Gunshot Wound Said to Have Been Self-Inflicted Washington, Sept. 4.
In a brief announcement to-day, the State Department recorded the death of one of the most picturesque per-Sonalities in the United States Ca sular Service, Mr. George Char Hanson, formerly Consul-Generat at Harbin, who was known among his friends' as "the uncrowned King of Manchuria,"
The Stale Department lays that Mr. Hanson died on board the s. President Polk from a gunshot wound alleged to have been self-inflicted.
Mr, Hanson, who would have been 82 years of age on October 11, was born at Bridgeport, Connecticut.
He "studied civil engineering at Cornell University, but turned to the Consular Service and, after an ex-
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