St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-11
EVEN FOOLS WEAR CROWNS
King lillian Has Made Middle of His
Divorce Proceedings.
A WAR CLOUD IS RISING.
Il Queen Nasalie's Anger Is Not Ap-
peased. She Will Make Startling
Disclosures.

Special Cable to the Globe.
BELGRADE, Nov. 10.-Servia has again
become disturbing factor in European
politics and threatens to upset the cal
culationS of the Central European
statesmen respecting the maintenance
of peace in the Balkans, at least until
the coming spring. The differences be-
tween King Milan and Queen Natalie
of Servia have sharply divided parties
in that little state, and the adherepts of
the queen, who are undoubtedly in the
majority outside the official classes, are
meditating coup d etat, which has Tor
its object the dethronement of King
Milan and the placing of his son on the
throne, with his mother as a member of
regency during his minority. That
the situation in Seryia is becoming
alarming, is evident from tl,e fact
that Russia has notified Aus
tria that if the latter should
throw a force into Servia to aid King
Milan in quelling any insurrectlon that
may occur Russia will at once occupy
Bulgaria. Those European politicians
who had watched the course of events
expected that Queen Natalie would not
sit calmly under the treatment she re-
ceived from the king. They now be-
lieve that the
QUEEN CAN MAKE DISCLOSURES
which would not only lead to civil war
in Servia but also embroil Austria and
Russia in strife which would probably
lead to general European war, as
Germany and Italy could hardly stand
by and see their ally engaged in
hopeless encounter with Russia. no
matter how damaging the disclosures
against Austria. Sympathy for Queen
Natalie continues to spread, not
only in Servia but throughout
the other Balkan states, and
in Russia, and even in Austria, where
the SiavS warmly espouse her cause.
There can be no doubt at all that King
Milan put himself hopelessly and scam
dalOusiy i'll the wrong by seeking the
divorce in the manner he did. Even
Henry VIII submitted to the form of
a trial before Kidding himself of SUI
perhous wife, and the first Napoleon,
who was not careful about appearances,
at least went through the formalIty of
having his divorce from the Empress
Josephine pronounced by the senate.
King Milan rushed to his end with a
brutal cynicism, and contented himself
with inducing or compelling his seryile
metropolitan
TO PRONOUNCE THE DIVORCE.
The whole business Savored of medi-
eval despotism, and was fiat insnit to
the other bishops and functionary at
whose hands the kings suit was await
ing judgment in the ordinary course.
A we'll known diplomat in an interview
this evening said that there would be
no political interest in the difficulties
between King Milan and Queen Natalie
were it not that their quarrel will very
likely involve their country in civil
troubles which viii be the signal for the
interference of great powers in the
affairs Of little ones. There was, he
said, serious reason for Austria up
holding King Milan, and that the
latter's anti-Russian policy had little to
do with the matter. 1t lies, he said, in
the recent war between Seryia and Bull
garia, and if reports can be relied upon,
Queen Natalie can make disclosures
respecting that war which may possibly
shake the faith of the young emperor
of Germany as to the methods en-
ployed by Prince Bismarck to further
Austrian schemes to the detriment of
Russia. They will undoubtedly gain
friends for Russia in quarters where
she now has none.