Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1901 — WILL IGNORE EMPRESS. [ARTICLE]

WILL IGNORE EMPRESS.

Chinese Plenipotentiaries Will Not Heed Latest Elict. Prince Chiug and Li-Hung-Chang have been presented with the identical agreements of the powers arranging the preliminary peace terms, and havi* both declared their intention of signing them even if it costs them their heads. They received a deem* peremptorily directing them not to sign the preliminary note nnless the demands for the razing of the Taku forts, the estiildishmeut of .permanent foreign military posts between I’ekin and the sen. nnd of legation guards at I’ekin, and for the prohibition of arms in Chinn are stricken out. After a conference, nt which they went over the whole situation, they determined, in spite of the order of the Dowager Empress, to sign the note. Disobedience of a dt*erce of this nature is always punishable by death. Prince Ching and Li-Hung-Chang telegraphed to the Dowager Empress repeating their nrguiU4*nts in favor of signing the note, nnd pointing <*ut the impossibility of Chinn making nny resistanc4* to the demands. They ad<k*d tjiat they had received the first edict directing the acceptance of the terms, nnd ordering them to sign th<* note. They hail communicated this to the powers, which In lfse|f coustitutvii an acceptance which it wns now impossible to revoke. Chicago’s public library has 200,000 vohimes and sixty substations.