The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-10-03
VICTIMS OF THE TROUBLES.


VICTIMS OF THE TROUBLES.
Reliable dispatches from the North give
the following list OF high officials In Pc
KING and elsewhere who have met death
since the troubles up North. either by
their own hand, or executed or slain by
the enemy's bullets: Yu Lu, Viceroy OF
Chihli. suicide. after taking OF Tien-tsin
~ the allies: General Mich. commander
Ia chief Of Chill provincial forces slain
during taking OF Tien-tsin; Ii Ping
herg. notorious high commissioner Of tn
1angtse provinces. slain during battle at
Iiostwu; Hsu Ching-cheng. Yuan Chang
Hsu Nungyi and Lien Yuan, Ministers of
the Tsungli. Ting Chieh. Provincial Treas
uTer OF Chill. formerly a Boxer chief.
Grin Sing. president OF the Board Of Rev
81 We: IL shan. vice president of the
Beard Of Revenue; Shou Ts'un. Hanlin,
CT IN Hsio-fen, vice president Of the
Board of Civil Appoin tments. and many
others, names not TRANSFERRED executed
ty orders OF Prince Tuan or murdered nv
Eis Boxe-s; and finally the Grand Secre-
tnry fisu Tung, the most conservative OF
conservatives in Picking. and Wang vi
yrr &. president Of the Imperial Academy.
suicide with their respective families. old
and young. then residing in the North
With reference TO Hsu Tung. who was
over 10 years OF age. he fed to a country
farm house Of his. some twelve miles east
OF Feking upon the arrival OF the allied
trcc rs near the capital. and upon learning
OF the flight OF the Empress Dowager he
committed suicide. accompanied At the
sCUe time by his sons. grandsons and
most Of their women and children. There
are rumors OF Hsu Tung having commit
ted suicide In the Wuying Throne-hall
he being IT. Keeper, but this is doubtful
II the face Of late and more reliable news
Wsrg Yi-yung, the above noted presi-
cent OF the Imperial Academy. commit
tea suicide with his whole family in Pc
king on the arrival OF the allied troops
there. and II Is stated that over 30 fam
ilics of high officials did the same thing
AZ the time.
EVENTS IN COREA.
In Corea every eye has been fixed, AMI
/ very mouth open, speechless spell-bound,
Purified by events in China. To think
that the native should live TO see such
an age as this Is more than he can pos
,sibly comprehend. The Corean. in SYM
'pathy. Is a Chinese and not a Manchu, but
his mental and political conditions are
lsmllar enough to those OF the latter. 10
make him fear that he may be involved
in the final settlement OF the question.
He, too believes in invulnerability. un-
der certain conditions, believes also In
dragons. demons and oracles. and won
ders why Picking has fallen. He thinks
ali the misfortunss OF the present due 70
IL Hung Chang. For many years His
ExceUency has been the OBJECT or ana
tthemas on the part of Corea. No doubt
81 II because OF his supposed intimacy
with foreigners In days gone by. The Co.
rean says that ii Hung Chang Is the
greatest rascal who has ever lived since
the days Of Koni (2297 y. CO. On the
other hand. Yuan Shih-kai. who was onct
Representative In this city, Is correspond
n ely deified. According to the commonly
, accepted story. in the trouble Of 1884, Yu
an Shih-kal leaped the palace wall (onlN
twenty feet high, and with one hanC
brushed aside the Japanese bullets, while
. with the other he brandished sworc
: that has forever immortalized him.
Namkung, one of the Intelligent Coreani
: OF the city. editor of the Whang-soni
, slrrmun. n few days ago ventured Z
: quote from a Japanese paper paragraph
: in which Il was said the Russian Repre-
: sentative PavIoff proposed 10 partition
; Ccroa. Promptly the Emperor ciappe
: him into prison. and Nam-kung WONT
have been hanged for his quotation, Tx
= An and Kwon, had not some merciful out
, side influence stepped in and saved hin
: He Is now released. Far greater tnai
I ali anxiety about China is Lady Om.s dis
: ress about her son. whose name Is fung
+. wang. meaning Blossom King, or Eng