Show five chinese Be headed at foo chow an eye witness relates the death scenes THEIR HEADS WERE DISPLAYED having a great moral effect upon the common people san francisco jan 22 J 0 oswald of chicago who arrived on the steamer coptic from the orient was an eye witness of the execution of the five men who had been ringleaders ring leaders in the massacre of missionaries at ku chang the execution occurred at foo chow in alie presence of a vast number of chinese only twenty tour caucasians tho death scene at 9 the prisoners were brought on the ground in wooden cages said mr oswald each of them was conveyed to the tent where we viero sitting and to him was read the death warrant after his identity biad been established the mandarin that read the warrant stuck an arrow through it and pinned the paper to the back of the prisoners coat after this the doomed men were led to the ground where they v ere to die five patches of turf had been cut and in each indentation a man knelt when all was in readiness the court of mandarins accompanied bv tho british naval contingent and the foreign consular officials emerged from the tent and took up a position in front of the canvas then amid an impressive silence the crimes of the condemned men were recited to the crowd and the penalty was proclaimed two huna soldiers splendid examples of physical development acted as executioners execution ers they stood behind the five men each prisoner having his head on a block at a given word the executioners execution ers advanced not the least sign of fear was visible on the faces of the wretched chinese whose heads were so soon to fall the work of the executioners execution ers was very rapidly performed with one stroke of the ax the head was severed from the body and in just twenty three seconds the task was consummated the blood pulsed from the neck of one man for twelve and a half minutes after alie fatal blow had been dealt after the execution the crowds behind the soldiery pi ease J forward and threw millions of bits of biscuits into ut thia was ot superstition of tile country to the fleet that the departed spirits aro likely to grow hungry on their long journey unless properly supplied with food at alie start the heads of the five ringleaders ring leaders were placed in buckets which were cut so as to give a full view of their ghastly contents and the buckets were hung upon the foo chow bridge eliere they remained on exhibition for two days then they were taken to ku cheng the scene of alie massacre of the ten christian girls and were hung on trees where they are probably still hanging to remove ono of the heads means immediate death to the offender the action had a great moral effect on the chinese and I 1 think it will be a long time before will be murderous interference with the missionaries alie mission where the massacre occurred is still closed but it is said that it will be reopened in the spring more kinship talk naw york jan 23 the new york commander of the military order of foreign wars of th united states held a meeting in the brevoort Bie voort house last night after the business meeting a dinner was given hear admiral gherardi made the chief address of the evening he said the english are as stubborn aa we are and they are just as proud wo have inherited those traits from them I 1 can assure you that england will fight but the last people whom she wishes to ficht are ourselves none of these modern ships have ever been in a great fight and we do not know what the results will be but there is not any man who does not believe that old monroe was but whom are we going to fight for about as despicable and ungrateful a race ua ever lived these south americans do not like ua and ou cannot depend upon their word they do not have a republic there in the bense that we have they have no idea of anything but force of arms when I 1 was in chili during alie baltimore affair I 1 heard it eaid that the beet thing we over did was to put oar bands on chili they have no more use for ua than for a robber however this docs not affect the monroa doctrine we should say to venezuela that no one shall interfere with her not because we love ayr but because sho is on this side of the water in a war with england wo should overrun canada in acsa than six weeks but we have no ships to fight we could injure her commerce but wo could not bend a body of troops to if wo made alie attempt we would get them there about the time the adventists end of the world shall come today we have a few ships scarcely any battle chips cruisers are only meant to act as pickets when england sends out a battle chips it is accompanied by four cruisers we want battle ehica and until wo got them we shall not to fight 1 I do not think they would destroy new york but they might bottle us up it was shown during the late war that the forte cannot stop the ships england has laid down two rules first that her navy must be superior to that of any other pov cr and second that it buet not only be superior but superior to that of any other nation eliat might ally itself to any power at war with england edeland En eland has such a navy and I 1 wish to god wo had it then it would be all right england is spending hundreds of thousands of pounds annually on her coaling stations and fortifications at halilah and st lucia every point about aliese fortifications is closely no workman is permitted to know the extent of the work and tho different workmen are changed frequently BO that they may not be able to beetch a plan of the fortification modifying of indians washington jan 21 representative mondell of wyoming today introduced a bill providing for the appointment or a commission to treat with the shoshone arapahoe and bannock indians for the surrender of and modification of any rights they may have to hunt on the public domain the bill was drawn for the purpose of remedying differences crowing out of the opposition to their exercise of this privilege and is an echo of the settlers in the vicinity of jacksons hole wyo AND COLLIDE two trains come killing an engineer and fireman sedalia mo jan 22 A northbound north bound freight train crashed into a southbound south bound passenger train on the missouri kansas and texas this morning south of boon ville killing frank berry the fireman of the freight engine and badly wounding t vi engineers al mcdonald and Hestler Conductor harvey asmith of the bissenger pis train and karris of the freight train II etler and harris may die some passengers were hurt but none seriously hie fault beems to lie with the conductor of the freight train whose watch stopped without his knowledge and who supposed ho had plenty of time to run from pilot groove to boon villo against the passenger train LATER one postal clerk was injured sufficiently to require a physician six passengers were slightly injured A fireman was killed in the wreck one of the engineers got out of the wreck walked back and talked to the conductor but soon after fell dead |