Show TAINTS HANOVER BLOOD I I Solemn Talk About Maladies of Members Royal House 4 EMPRESS FREDERICK ILL I Beloved Daughter of Queen Victoria Afflicted with CancerSpecialists Consider Her Life a Matter of Months Too 111 to Leave the Castlo at Friedrichshof Near Hamburg Queen Gave Her Last Year tho White Lodge at Richmond as Sho I Desired an English Home I London Aug iQopyrlsht 1 1DOO by tho Associated Press < Thc Kings Evil of George II seemingly taints all I the Hanover blood The death of the Queens most accomplished son the Duke of SaxeCoburg and Gotha for he could lead an orchestra play the violin catch salmon with a Scotch expert = ex-pert or sail a ship haa caused much solemn talk at court about the maledies I of other members of the royal l house Notwithstanding the denial Issuing J from Berlin It Js quite certain that Empress I Em-press Frederick the Queens eldest and most beloved daughter Is afflicted with cancer and that great specialists consider con-sider her life a matter of months She Is too 111 to leave the castle at Fried richshof near Homburg for her customary cus-tomary summer visit to England Queen Victoria knowing her desire to poss san s-an English home gave her the white lodge at Richmond last year But aha will probably never be able to occupy Ito ASSASSIN OF HUMBERT Scotland Yard In averring that Bres ci tho assassin of King Humbert was never in England is understood to allege al-lege that the instigator of the crime Is probably a man who made no secret of his intentions concerning high Italian personages while In London several t months ago He was so closely watched while here that he departed for the United States and was last heard of In Paterson N J King Humbert during a private visit here in 1S02 took extraordinary interest in the slums and In the anarchist haunts where had been planned Orslnls plot to kill Emperor Napoleon III with a bomb and the Czars assassination While visiting one anarchist resort his Majesty noticed a flaming picture designed I de-signed by the proprietor of the place representing tin anarchist hurling lawyers I yers churchmen statesmen and capitalists I capi-talists Into Hades The proprietor gave the King a copy t of this picture not knowing who his visitor was The London editor of an Italian republican Journal who was standing by suggested to the Kings I guide what a strong resemblance his I friend borfi to the King of Italy His Majesty also visited at night several of the most wicked resorts In London incognito In-cognito and accompanied by one companion com-panion MODERN RAPID TRANSIT Londoners have been reveling this week in their first experience with modern mod-ern rapid transit as furnished by the new Central London Electric Underground Under-ground systemThe TwoPenny Tube as some of them call it Eighty thousand persons have daily learned for the first time that it f Is no longer necessary ne-cessary to waste two hours on an omnibus om-nibus in order to reside five or six miles from their place of business England never seems to have recovered I recov-ered from the primitive Idea says an American electrical 1 engineer that a railroad train Is not a stage I coach Their methods in regard to rolling stock I construction have never till within the past few months departed one Iota from those In vogue when stages were 0 I the only means of transportation Pullman Pull-man cars are In use or at least an English En-glish edition of the Pullman on many roads but until last Monday an electric light and electricpropelled corridor train running through porcelainlined stations was as great an Innovation to the London nubIle as Aladins lamp was to the Arabians |