Birmingham state herald., 1896-01-23
THE QUEENS SON-|N-LAW Prince Henry of Battenberg Died
 at Sea. AFRfN N FEVER KILLED HIM  :, S He $ Been on an Expedition Against the (C AShanteeS. $dE PRINCESS BEARS UP BRAVELY
AFRPA N FEVER KILLED HIM
PRINCESS BEARS UP BRAvELY
Church Bells Were Tolled and Flags Were Halt Masted on All British Vessels When the News Became
 Known.

London, Jan. 22-The Standard an- nounces that Prince Henry of Batten- berg, taken ill while accompanying the British expedition against the Ashantees, died of coast fever on his return voyage from Cape Coast Castle to Sierra Leone. The report is confirmd at Osborne house.
 Further, dispatches concerning Prince Henry of Battenberg say heSdied on the night of January 20 on board the British cruiser Blonde. It had been his inten- ton to recruit his health at Madeira. After Prince Henry died the cruiser Blonde put in at Sierra Leone and the news of his death was immediately ca- bled to the queen and Princess Beatrice at Osborne, and also to the admiralty and the war office. The queen is in- tensely agitated upon the receipt of the news and Princess Beatrice is almost crazed with grief. The queens review of the flying squadron off the Isle of Wight, which was postponed yesterday on account of fog, has been abandoned in consequence of Prince Henrys death.
 The court circular, referring to the death of Prince Henry of Battenberg, says terrible blow has fallen upon her majesty and Princess Beatrice. Then follows brief details of the princes illness and death, after which the circular says:
 ' The queen is most deeply afflicted by seeing her beloved daughters happy life crushed and by losing a most amiable and affectonate son-in-law, to whom she was much devoted.
 Princess Beatrice is bearing the aW- ful shock with great fortitude and resig- nation"
 All of the war ships in the Solent, the royal yachts and the club house of the royal yacht squadron are flying flags at half-mast as mark-ef respect to the memory of Prince Henry of Battenberg son-in-law of the queen. and flags are half-masted 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, MT. George J. Goschen first lord of the admiralty, has cabled instructions to Commander Henry M. Esting, in com mand of the British cruiser Blonde, to bring the body of Prince Henry to Eng land with the least possible delay Mani- festations of sorrow at the death of Prince Henry are everywhere visible and expressions of sympathy with the queen and Princess Beatrice are heard upon all sides.
 Prince Henry Maurice of Battenberg was a son of Prince Alexander of Bat tenberg Hesse) and the Countess Von Lauck, daughter of former Polish minister of war, who was raised to the rank of princes on her morganatic mar riage with the ruler of Hesse. He was born October 5, 1858, and married July 23, 1885, Princess Beatrice Mary Victoria, the ninth and youngest child of Queen Victoria. On the day of his marriage he reached the rank of royal highness' by letters patent from the queen. He was later appointed governor of the Isle of Wight and of Carlsbrooke Castle, and although not really an officer of the regular army of Great Britain he was in. dlcated as a colonel in the army list In November last Prince Henry joined the British Ashantee expedition in a special capacity and sailed on December '. Col Sir Francis Scott, commanding the expedition, appointed him his milf tary secretary. In the early part of the present month he was attacked with swamp fever at Hyassa and returnedJe11 Cape Coast Castle In charge of as,,r- geon. though it was announced that his illness was not serious.