NATIONAL FIRST BANK Ee = —— “$75,000.00 E. E. Reynolds, REAL ESTATE For sale in Athens, Sayre and Waverly. Ansar INSURANCE ELMER A. WILBER, Wholesaler of WINES, LIQUORS 2 BEERS AND ALES #09 Packer Avenue, SAYRE, PA. BOTH "PHONES, Drink a glass of Stegmaier’s STOCK LAGER You.are not drinking a col- | ored beer, but beer that 8 ite color from the best of high dried Carmelized Malt used in brewing it equal of any import- in BODY, TASTE, QUALITY. Tryit NANCHANG (OUTRAGE Oruiser Cincinnati Ordered to Chinese Port. |OUR MISSION DESTROYED BY RIOTERS Six French aud Twe British Mission. aries Killed by Boxer Mob as MHe- suit of & Neligibus Dispute. American Gunboat Sails. WASHINGTON, Feb 27T.—As a re sult of cablegrums received at the state department from Usited States Consul Geueral Rodgers at Shanghbal announcing that Amecican wisslons-at Nanchang bad been attacked by Box- ers. fourteen missionaries forced to gee and six Freuch Jesuits and (wo wembers of the Klogham family, Eang- lish missionaries, killed, orders were given for the dispatch Immediately t9 Shanghal of the United States crulser Clucinnatl, sow at Cavite, iu the Phil. ippines This move Is regarded ag sig- wiflcant = Mr. Rodgers sent two cablegrams. In the Orst be sald that during the riots the American mission stations at Nanchang bad been destroyed and that the fourteen American missionaries there had escaped. The Klugham fain- ily, consistiug of two aduits and two children, were reported killed The Methodist mission at Nanchang is In charge of the Hev. Edward Jamies and MYs. James, who are from Wiscon- sin. With Rev. James is M. R. Charlies and Mrs. Charles, both phys) cians. Dr. Charles Is from Ada, O, anid his wife Is from San Francisco. lu addition to these are five women missionaries of the Methodist’ Wom- en's Forelgn Missionary society. They are Misses Gertrude Howe, Jennle V. Hughes, Alta Newbury, Kate I. Os borne aud Ida Kahu, M. D., sa young Chinese woman physician. According te a dispatch fromm Bishop Bashford, the American missionaries escaped on boats down the Yangtse kianug river to a place of safety several buudred miles below Nanchang, where they told the news of the attack aud thelr escape The Methodists had in Naanchaug a church, u Qlspeusary and living build ings for the wlissioparien. Mr Rodgers later cabled that the Nanchaug trouble originated in a dis pute between the French Jesuits and Chinese officials. A Chinese miagls- trate was at first reported to have been stabbed Ly a Catholic missionary, but it 1s now claimed that the magistrate stabbed himself. [ou the riot which oo curred six Jesuits and two members of the Kingham familly were killed Chine