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Show CLAIMS THE EMPEROR OF CHINA WAS POISONED New York, Jan. 7. Special cable advices to the New York Herald from Penang, Straits Settlement, says that Kang Yu Wei, China's exiled reformer reform-er and leader of the Chlneso Empire' Reform association, claims credit for the overthrow of . Yuan Shi Kal, the eminent Chinese statesman, as mem-bier mem-bier of the grand Council. According to tho dispatch, Kang Yu Wol charges Yuan Shi Kai with complicity com-plicity in the death of the emperor. He is quoted as follows:1 "We know Yuan Shi Kai paid a physician phy-sician 40,000 taels to poison the em-j em-j peror. Yuan Shi Kai, seeing the dowager dow-ager empress' death impending, feared retribution at the hands of the emperor em-peror for his betrayal a decade ago Mhich forced my. flight and resulted in the dowager empress seizing tho reins of control." Interest is added to tho report, concerning con-cerning Kang Yu Wei by the fact that Lb daughter, Miss Kang Tung Tih, is a student at Barnard college, Columbia Co-lumbia university. In Chicago on Tuesday last she gave out an interview inter-view in which she attacked Yuan Shi Kai and said sho hoped his dismissal dis-missal would bo followed by her father's fath-er's return to Pekln. |