St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-05
THE WICKEDEST KING.
The Young Despot of Uganda and
His Missionary Victims.
New York Sun.

New York Sun.
If the report which comes from Fan
Zibar is true, Mwanga, the young des-
pot Of Uganda, who in two years has
earned a reputation for cruelty
and bloodshed not excelled even
by that of the deposed King The
baw of Burmah, has been violently
removed from the seat of power his an
cestOrs have held for seventeen genera
tons, and his brother now reigns in his
place. Whether this news bodies good
or i'll to the four or five white mission.
aries of England and France now i'm
Uganda cannot yet be told.
This young man, only twenty-three
years old, has had much to do with
shaping some events in which the
whole world is deeply interested. If
he had not, for the first time since
Spoke discovered the greatest of African
lakes, closed the route north from Vie
against all white men. Emin Pasha
would never have lacked ammu-
milton, - and there would have
been no Stanley relief expedition. 1t
was the narrowing stories of Mwanga's
great slave raids, i'm which he has en-
ployed thousand of his soldiers for the
purpose of supplying his Arab friends
with all the poor bOndsmen they de-
sired, that gave an impetus to the anti.
slavery agitation which has produced
the blockade of the East African coast,
and is The talk of every capital in Eu-
rope.
Mwanga has been described by the
white men at his court as q frivolous,
weak, cowardIy boy, easily led by his
favorites, extremely passionate, and
capable, under the influence of fear and
anger, of almost unheardof cruelty. He
Signalized his accession to power by the
atrociouS murder of Bishop Hanning-
ton, and it was his hope to destroy
in week all the converts the mission
aries had made in six successful years
of labor. The heroiSm and fortitude
with which scores of native Christians,
many of them mere children, met death
at the stake is hardly surpassed in
the annals Of martyrdom. Not one
of them recanted, even when
they abjured the Christian faith. "Can
you read?" was the question the king
usually asked the converts when they
were brought before him. Yes" re-
piled all who had been taught in
the native schools. ''I'll have no read
ers in Uganda" the king would shout,
as he hurried them off to be chained to
trees and burned. In single day sew
enty men thus met their fate, and the
head eXecutioner told the king he had
never seen men die so bravely. The
bloodthlrsty king merely laughed and
remarked that God did not seem able
TO rescue the Christians from his power.
The Duke of Durcal and his comrads-
spent last week in Chicago. The Spane
ISL grandeeS received considerable So
cial attention, but were not especially
pleased with Chicago society. The
trouble lay in the fact that the duke
WAS served with glass of water at a
T late supper. .What is this for?" he
asked with the haughtiness of true
hidalgo. Fortunately he ran against
champagne punch soon afterwards, and
his good nature returned. But he still
feels hurt at the thought that water
shOnldzhave been offered him when he
was in no need of bath,
Tbink how many people will see your
f"ff'h Want al in SUNDAYS GLOBE.