People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1894 — SHE TOOK POISON. [ARTICLE]

SHE TOOK POISON.

Reported Suicide of the Empress of China —The Cause. Shanghai, Oct. 31. —The young empress of China has committed suicide. She was rebuked by the emperor, who slapped her face, whereupon she took poison. The married life of the young emperor of China has not been a happy one. The outside world knows little of what goes on inside the sacredly-guarded imperial palade at ’Pekin, but enough has transpired to show that the emperor, who is hottempered and spirited, bitterly resented the manner in which his consort was thrust upon him against his inclinations by the imperious and self-willed empress dowager. The young empress, Yo-Ho-Na-La, found the five years of married life filled with discord and unhappiness until at last, after a violent scene with her angry spouse, she put an end to her earthly troubles by taking poison. It was in 1889 that the emperor married.