Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1905 — HE CAUSED A BIG WAR [ARTICLE]

HE CAUSED A BIG WAR

Did It Unwillingly, bnt Hli Action Got Franco and Germany Into the 1870 Straggle. Berlin, June 9.—Prince Leopold von Hohenzollern, a cousin of Emperor William who came to Berlin to attend the wedding of Crown Prince Frederick William and the Duchess Cecilia of Mecklenberg-Schwerln, died suddenly of apoplexy. The prince will lie remembered in history ns the candidate of the Spanish cortes for the throne of Spain, and as having been unwittingly the cause of the Franco-Prussian war. He was 70 years old.