St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-12-10

goodlv proportions. About three weeks
ago he began 10 complain of feeling unWell
and was finally forced to take to his bed, OF
bunk. and allow his friends to administer
to his needs. He was man true to the
customs and principles of his race, and de
tarminedly refused medicinal treatment at
the hands of any medical practitioner VINO
was not Of his own nationality. The ma
ture of his disease battled his friends, and
all they could do was to administer tea and
ill his pipe with opium, which he smoked
with unusual gusto, trusting to nature and
an Obdurate will to bring him back to
health, but both failed, and yesterday
morning he was found stretched on his
bunk Iifeless, having relinquished his
tenacious hold on life during the silent
hours of the night.
The room in which he lay was a low,
dark. dingy apartment formerly used as
wash room, and tubs and other parapher-
MALTA of the Chinese laundry crowded the
room until there
WAS HARDLY SPACE
for one to walk to the bunk, which was
built against the wall about two feet and a
half below the ceiling. 1t was in this
apartment that All Wing suffered and died
in the midst of the heat and steam of a
sorry sight that greeted the eyes of the
coroner and reporters as they entered the
room. The celestials formerly tall and
almost gigantic form had been wasted by
disease until the nut brown skin seemed to
be tightly drawn over his frame; his deeply
sunken eyes glittered in their sockets and
his long bony fingers clenched in the agonies
of death. The coroner drew back the
coverings and with single glance and a
sigh, passed out, concluding to hold an au
topsy to-day.
The history of All Wings life as told by
his friends is not without tinge of interest
ing romance. He was born in 1849 in
Shanghai of wealthy parents, his father
being an influential merchant. Contrary to
the laws and customs of the land, All Wing
fell in love with the daughter of poor
lab0rer who enjoyed no blood relation to
his fathers family, and despite the protests
of his sire he married her. AS a punish
lnent for the disgrace that his son had
brought upon the family, All Wing was dis
owned and sailed to America, landing in
San Francisco six or eight years ago.
1t was Sam Wah, who keeps laundry
on st. Peter street, who told the larger part
of the story. He said, He mother pool
now. He got no father; he die. Got nc
mother. He
SEND HER MONEY
evly year. Some time one hundred dolla. y
When the reporter said he was sorry that
All Wing had died. Sam Wah responded,
YES; | solIee, too. He got no bluther,
only one mother. He send them money.
sollee that way" and Sam grinned as if he
had heard funny story.
WHAT will you do with the body?
asked the reporter.
DO? Oh, nothing. Just put in ground,
that way" and lie smiled again.
Had he any money!" asked the reporter.
"Oh, yes; money. l dom know; FLAPS
hundred dolce, FLAPS two hundred dolce;
but he die; he can't help it."
Further questions brought out the infor-
nation that the dead mans friends would
not send his remains to China because it
would cost S75 or 500, and that could not
be well afforded. The money, he said,
| would be sent to All Wings mother in
| China. Sam seemed very much impressed
| with the hard fate of the woman at home,
! and said no less than half dozen times
| that the dead man had no brother nor sister
I nor cousin, ''only one mother" Sam Wah
said this was the second Chinaman that
had died in Minnesota, cousin of his own
having been the first. and he added in the
same breath: You know some folks want
washee, you send to ne; winter now; in
summed all light, get 'nough then"