THE DEATH of EARL IDDESLEIGH

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4817, 18 January 1887, Page 3

THE DEATH of EARL IDDESLEIGH

LORD SAIiISBXJRY AND THE DE ; CEASED EARL. EXCITABLE INTERVIEW. A TRAGIC END. ./'

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I . - # London, January 12. , ; Terrible 'Sensation has been caused by the, sudden death of Lord Iddesleigh. Wild rumors-have been in circulation as to the cause of death. The facts are that Lord Eandolph, Churohill has for some time "past been in opeH : "strife with Lord Iddesleigh. This considerably affected the veteran'poli-' tician, and the latest efforts of the younger member of the Conservatives to. shut him out from the Cabinet led to the development 'of. an : acute form of nervous, agitation. Lord Iddesleigh- strongly; objected;to , lawe?hkJ political ei»W and . a,s ,a protest, to thes taeatment wHch PisiLordship tbe Hon. H. positionqiMurveyorr.General' of Q?dnance., vßbien Lord Iddeeleigh was removed-womj the Foreign*. Omce to give place Stanhope, His LordsHp. was offwWWie" chbipe ,of post, as ; , Lord;. Privy gjealrpr • President of Counoil; .Both $Qp>pns Lord.,,lddesleigh.... declined,. ; ,and avbwed he would not.re-enter tho Salisbury _> , Minisj^y.:. : . This. determined: actiein' o»;'t" e ' -part, of His Lordship -was n6>,aAtJ£ip#3d: hr jliord Salisbury, who requested Iddesleigh to grant him an interiiew;in oi'der to discuss the situation, the end ! of:' that interview tragip' end came.. During the "in|«mew .Ear,! 'Idde'sleigK displayed '■ greater . excitement than washiswont, f and while in the heat of, the discussiop. \ hevlsuddeflly, .-■' ieU' back, and. died aUaoefc Jnaibawy,' =: ■■ r * '■.>-''■''■!' v - ■■■'..<>:'':■ ■■■.'■" :■-'■■/': ■'■. .-•■.,