The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1889-02-07
DARK EPISODES.
Prince Rudolph's Death Laid In
directly at Bismarck s Door.
The SOicide Theory Secuted by
Experienced Diplomats.
Fate That Fellows the Foes the Iron
Chancellor Melted Out to
Eamhetfa Sknhalof Ghaueav- KING
Gambetta, Skobslof, Chaucey, King
Louis and Frederick.

NEW YORK, Feb. among the as
ISOLATED press dispatches last night
was the following: The Paris Soir
insists that Crown Prince Rudolph was
assassinated. 1t comments on the
mysterious and premature disappear
ance of Skobeloff, Katkoff, Chaucey,
Gambetta, Emperor Frederick and
Crown Prince Rudolph, all adyersaries
of Prince Bismarck, who seems to
have destiny at his service. Taken
in connection with the above and and
the following dispatch from Washing
ton to the Tribune is OF peculiar signi-
ficance and interest: ''Seldom has a
more startling coincidence been wit
messed" said an experienced diplomat
to-day, than the almost simultaneous
announcement CT the Heath of the
Austrian heir apparent and the publi-
cation in the London Contemporary
ReVeW of the remarkable and mani
| testify inspired indictment of the Bis
marck dynasty"
Crown Prince Rudolph's sudden de
mise in the very heyday of his youth
| and manly vigor appears To be shrouded
| IN mystery. The most conflicting ac-
counts are given of the manner in
| which he met his death and it is prob
| able that the world at large will never
| be allowed to know the true story of
| the tragedy. The latter is but another
| of those dark episodes that have oc-
| Cured during tue past two decades
| which have invariably resulted in the
! death of great peTsonageS who had IN
CURED the personal enmity of Prince
| Bismarck, whom the Iron Chancellor
choose to regard as menace to the
| country and his own family. No one.
| not even the most intimate inhabitues
! of the little house at Vile de ARRAY. has
ever been able TO unravel the my stery
| which, the death of Gambetta, the only
man in France by the aid of General
| Chancey who has ever caused the chan
cellor any uneasy moments since 1871.
| Chaucey's sudden decease at Chalons
within Il few weeks OF that of the pop
ular tribune, was equally ineXpllcable,
attended by many suspicious circum-
stances, and Bismarck was freely men
toned by Chauvinist FIenchmen in
connection herewith. The famous
| Russian General, Skobelof, who, as
the friend of Gambetta and Chaucey,
had become the bette noir of the Ger
man chancellor, met with an equally
unexpected and mysterious end, which
not even his inseparable companion,
NJ. Hitrovo, who was with him until
within a couple of hours of his death,
mas De6u dDlO W 6Apldlll w lO W JulS
DAY has succeeded IN tearing aside the
veil which enshrouds the last moments
of the late King Louis of Bavaria. His
corpse and that of his attendant pbysi-
clan showed traces of the fact that q
terrible hand-to-hand struggle for life
had take place on the shore of Storm
berg lake. But who were the assas-
sins?
And now, last of all we have the
death of Archduke Rudolph, one of
the brightest, most intellectual and lib
eral princes who have ever figured as
heir apparent TO great imperial crown.
: The theory of suicide will obtain but
little credence among those who en-
joyed the personal acquaintance of the
gay and pleasure-loving. young arch
duke. 1t may be remembered that In
case of Gambetta the latter was Off
cially declared to have inflicted on him.
self wounds which his friends at the
time knew had been inflicted by some
other hand, while every true Bavarian
, to this very day scouts the idea that the
late King Ludwig's death was due to
, felo-de-Se.
Suicide is so convenient theory.
The crown prince, partly no doubt in
consequence of his devotion to the late
: Emperor Frederick, was very far from
being a great parsonage at Berlin. His
high-bred instinct, together with the
! chiValrouS bearing which he had inner
tied from his father. were not of ma
tuIe to amalgamate with the unman-
, nerly ways of William IL. Els init
. macy with NJ. Clemenceau and undis-
guised admiration of General Bou-
LANCER, both of which we're we'll known,
: caused him to be regarded by the Bis
marck clique as man eminently m
fitted to succeed to the throne of Austro-
, Hungary.
1t is no secret that the arch duke was
} thoroughly opposed to the subOrdina-
+ ton of Vienna to Berlin, which con-
= stitutes one of the most distasteful
, features of the triple alliance. Had
: il not been for the affectionate Tela-
: tions which existed between Francis
Joseph and his son there is no doubt
but the latter would have assumed pub.
: licly the leadership of the ''SehwarZ
: Und Gelb'' [blaek and Yellow party
= as those opposed to the Berlin dictatior
, are called.
Tho Ground hoo onuId easily 0haarYe