Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1896 — Royal Heirs Ailing. [ARTICLE]

Royal Heirs Ailing.

The czarowitz is in the last stages of couspmption, and he is not expected tu leave Copenhagen, where he now is, alive. Archduke Francis Ferdinand, of Austria, is in a very critical state from dsease of the lungs. He has been giveri unlimited abseuce from the army, anti is under medical treatment in a remote health resort in the Tyrol. The young crown prince of Italy is also ailing to such a degree as to mere than ever convince people that he will not live to succeed his father’s throne. The heir to the grand duke of Baden is consumptive and has no heir. Prince Albert of Flanders, unlike his elder brother, the lamented Prince Baldwin, who perished in such a mysterious manner, is extremely delicate, and so, too, is the little crown prince of Germany, whose health is a matter of grave anxiety to his parents. In fact, his second brother, Prince Eitel, his superior in stature, weight, cleverness and general health, is almost universally regarded as the real heir to the throne. No one could dream of describing the Prince of Wales as a healthy man, while his son, the duke of York, has never entirely recovered from the effects of the typhoid fever with which he was laid low just about the time of the death of his elder brother. In one word, one may look all over Europe without finding a single heir to a throne in whose health and physique his future subjects can place confidence.— Chicago Record.