Died On Board Ship

Lojtdoíí, J;i. J23.- Tho Press asaoelation has a dispatoh frora Cowes, Isla of Wight, rhich ha baen eonflrmed, saying that news has bírii reoeivmi at Oíborne that Princ Hnry of Battenborg, husband of thn Pi-inoos Baatrioe of England, who wonti to Ashanti ia a speoial oapacity and who eourrated fever ther, i dsad. ThO quoen nd ÍVinooM Beatriea aro prostratcd wieh nof. The graatest iorrow la raauifoüteicl throughoat tha Isle of Wight at the death of Prinoo Hsniy and the ftags everywhere are at half-mast. Prince Tonk 8 Relapse. From tho few details recoived it appears tbat thn princo had a relapsa when on boord the Bricish cruiser Blonde, on her way to Madnira wit.h the aick man. In ite of the efforti of the special surgeon in attendance and of the ship's eurgeon the prince diod at 8 o'clock Tuesday evenftjg, Tlio Blonde t;hen retuxned to Sierra jLiêone, west ooti3t of África, from whioh plaee the nesvs was oablsd to the admiralty an 1 was by that departrnent communicafced to the queeit and to the Prince of Wales. Prineo Honry was the third Bon of Princo Alexaruier of Battenberg, unúe oí Ludwig IV, Grand Duke of Hesse. He married the Princesa Beatrice in 1885. Thoy have four childron. He was bom Oct. h, 1S58, auil was gorernor of the Isle at Wight and of Cariabrook castle. DTavring Booms Abandoned TJie deaoh of Prince Henry will make a deotded differouce in the oourt plans. The pWiod of mourning for the late prince will exteml over the coming season and all the drawing rooms bave been abandoned. While Prince Henry of Battenberg was un popular, on the whole, with the pople, prlncipally becausö. he was a poor Gierman prince, and therefore conidered unworchy of the hand of a prineess of the royal house of England, he was well liked by all those who had the pleasure of knowing him personally. He wem a splendid athlotio looking man, a good sportsman, and he sailed his awn vacht skülfully. To those around kim he was unprecending and considérate and he was a greac favorita wifch Queen Victoria.