The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-09-14

asnieu that he was dead she Immediately
look up her travelling bag and pulling out
phlai, drank its contents and fell dead
upon the floor. The Crown Prince ordered
ms valet from the room and placed pis-
toi TO his head and fired fatal shot.
Letters of the Prince and of the Baroness
lound after the tragedy tend to d.sprove
thls version, and Indicate premedltated
suicide on the part of both parties. Sew
eral witnesses declared that they had seen
the bodies of The Prince and the Baroness
lying side by side.
man by the name of Johann Tranquil
EN- known by the sobriquet of Baron
ochau, who died on Wards Island,
New York, after career of dissipation IN
the United States, asserted thai he drove
the crown Prince to Meyerling on the
day OF the tragedy He said that he drove
tne Prince and jolly party of friends to
Meyeriing. No women were in the party.
Supper was served in the castle of Meyer
ing, ana during the festivities the Baron
ess Netcera suddenly made her entrance
INTO the supper room and with flashing
eyes asked the Prince If it was true that
he had renounced her.
Inc Prince answered that his father
| would allow of no union between himself
ana The Baroness. The latter then drew a
revolver and fired at Rudolf The bail
wounded him but slightly, and he caught
the lnfuriated woman in his arms. She
| managed, however, to turn the pistol
u
wound. A relative of the Baroness then
! sprang up and brought champagne bot
| tie with all his might upon the head of
the Prince, who sank upon the floor and
! died. The lovers were then laid side by
| side upon a couch
After this terrible unmasking of scan
/ dal the Empress began 10 decline In body
and mind. She had been fighting for purity
IN the aristocracy. The old count a y Jenna
| mad been more corru2t than any other in
| Europe. It was a hol-bed of scandal Roy
! al names had been smirChed, and even that
OF the Emperor himself was not free from
! scandal. The young Empress set herself
| 10 the task of working out reform in this
/ direction. She made the court at Vienna
! more healthy as 60 morals than it had
| ever been In the past What is more, she
! enlisted good-natured, easygoing Francis
Joseph in her work.
she continued to take part in court cere-
monies in a joyless perfunctory manner. 1t
was easy TO see that she considered her
hold on life broken She was content to sit
| brooding and wearing her soul out. Those
that saw the Empress recently say she
was white-haired, bent and pitlably brok-
| en-.
She and her husband had many scan
| dalS TO contend with. Only a few years
! ago Archduke John of Austria the EN-
peror's brother, disappeared, and they say
| that the oEd Emperor still mourns for him.
! He entered the army and at once inaugu-
rated several sweeping reforms. The state
! authorities checked him, and then in re-
/ Venge, he published bitter pamphlet and
! claimed that the army was shamefuUy
! mismanaged. The Emperor punished him
! by sending him to Cracow, but he was
! soon back in Vienna, writing music and
/ studying spirituaiism. The red tape of Of
/ hcialism he constantly dened, and at last.
| in September, 1887 the Emperor forbade
! him to appear at court.
! The world next heard that he had
/ sumed the name of Johann Orth, and had
married Emile Stubel, a pretty little Aus
'trian singer. 1t was a love match, pure
| and simple One day Emile met hand
! some young man who said he was stu
| dent, and with whom she felH in love, be-
| cause he loved her so tenderly. Only she
| thought he dressed much too plainly. At
| review of the army, however, she saw her
! student lover in a uniform so fine that it
almost took her breath away. She asked
some one who he was, and was told that
he was Archduke John of Austria" He
| bought boat, went to sea with his wife
and afterward the world heard that he
had lost his life at sea while sailing to VAL
| paraiso from Buenos Ayres. Not long ago.
however, the rumor spread that he had
been seen fighting On the side of the Con-
gresslonalists in the Chilean war.
A kindred soul is Archduke Henry
youngest son of the late Archduke Rain
Ter, Viceroy of Lombardy He was a gem
eral in the army, and while stationed at
| Gratz made the acquaintance of Francis
| Holman, a singer at the theater Her
last role was that of Pamela in Fra Di-
! avolo,' but she was pretty quick witted,
/ the very type of a Viennese girl. The
! Archduke paid court to her, and when he
was obliged to take the field in Italy he
promised that he would marry her If his
life We're spared. He did so
The Emperor stormed and fumed but
all his efforts were in vain. Archduke
Henry had vowed to be true to Fraulien
| Holman, and not all the powers in Christ
tendon could persuade him to abandon
| her All Francis Joseph could do was to
deprive the Archduke of his military rank
and eXpatriate him. The marriage took
place on Feb. 4, 1863 and not until 1889
did the Emperor allow the Archduke to
present his wife and daughter to him
During the past five years the Emperor
Iell upon the idea that her end was near
and that she would soon die She had
built at Corfu, upon plans approved by
herself, magnificent villa, and christen-
ed 1t Il Achilleion." To her will she
added a codicil in which she says: II wish
10 be inferred at Corfu, near the sea- so
that the water can continually break on
my tomb"
The Empress of Austria was known as
the best royal housekeeper in Europe. She
looked after the details of the big inn
perial kitchen with the same anxious care
that an American housewife bestows on
The establishment of her lesser world
Her cruel taking off will be a terrible
addition to the crushing load of anxiety
and sorrow which Providence has laid
upon the shoulders of Franz joseph.
whose life has been one long record OF
misfortune and trial. borne with heroic
fortitude.
LOCAL PER SONAL.