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Show HAD SLAVE BEATEN TO. DEATH. Public Opinion Roused Against Chi nese High Official. Says tho North China Dally News: "The following almost Incredible tale seeing that thli Is tho twentieth and not the fifteenth century Is Bent us by a trustworthy correspondent: The governor of Honnn Is being spoken spok-en of by tho, men In the street In no vory nattering terms Ho had only one daughter nnd she died. Rumor says she was In love with nn actor and pined away berauso she could not many him. Ho vover. sho died; her father wus determined thnt hor favorite slave should accompany hor Into tho next world, nnd ordered his bod) guard to beat the poor slavo girl to death. "She pleaded to be allowed to tako opium or anything elso thnt would kill her, but tho governor said that could not bo. for If sho committed suicide sho would not bo freo to attend at-tend her mistress. Report has It that the governor himself got so enraged because the girl died so slowly that ho himself finished tho ghastly deed. "This Is worse than tho Canton viceroy's recently drinking tho blood of n decapitated bandit; but It shows what snv.igo Instincts may still linger In Chlner3 high officials." |