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Will Austria's PrincaJMo
Through the abaaselnatlon of
Archduke Francis Ferdinand and
' hia morganatic wife, ttio curse on
f the House vi the Haps burgs, placed
there when Emperor Fran. Joseph
way a young man. now marks
Archduke. Charles Fran. Joseph,
heir-presumptive to the ihrone aa
next for death
Franz Joseph is an old man The
curse of the. houc f naps,urB
was pronounced on the Emperor
sixty-six years ago by the Countess
Karolyj of Hungers after he re
fused to grant the life uf her son
after she pleaded at the foot of his
throne. He was then only is years
The son of Mie Countess had par-
Ipated in the Hungarian rebel
lion. He was only a youth and did
ii'. t take any serious part in the
rebellion, yet he was sentenced to
die The Emperor listened to the
woman's pleadings but hi advisors
said the rebel should be made an
example of and he told her h
fnust die.
"Listen," cried the grlef-strlcken
woman. "You hae no mercy for
the boy who was only trying to
serve his country, As you have de
nied mercy to him, I pray (Jod to
den mercy to you. You are young,
but I pray God that death shall not
come to you until you hae seen
your nearest and dearest die in
shame and violence. Disaster shall
, bft your portion always, your fond-
st dreams"
r.She was pushed away by the
guards Franz Joseph paled at the
words, but his advisors said there
was nothing in her curse. What she
prayed God for ha? surely come to
pass. One by one the heirs to the
throne have died in violence or
mystery. The Emperor lives on
and as he lives he Is. visited with
grief
None have been killed on the
field of battle, but In Hungary there
are certain soothsayers, who pro
tess to be able to forecast the fu
ture. They say Charles Franz Jo
s' ph will die In battle before the
Emperor dies
With his regiment, the famous
Thirty-ninth infantry on the Serv
ian frontier, and with the ever pres
ent possibility of war along the
Austro-Hungsry border, the sooth
sayers may hit the mark just as the
CountCSS Katolyi did.
BROTH Kit M1XI l
IN Ml M AS CAPITAL
The assassination of Archduke
Francis Ferdinand and his wife is
the fourth great tragedy In the life
of Emperor Francis Joseph mm in
his Mlh year. The Fin;. ior has
Keen the eldest of his three younger
brothers! the Archduke Ferdinand.
t who became the Emperor Maxfmll-
lian Of Mexico, executed; his only
son. the Archduke Iludolph, died
under mysteribua and scandalous
Circumstances, either murdered or
o suicide; his wife, the beloved Em
press Elizabeth, assussirated ; and
now his second heir and the letter's
w i f assassinated.
The attempt of the Archduke
Ferdinand Maximilian of Mexico to
-t;il. lis)) himself as Emperor of that
turbulent country wns made against
the earnest advice of his elder
brother, Francis Joseph
The Civil War In Mexico Just
.prior to our own Civil War had re
sulted, as the present revolution
had resulted, in heavy losses to for
eigners, The Fnlted States con
lidered intervention, and a joint In
tervention by Great Britain Fiance.
Spain and Prussia also was con
sidered. Napoleon III finally took
up the claim of a Swiss banker,
and with the as.-. stance of Spain
and Greai Britjtln, France occupied
Vera Cruz and finally entered Mex
ico City on June 7. 1861 A pro
visions! government vvas formed
iuid the crown as Emperor was of-
B,
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rift; -.
fered to the Archduke Ferdinand of
Austria.
The Archduke contented and
landed in Mtxu 0 as- Emperor Maxi
milian on Mav 2$, 1861, after re
nouncing all rights to the Austrian
Succession. He Immediately was
beset bj a multitude of diffh. cities
As a foreigner he was disliked and
Ins foreign troops were unpopular.
The Mexicans thought he was top
conservative, and the clericals, who
had done much to set him up as
Fmperor. considered him too 1 1 1 -eral
His rule was hardlv more
than nominal for the short time It
lasted
NapoUen HI urged him to abdi
cate, lint the new Emperor refused
t. desert his followers. He with
drew from the capital to yucretato
In February', 167. and after a long
siege attempted to .scape through
the enemy's lines Tie was arrested,
condemn d to death by court mar
tial, and sentence was executed on
June 19. D67. His bodv was taken
to Vienna lor burial
The tragedy of Meycrllng. through
which the Archduke Rudolph met
his death, has been kept as milch
of a mystery as possible by imperial
silen ing Some historians have ac
cepted u s an established fact that
Rudolph committed suicide that
night In his hunting lodge, al
though admitting that the Baroness
m trie Vetzera met her death at thu
bunting lodge at the same time
From statements made at various
times by persons ( lose to the facts it
appears to have been at least par
tially established that the Arch
duke died of a great wound in the
head mads seemingly by some
heavv Instrument. One anonymous
writer In the Paris Temps a few
years ago gave this explanation of
the tragedv
NO M PUNISHED
FOR FEAR I tr ll BLICJTY.
The Archduke had gone to the
UPPER left- The late
Archduke Ferdinand
and his I amil) . Upper right
Archduke Charles Fr.ui
Joseph Belcw Sqldiers
i it Sei i.i.
hunting lodge with some men
friend?, but without the Baroness
Vetzera. who was a very beautiful
girl of IS years. The Baroness
pjanned ' surprise her royal ad
mirer and drove to the hunting
lodge late.- In the evening, passing
several nours dining and talking
with the Archduke and his friends.
This account of the events of the
night omits all suggestion of an
orgy The coachman who drove the
Baroness to the hunting lodge Is
quoted as having said he saw the.
Archduke r.nd the BarpjuBSS chat
ting quietly by a window at mid
night. Then, this version ...f the story
Tuns. Count Waldateln, admirer of
the young woman, who had been
spying upon her. notified fount
Baitaxzi, tbe Baroness' guardian.
The version continues that thes
two went to the hunting lodge to
gether, obtained admittance on a
pretext and enteretl a room where
the royal lovers were. Then the
anonymous writer continues, the
Courjl Waldsteln -shot nnd killed th.
girl, the Archduke shot and killed
Waldateln, and the guardian, un
armed; picked up a thampagnc bot
tle or other handy instrument and
rushed the skull of the Archduke.
N'o one was ever punished for
the deatti dl the Archduke or of the
young woman, the Imperial gov
ernment r" ' ferrlng to let the mur
derers go than to 'ivc publicity to
' Hungarians, however, was always
U?&t'3fcV- . . , -real, in-1 In her later jeirs Aus-
ffW?M ' - -y .v.: in; tOO, i h ngcd its attitude toward
... ' ' her.
s,' not recov ered from the
V; shock of the death of her only son,
'.; . . ; . .vv" v"V . ''' the A re il l ii I. e Rudolph, when, in
?''' - ' v ' ' '?'' J 1S97. her cousin. Fouls II of Ba-
,' ' f " varla. committed suicide, and thea
'.v ''-5i-: fJ 'n 18"97 her sister, Sophia, Duchess
' v . J I' of Alencon; was killed in the Paris
-. -'V;C charity bazaar lire. On September
v '.y '-. v ' 'V 1". 1 while walking from her
'J.' y ' , 'l hotel to s steamer at Geneva she
. -. - " ; was stabbed by an Italian Anarchist
TVwZvl r'n'' '"' "n'n ft few hours
irTYr " " Anothei mystery in th- famllj of
Emprror Francis Joseph concerned
tho Archduke John Nepomuk Sai-
va'tor.
He was born In Florence In 18S2,
Mo yoiingeat son ef Grand Duke
Leopold II of Tuscany. He was a
distant relative of the Fmperor.
Tin- Grand Duchy of Tuscany was
taken from the HapsburgS In 1860
and became a part of united Italy.
A serious minded man and a gooJ
soldier, ho wrote a pamphlet In
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IS."" criticising the Austrian army.
For this he was sent in disgrace to
Fin and three years later he an
noumed himself a candidate for the
throne of Bulgaria, vacant through
the abdication of Alexander. This
ran counti r to Austria's plans, and
he was deprived of his command In
the Austrian arm. Thereupon he
resigned from the army entirely, re
nounced all rights of succession
which he might have these were
rather distant and contracted a
morganatic marriage with Ludmlla
Stubel, an actress.
lie then dropped his title, took
the name John Orth, and charter-
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the events of the night. Doyens of
Stories have been told and denied.
The. Empress Elizabeth at the
time of her marriage to tho young
Francis Joseph, wa reputed to bo
the most beautiful Princess in Eu
rope. The marriage took place on
April 21, ISr.l. Tn the first years
of her married life she frequently
went counter to Yicnneso prejudice,
particularly in her love for horse
...iuasbio . Hcc Dopularity with the
ing a sailing vessel, filed her with
lenient rHl with his bride set sail
for Bucm3 Ayrc-s. There he sold
the cement, took on a new crew, as
sumed command of the ship him
sflf and sailed ostensibly for Val
paraiso on Jxily 10. 1890 The pilot
who took the ship out returned Ww
days latei. nnd John orth s"
whereabouts ever since have been
a mystery.
Upon the petition of the Arch-
duke Joseph Ferdinand, a nephew 1
of John Orth. the latter was de- !
lared officially dead by the ien- :
nese courts on July 9. 1'JlO, and his j
estate Of ?8,000.000, which he had r
b-rt behind in Austria, was given to t
Joseph Ferdinand, who already had :
inherited the estate of Archduke
Leopold, who also renounced his
titles :vnd married an actress. Leo- I
poi.i later quarreled with his wife.
ml .li.i.rce. married a fl
former Swiss servant girl, with lljl
whom he now lives in Switzerland.
The assassination of Archduke RH
Ferdinand placed Archduke Charles j
in direct, line to the Austrian sue- Hj
cession. Fut Austria wants to fight
and avenge the death of her Prince.
The new Frlnco may die Fighting for jfl
that vengeance, for strange is fate.
Kt BDUILE CHAR1 1 5
KEABED FOB THRONE.
1 harles Francis Joseph was spe
dally prepared for the duties of r
ruler since his early childhohoJ, be
cause he was next in line of sue
cession to the throne as a result of
the Archduke Francis Ferdinands
renun laM .n of th.e rights thereto "ifl
for his children when he entered
into a morganatic marriage with fH
the Duchess von llohenherg.
The heir presumptive was born
in Parsenburg, August 17. 18S7.
lie will, therefore, be L'7 years old
next August. Up. to the present his
life has been without special Inct
dent, except that he has always jH
been granted all tho favoi9 and
privileges of precedence duo to ths
ever-stronr likelihood that he would
i-ventuall.v be placed on the throne ffl
The miarrlage of Charles Francis
Joseph, which took place on Oc
tober 21, 1911, was an ev ent of note M
r.nd much celebration In Austria. H
tally In view of the fact that
I,,- bride Zita Princess I
of Bourbon; a woman of his own J
ins Princess Zita who is tal- m
ented and well versed in diplomatic IM
and government affairs, comes from Ll
an illustrious family. She Is the HH
thirteenth child of the late Duke of rH
r.innn and his second wife. Marl
Antonis Princeps of Portugal. She
was born Mav S, 1892 She hns
twenty-three brothers and sister R
1 inpty Gloves
Mr Eb Towner, gallant but near-
from Kfl
Twlusburg, Ohio, was pleased and
surprised to see f "r hands waving II
te iim from half 8 (oZen oftke H
windows he passed the En- H
glneers' Building. Tuesday. jH
Or, rather, he supposed they , JM
were hands. fllllw
V ,1 turned out. 'hey were
empty white gloves which stenos- I
ni ra h id 'lldcr oflb e II
faucet? and hung ou: to do, re- p
Mr Towner