Show DOWAGER EMPRESS CHOOSES NEW HEIR decide that pa ru chun shall never reign and selects one bald said to be intel ly weak A new I 1 air to the throne will be ap pointed when tl e dowager empress meets prince ch ag ng and several of the viceroys at rai feng capital ot of the province of ilo nan where there will be a general d scission of the affairs of the empire this news is believed to be authentic as it was received from chinese officials the present I 1 e r I 1 as proved to be dissipated and uncontrollable more over his father a status as a banished prince makes bis his succession contrary to chinese cradit ons the candidate of tl e empress is said to be beitze a cepl ew of prince fuan ruan and wl is intellectually weak lie ile part la in the boxer aggressions personally leading an attack on the french cathedral cathe dial the reform faction disapproves disappio ves of or the select on and sug bests tt tl at the powers oppose it if the empress ea es to carry it out prince ching will start about november 1 from pekin to act as grand marshal of the court on its journey from kai feng fong |