The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1900-08-02
QUEEN HELENE MUST SAVE
ITALY'S TOTTERING THRONE.
Weaklng King Commands No Prestige While His Consor
Is Trusted by Statesmen and the Army.

| SPECIAL BY CABLE.
Milan. Aug. 1.-(Copslight, 1870, by w. r.
Hearst) Italy is on the eve Of q revoiu
! tion and one person alone can save the
| Monarchy.
King Victor is a nonentity, mentally and
physically. The Ministry is weak and vac
tllating. 1t IS compromise or stop-sap
Ministry, and contains scarcely one strong
man. The Royalist party, while perhaps in
| a majority. Is disorgYnized. Its opponents,
! the Republicans. Socialists and Clericals.
are splendidly organized and led by astute
statesmen.
| The opportunity TO overturn the Mon
archy and establish a republic is too good a
| one TO be lost. The Clericals would support
such revolution. the price of their aid
being the restoration to the Pope OF his
| temporal sovereignty over the city of Rome.
| II is, therefore. q situation of the gravest
| peril
| But there is one TO whom the Loyaists
| look to save Italy. This is Queen Helene.
| She Is strong. courageous and beautiful
| Her life among the hills Of her Montenegrin
| home, spearing the boar. chasing the stag.
scaling dizzy heights In the hunt for the
| chamois has made her fearless. tempered
her nerves and hardened her muscles. Her
| long visits to the court OF St Petersburg
| have taught her statecraft and given her II
knowledge Of diplomacy. And she has been
| long enough in Rome to know the highways
| and byways Of Italian politics
| II any one can save Italy from revoiu-
| tIon II Is she. With her fair hand upon the
helm, the ship of state may sail securely
| And already the supporters Of the throne
| men like Rudini and Nisconu Fenosta and
| Saracco-are looking to her to their
| savior.
| She has but TO show herself TO win the
people The soldiers love her. and in the
event of trouble It is she. and not her weak
l ling husband, who will be able to rally the
army to the support of the throne
| Italy sees petticoated Government ahead.
| but In It discerns salvation
This dispatch Is sent by mail to Nice, the
| censor having forbidden its transmission by
cable The Government Is taking strong
| measures to prevent disorder and the CEN
| sorship is strict.
BRESCI MAKES NO DENIALs.
| Rome, Aug. LIN the course Of his ex-
| animation yesterday Bresci did not deny
| that he had been designated to assassinate
| King Eumbert. II IS now believed here
| that the crime was arranged In Paterson.
| n. J.
| A man named Salvatore Quintavalli. who
| returned from the United States with
| Bresci and accompanied him to an an
| srchist meeting in Paris. has been arrested
at the Rio Marina on the Island Of Elba.
| The police found ON him letters and pho
| tographs of anarchists.
Anton Ianner who accompanied Bresci
| from the United States, has been arrested
| In consequence Of these arrests, the belief
| Il: the existence of a plot is Increasing.
! Brescis brother, who is a Lieutenant in
| the Italian Army, stigmatizes the crime as
| the most cowardy act of the century. He
| had no news of his brother for long
| time and thought he was still In the United
| States
Parliament has been summoned to meet
| August g.
! 1t is stated that Queen Marsherita will
! retire TO Streia, to live with her mother.
The clergy Of Monza and throughout
! Italy held memorial services to-day.
| Great excitement Is reported at Milan.
The troops are in readiness at their bar
| racks TO prevent disturbance. score of
prominent anarchists have been arrested.
| The police are active and other arrests are
| expected to follow.
| When Ouintavelli was arrested at Porto
| Ferrajo large crowd tried to take him
| from the officers to lynch him. He was
| taken to prison with great difficulty.
The Ministers have unanimously decided
that the body of King Humbert shall rest
| in Rome.
Fifteen thousand troops VIII pay the last
| honors.
KAISER MAY ATTEND FUNERAL.
Berlin, Aug. 1.-Baron Won Rotenhan.
Prussian Minister at the Vatican, has been
ordered to postpone his vacation. 1t is in
ferred from this that Emperor William will
attend the funeral of King Humbert.
HAD MANY COMPANIONS. (.
Paris. Aug. 2.-The detective department
finds that Gaetano Bresci arrived at Havre
from the United States in May. His name
| appears in the list of passengers among
| sixty-three other Italian workmen.
! A complete list has been handed to the
Italian Ambassador with the object of dis