Show How Famous Ieople filet From the St Louis GlobeDemocrat Of seventythree historic kings of Scotland Scot-land sixtyone are said to have aied in battle bat-tle or to have been murdered I Leo VI reigned seven months and was poisoned by Marosia an infamous woman of great power in Rome I Claudius was poisoned by his infamous I wife Agrippina to make room for her i equally infamous son Nero Otto II of Germany massacred his chief off I uoolea at a feast ana himself died of a wound from a poisoned arrow Ed vard HI died of a broken heart caused by the death from consumption of his son the famous Black Prince Comrnodus the gladiator emperor was murdered by the Pr torlan guards who had placed him on the tnronc John Quincy Adams died of paralysis the fatal attack overtaking him at 81 in the hall of the house of representatives The names of fiftytwo Saxon kings are preserved all of whom with too exception of four died a violent death Queen Mary of England died of mortification mortifi-cation at the loss of Calais the last of the English colonial possessions Magna Charta John died of mortification at the loss of his baggage and treasure while crossing a dangerous ford Diocletian died quiptly m retirement after af-ter having refused an offer to assume again the government of the empire In fortynino years from A D 200 to A D 309 sixteen Roman emperors were assassinated by their successors Louis IX the saint after whom the City of St Louis Is named died of the plague while on a crusade m Africa Alexander the Great after murdering his best friends died of a fever brought on by drunkenness and other vices Malduinus of Scotland was choked to death by his wife for supposed infidelity She was burned to death for the crime Atnurath III killed five of his brothers his mother in grief took her own life and he was shortly after taken off by poison AinaziahKingof fled from Jerusla loin on the discovery of a conspiracy against him but was followed and killed Otto III the Red was poisoned shortly after ascending the throne Philip of Germany was assassinated by his courtiers |