Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1900 — How a Japanese Hero Died. [ARTICLE]

How a Japanese Hero Died.

A lieutenant of engineers at Tien tsin, with three sappers, crept up in the dark and placed a charge of guncotton atthe huge gate. There Tvas to be an electric wire to fire the gun cotton, but it failed somehow: and, as daylight was dawning already, the four Japanese felt that tlieir maneuver was in danger of failing, so one of them fired the charge with a match, blowing himself to death aud glory and giving entry to the allied army. Easy-Going Mexican Business Men. Most of the business houses In Mexico are closed for an hour and a half In the middle of the day. What has become of the old-fashioned little boy who ate so aiucb that It made him poor to carry It?