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Show CHINESE EMPEROH DEAD AND D0WA6EH IS DIG A FIve-Year-Old Child Is Heir to the Throne, But Prince Chun, His Father, Will be Regent. Peklu. The emperor o! China was reported dead at 4 o'clock on Friday. Information ns to the last hours of tho emperor nre unobtainable, there being nil sorts of rumors, one being thnt his majesty was transferred to the death chamber at 2 o'clock in the nftcrnoon, and thnt at that hour he was still breathing. Simultaneously with the removal of tho emperor to tho death chamber In the Forbidden City the members of tho grand council nsseninled In tho palace. Tho dowager empress was present at the meeting and Is toport-od toport-od to havo swoooncd. It Is reported that the empress dowager may not recover. re-cover. Two Imperial edicts wore Issued from tho pnlaco Friday afternoon In quick succession. The first makes r f EMPKUOIt OF CHINA. Prlnco Chun resent of tho empire, nnd the second appoints his fon, Pit Wei, heir presumptive. Prlnco Chun is a brother of the emperor. em-peror. His name is Tsal-Feng, nnd ho -.ucceeded to the title or his father. Prince Chun, in 1S91. Ho Is a lieutenant lieu-tenant general of tho Plain White Hauner corps and visited Oerninny in lflOl ns a special commissioner of tho throne. The denth of the emperor of Chinn brings to an end the lelgn of a sovereign sov-ereign feeble In mind nnd body who hns been dominated all his life by tho all-powerful lullueiice of the dowager empress. Killing Hsu's "reign" will bo completely lost lu tho rule of the empress. Tho emperor was born in 1870. His succession to the throne was one o tho ninny arbitrary and Illegal nets ol Iho dowager empress, who adopted dim Into succession from a generation the sanio as that of his predecessor nil hough the convention of the Man elm dynasty and precedent provide that the succession shall go to the lioxt folio wine generation. |