Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-06-15
Secret Assurances of Recogni-
ton as King Received by
Prince Karageorgevitch
NOT LAST OF oRRENovlTcHEs
The Claim of AIexander's Half Brother
to the Servan Throne May Interfere
With Karaseorsevtche's Ambition
Assassination Predicted by Two
Clairvoyants Who Saw Vision.

London, June 15.-W. T. Steads
special cable: The violent eruption of
the ever smoking volcano of the Bal
kans has for n moment overshadowed
all other events in the old world. AS
sassinatLon is an every day affair in
Belgrade. but the wholesale and DELHI
crate massacre of the king and queen
with their relatives and the ministers
is almost without precedent in Servia.
The tragedy comes very close home
because Colonel Maschin, the officer
who laid the dynamic bomb which blew
open the barred gates of the royal pal
ace, and who shot King Alexander with
his revolver. and aided in the murder
of the queen, was an old acquaintance
of mine. A milder hammered man you
never saw. When l met him he was
the military delegate for Servia at The
Hague conference. He seemed as harm
less creature as country parson.
| little dreamed when last | dined
with him at the Van Der Pyl restau-
rant that the next time should hear
of him he would be the central figure
in one of the bloodiest tragedies of
modern times.
| was mistaken in speaking OF the
king as the last of the Obrenovitches.
A half brother of Alexander. the re-
suit of a lawless armour of King Milan,
With fair but false Artemisia, is still
alive, and SO is Colonel Constantono-
witch, father OF another Servian beauty,
whom / met at the Hague in 1899, and
who al the time was regarded as a
more eligible match for the king.
When he married the Inflated Draga
she found Consolation in Prince Mirko,
of Montenegro, who is now Informally
enrolled among the noble army Of
pretenders who will do their best to
make the swineherds' kingdom the
bloody cockpit of the continent.
For some days to come every state
ment will be promptly contradicted
that processes to state the relation of
the great powers to the revolution.
1t is. however, admitted generally,
that as far back as last October, Prince
Peter Karageorgevitch received secret
assurances from France, Austria and
Russia, and probably Italy, that they
would recognize him as king If he
could arrange for the deposition Of the
childless pair. The king being warned
from London took precautions which
bafflei the conspirators, but they bided
their item and last week took the
bloodiest road to their goal.
1t it possible too much bloodshed
may make the steps of the throne too
slippery for the pretender TO climb into
power.
The prediction OF the clairvoyant,
who saw the murder of the king and
queen three months before 1T happened,
at my dinner table, is capped by an
other prediction taken down in writing,
as far back as the beginning of last
year, in which a clairvoyant in Africa
saw and described the same bloody
crime. In neither case did the clair
yoynnt give the name of the king nor
the place They described the king
and were Mortified by the vision of the
massacre.
In the case of Mrs. Burchells pre-
diction | can speak with certainty. II
handed her an envelope containing the
autograph of King Alexander. and did
not know myself that it related to Ser
via.
BY the way, it may interest your
readers to know that 1t it quite pos
sble that the revolutionary wheel OF
fortune may place an American wom-
an on an European throne. One OF
the princes whose pretentions are be-
lieved to be endorsed by the chances of
destiny, is married to charming Am
erican lady, whose name is we'll known
in Europe and the states. This is
also foretold by the same clairvoyant
who faresaw the massacre in the pal
ace at Belgrade.