Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1901 — LOOKING FOR A MOTIVE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LOOKING FOR A MOTIVE.

Officials of the Japanese government are investigating the alleged plot that resulted in the assassination at Toklo llast week of Hoshl Toru, the states|man and former representative of the Japanese nation at Washington. His popularity among his countrymen adds mystery to the motive that should have rankled in the breast of an enemy

at home and gives rise to the theory that a conspiracy for his removal was carried into execution. His funeral was one of the saddest ever held among the "Yankees of the far east,” and his name will go down in history as one of the strong men of Japan.

HOSHI TORU.