Cottonwood report. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1893-1901, 1901-01-25
THE QUEEN IS DEAD.
England's Beloved Monarch
Has Passed Away.
THE END PEACEFUL
Came With Her Royal Children
About Her Her Bishop
Praying.

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Cows, Isle of Wight, Jan. %.
Queen Victoria is dead and Edward
VII reigns.
The greatest event in the memory
Of this generations the most stu
pendutis change in existing condi-
tions that could possibly be inn
.agined has taken place quietly,
almost gently, upon the anniver
sary of the death of Queen Vic
toria's father, the duke Of Kent.
The eend Of this career, never equaled
by any woman in the worlds his
tory, came in a simply furnished
room 10 Osborne house. This most
respected of women, living or dead,
lay In a great fouf-posted bed, a
shrunken atom whose aged face and
figure were d mockery of the fair
girl who in 1887 began to rule over
England. Around her were gath
cred almost every descendant Of
her line. Well within view of her
dying eyes there hung a portrait of
the prince consorti 1t was he who
designed the room and every part
hf the castle. In scarcely audible
words the white haired bishop of
Winchester prayed beside her as he
had often prayed for his sovereign,
for he was her chaplain at Wind
sor. With bowed heads the inn
peribus rtiler of the German en-
pire and the man who is now king
of England, the woman who has
succeeded to the title of queen, the
princes and princesses and those Of
less than royal designation listened
to the bishops ceasless praying.
Six o'clock passed. The bishop
continued his intersession. The
women of this royal family sobbod
faintly and the men shuffled un-
Easily.
The Moment Of Death.
At exactly $50 Sir James Reid
held tip his head and the people
then knew that England had lost
her queen. The bishop pronounced
the benediction.
The queen. passed away quite
peacefully. She suffered no pain.
Those who were not mourners went
to their rooms. A few minutes
later the inevitable element OF ma
terialism stepped into this chapter
Of international history, for the
court ladies' went busily tB Fork
ordering their mourning frbm Loft
don. This wheels of The world
were iSffed when the announce
hatit came, but in this palace at
Osborne everything pursued the
Usual course. Down in the kitchen
there was cooking a huge dinner
for an assemblage, the like of which
has seldom Beef known Ill Eiig-
lane, and The dinner preparations
proceeded Just as if nothing had
happened,
"Tfe Queen is Dead"
At the lodge gates the watchers
waited afixiously. Suddenly along
the drive from the house came a
horseman who cried: "The queen
is dead" as he dashed through the
crowds. Then down the hillside
fiished a myriad of messengers,
passing the fateful bulletin from
bne to another Soon the sur
founding country knew that a king
fuled over Great Britain. The
local inhabitants walked as if in a
dream thrBngh the streets OF Cowes,
but they did not hesitate to stop
to driffE the health of the neW
monarch. 8
Long Live the King"
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proclaimed King of Great Britain
and Emperor of India, in st. James
palace, at 8 o'clock "Wednesday
morning. fhus Il changed the cry
Of the people from "God Save the
Qneeh" to Long Live the King
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