The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-01-20
DEATH ROVERS OVER
QUEEN VICTORIA
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descs5ed as optimistic. Their vague
ness an describing the queens ailment
may be accepted as merely an evasion
of the facts. Information obtained by
Reuters Telegram company TO the ef-
feet that il is paralysis from which the
queen is suffering, is based upon the
highest possible authority. BY Mon
day 1t is likely that the truth VIII De
announced to the nation
The extreme weakness of her msJes-
~ and the loss of her faculties appears
10 be at present the chief cause OF
anxiety
stimulants are being freely admin
istered.
In the opinion of those best qualified
To Judge. the queens present serious
condition was precipitated by intense
worry over the losses and hardships
suffered by the British troops in South
Africa. Frequently she has remarked
10 the court attaches that another war
would kill her.
III Last Fall at Balmoral.
In this connection Reuters Telegram
company learns that she was seriously
i'll while last at BalmOTdl in the au-
tUmn. No word of this became public,
burt 1t appears that she was then al
most dying. though that rigorous Ell
aueJte which she imposed alike upon
her family and attendants prevented
her condition even being spoken of as
dangerous.
The present stroke is sequel to
that which occurred at BdlmOrai. If
she survives il she will not only be the
longest-Hved monarch in England's his
tory, but also possessed OF the most
marvellous constitution with which
woman was ever endowed. Locally it
is taken TO be as a coincidence that
Sunday is the anniversary of the death
of Prince Henry of BautenbuTg, for
whom special memorial services are al
ways held
The arrival of the Prince of Wales
at about O'Clock this evening, accom-
panied by Home Secretary Richie, and
he arrival Of the Princess of Wales
at 10 o'clock tonight OccasiOned no
scenes of any kind They embarked
upon the royal yacht Albert and went
up the little river separating Cowes
from Osborne Entering royal car
Tiages, they were driven through the
half gale which prevailed straight to
the royal residence.
Wales Takes the Reins.
Mr. Richie. it is understood was
probably summoned TO supervise the
details of handing over to the Prince
of Wales the necessary authority TO
transact state business. though no Of
fetal announcement of this transfer
appears TO be constitUtiOnaHy neces-
sary or likely to be made.
The tiny town of COWes, and across
the Medina river separating them,
East COwes. are both filling up with
correspondents from all parts of the
world, and rents have risen to fabu-
1OUs prices.
Fearful sorrow, not unmiNed with eX-
pectatiOn. is written broad upon every
face. That official secrecy which stops
all CALLERS at the lodge gates does not
serve to mitigate the general dread
a.. islands
Death Expected in Forty-eight Hours
Located almost as Key West is to
the United States, they hold in their
bosom the most precious and revered
personality that "a nation ever wor-
SHIPPED, and it is the general impression
that forty-eiSht hours viii bring the
crisis of that feeble life upon which so
many International threads hang.
The country women paused in their
Saturday night shopping tours to pray
that the hand of death might be stayed
from falling on the big house over the
Medina river but Atheir prayers find
little eChn i'm hope for those who have
seen the queen down there tsay she was
only a shadow of death Yet the pO-
HCeman on duty at the gates refers all
callers To the last bulletin, and says
mechanically slight Improvement"
The dread word paralysis is carefully
kept from the nation.