Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1907 — TZI-HSU IS TO QUIT. [ARTICLE]

TZI-HSU IS TO QUIT.

DOWAGER EMPRESS OF CHINA WILL ABDICATE. Calls Grand Council Meeting, at Which She Will Tranater Empire to Grandson—Miaaourl Woman Prevents Railroad Wreck. The Empress Dowager of China, according to dispatches from Shanghai, will hand over the throne to her grandson at the next Chinese new year. She has secretly -called a meeting of the Grand Council to put the change into effect by declaring that the hominal Emperor of the land shall in the future be the real ruler. The Dowager Empress, who is now 72 years old, has been supreme in Chinese affairs for many years. Her career is a remarkable one. The daughter of a Maneboo, sold in infancy by a father who ran into financial difficulties, she became, at an early age, one of the secondary wives of the Emperor Hien-Fung. She won his admiration and affection and bare him a Th is .son she placed on tne tnrono, uxrt 'IiTS - Career poison, it has been thought, causing his death. As there was no other heir to the throne the infant son of Prince Chung, the sob in question, becajne Emperor under the name of Kwang-Su and under the regency of Tzi-Hsu, the Dowager Empress. In 1889 the “Emperor" nominally assumed full control of the government, but nin£- years later, when he issued" some reform decree, the regency of the Dowager Empress was restored and she has since vigorously kept him in the background. WOMAN AVERTS TRAIN WRECK. Waves lantern and Stops Santa Fe Limited Doomed to Destruction. A trainload of passengers on the California limited of the Santa Fe road was saved from death at Hart. Mo., Sunday morning after the manner exploited in song and story. Mrs. Minnie Hartushell, a cook in a railroad camp, swung a lantern in the path of the train and it was stopped at the edge of a broken trestle, which would have precipitated the train and its human freight to the bottom of a "river, "SFtWTy feet below. Theft of *3,000 Charged. J. Warren Hastings, since 1864 a trusted official of the United States subtreasury in Boston, has been arrested on the charge of embezzling $3,000 from the government June 7. The money was taken from a package prepared for shipment to Washington, and the shortage was made good by another clerk who technically was responsible. * Strike la Made General. General strike of all commercial telegraphers in the United States and Canada has been ordered by President Small following a conference with President Gompers of the American Federation of I<abor and other labor leaders.

Barrington Escape* Noose. The sentence of “Lord” Frederick Seymour Barrington, who was to have been hanged at Clayton, Mo., Aug. 26, for the murder of James McCan? June 18, 1903, was commuted to life imprisonment by Gov. Folk. Lock Jailer in and Escape. Noah Coffee and Fon Frasier, young white boys, in jail at Mayfield, Ky, charged with store breaking, fastened the keeper in jail and escaped over the high wall. It was an hour before the jailer was rescued from prison. Delay in Thaw'* Trial. The second trial of Harry K. Thaw, charged with 'the murder of Stanford White, Jia not likely to take place until the-January term of court. Dynamite Explode*; Elves Lost. A dynamite factory at Doemitz, grand duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Germany. was destroyed by an explosion. One life is known to have been lost, eight persons are missing and are believed to be dead, twenty persons were dangerously injured and sixty were hurt. - & £ Yellow Fever Kill* Sergeant. Sergeant Wesley Metcalf of the U. 8. hospital corps, one of the first to become infected with yellow fever, is dead at Havana.