Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1900 — EMPRESS A FUGITIVE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

EMPRESS A FUGITIVE.

Japanese Cavalry Chase the Fleeing Dowager an 1 Her Court. The Japanese cavalry on Monday left Pekin in pursuit of the dowager empress and her court, according to telegrams from the north received at Shanghai by Chinese officials. These dispatches aver that the empress and her treasure train, protected by 30,(XH) troops, arrived at Wuatisan, in Shansi province. The Chinese minister in London received a dispatch from Pekin saying that the empress dowager and the emperor left Pekin a few days before the allies arrived there. The field telegraph north of Yang-tsun is interrupted amL-rrotiriirgTiintcr Pekin date appears to have reached Yang-tsun since Aug. 17. Heavy rains have been falling in the province of Pechili. The landing of the British troops at Shanghai Is not causing excitement among the natives. A detachment of 100 French marines landed there Monday. A customs

cruiser is reported to have gone to Tientsin to take away the foreigners rescued from Pekin. Many influential Chinese have interested themselves in the fate of a Chinaman sentenced by an English court nt Hongkong to six months’ imprisompent at hard labor because he was a member of the Triad society. The Washington bureau of navigation Monday morning received the following cablegram from Admiral Remey: "Authentic report from Pekin Aug. 15 from Lieut. Lattimer. Troops moving on imperial city. Clearing out Tartar city. All Americans who remained in Pekin are well except one child. Capt. Myers recovered from wound, has typhoid, crisis passed and now convalescing. Assistant Surgeon Lippett was wounded upper left leg; Nine f-actured; leg saved; now recovering."

EMPRESS OF CHINA.