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Show kiili:i) nv sava(!i;s MISSIONARY PARTY MURDEKED IN AFRICAN FCIIE9TS. Natlvfa Had No Gr.rvanca With White Men, But Ch.cf Drcidrd to Nip Poaaiblllty of War In the Bud. MlnMer I .yon loin refuted to the alalo department from Monrovia, Liberia, under dale of November 4th t. thn iletnlla of Iho maai-arre In thn depiba of an African foreal of a whltn mlaalonnry ininn'd John O Tain, wllh all of IiIh followera, eighteen ln number. It appears that tho massacre tiwik plnre a fur hack aa Maich IS. liml, yet Ihla, the flrt detailed account, hai )u-t come to hand In an affidavit by Mra. Mary L. Allen, a white tnllonnry at Noil-nakriKi, Noil-nakriKi, Liberia. Him hna Hie atory fnmi aomn of the native l)oo trlbea-men, trlbea-men, who knew of Iho killing. Tain bad a liire minion ami farm, vol bciilo he ininiitalned n cnnald-ernble cnnald-ernble ech.Hil In the Jutmle and all.)-giuher all.)-giuher nineteen pmplc wei-n In the ml-elon when It was nirn undcd In ib i nltht by Ibe ! Tho flriit man ! who euHweied a kii'irk nt the door wn (.hot. The Interpreter next' waa shot, and aa Tate appeared and ; tried to protect llm body of the In. terpreler, he, too. waa hot and rut to piece,. Tim Ikhik Hicn killed all Iho remain-lug remain-lug ln"inte of the hoiinn cut off their liamlH. and placing the bloody member tn a rottln, acnt them bark' I to their people aa trohles. In e-plnnatlon e-plnnatlon of Uielr action the Duos ..aid: "Wo have no IIkIiI with tho white nu n. but If wn do not kill him now, bn will bring hla country to make war uKin in " .llnlior I. yon on thn strength of Ihla nflliluvlt, eomiiiunlralecl wllh the l.lberlan secretary or stain, with a view lo to-curing fuller Information and perhaps the punlnhment of the perpetrators of Ihn ninioscre. I . . j |