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Show KING OF RUMANIA DEAD. Was rVlember of House of Hohenzol- Ics n and Was Inclined to Side j With Germany. London. King Charles of Rumania died at 6:30 o'clock Saturday morning morn-ing at his country seat at Sinaia iu Wallachia. King Charles of Rumania was member of the house of Hohenzollern At the beginning of the war he was inclined to side with Germany and Austria-Hungary and was reported as ready to cast his lot with these countries, coun-tries, but such a ctrse encountered strong opposition in Rumania and particularly par-ticularly in the legislature. Recent dispatches have said that the king, because ut a promise he had made to Germany, desired to mobilize the Rumanian Ru-manian army to assist Germany in the war. |