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Show SloMrnlnT rnr Anre.lnr. I' rtrIU A llru broko out recently lu the I nl-aeo nl-aeo ot the emperor of Korea at Seoul and eomp'cttly dcttrojed Iho laaclu try, where tbo mortuary tablets of the lmpcrl.il family aro kept. Iho residential resi-dential part of tho palace seems to have escaped uninjured A financial question will bo the Istuo of tills calamity ca-lamity Funeral rltss, erecting of tombs and conitructln;; ot cenotaphs tru Immensely costly opcral ont In Korea, and thero Is no money at prce tnt In the Imperial exchequer At n first step tho Korean court went Into mourning fur three dayt bectuso tho portraits of tho Imperii! ancestors wero destroyed In the conflagration All otuelaldom robed Itself In white and th inroatrs of tho palace woro ttckclcth art fared roughl) A Uil-limy Uil-limy 'Jrowzi, n phlcago Itccord, |
