan SI The first victims the dispatch GUS < Of Catholic bishop and his I coadjutors and four European priests Franciscans Italian and French I 1rnclscas Ialan I The Governor invited them to his I house pretending to give them better protection but when they arrived their hands were tied Then the Governor himself polnardcd them all LITTLE ONES BUTCHERED Next the Governor went to the bishops bish-ops residence with a number of soldiers sol-diers and seized six Marseilles sisters He promised them money and distinguished distin-guished husbands j they would renounce re-nounce Christianity which offer they unanimously rejected Thereupon tho Governor polnardetl them and also a number of Chinese priests thirty Chinese Chi-nese sisters and 200 orphans from 3 to 16 years of age Mr and Mrs Atwater and their two little children Mr and 1frs C C Price and their son all of the American board Mr and Mrs Lagren of the Swedish and Miss Eldred an Englishwoman English-woman were also butchered TU HSIEN THE BUTCHER The story of these murders directly implicated 1 1 iisien tne uovernor OL Shan SI As announced In a previous dispatch of the Associated Press of Saturday last members ot LI Hung Changs staff say the Chinese Emperor will probably send Yu Hslen n silk cord which Is an Intimation that he must hang himself TOO HORRIBLE TO PRINT A number of reports have been published pub-lished of the June massacres In Shan SI some of the details being too horrible I horri-ble for publication Men women and children were butchered Fifteen semi I narists who had hidden themselves In n cistern were the dispatch says tied to stakes and forced to drink the blood of the first victims They were then killed A Chinese priest and two Christians who attempted to escape were caught and put In a small hut where they were burned I |