Arizona republican., 1900-09-26


 been discounted by men who insisted on giving him in return trashy goods of one Kind and another, which he then sold for whatever they would fetch.
 In this way they managed to evade the usury laws, much in the same gay as the creditors of Prince Charles Lich- tensteln, who at one moment found himself in possession of no less than 300 obsolete locomotive engines, for which he could cnly get the price of old iron. although he had purchased them by means of promissory notes at the same price as if they had been new and up-tO-date.
 These are only few of scores of similar transactions on the part of the young Duke Of Manchester, whose ab- soiute lack of moral sense in pscunilry matters, and readiness to pledge his dCcal name to the extent of hundreds Of thousands of dollars for the sake of obtaining few hundred for his imme- diate necessities. constitutes an assur- aRce that no fortune that may come to him through marriage with any Amer ican or European heiress will be able 10 withstand such insane fmproyidence and eXtraV2 gance.
 IL is pleaded in his excuse that the ducal estates were terribly embarrass- ed and mortgaged up to the very hilt when he entered into possession there of. But it must not be forgotten that ie had in the Duchess of Devonshire> a grandmother who is both rich and in dulgert, and who offered to provide him with very handsome allowance if he T1lN f.-, tA f,; pace in accordance with her by no means pruGish or strict views. for she is devoted to sport and to cards. But he would not listen to reason, and now finds himself through bankruptcy. suspended from his seat as an heredita- " legislator in the house of lords
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 King Charles of Roumania has had a narrow escape from assassination, not at the hands of the anarchists. but at those of the Bulgaro-MS cedonian revolutionary committee. which makes it's headquarters at Sofia, and at tae doors of which a large number of mur- ders cf prominent politicians and statesmen in R1umania have been just ly laid. Some of the assassins have been arrested, and during the course of ! documentary evidence, confirmed by the admissions Cf the prisoners. has been produced to show that King Charles is under sentence of dea.,h decreac against him by this precious revolutionary committee at Sofia, the president of which, man by the name of Sarasof has actually put his name to a written order for the kings murder.
 n~, I CTS arrived at Bucharest for the pur- ! pose of putting into execution this san guinary project. But on each time | something unforeseen happened to cause the king to change his plans. SC | that the asssassirs were unable to ac- complish their object. Moreover. he ! has been led by the en,reaties of his ministers to completely abandon his | former practice of stroinng about the streets of his capital wholly unattend- ] ed
 The object of the revolutionary com mi-tee in desiring his death was avow- edly to take advantage of the confu- si0ns resulting throughout the Balkan from the crime to initiate a revolutions ary rising in Macedonia, and at the same time to punish the king for h.s persistent opposition to the designs ci the committee in connection with tht i Turkish province.
 Incidentally. I may state that Prince Ferdinand himself s to such a degre, terrorized by the revolutionary commit 1 tee at Sofia that he does not dare to re- i turn to his capital, bur remains skulk- ing in Germany.-Marquise de Fonte- noy in Washington Post.