The Windham County reformer. (Battleboro, Vt.) 1876-1897, 1895-10-18
MORE TROUBLE IN COREA.
The Queen Murdered and Outlawed by
Her InbeciIe Husband-The Kings
Father Now DictatOr-Japamesese heme
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Fresh trouble has broken out in Corea, and in
/ a revolutionary uprising at Seoul the Queen has
been assassinated by emissaries of her father
! inaw, the head of the reactionary element in
Hermit Kingdom. When Corea was thrown
| open to American commerce IN lss2, Ia. W on
Kun, the Kings father, led y revolt, during
! which the Kings consort and the heir apparent
were killed The instruction was suppressed
and the King remarked. His father still re
manned hostile, and on several occasions re
newed his opposition.
dered, took place last week Tuesday and was
apparently the work of Japanese fanatics and
koueac troops in the employ of Ia Won Kun.
They broke into the palace, entered the Queens
room and killed the Queen, the minister of the
household and three women The bodies were
taken outside and burned. Friday the rioting
was quelled by the japanese troops. Tai Won
Kun Is supreme. He has forced the King, who
is virtually a prisoner, TO issue decree degrad
ing his consort to the level of concubine and
outlawng her family. He has been mischief
maker in Corea for Il long time But because of
his well known hatred of the Queen Japan set
him NJ, rs Regent some months ago. The King
is sfeeble minded and easily influenced The
Queen, ii is said, made his life miserable unless
he allowed her to rule. There was report
that she had even tried TO have him assassinated
in order that she might seize the throne, and
that he knew of it. still, while ready to suspect
any one and every one, he was enSlaVeu by
her. She was remarkable woman, and as
Count Itonge, the japanese ambassador SAYS
"she had sagacity rare among her race, ana
for her weaknesses there are many eNtenunt
inc circumstances. Her ingenuity in tanning her
inyeteratc foes and make them work devotedY
for her was unsurpassed by any one
She. the Queen hated japan with an intense
and uncomfortable hatred and as long as she
lived, would block every Japanese scheme. She
was bred TO admire anu ape the Chlnese
oddly enough she was n great adlnlrer OF the
two most opposite countries in the worid-thna,
the most conservative; America, the most pro
gressiye. She was the first To have American
electric lights in Corea, and was arranging for
telephone and electric,light plant IN me palace
grounds when the war broke out. She was q
scholar woman of remarkable abilty ana
was reckon ed as the ablest politician in the Her;
nit Kingdom She belonged to the powerful
Ming family of which She was the acRnow.
lodged leader. She associated with no foreign
woman except the Russian Ministers wife, for
whom she manifested great friendship, nus,
sia is Japans only rival now for control IN
Corea. To win the Queen from Russian nilu-
encc was of the first importance, but from the
begnnins she mas be irH hreyg a ananese Iii
piomats have been sent to Seoul, but she "aileo
every one.
The control of Corea is more of a live ques;
ton now than when Japan sent troops to seoul
year ago last July and seized the palace, max; !
ing the King her prisoner and puppet The emu
will be probably that he will be forced to obdi- |
cate An imperial decree has been issued for |
bidding all Japanese to visit Corea without
special permission. 1t is considered not improb /
able that aggressive japanese movements IN
Corea will force issues with Russia.
Experimenting with Electric Locomo-
ton.
Forty.four loaded cars and three locomotives
were successfully hauled through the tunnel at /
baltimore, Md, Friday by the new electric mo
tor Its greatest haul previously had been j.
loaded ears. The extraordinary character Oh
the performance was heightened by the fact
that this long train, measuring over $500 rect
and weighing about 1900 tons. was started after
making a stop in the tunnel. The stop was mate
on the heavy grade in the tunnel, and was
caused by the discovery of defective coupling
pin 1t was necessary to bring the train to q
standstill TO remedy this defect. In starting not
n sputter spark, or slip OF the wheel indicated
the tremendous energy which was developed
by the locomotive the train moving of with the
same precision as If II was only usuai pun.
draw bar pull of 60 900 pounds was the record
made Mt this start. The train was quickly
brought up to speed of II miles an hour with
the locomotive exercising ufaw,par pun Vi
over 90 600 mounds. Engineers say the perform
anre would he impossible fora steam locomo-
tive.
The famous DIR. Meyer who preceded Holmes
TO prison on the charge of numbering persons IN
order TO secure insurance money, has been dis
covered in the act of planning another murder
during his incarceration.
An interesting railroad story comes from Chi
cago TO the effect that the vanderbilt interests
are figuring to secure a triinscOntnehtal faii-
road nv obtaining control of the Union racine
branch of the southern racine.
The state bank OF Fort scott, Kan, closed its
doors Monday morning: Its cashier Is u deiaut-
err for go, 600 and has disappeared. !,
} Brewster & Co, the great carriage manu-
have failed. Il
w " Tavior the defaultlpg state treasurer OF
So Dakota who stole SS55,nO ana theh ran
away. has been let off with the absurdly small
penalty of two years imprisonment,-whichw VIII
he reduced 10 Is months by reductions on ac-
count of time already spent in jail, and allow
lnce for good behavior
Further particulars of the great hurricane on
The western coast of Mexico last week show IL TO
have been even worse than reported. In La rag,
he can;tol of Lower California, which had
nonulation of about 1909, four persons were
Etlied and p injured, and ls4 houses. including
III ,ha nrincinal buildings, were demolished, ~
vessels were driven ashore. The Alomy river
north of Topolombampo overlooked Its banks
ma des,roved sugar plantations and sugar mills 8
n miles away from the channel OF the stream.
Tbe entire cane crop of the state OF sinaloa, az
iar as renorted is completely ruined, and the s
near lands and refneries at Ahone were demol-
lied The sugar crop on the faqul river IN the !
,a,s of Sonora is also destroyed. The damage /,
O the sugar interests OF the state OF Snao' anu
.onnra IL estimated at several millions OF dol :
ars.
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