The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1896-01-23
HENRY OF BRTTENBURG
Dies On Board a British an.oi-War On
the Coast of Africa.
PRINCESS BEA1RicE's POIGNANT GRIEF.
vi Of sorrow ut tho
Princes Death Everywhere via-
ibie-Died OF swamp Fever Con.
tracted at Nyisn.-luis Rody Ordered
brought 10 EngInnd.

London. Jan. 22.-Thc Standard an
nounces that Prince Henry. oil Batten-
burg, who was taken i'll while accom-
panying the British expedition agains;
the Ashantees. died of coast fever on
| his return voyage from Cape Coast
| Castle to Sierra Leone. The report Is
confirmed ut the Osborne House.
Further dispatches concerning Prince
Henry, of Battenburg. say that he died
| on the night of January goth, on board
| the British cruiser Blonde. 1t had been
| his intention to recruit his health at
Madeira. After Prince Henry died the
cruiser Blonde put into Sierra Leone,
and news of his death was Immediately
cabled TO the Queen and Princess Sea
trice, at Osborne. and also to the Nd-
Imiralty and the War Office. The Queen
| Is intensely aGitnted upon the receipt
OF the news and Princess Beatrice is al
most crazed with grief.
| The Queens review of the flying
SQUADRON off the Isle of Wight. which
was postponed yesterday on account OF
| fog, has now been abandoned. in con
sequence of Prince Henry's death.
| All of the ships in the Solent. the
| Royal Yachts and the Club-Hous Of
| the Royal Yacht Squadron are flying
| itags at half mast as II mark Of reSpec:
10 the memory of Prince Henry OF
Battenburg. Son-in-law of the Queen.
| and flags are half-na sted upon public
and private buildings in London. and all
| OF the great towns in which the church
| bells were tolled when the news of
| Prince Henry's death was received. At
| the desire OF the Queen. Mr. George
| j. Goschen, First Lord of the Admiral-
ty,haS cabled instructions TO Command
| cr Henry NJ. G. Testing. commanding
the British cruiser Blonde. to bring the
| body cf Prince Henry to England with
| the least possible delay.
| Manifestations of sorrow at the death
| OF Prince Henry are everywhere visi-
| bic. and expressions OF sympathy with
| the Queen and Princess Bea trice are
heard upon all sides.
Prince Henry Maurice. of Eatten-
| burg, was the son of Prince Alexander
| OF Battenburg tHesse). and the Countess :
| Won Lauck, daughter of a former Polish
| Minister OF War. who was raised to the
| rank of Princess OF her norganatic
| marriage with the ruler OF Hesse He
| was born October :. 1858. and married
| ON July %. 1856. Princess Beatrice Mary
| Victoria Fedora, the ninth and young
,st child of Queen Victoria On the
| day OF his marriage he received the
! rank OF Royal Highness" by letters
patent from the Queen. He was later
appointed Governor of the Isle OF Wight
| and OF Garisbrooke Castle, and al
| Though not really an officer of the reg
u!nr army. Of Great Britain. he was
| Indicated as colonel In the army list
| In November last Prince Henry join
! ed the British Ashantee expedition i'm a
| special capacity and sailed on Deccm-
| ber .th Colonel Francis Scott com
| manning the expedition, appointed hiyn
his military secretary. In the early
| part of the present month he was al
| tackled with swamp fever at Nysia and
| returned 10 Cape Coast Castle in charge
oi surgeon. though ii was announced
in2i his Illness was not serious
The court circular. referring to III.
death OF Prince Henry. OF Battenberr
! SAYS Il terrible blow has fallen ,u.on
Her Majesty and Princess Beatrice.
Then follows brief details of the Primers
Illness and death after which the circu
| lar says:
The Queen is most deeply afflicted
by seeing her beloved daughters hapny
iiie crushed and by losing most
| whom she was much devoted.
!he Prtncess Beatrice is bearing the
| awful shock with great rortitudc and
resignation
y dispatch from South Africa saws
that DR.. Jameson and the officers who
accompanied him upon his invasion of
| The Transvaal have embarked for Enr.
| land at Victoria and Durham.