Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1886 — A KING DROWNS HIMSELF. [ARTICLE]

A KING DROWNS HIMSELF.

Ludwig, the Insane Euler of Bavaria, Puts an Ead to His Miserable LifeThe Heroic Efforts of His Physician to Thwart the Monarch’s Purpose. Ludwig 11., who. was recently deposed from the Bavarian throne, has committed suicide. IFeTiad gone ont for a promenade in the pant of the Berg Castle, accompanied by Dr. Gudden, his physician, says a cable dispatch from Munich. The king suddenly threw himself into the Stamberg Lake and was drowned. The physician jumped into the water to rescue the King and was also drowned. The medical commission which examined the late King report that he had ordered the members of the ministerial deputation headed by Count Holstein, who Called upon him to procure his consent to a regency, to be flogged until th’fejK'bled and then have their eyes extracted. Before his death the belief was spreading among the common people of Bavaria t hat the King’s deposition was illegal. The people did not believe he was insane. Precautions had been taken to prevent the populace from rising to restore the King. The full story of Ludwig’s recent eccentricities would be generally regarded as incredible. He J had a mania for avoiding the daylight and for turning day into night. He often summoned great musicians to the palace at late hours by post-horses to gratify the royal wish to hear a single air. He frequently had statesmen aroused in the small hours and sent to him to assist him to play a billiard game. He would drive at night in a chariot or on horseback with fly-ing-speed, accompanied by mounted torchbearers, far up into the mountains, in imitation of Burger's “Leonore” and of Goethe’s “Erl Keonig.” Once, while engaged in one of these wild night mountain chases, he fell, with his horse, down a deep chasm. He was badly hurt, and his injury aggravated his mental ailment, but his physicians were obliged to approach him disguised as lackeys or as soldiers. Dr. Mueller and Hubert, the King’s steward, had the bodies of Lndwig-andJJr. Gndden conveyed to the Berg Castle and placed on beds'. Although there was neither any perceptible respiration nor pulse movement in either body, Dr. Mueller and his assistants of the ambulance corps attempted to restore animation in both, and only ceased their efforts at resuscitation at midnight, when life was pronounced extinct ih both cases. King Ludwig’s suicide cast a deep gloom over Munich. The people were deeply attached to the King, and evidences are everywhere manifest of the popular sorrow, caused by his tragic death.

James H. Wabdek, of„. Nokesville, Prince William County, Va., says: “My wife’s old turkey hen was sitting beside the garden fence on thirteen eggs. About a week ago a large black snake came along and ate the turkey, curled himself on the eggs, and stayed .there until they hatched out, and then ato the whole brood at once.” David Latoubett, of New Carlisle, Ohio, says a snake nearly twelve feet long has its den in a stone pile near his farm gate. It can jump eight feet into the air and thinks nothing of making a running jump of twenty-four feet It is the tenor of the neighborhood.