Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1903-06-22

SerVian Assassination a Natural Result.
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French physician whom she brought
from Paris to convince her princely
paramour that she was about to give
birth to child, and the young king,
being anxious for an heir to the
throne, married his mistress Aug. ),
1900. He was then "a years old and
she was 3S. There was great dissatis-
faction throughout the entire country,
and the people, who felt that their
king had disgraced them as well as
himself, started a revolution for the
purpose of placing Peter Karageorge-
witch upon the throne; but young Alex
ander acted with great courage and sa-
gacity. He succeeded in SURPRISING
the instruction, in reconciliating the
parliament and the people TO his mar
riage, and for several years things
moved along smoothly until the lack Of
an heir to the throne began to excite
the politicians, and the COnspiracies
have since been more frequent than
ever.
Queen Draga desired her brother, a
young lieutenant in the Servian army,
to be proclaimed heir apparent, but the
ministry and the parliament refused.
There was a sensational scene at the
palace when her plan was disclosed.
The boys name was OikOdem Lun-
ievitza, and he was said to be a repu-
table young fellow and q good soldier,
about p years of age. But he had no
claims upon the throne, and nobody
wanted him to be king except his sis
ter.
Her brother being rejected, Queen
Draga, who had a fertile mind, con-
ceived the idea OF offering the success
Orship TO Russia as the price OF the
social recognition of herself and her
husband at the court of St Petersburg.
They were bOycOtted at every court in
Europe. No king or queen or prince
of any royal family ever visited Seyia,
and the king and queen OF Servia were
never invited to any of the other cap
itals OF Europe. They have been re-
garded as Outcasts ever since the trick
with the French physician by which
Draga obtained her seat upon the
throne. She was confident that if the
imperial family of Russia took them
up that the rest of Europe would fol
low, and hence by her instructions the
minister Of foreign affairs at Belgrade
entered into negotiations with the Rus
sian government, proposing that if the
emperor and empress of Russia would
receive the king and queen of Servia
and entertain them at the imperial pal
ace at St. Petersburg, King Alexander
would nominate as his successor on
the Servian throne Prince Mirko, son
of Prince Nicolas Of Montenegro and
brother of Helena, queen Of Italy.
But all this planning and negotiating
came to naught, simply because ak,
the pure and beautiful empress of Rus
STA. absolutely declined to receive the
queen of Servia or have anything what
ever to do with her Count Lamsdorh,
the Russian minister of foreign rela-
tioHs, suggested that no harm could be
done, and the object Of Russia might
be accomplished, if the cZarina would
receive Queen DTaga and her husband
informally at her summer palace on
the shores of the Black sea. No cere-
mony was necessary. The cZarina
would not be called upon to show them
any attention, but simply TO preside at
the table at which the king and queen
of Servia would be received with other
guests.
But Alix refused to consent to any
such arrangement, and declared that
If the Servian woman was invited TO
Russia she would make it convenient
10 leave the country for the time be
ing.