The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-06-12
NEW KING DESCENDED
FROM RICH SWINE OWNER
Is Entirely Under Russian Influence
and Intervention Seems
Very Unlikely.


London, June 1.-THE tragedy of the
palace at Belgrade. marking the latest
of the revolutions which have convuIsed
Servia from time TO time during the past
century. is not regarded in diplomatic
circles n London as likely to lead to
civil war. Stress is laid on the unDoDu-
larity of King Alexander since his mar
riage to Queen Draga King Alexan. Ter =
successor, Peter KarageOrgeVitch Is 4
SOn-ln-law Of the Prince of Montenegro
TO the people
The universal anxiety Of the govern
mentS OF Europe Tor peace Is advanced
as a reason why the SerVian situat don
IS not likely to lead to comDlications
Should, however, these Unexpectedly
arise. official circles think an AEStro-
Hungarian army viii Immediately nar.n
into SsrTia and restore order. This
eventuality, however, is considered I'M
probable.
Descendant Of Swine Owner.
The ServiaD minister said there were
many causes leading to the revolution.
y large section of the people were great
" dissatisfied with the the tendency of
King Alexander to eliminate the radical
element from the government and by the
constant rumOrs of his intention TO an
point Queen Draga's brother, LunjeViza
heir apparent In addition to this the
queen was disliked by the people. who
were also intensely outraged at the re-
cent suspension of the constitution The
minister did not anticipate that the
changes would result IN 1nternecine
strife or in any real danger TO the coun-
try. He pointed out the fact that the
original karageOrgeVitch was not a
prince He WAS rich swine owner. The
father of the new king was made prince
Tragedy Predicted.
The minister also related d curious in
cident. He said that a month ago he
was present at a clairvcyants seance at
which a letter written by the murdered
king was handed 70 the clairvoyant, who
Immediately became violently agitated,
proclaimed that King Alexander would
be assassinated very shortly and even
depicted the scene which appears to have
been enacted at the palace at Belgrade
The Servian minister later communi-
Gated to the foreign office news Of the as
sassinat alton Of the kim and queen Of
Servia the latter's brothers and two sis
tiers. besides one general one aide-de-
camp and two members of the guard. he
added that the telegram ne mad received
did not mention the murder OF the pre-
nier or the war minister but ne had
no reason to doubt press statements
New Premier Is Strong.
The minister subsequently said that
Kalievics. the new foreign minister. was
premier at the time King Milan mar
ried Queen Natalie He was a strong
men and in conjunction with n AVaku
movies, the new premier. he would prob
ably be able 70 establish strong gov
Prince Peter Karageorgevitch is known
TO be a faVOrfte Of The Russian court
and It has long been thought that his
son. 10 years old. was destined to oc-
cupy the throne of Servia- The boy has
been brought up at the Russian court,
practically as the cars own child. ard
he probably will succeed Prince Peter
when he attains his majority. The Ser
Wan minister added that Austria and
Russia would undoubtedly acknowledge
the right Of SeFvia to manage her own
affairs and would not intervene.
A special to abe Times alleges that
nearly 100 persons We're killed last night
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