Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1892 — How Famous Bolen Died. [ARTICLE]

How Famous Bolen Died.

Philip of Macedon was assassinated by his own guards when about to start on the conquest of Greece. Fergus 111. of Scotland was stabbed by his jealous qneen, who immediately afterward committed suicide. Constantine XIL, the last Emperor of the East, was killed in the storming of Constantinople by the Turks. Ivan VI. was imprisoned for eighteen years and finally murdered. Mary Queen of Scots was beheaded. Leo VI. reigned seven months and was poisoned by Marosia, an infamous woman of great power in Borne. In forty-nine years, from A. D. 260 to A. D. 309, sixteen Roman Emperors were assassinated by their successors. Galba was murdered by men who were in every way trusted by him and whom he had signally befriended. Commodus, the Gladiator Emperor, was murdered by the Preetorian guards who had placed him on the throne. Claudius was poisoned by his infamous wife, Agrippina, to make room for her equally infamous son Nero. Otto 11. of Germany massacred his chief nobles at a feast and himself died of a wound from a poisoned arrow. Or seventy'three historio Kings oi Scotland sixty*, one are said to have died in battle or to have been murdered. Queen Mart of England died of mortification at the loss of Calais, the last of the English colonial possessions. Louis IX., the saint after whom the city of St. Louis is named, died of the plague while on a crusade in Africa. Edward 111. died of a broken heart caused by the death, from consumption, of his son, the famous Black Prince. The names of fifty-two Saxon kings are preserved, all of whom, with the exception of four, died a violent death. Magna Chabta John died of mortiflcation at the loss of his baggage and treasure while crossing a dangerous ford.