Show S STRONGLY ANTI FOREIGN Crusade In ills it is SaId Is Making Marke Headway or lr of Nel New York York March special to the rota Washington Crl says Mail reports hl have reached the state department from China which show tit that at notwithstanding the pro protests tOtS tests ot of the diplomatic or corps the faung JI is II aPParentlY unable to stop atop the crusade whIch has ben benIn been In for or five months past Th Tb fitt first to foreign reiGn missIonary to lose hIs hll le life at the hands of the lie Boxers WO was the Rev Mr Brooks In an English Englishman man who wa a n nf 1 I I can mission at Shantung Mr r lef left the mIssion to spend the Christmas holde holidays wih with his sister tr who lived seine dl dIstance aa away While 8 PaS pass Ing through a loge on the way a to his hie lie he a attacked by about thirty len men with knives To es cp his assaIlants he entered a ter tern PIl pIe and pleaded for aId tram from the head hend of thi the village loe which thy they refused and he WI was eJ ejected t from the buildIng I He was as tel seized e by the Boxers Boxer lila his cloth Sag Ing remove removed and wih with the thermometer abut about fifteen degrees 1 OOt above zero h he WI was led ed to another village ng hl his guards WHO were eating theIr noonday meal Mr Ir Brooks managed to escape but ut pursued three horsemen who over or overtook ewald tok took hin him and out cut of off his head wih with t a The rhe governor of the province who has since been deposed sent n a cavalry tor torto force to rescue Mr Ir Brooks but he was deAd boot before It reached the scene of the out oU outrage rage The English minister at 1 made strong representations to tho government and the pew new goer gover governor nr nor of at has hns taken I SUt to apprehend antI and punish the men cul guilty ot of We the crime I It has Ioel keen reported that the flaxen arl are gathering recruits In the vicinity of tho city cilY of two families of the tho American Baptist mission are statIoned In the adjacent dIstricts there are 1 a number ot of Christians both bolh and CRt Catholics The rhe Boxers disturbance spread from Irom Shantung province to the province of oC The ore are profuse In their Promises to Provide protectIon to foreigners but they 1111 hL to do so At Al Alona outs ona point li Itt Shantung province the local was Informed of oC the vur pose of oC the Boxers to 0 attack a village where a number of oC Christians tan resided le lie gave gae Instructions to trl troops to pr pro proceed eed to the village lage but to lore move slowly The presence of the gunboat Wheel WheelIng Ing ol at Taku and the purpose ot of Ger Germany many to io send Il Its trolls troops to any part or of Shantung to provide protection to foreign mIssionaries In don danger er wi will the authorities believe result In ample pr pro protection teton to American In that provInce and nt at other points In Inthe inthe the empie empire received by the state depart department mont ment from Edwin I H Conger U 17 B 8 en enroy roy 0 at P show that subsequent to the l of the decree declarIng pU Chun heIr to the late emperor Tun Tung n a t decree cre was ma published directing the princes unit and presidents ot of the van vanous rl OiS ous barll boards and ministries to wear vear Cul full court dress draa and be wih with jade and wooded on two specific days for lor the tho purpose ot of paying Ing their re respects to Pu Chun hun I It Is said Hid that theo these sceptres are only carie carried upon the accession ot of A nel new emperor to the throne Fearful ot of the orret affect of the formal coronation of the Uie little by boy who has n selected to Oly occupy the throne this the empress dowager er and tho those e who sup support port liar her policIes have b been en anxious to tomake tomake make China Chinn understand that h has not been deposed but that lie he i hl hiss limn simply provided tlde hImself with nn an official heir In ease eue the l rein which he is bt suffering should prove fatal tatal The empress dow dowager g r hAS left leCt a for eC Should sh lie find public HII senti meat ment oppose opposed to Ua the deposition of J Kuang Jhu ln ehe can continue to 0 gay 0 era ern In his hll IRle siam hut but It If she hl thinks she eke sheI I is strong siron enough to resist public opinion Ion she ran can rule In the nm name ot of oln Itt Iu bun Chun The selection of the latter 8 as H Heir r to th the lAte into Emperor TUU Chib wll who die died years I aa ago I has aru aroused 1 1 a greal deal of hostIlIty I I Building Curon Cutters New ew York Marts sr 8 special to this Herld Herald from A and Downey Downer ship hip bulle bul Were of New ew York who ho t to ob ob tain tam a contract for tor buildIng on ens or two tO cruisers for or the naveil nal I not the contract for far building n a revenue cutter for tor the lales lakes authority o Chas Chu Shoemaker of the revenue cutter service Prepared lilaha for tor 1 a cuter cutter for tor the lakso which should Le be ns his t feet t In length teJ feat beam and have a displacement of 0 0 tons Townsend and Downey submit 11 n a bid low to receive at but not knowing the extent ot of the bidders plant It was defined ad adv re v for 1 a bOt board to mk make an In inspection which resulted In An adverse report Captain Shoemaker ma made madean nn an inspection ot of th the plant and h he h has OIl this rE report rt ot of the b board rr I It Itis II is under understood tM tt that ne new bIds will 11 he heInI InI invited 1 The hp cutter trill probably b be christened the MackInaw Proposals wi will b be invited shortly toe lop the construction of oC a revenue cutter for tor forthe the Patie Pacific oust ut The department Is h anxious to obtain authority to build two revenue renu cutters for tor Puerto As In soon A as the civil government super se the In the steps wi vili bt be taken to secure for tor the construction of 01 revenue cutters for lor that |