The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-02-01
ROYAL CoNSORT DEAD
MARIE LOUISE, THE WIFE OF PRINCE
FERDINAND OF BULGARIA.
Left q Newborn Babe, Which Will Be
Christened CIementine-A Preach-
er's Dramatic Death.

SOFIA, Bulgaria, Jan. 31.-Pripcess Fer
dinand, of Bulgaria, died to-day of pneu-
mona She gave birth to a daughter last
evening. The princess was dying last night,
but the fact was hidden from the popula-
ton. She was still conscious this morning
and babe farewell to the children. Prince
Ferdinand remained at the bedside through
out.
Princess Ferdinand, of Bulgaria, was Ma
RE Louise, eldest daughter of Duke Robert
of Parma. She was born on Jan II, 1870
and was married on April co. 1893, to Prince
Ferdinand, the reigning prince of Bulgaria,
youngest son of the late Prince Augustus,
of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Princess
Clementine, of Bourbon-Orleans, daughter
of King Louis Philippe. Prince and Princess
Ferdinand of Bulgaria have four children
Boris, born Jan. So 1894; Cyril, born Nov.
II, 1885; daughter born in January, 1898,
and the daughter born last evening.
VIENNA, Jan S1.-The deceased Princess
Of Bulgaria had been suffering for a fort
night from influenza and continuous high
fever, which caused premature confinement
and extreme debility. There is much gossip
here as to her unhappy domestic life. The
palace at Sofia is a most unsanitary place.
During the first years of her residence
there she suffered a great deal from inter-
mittent fever, owing to the drains. She
only survived her first confinement, and the
enforced conversion OF young Prince Boris
to the orthodox Greek church caused her,
as a devout Roman Catholic, great unhappl-
ness. The enmity that existed between her
and the late Stefan StambuloH, the Bull
garian statesman, is now recalled. M STAN
bulOff'S friends always attributed the muir
derous attack made upon him IN July, 1888,
to the princess and his widow, who still keeps
her husbands hands in spirits to show her
children and to prevent them forgetting how
their father died, once said: Those hands
are outstretched to grasp Marie Louise OF
Parma, to drag her away from happiness.
Prince Ferdinands sister, Archduchess
ClOthilde, is going to Sofia to assist in MAX
ing arrangements for the children. The babe
born yesterday will be privately christen9d
Clementine, after her grandmother, Princess
Clementine of Bourbon Orleans, daughter
of King Louis Philippe. The christening
will be according to the Catholic ritual
The late NJ. Stambuloff, whose death by
violence his widow has always attributed
to the instigation of the late Princess Marie
Louise of Bulgaria, was returning home
from the Union Club, in Sofia, on the ever
M. PetkoH, when the two men were at
tackled by four persons, armed with revolVers
and knives. The aSSailantS compelled M.
StambulOff S cOaChman to stop the horses.
Stambuloff jumped out and received i'm
mediately a cut which almost severed his
hand from the wrist He tried to escape,
but was followed and stabbed in the head,
receiving also revolver shot. When he
fell his aSsailantS continued to stab him,
almost cutting off the other hand. NJ Pet
koff who did all in his power to assist the
fallen man, was also severely stabbed. M.
Stambuloffs left eye was gOuged out, the
other was almost destroyed and he received
in all fifteen terrible wounds. NJ PetlIoR
afterwards declared that he saw five gen.
darmes near by when the attack was made,
and saw them run away without having
given the least assistance