Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1900 — CHINESE KILL THEMSELVES. [ARTICLE]

CHINESE KILL THEMSELVES.

At Approach of Allies Members of Imperial Household End Life. Dspatches confirm the report that, in addition to Hsu Tung, guardian of the heir Yu Li, Viceroy of Chi Li, and Wang Yi Yu. president of the Imperial Academy, with 200 members of the official families, committed suicide when the allies entered Pekin. Other dispatches say that before his departure Li-Hung-Chang, having been convinced by his interviews with Mr. Rockhill and Dr. Mumm Von Schwartzenstein that it would be useless to discuss any settlement excluding the punishment of the Empress Dowager and her chief adviseiß, sent a telegraphic memorial to the throne impeaching Prince Tuan, Prince Ching and Tsailau,Prince Tuan’s brother, ns well as Kang Yi, president of the Wu Board, and Chao Su Ciao, commissioner of the railway and mining bureau and president of the board of punishment.