On Monday a ramour reached Hangchow that a foreigner had been done to death by robbers at Yahang. Later we heard that he was only seriously wounded, but not killed. On Tuesday Mr. Cloud, the American Vice-Consul, accompanied by Captain Murphy of the' Hangchow Sottlement police force, and Dr. Pao, native medical student, went to Yiihany, which is only " night's journey by boat west of Hangchow, to investigate.
The particulars seem to be as follows: The Rev. E. B. Kennedy, of Shanghai, had been spending some weeks itineraiiug the Yihang district and had recently had sever l boxes of books and tracts shipped to him there. The rumour was immediatedotiare in money in each box. Credence ly started that there was five thousand
toment from the fact Idiers had accompanied the transfer of these boxes up country. On Wednesday night, the 12th inst., after Mr. Kennedy had gone to bed his room way suddenly brokea into by twenty or thirty robbers armed with clubs—and knives, and perhaps a gun or two. They began at once pounding the foreigner, saying that he might ha be made away with before carrying off his In the midst of the melee one of assistants bravely came into the beseeching the robbers to desist from pounding and hacking the foreigner and to take such of his goods as they pleased, carried him out. The robbers made away with everything they could find, Not finding apy money they burned all the books and tracts and other foreign articles and contented themselves with carrying off the bedding and clothing.
For seven days Mr. Kennedy lay in a room adjoining the one in which he was attacked, most of the time unconscious or semi-conscious. His Chinese followers, knowing no one in Hangchow, hastened delay in going to hi rescue, "He was Shanghai with the news. Hence the
about nine em Dr. Main Padly took raught to ow to-day, arriving
the wounded man into his own hous where everything is being done for his comfort. A careful examination showed nine prominent cuts and slashes on his head and face. His right arm had been burned, evidently by the torches the robbers carried. His left arm was seriously bruised and gives him a good deal of pain. His escape with his life, to say
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