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Show Ll HUNG CHANG DEAD. Foremost Chinaman of His Time Succumbs to Stomach Trouble. Li Hung Chang, China's premier, died at 11 o'clock Wednesday morning. He had been ill for some time with ulceration of the stomach. When his physicians visited him Tuesday morning morn-ing they found him in good spirits, though extremely weak, as the result of sitting up and working in defiance of their instructions. During Tuesday night he became unconscious. His wife, two sons and a daughter were with him until the last. He displayed unexpected vitality. Throughout the night digitalis was frequently administered. Karl Li's persistent refusal to refrain from attending at-tending to government business aggravated ag-gravated his malady, while the refusal of the family to permit certain measures mea-sures customary in western medical piactice for relieving the stomach contributed con-tributed to hasten the end. Li Hung Chang was the foremost Chinaman of his age, and Chinese officials offic-ials are apprehensive of the effect upon the empire his death will cause. Li Hung Chang was born in 1823; according to some authorities in. 1819, in the Hon district, in the province of aganhvvuy. He showed unusual taient as a student, and attained the degree of Chin Sze the third, in 1847. He was afterwards appointed a compiler of the second class in the Han Lin college, and in 1850 acted as compiler in the imperial printing office. During the Taiping rebellion he served with honor, rose, rapidly in rank, and conducted the campaign that crushed the revolt He was equally successful against the Nienfei rebels, whom he completely overthrew in the summer of J868. In 1870 he was appointed viceroy of Chih Li, and made senior grand secretary secre-tary of state. His policy was liberal and progressive. In the face of conservative con-servative opposition he caused the introduction in-troduction of the telegraph, the reorganizing reor-ganizing of the army upon European models, tlie establish men t of dock yards and arsenals, and finally prevailed upon up-on the government to permit the construction con-struction of railroads. |