Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1893 — HOW FAMOUS RULERS DIED. [ARTICLE]

HOW FAMOUS RULERS DIED.

Henry 11. of Leon / died of poison having been Introduced into his wine by his confessor. Hbnby V. of England died suddenly, in convulsions, supposed to have been caused by poison. Edwabd Vl. died of consumption, caused by overstudy and confinement to ill-ventilated rooms. Geoboe 11. died suddenly from some mysterious ailment termed at the time “rupture of the heart." Mahomet 111. strangled all his brothers, drowned his father’s wives, and was himself poisoned. Cleopatra died by her own act, preferring death to survival as a captive in the train of Augustus. Otho killed himself after a reign of ninety-five days to avoid falling into the hands of his enemies. Mtjbad V. was deposed, and according to some reports was murdered; to others is still in prison. Alexander Sevebus was slain in his tent by his guards at the instigation of Maximin, his successor. Nicholas of Russia died of mortification at the failure of his military system during the Crimean war. Louis VIL, sumamed the Lion, was poisoned during an unsuccessful campaign by one of his officers. The Emperor Charles V. died of overeating while in retirement at the Monastery of St. Just in Spain. Edwabd V. was smothered in the Tower of London, by command of his unole, afterwards Richard 111. Edwabd 11. was murdered, in a shamelessly indecent manner, by ruffians employed by hfe faithless wife,