Show chinese put a minister to death near ping yin seditious society killing christians ana and destroying native villages chinese cavalry arrives on scene too late to save missionary pekin jan 4 rev sir brooks of the church missionary society stationed at ping yin in the province 0 shan tung was captured in the vicinity and murdered december 3 by members of a seditious society called boxers who have been active lately destroying many villages and killing native christians the governor of the province had dispatched a force of cavalry to the scene of the disturbances but the soldiers arrived too late to save mr brooks |