The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-04-01
Arranging a Marriage Between
Prince Napoleon's Daughter and
the Duo D~'orleans.
The Visit of q Queen Results IN
Raising Lady Crawford's
Assessment.
c.rrn.rv and Camaroon-Madame Melba
and Her Royal Prince-A Strange
Case of Suicide.

LONDON, March lett is rumorad here
that one of the chief motives for the visit
of the Duchesse d'Uzes to Rome last month
vas to arrange to carry out a project which
aha had for some time been planning for a
marriage between the Duchesse d'Aosta.
daughter OF Prince Napoleon, and the Duo
d'Orleans. The s~ister-in-law of King Hum
bert. of Italy. is about the same age as the
eldest son Of the Comte de Paris. What
has tended to give color to this rumor here
ia the presence of the Duchesse Dues.
when at Rome. at a grand fete given in her
honor by Count Primoli, who. on his moth
er's side, ia allied to the B%onaparte family.
and the fattering attentions paid to her
during the whole evening by her host on
this occasion.
A Paris journal tells a rather curious
story about the villa at which Queen Vic
toria stayed at Florence when she
Last, vi crssfo, Italy; who 1t !; appe sas p sns'
where the queen stayed, has had to pay
rather dearly for the privilege of entertain
ing the British sovereign. The municipal
ity of Florence which, like most of the mu-
inequalities of Italy, has many requirements
md an empty cash box, recently sent Lady
Crawford an official intimation that the
amount at which the Villa Palmieri was
rated mas been nearly doubled. The argu-
ment of the F%lorentine "city fathers" was
that the villa had acquired q much greater
value since the queen of England had
stayed there. This piece OF pleasantly on
the part Of the authorities is rather CALLING
to Lady Crawford, seeing that she received
nothing either directly or Indirectly for
having given up her villa tot queen. The
only thing about the arrangement was that
she was obliged to reside elsewhere while
Her Britannia Majesty occupied her villa.
So it appears that the five years. work OF
the Germans in Camaroon shows little if
any progress, Judging by the reports OF
Duallas still control the entire commerce,
and the Germans are forced to accept all
the native products of the interior at a ma
tive profit of 500 PEI cent. The German
colonial Office recently asked for a credit of
some millions for the maintenance of
to make war.upon the Duallas. It, how
ever. seems a great blot upon our c%iviliza-
ton that German taxpayers should be asked
to provide money for the extirmination of
a race doing a legitimate business in its
own territory.
Madame Melba, the Australian prima
donna, who is again in Paris after an absence
of two months, is likely to draw great
houses. One Of the Vienna papers devotes
a long article to the lady, which has been
extensively copied in the Paris papers giving
an account of the singers frequent appear
ance in private boxes in Vienna theaters, &C
companied by the young Due d'Orleans. At
one theatre SO marked IN interest was taken
in the pair by the rest of the audience, that
the prince and his companion left the thea
tire. Prince Henry has received an intima-
ton from the Berlin court-delicately con-
veyed to his OK royal highness, of course,
that if he comes to Berlin, he must not ex-
pect any consideration whatever from the
court or society. There is 10 doubt that the
young gentleman. who amused Europe with
his pretty little farce of the French Con-
script. has been goirg it rather heavily late
ly, but no doubt he is not doing more than
sowing the wild oats, of which even princes
are prone to do in these degenerate days.
A strange case of suicide has just occurred
in Paris. Some days age a contractor of
arrested on the charge of having received
some plaster casts that had been stolen.
His wife made the most energetic efforts to
get him set at liberty. but without success.
In her desperation she wrote to her legal ad-
wiser. M. LaRasse, a letter IN which she said
she wished him to know that she was about
to put an end to her life because she could
not bear to see her husband brought up in
court charged with such an offense. The
lawyer on receipt of the letter made his
way immediately to the Rue Cham
pionnet; but found Madame de Bruya
dead. She had put her threat into
execution, and had poisoned herself
with a solution of poppy seed n
cyanide of potassium. M. Lagasse went
and announced this act of despair to M.
Ralliand, the judge, who is about to try the
case, and begged him to issue a temporary
order. setting the prisoner at liberty, in or
der that he might assist at the funeral of
his wife. The judge, without hesitation,
set aside the ordinary formalities on learn
ing the facts, and M. de Bruyn was released
from Mazas, and attended the funeral of
his wife at Pere Lachaise in the afternoon.
The case has created a good deal Of COM
ment in certain quarters, the unusual char
acter of the suicide arousing much interest
and a great deal of sympaty with the &C
nuaea.