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Show Boxers Still After Missionaries. The Chinese mutual protection society socie-ty of the Hoiping district has offered 8500 for the head of Dr. Sager of the American board of missions, and $300 each for the heads of Rev. S. G. Tope, a British missionary; Dr. Graves, a Southern Baptist missionary, and Dr. Beattie of the American Presbyterian board. The placards say the heads must not be secured in Hoiping. The magistrate of that district is notedly anti-foreign and inspired the posting of the placards. Protection has been guaranteed by placards for all who destroy de-stroy the property of the missions or of the' converts. i |