After several weeks' illness, the death took: place on the 26th instant. at the Alliance Mission of Rev. Isaac L. Hess, Chairman of the Christian and Missionary Alliance Mission, Wuchow, a native of Pennsylvania, and the funeral was held in the Mission grounds on the morrow, when large number of sympathizing friends attended, including the Commissioner of Customs, the heads of the Standard Oil Ca., A.P.C., and B.A.T. The British Navy was well represented by a party of 12 bluejackets, in the charge of C.P.O., and Lieut. May from H.M.S. Cicada. The. Mission School boys and girls, in trim and clean uniform, were in full attendance and sang very nicely at the hillside grave of their late chief which adjoins that of his first wife. The heat of the midday sun during the hour's service at the grave was terrific, and it is remarkable that nothing more tragic occurred than the collapse of one of the many bareheaded school girls.
Twenty-eight. years ago, Mr. Hess, when at the age of 40, gave up his farm work in Pennsylvania for the mission field in China. He was responsible for a lot of good. and hard work accomplished in Wuchow and its district, including the erection on thechill of the fine buildings now occupied by the Alliance Mission. For many years he had been Chairman of the Christian and Missionary Alliance Mission. Much sympathy is extended to his noble-spirited widow, who, incidentally, was one of the ladies who braved the terrible experience of the seige of the Legations in Peking.
Much rain has fallen during the past week and has swelled the river, which at noon to-day was 55-ft. and still rising.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.