Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-06-11
KING AND QUEEN.
Heads of Servian Government
 Killed Last Night.
NEW GOVERNMENT FORMED.

Prince Karageorgevitch Was Pro
 claimed the King Streets Thronged
 With People Who Seem to Be in s Sympathy With Organizers of New
 Governments Some of the Ministers
 Also Met Death At Hands of the Assassins.
 Belgrade, Servia, June 1l.--A military revolution broke out here last l night. The troops, who revolted under the leadership of Major Angfkovics, surrounded the paIace. assassinated King Alexander, Queen Draga, the lat l ters sister, the queens brother, Nikodem, Premier Markovitch, Minis ters Petrovitch and Tudoroyics, Gen eral Pavlovitch, the former minister of war, and some of the members of l the royal guard.
 Prince Karageorgeyitch was pro- claimed king
 A new government was formed and the following proclamation was issued;
 TO the Servian people: Last night the king and queen were shot. In this grave and fateful moment friends of the fatherland have combined to form a new government. While the government makes this announcement to the people it Is convinced that the Servian people will gather around it and lend their aid to maintain order and security throughout the land The government hereby makes known that from to-day the constifu- tion of April 6, 1901, comes in force. A meeting of the national represents tives, dissolved by the proclamation of March A, is summoned to meet at Belgrade June 15.''
 The above was signed by the new cabinet officials.
 The streets are thronged with peo- pie whose actions seem to approve the coup d'etat. M. Proofs, the new 1sIin- ister of the interior, was loudly cheer ed as he drove to the ministry. M. AVakumovics, the new premier. belongs to the independent liberal party.
 The people received quietly the news of the assassinations, which were per petrated between 10:30 o'clock last night and o'clock this morning. The bodies of the king and queen re- main in the palace.
 All entry to the palace is prohibited and a strong cordon of troops sur rounds the royal residence. The ministers who shared the fate of their sovereign were the leading spirits of the Obrenovitcj1 party Their murder removes the only men capable of making a real stand against the Karageorgevitchs who nave now no serious opponents in Servia A further telegram from the same source says:
 tThe career of the Obrenovitch dy- nasty was closed in the early hours of this morning, thessame day Of the year on which Prince Michael was murder ed 35 years ago in the park of Toph- schider, near Belgrade To-day requiem mass was being sung in mems ory of Prince Michael and now the last of his race, together with all connect- ed with the dynasty by his unfortunate marriage, lies in bier in the palace at Belgrade
 ! "The people of Belgrade have been blocking the streets since o'clock this morning, discussing the tragedy, but without condemnation A strong de tachment of troops is encamped about the palace of the newly proclaimed king, who was a pretender to the throne for many years. He was born in Belgrade in 1846 and was married in 1883 to Princess Zorka, daughter of Prince Nicholas of Montenegro She died in 1S90."
 Cologne, June 1.-The Cologne Ga zette prints dispatch from Belgrade which says a story is current there that the late King Alexander was re- gently considering effecting a separa- tion from Queen Draga and that the latter, becoming aware of this, plan- ned preventive measures. Some high military officers last night, the dispatch adds, entered the palace and tried to carry off the queen by force, but encountered strong re- sistance on the part of the queens partisans sand in the fierce struggle which followed the king and queen and their respective supporters were killed.
 Vienna, June 11.-A dispatch from Semlin, Hungary, says that in addition to the assassination of King Alexander and Queen Draga, Premier Marko~ witch, his wife, the commander of the palace guard and two other persons were murdered.
 Berlin, June 1.-The Frankfort Zef- tung, in its version of the tragedy at Belgrade, says that when the troops entered the royal bedroom King Alex ander seized a revolver and shot the queen and then killed himself
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