Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-02-15
[X-k|h6 MILAN DEAD
Exiled Ruler Of Servia Passed
Away at Vienna.
NEITHER HIS WIFE NOR SON THERE
he Retained Possession of His Faculties Until
Within Quarter Of an Hour Of His Death
Body to be Inferred in SIavonia.

Vienna, Feb. 13.-Ex-King Milan,
of Servia is dead. He passed a sleep
less night and was unable to take suffi-
cient nourishment. The remains will
be inferred at Kronchol, a sacred
monastic shrine in syrmia, SIavonia,
with the honors due member of the
reigning dynasty.
The illness began with influenza.
Milan left his bed too quickly, and the
result was pneumonia. The doctors
also found fatty degeneration of the
heart. which was the actual cause of
death, as the danger Immediately a1is-
ing from the lung trouble had been
overcome. Fearing a fatal issue, the
doctors caused messages to be sent
King Alexander and ex- Queen Natalie,
but although Milan desired to see
them and himself sent messages re-.
questing their presence, neither came.
Natalie's reply, which was to the ef-
feet that she would come if her pres.
ence was really desired, reached him
| just before death.
Emperor Francis Joseph, who sent
an aid-de-camp to the deathbed, has
ordered military funeral, as Milan
was formerly the colonel of an Austrian
regiment. 1t was MiIan's written
wish that he should be buried at SVr.
mia. He said he had been greatly
disappointed at the absence of his son,
whose ingratitude has provoked much
comment in Vienna. According to
the Neue Freie Presse, he said to his
physician: 81 feel that l must die,
but it is very sad to be compelled to
die at At"
Ex-King Milan, who was born in
1854, abdicated the throne in favor of
his son, Alexander 1, March 6, 1889.
The circumstances that compelled the
king to abdicate arose from the policy
that ne had pursued at the beginning
OF his reign, both in domestic and for
eign affairs. The new SeIvian consti.
tuition was adopted by the grand skup-
shtina January 2, 1899, by majority
of 494 votes against 70. The ministry
of Nikol Cristich resigned. The king
was unwilling to appoint a radical
cabinet, and applied first to Jovan
kistich, but could not induce that
statesman to form a cabinet. The
radicals refused to take Office unless
Tuschnovich. revolutionist, who had
been condemned to death for participa-
tion in the Timok valley uprisin
should be given the portfolio of the in
terror. The kings throne was at stake.
He determined to appoint liberal pre-
fects and sub-prefects, and attempted
by pressure on the people to bring in
liberal majority in the elections in
the autumn. The radicals became en-
ragged at the determination to exclude
them from Office. Cristich was un.
willing to play so dangerous game,
and told King Milan that it was i'm.
possible for him to remain in office.
Milan abdicated the throne in the pres
ence of the ministers and chief digni-
taries, and the mem bers of the diplo-
matte body assembled in the konah to
celebrate the anniversary of the erec-
| tion of Servia into kingdom in 1882.
On being promised liberal yearly al
lowsnce, he agreed in 1888 to go into
perpetual exile. 1t was decided that
Queen Natalie should likewise live
abroad. Queen Natalie, however,
came back. and was only expelled af.
ter desperate resistance on the part of
her adherants in 1891.