The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1902-07-25
PEOPLE WHO OFTEN DIE.
Flow Various Celebrities Have Read of
Their Deaths

8 How Various Celebrities Have Read of
4 Their Deaths.
4 AI$wsTs< Three times within the last
4 sys'e7aiS Ssars Lord Salisbury has Joined
\ the sTaA: majority, according to reports.
j His aeasf lS illness has been announced
! t1$ce, "7ld ence he was declared to have
5lae1 ~i!i3 & violent end, The first occa-
I sion was when he was on his way back
4 from Australia, and had slight attack
4 OF influenza o.. the passage, Although it
4 vas so mild AS only TO necessitate u dose
\ or two OF QIlini!Ie. the report of his death
1 was wired home from Naples. and he ar
rived in England 10 find himself dead
\ The second time he was laid up with
Typhoid at Hatfield several years ago, and
among the snnlImerable bulletins issued
1 the news came that he was dead. 1t orig
4 mated in q sudden rumour among the
people OF Hatfield, and was seized upon
and published. The third death" was a
violent one, for Lord Salisbury was re-
ported 10 have been shot by an anarchist
at Eordighera, in Italy. This was the
invention OF a French nationalist paper
and several British papers copied the
news.
The kaiser has quite a little record Of
deaths OF his own, most of them violent
The last was on the occasion of a mad
wo1nan's act in throwing a piece of brick
at him at Potsdam. while he was driv-
ing to review. The brick missed him
and hit a staff officer who was handy,
but the affair made a big sensation, and
one of the news agencies. accepting the
report of an outside person in too great
a hurry, announced that the kaiser had
been stunned, and, having sustained con-
cussion Of the brain, was not likely to re-
cover.
On another occasion the kaiser got a
black eye through thy swinging of neg
lected rope on his yacht, and one paper,
on what authority no one knows, an
nounced that the emperor had been
knocked overheard and drowned, and pub
lished an obituary notice. Once he was
reported to have died of scarlet fever
when, at the moment Of the report, he
was in the best of health, conducting an
orchestra at Munich. On two other occa-
sioas there were fleeing reports that he
had been shot or blown up; and he has a
little album con1lining the announcements
of his various deaths.
Joseph Chamberlain has only died twice
IN this country, but In France he Is con-
stantly being stabbed, poisoned or killed
by accident, invariably an unpleasant
death. The wish Is probably father to
the thought in these cases, and quite a
dozen times during the last ten years has
the colonial secretary been reported as
murdered, either by IAN avenger of the
Boers,' or some such parsonage.
In England, the first Of Mr.. Chamber
latn's deaths happened when he was
laid up with slight Illness about eight
years ago, and the report somehow gained
credence, and got into the evening pape: !.
Three years after that, at the time of the
Crewe railway smash, 1t was reported that
Mr.. Chamberlain was among the killed.
AS 1t happened. he was not even in the
train.
Only once has the kings Death been re-
ported, and the report was soon crushed.
He was thrown out of a carriage near
Holt, in Norfolk, a good many years ago,
and was quite u1lhurt; but an alarmist
rumour started, and one paper announced
his death. It is only couple of years
ago, however, that he was reported to
have been blinded by gun accident and
the story went the round of the evening
papers. =,
There was, in fact, some alarm for a
few minutes among the shooting party;
but all that happened was the blowing of
few grains of burnt powder into the eyes
of the king-or Prince as he was then
which gave him a certain amount of
trouble. 5r'E
Rudyard Kipling, the famous author,
has had couple of notices Of his own
end-one Of them during his illness in
did die, and was only kept alive by oxy-
gen. Three American papers announced
his death. with columns OF abundant obit-
| uary matter; and one or two English pa
| pers, receiving the cablegrams, were de-
ceived. and inserted them. ST.
| On the other occasion Mr.. Kipling was
| represented by several country papers as
| having been shot while at the seat of war
In South Africa.