The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-04-05
BELGIUArs UNHAPPY QUEEN.
King Leopo1d's Consort Attempted
Suicide Last Fall.
New York World.


1t is now known that the malady which
prevented the unhappy Queen of the Belgians
from being present at the wedding OF her
niece is the result of an attempt to conlmi,
suicide last autumn at Spa 1t was stated at
the time that she had sustained a fracture
OF the jaw through a fall from her horse.
The publicity OF King Leopold's intrigues
with Emilienne dAlencon and Mile de Me-
rode, both of whom he has brought from
Paris and established in the most sumptuous
fashion at Brussels, has probably been the
she Is distressed beyond measure by the
knowledge that her husband has squandered
in his Congo enterprise the entire fortune
of his demented sister. ex-Empress Char
lotte Of Mexico, who inherited from her faith
er nearly $15,000,O 600
This poor Empress Charlotte is the only
other lady OF royal rank in modern times
whose misery has been Of such intensity as
to drive her to attempt suicide. She made
the attempt at the Vatican in the presence
Fortunately, medical assistance was within
reach; antidotes were administered and aft
er spending the night in the apartments of
the time, she was sufficiently recovered on
the following day to be conveyed to her
hotel.
In spite of all that is said to the contrary
there appears TO be little falling of in the
loyalty Of the great patrician houses Of the
Roman nobility towards the Pope; for when,
the other day, the Holy Father gave his an
nual reception to the Roman nobility In the
consistory hall more than two hundred hand
somely emblazoned carriages were drawn
up in the court of honor of the Vatican, be-
sides considerable number OF ordinary ve-
hicles. The cards of invitation to the cere-
mony were sent out by Don Marc Antonio
Colonna, former chamberlain to Queen Mar
guerite an office which he surrendered on
the death OF his father in order to assume
the hereditary dignity OF Prince Assistant
of the Holy Seat. Meanwhile patrician
names daily become rarer at the Quirinal.
The head of the illustrious house of Sui
kowski, Prince Joseph, Duke Of Blelitz, is
locked up in and escaping from various
lunatc asylums in which his relatives are
perpetually endeavoring to confine him with
the object OF securing possession or his I'M
mense wealth. The latter is incalculablc.
his Hungarian estates alone yielding an an
nual revenue of $3,000,000. All his brothers
and sisters have been in this country, the
one Marie Gemperle, having migrated to the
United States and Joined Shaker COM
munity near New Bremen. The Duke, after
six years of this life, returned home to Bic
litz where he died in 1880.
The other branch OF the family has as its
head Prince Anthony, who is one OF the
great dignitaries OF the court of Berlin, bur
dence in the .Prussian capital owing to finan-
cial difficulties. His two sons have just been
sentenced to a heavy fine with the alterna-
tive OF Imprisonment at Breslau for nom
payment OF taxes, while the ancestral and
superb family seat. the Castle Of Reser, aft
er having been in the hands Of bafliffs for
some time, has recently been the scene OF
an auction sale, resulting in the dispersal OF
magnificent art treasures, silver plate and
ancient tapestries which had been in the pos
session of this formerly semi-royal house for
centuries.