Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 February 1895 — Literary Notes. [ARTICLE]

Literary Notes.

At last it has been made known that the death of Emin Pasha was due solely to the pride of a petty African chieftain, who wished to show his more powerful neighbors that he was not afraid to take the life of a white man. The first detailed account of the murder of perhaps the most picturesque figure among explorers is written for the February Century by R. Dorsey Mohun, U. S. agent in the Congo Free State. Mr. Mohun’s sergeant, who was a member of Stanley’s Emin Relief Expedition, discovered two of the assassins. Mr. Mohun arrested them, and very ingeniously extracted a full confes- 1 - sion,. which he has given in their own graphic language. Both were hung just a year after they had cut off Emin’s head. President Faure was once a tanner.. He won’t be quite as thinskinned os Caslmir-Perier.