Waterbury Democrat., 1901-02-12
MILAN, Ex-KING.
End of the Man Who Was Once Ruler i of Seryia

End of the Man Who Was Once Ruler l. of Servia
 ] Vienna, Feb 12-Ex-King Milan of Servia died of pneumonia yesterday i(Neither King Alexander nor eX-Queen
 Natalie was present when the eN-king
 died. The former was notified on Fri
 day that his fathers illness would e probably result fatally, but instead of I coming himself he sent an adjutant.
 EX-Queen Natalie. who is at Biarrtz. offered to come if her presence was ! desired. Her telegram reached here
 hfteen minutes before Milan died. At ! Milan's request his body will be buried 1n the monastery at Kruschedol. Hun
 gary. Emperor Francis Joseph has orc sred that the expenses be met by the imperial treasury, and that the fu- neral be conducted in accordance With the ceremonial! of the Vienna court pt
 fe Milan was born in 1851 at .lassy of o. & mother whose clopemrnt shortly af- o trWard with Prince CuZi caused a ,., scandal at the time. He was educated . - 1n Paris. In 1S6S he was called upon = to succeed his uncle. the rtigning ~ prince of Servia. who had been mur- t, dered in the gardens of his palace at d, Belgrade. The dynasty of which Mi
 ) Ian was the fourth was founded by a nt swineherd, Niilos Todorovic Obrenoyic e He led the Servians in their insurrer
 tion against Turkcy in 1Sl5-29, the re m suit of which was virtual Independence ,o for Servia By the treaty of Septem- # Der II, 1929, AfiIos was recognized as re prince Of Servia.
 ,e In 1876. encouraged by Russia. Milan W commenced an inSurrectOn against the
 
 dt 1egiance. Routed by the Turks. the ,,- czar's interference alone saved him 2, from destruction. In 1871, at the mo- i .nent of the defeat of the Turks by i' Russia, Milan availed himself of the ; opportunity to proclaim the indepenu- Fe ence of Servia from tile Sublime
 Porte. In 1SS2 he caused himself to l. be proclaimed king. Tn 1SSo he de ,. clared war on Bulgaria, but was again
 defeated, the cowardice which he dis }. played during the campaign earning l. for him the contempt of all Europe.
 Milan made his Belgrade palace a }. voluptuaries' and gamblers resort. s. Gambling was the order of the night z. as well as day. and when there was no 5. longer man to gamble yith Milan
 would bring over the border from Vii
 enna company of .AuStro- Hun gariIn =, fair women to entertain him. Once ID. . - Al another time he had at his palace 'A for a week the happy chorus of a Vi
 enna comic opera company. His wife.
 the beautiful Natalie. who had en-
 Gured about every variety of debauch.
 lost patience when the chorus arrived nl and left the palace to Milan and his a1 riotCus crew.
 A Queen Natalie was the daughter of sta Russian colonel. keschko. and mar srio Ina p hearts of the people had been won by
 this queen, and when he banished her elfrom the country ill 1888 an insurrec- Ltion ill her favor was narrowly aNert- sted by Milan'S proclaiming a new con- Dstitution which increased the suffrage. Milan announced his divorce from CQueen Natalie in October, 1eSS. and on p the following March abdicated the F throne in favor of his son. Alexander. VThe abdcation was q consequence Of the storm which his latest actions to- ward Natalie had raised and of the financial conditions ill which he was Sinvolved.
 It is said that his debts aggregated S1O,0GQ GOO francs when he left the throne and that he had borrowed from ca binet ministers. tax officers, visiting princes and from professional money lenders at Vienna and Berlin. His court had been q Mecca for all who 1desired to obtain stars, titles or decora- h tions of any kind. for cash.
 ', Milan received bonus for his aDdi- ] Tea ton. which he squandertd in gam yNbling and upon q famous dancer WnO had fascinate ted him. He threatened to Igo back to Servia and Alexander again .paid him to stay away.
 On September 10, 1897. Milan inher- | Sitel the entire fortune of the late iBaron Baich. who was the heir Of Prince Michael. This Was said to lamount to many million horns. Milan and Natalie were reconciled
 :in 1893. and an act of the Episcopal
 1eynod at Belgrade on March annulieu
 1the decree of divorce in 1888.