all over the country-: ide. South, in the Pingyang district, the mob of Boxers and bad characters have been busy for some days burning and de-tr.ying chapels and houses of converts, pillaging their property, and using threats and personal violence to such unfortunates as fell into their hands, One of the native preachers whom they seized was murdered in a most brutal manner, and several others have been maltreated and seriously injured. On the N. side of the river, in the Yoching, Ninchi, and other districts, the sune scenes of violence and pillage have gone on, the local banditti having been invited by some of the influential men in these p come.
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