Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1892 — Men and Wives Separated. [ARTICLE]

Men and Wives Separated.

A letter from Cairo, 111., says: Considerable interest has been excited here and at Paducah, Ky., by tht efforts of two Chinamen to get back to this country. They are Charles Hong and Jim Prang, who went from here to Paducah to start a laundry, and a year ago married two Paducah white girls. A few months ago they went back to China, leaving their wives at home. Since their departure both wives have become mothers, and one with her child is living in Cairo. The husbands uow desire to return, but the Chinese exclusion law is a barrier. In order to help them over papers drawn up by an American consul in China have been received by the local Chinamen asking that the signatures of city officials and citizens of Paducah be obtained, certifying that Charles and Jim were dealers in tea and oriental fufley goods, and that they have married American girls in Paducah. These papers bore correct photographs of the two anxious Chinamen, but the officials cannot sign the tea merchant certificates for laundrymen.