The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1901-01-20
QUEEN OF ENGLAND
Slrlcken with Paralysis and Lying at
Deaths Door.
BEREAvEMENTS AND THE WAR
Bore Heavily on the Aged Ruler and
Failing Health Ensued.
HER REIGN NOW NEARING ITS END.
Prince Of Wales Has Authority To Act In
Matters OF State.
ANXIETY IS SEEN ON EVERY C0UNTfNANCE
The People Were Slow To Relieve
that the Queens Illness
Could BE Serious.
Prince Of Wales Has Authority to Act In
Matters OF State.
ANXIEtYlS SEEN ON EVERY COuNTfNANCE
The People Were slow To Relieve
that the Queens Illness
Could be Serious.
fsteeial 10 The Pos..l

Especial to The Posi)
New York, January 19.-The Worlds
cable says; Cowes. Isle of Wight. jan
uary 2O.-tsunday. a. m)--Queen Vic
toria IS very near death. She suffered
another stroke of paralysis tonight.
The prince of Wales has already been
given authority to act in her stead. it
is asserted here, thus becoming actually.
although not finally, the regent of the
empire.
A professional gentleman employed at
Osborne house was asked by the World
correspondent for the latest news from
the royal sick room. The answer was:
"All the majesty is gone. Queen Vic
toria Is simply an old woman sleeping
away the last remaining days of long
life.
THE war has fastened her end. Since
Lord Roberts was here at the beginning
of this week she has scarcey recognized
any one"
One OF the queens glllles, being ap-
preached and pressed to say what the
condition of his royal mistress Is. said
cautiously in broad Scotch: "Ah, mon,
she just GIBBS and flows; the day abed
the morrow ABBOTT. but she's vera old"
Being asked bluntly. us 1t the end
he answered: "Mon, who can tell? But
I'm sore afraid"
A period of six months mourning will
follow the queens death. 1t will So
riously affect the approaching London
season. and the duke of York's anti
podean tour Will certainly be postponed
The World correspondent hears that
orders have been sent to the foreign Of
fce to have special stats of clerks on
duty today Sunday
This is interpreted to Indicate the ex.
pectation that tidings of the queen q
death Will have to be sent today TO the
colonies and foreign powers.
"The queen undoubtedly is dying" sale
an important official this evening. Ssh,
will probably pass away in ter sleep. SIC
is having long intervals OF sem-con
seriousness and is falling into a comatosc
state
Private news comes from Osborne
house that the queens symptoms are
steadily becoming more grave. Ii ~tn;
efforts of the doctors to bring about
rally from her extreme debility have
failed.
Cowee. Iele of Wight. January 19.-Mid
nght.-The queen of England lies a
deaths door. She is stricken will
paralysis tonight. Reuters Telegrar
company understands thst the prince o
Wales has received authority to act il
her majesty's stead and thus has bee
created a practical though not constitu
tional regency.
a local rumor puryeyed by Osborn
house employees declares that the quse
can not live until Monday, cut it has re
ceived no official confirmation, though
is admitted that it is scarcely even likel
that the queen. II she RECEIVERS at al
will regain the use OF those yigorou
faculties which have distinguished he
among the women OF all time.
| Gathered at her bedside are the prime
ana princess OF Wales, Princess LOUIS
and other members of the royal famil!
with Mr.. Richie, the secretary of stat
for home affairs Lord Salisbury Is /
constant telephone communication wit
Osborne house.
The arrival Of Emperor William an
the ether members OF the family
anxiously awaited.
For three days the queen has not bee
herself. The natives, who have grow
10 look upon her msjesty as an ordlnar
body. have noticed that she looked moi
delicate and shrunken than eyer--a mel
shadow OF her former se!i-yet wit
feminine persistence the queen forbat
those around her to say that she was Il
and 50 with dogged determination 81
fought on the rayages that worry ov'
the Boer war, the deaths in her CIV
family and her increasing years hay
lbroueht upon her. But against the rutl
las hand OF nature even the inperi
reso,ye of the ruler OF the grea. empi
proved futile. and with pitiiul reaiiz'
Ition Of the inevitable. she has shut he
lse,f of from her encourage For tp
lnlgats she dined alone and never stirr'