Arizona republican., 1903-06-12

collected her supporters. It was in a fight between the two factions that the king and queen were killed"
 The startling news from Belgrade disturbed the solemn ceremonial of the annual Corpus Christi procession in a manner unprecedented in Emperor Francis Josephs long reign. Men at tempted to throw bulletins Announcing the news over the heads of the soldiers to the crowds watching the procession while opposite the Hoffburg. Court Chamberlain MonteTwo informed the emperor that Foreign Minister Golu- chowsky desired to make a statement to him and when notified of the occur rences at Belgrade, his majesty was visibly affected and he immediately communicated the news to the heir presumptive to the throne, Archduke
 Francis Ferdinand.
 A dispatch received by the Austrian
 foreign office this afternoon announced
 that the Servian parliament which has
 been summoned for June 15, will elect
 Prince Peter Karageorgevitch king. only in the event of Austria and Rus
 sia not opposing such a step. Austria
 would not object Although the prince
 was the avowed enemy of Austria he has recently given repeated assurances
 that in the event of his coming to tho
 throne of Servia he was desirous of living amicably with Austria. The question of Austrian intervention in the present situation has so far only
 been considered in the case of civil war breaking out. Otherwise it is re-
 garded as being Servia s private affair.
 In case of a civil war in Servia Aus ! &.-s.. HI possible. but even in such a case, only
 if the siSnatory powers should request Austria to take such a step.
 Following is the official list of the killed:
 KING ALEXANDER.
 QUEEN DRAGA
 The Queens two brothers. PREMIER MARKOVITCH. The minister of war.
 The aides de camps.
 Two other officers
 The time of the assassination is giv-
 en officially as a. m. It is expected that the Skuptachina, (Scrvian), par 1 liament will confirm the proclamation | by the army of Prince Peter Kara georgeovics as king of Servia The newspape forecast a better future for ! Servia, and the new state of things is heartily welcomed by the masses.
 Nothing definite has been decided re- garding the burial of the dead. The young king who now lies dead was born in 1876. He came of a malo-
 dOrous family. His father was the mo- torious King Milan, his mother, Queen l Natalia. Milans debaucheries made | the Servian court a stench throughout l Europe. He was forced to abdicate in ! 1SS9,. Alexander succeeding him under a | regency. In 1893 Alexander assumed | personal control of affairs. and in 1895 ! promulgated a new constitution which ostensibly inaugurated many reforms
 and for a time the youthful monarch
 was very popular with the people. | Meanwhile ex-King Milan and NataIia
 had been divorced, and Milan made the
 rounds of the principal cities of the
 continent an exile from Servia. He
 reached to such a low point in the so-
 cial scale that he was summed in Eng | land by even the champion snobs and | in the continental cities alone was he able to maintain a semblance of asso- | citation with respecta bility. Consorting | with the most vicious, and a common drunkard, he at last became known as an international swindler his former wife having refused to-sprovide him with funds for gambling and riotous living. Finding even the doors of Paris shut in his face, Milan brazenly re- l turned to Belgrade after an absence of 1 several years, and ignoring public sen | timent he in a measure took over the
 reins of government from his son. Alexander was compelled. however, by
 the public clamor to send Milan across | the frontier, and the disgraced eX-king
 a few years ago died in poverty and disgrace. In later years Alexander lost all of the popularity that marked his | first years on the throne. His prime
 minister was assassinated in the public
 streets four years ago, and the facts
 brought out involved the king himself.
 In later years he rapidly drifted into
 the dissolute ways which had distin- guished his father, and in 1900 he
 capped the climax by marrying Madam
 Draga Mashin, woman much older
 than himself and possessed of an ex- ceedingly shady record. Having for
 feited the respect of his subjects. Alex l ander was left without protection when | the Kra georgevitch family at last de-
 termined to assert its claims to the throne.