Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-07-05
The Death Of the Prince Imperial.

death OF the young Prince Napoleon at
the hands of the savages. 1t appears
that he went out with scouting party,
and that, while resting, they were sur
prised by the Zulus-a fatality which
seems to continually follow the English.
The party sprang to their horses, and
succeeded in escaping, with the excep-
ton of the Prince, whose horse got away
from him. He then started on the run,
bat was speedily overtaken and slain
with the murderous assegais-pierced
with no less than seventeen wounds.
The events of his life are very brief. He
was born in the Tuileries, March 16,
1856. His education was a very thor
ough one, and at the outbreak of the
Franco. German war he accompanied his
father TO Metz, and thence to Saarbruck,
where, as Napoleon telegraphed to Eu-
genie, he received baptism of fire.
Shortly afterwards he joined his mother
in England, and has remained with her
until recently, when he obtained per-
mission from the English Government
10 accompany the army in its South
African campaign, where the baptism
of ere has overwhelmed him, and ended
his ambitious career in the very flower
Of his youth.
The death of the young Prince re-
moves one of the most formidable of
the Ronapsrtist claimants to the throne.
By the decree of 1904, Napoleon 1. left
the throne to the descendants of Louis,
the third brother, and father of Napo-
leon III. The son of Napoleon l., Ma
poleon Joseph, died childless, and in
deed his claim was never recognized.
Joseph, the eldest brother, renowned
his claim, and the decree to which we
have alluded barred out Lucien and his
family. Louis died in 1916, and the
throne descended to the only surviving
son, Louis Napoleon (Napoleon III.),
who married the beautiful and i'll fated
Spanish Princess Eugene Marie de
Montijo in 1854. His two brothers, Ma
poleon Charles and Napoleon Louis,
died respectively in 1907 and
1881. By this marriage he had
one son, Laais Napoleon, who
has now fallen a victim to the Zulu
savages. By his death the lineal claim
now reverts 10 the family of jerome,
the youngest brother of Napoleon l.,
who married Elizabeth Patterson of
Baltimore, Nd, recently deceased. If
this marriage had been recognized in
France his American children would
now be en- the direct line, but as If is,
the descendants of the second marriage
are in the succession. The claimant
now is Napoleon Jerome, better known
as Plon-P lon, who married daughter
of Victor Emmanuel, and after him his
two sons, Napoleon Victor, born in
1862, and Napoleon Louis, born in 1864.
Whatever sympathies the Republicans
of France NAV have on personal
grounds for his mother, there will IN
doubtedly be q feeling of relief on po-
liticai grounds that the most powerful
Bonspartist claimant is no more.
For the unfortunate Princess, now en-
tering into the shadows of life, bereft of
her only child upon whom she fondly
hoped to lean in her declining years,
there will be a widespread feeling of
sympathy. Her eventful life has closed
with catastrophe which it is no won
der has made her reason totter. She |
has been 3 woman of wonderful beauty |
and grace and possessed of rare accom-
plishments. At the French Court she
was the center of coteric of some of the |
most brilliant women who have ever APP |
peared in the French salons. She has |
been noted, however, not alone for her
beauty and for her brilliancy with which
she invested her Court, but also for her
works of charity and for the encour-
agsment she has bestowed upon various
societies of science and art. Her mis-
fortune began with the downfall of her
husband at Sedan, when she escaped in
the mob which had invaded
the Tuileries. The next blow was the
death of her husband, and now the news
of the death of her only child has been
broayh. to her in her retirement at
IL is sad end of life of
splendor, and in her great bereavement