Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1910 — KING EDWARD IS DEAD; GEORGE V. RULES ENGLAND. [ARTICLE]

KING EDWARD IS DEAD; GEORGE V. RULES ENGLAND.

Continued from first page. political situation, which confronted him with sleepless nights, aggravated, if it did not cause the fatal Illness. Besides the nearest relatives in England, the duke of Fife and the archbishop'lot Canterbury were in the death chamber. The king’s brother, the duke of Connaught, with his family, is at Suez, hastening home from Africa. The king’s daughter, Queen Maud, of Norway, has started for England. -- All who know the king had feared that his death would be sudden, and It would not have occasioned great surprise if it had occurred without warning at some social function as a result of heart trouble. Almost to the end he refused to take to his bed, and was sitting up Friday in a large chair, so the palace stories go. One of the last utterances attributed to King Edward was: “Well, it is all over, but I think I have done my duty.” He seemed to have reached a full realization that his death was approaching. The queen and others of the royal family and four doctors had been constantly in the sickroom throughout the day. Several hours before his death the king was in a comatose condition, but he rallied slightly between 9 and 10 o’clock and appeared to recognize his family. Then he lapsed into unconsciousness, which ended in his passing. The intelligence that the end of King Edward’s reign had come was not a surprise at the last. The people had been expecting to hear it any hour since the evening’s bulletin was posted at Buckingham palace and flashed throughout the kingdom. Within a few minutes after the death of the king, the home office was telegraphing the intelligence to the heads of other governments and the British diplomats and colonial officials throughout the world. The fashionable restaurants were just emptying and a few groups of late theatregoers were making their way homeward through the rain, when the streets were filled 1 suddenly with newsboys shrilly crying: “Death of the king,” The papers were quickly seized and the people discussed the momentous event quietly and soon dispersed. The streets were deserted at 1 o’clock.