SUNDAY JOTTINGS.

Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 103, 29 October 1900, Page 5

SUNDAY JOTTINGS.

(Received October 29, 8.48 a.m.) LONDON, 28th October. Yu-hsien, Governor of Shan-si, has • committed suicide. Scindia, Maharajah of Gwalior, 1 one of the native Indian States, has been attached to the staff of Lieut. -General Sir Alfred Gaselee. M. Pichom, the French Minister at Pekin, Who was reported a few days ago to be seriously ill, is now convalescent. MURDERED MISSIONARIES. At the beginning of September Mr. Goodnow, the United States Consul-Geiie-ral at Shanghai, after making enquiries from every possible source, came to the conclusion that the number of British and American missionaries* who had probably been murdered during the rising was 93, , while 170 stationed in the provinces of Chi-li and Shan-si were still unaccounted fpr. There was, he feared, every .reason to believe v that the latter had met with the same fate. Of those whose deaths were absolutely proved 34 were British, including nine men, fifteen women, and ten children, and 22 wero ' Americans, eight of these being men, eight women, and six children. There was strong-evi-dence to siho-w that 37 more, were kiled at Tai-yuen-fu, as all the natives from that place told substantially the same story. The list -of missing comprised 109' British subjects (41 men, 49 women, and 19 children). The number of Catholic priests and sisters killed was not definitely known, but it was very large, while several Swedish and Danish Protestants were also., among the tfnirdered.