The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1910-05-13
KING EDWARD is DEAD;
GEORGE Y. new RULER
Streets Of London ThrOnged
With Mourning People.

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", sworn In as king of Great Britain
and Ireland, emperor of India and ov-
erlord of the British dominions beyond
the seas after his illustrious fathers
demise, reigns in his stead.
For some time before death came
the king was unconscious, lying in a
comatose state for a considerable
time He had a slight rally into con-
seriousness, but not after 10 o'clock.
The actual complaint from which his
majesty suffered was an asthmatic
cardiac affection.
Announcement of the death were
Immediately transmitted to the minis
try of foreign affairs and to the home
office The special staff of the foreign
Office flashed the intelligence to the
British embassies throughout the
world and to the chiefs of the colonial
governments.
The kings privy council met and
Earl Carew, lord president, after an
noGIcing the death of King Edward,
administered the oath to King George,
Immediately after which each mem
Der of the council swore allegiance to
the new king in the form prescribed
since the time of William the Con-
queror.
The official proclamation of King
George V. was made in the throne
room at st. James palace
King Georges first proclamation
was issued Immediately thereafter In
1t he requires all officials to proceed
with their duties. Formerly All of.
fees, excepting the councillors, were
vacated by the death of the soVer-
eign.
King Edward VII was born in Buck
ingham palace on Nov. 9, 1841, and
was christened Albert Edward. He
was the second child and eldest son Of
Queen Victoria and the Prince Con-
sort Albert. He was carefully edu-
Gated under private tutors, his educa-
ton being at one time in charge of
Charles Kingsley, the distinguished
novelist and social reformer. He at
tended Edinburgh university and spent
a year at Oxford and four terms at
Cambridge.
1t was on the occasion of his going
to Canada to lay the foundation stone
of the parliament house at Ottawa
in 1860, when he was but nineteen
years of age, that he was invited to
the United States. He dropped his
royal prerogatives on entering the
country and travelled as Baron Rem
frew," which was one of his neredi-
tary titles. Among other cities he Wis
tied Chicago, which was then a town
of 100000 inhabitants. There he saw
the rival torchlight professions IN the
Lincoln-Douglas campaign and OBJ
served the whole nation on the eve of
its greatest crisis.
Prince Albert succeeded to the
throne on the death of Queen Victoria
in 1902. Illness, which in 1872 had
severely threatened his life, again in
tervened and caused a postponement
of his coronation from June 26 to Au-
gust 9. He was then sixty years old,
and the oldest monarch with one ex-
ception, who has assembled the throne
since Egbert.
George V. was born at Marlborough
house June 8, 1866, and was baptized
at Windsor castle July of that year
From his earliest childhood the new
king of England was of the human
sort -intolerant of the restraint that
overhung the royal residences. He pre-
ferred to play in the mud when a boy,
and one of his greatest infantile woes
was that he was never permitted to
wade in the gutter. His mischiev-
GUS activity gave him the name OF the
"enfant terrible" of the royal family
His serious minded grandmother was
always on the lookout for a new and
annoying prank.
His principal occupation in life has
been the collection of postage stamps
He seldom attends the theater, and is
rarely seen in public except when it
is necessary.
He is a little man, slight, bearded,
stolid-looking, yet nervous in demean-
or. He shows at his best in a naval
uniform On a horse he is awkward
and uncertain.
Perhaps the best point in his pecu-
liar character is his omnivorous read
ing of all blue books and parliament
airy papers.