Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1907-09-05
ROMANCE OF AN ARCHDUKE.
Strange Story of Johann of Austria,
Who Was Missing Eighteen Years.

VINO was Missing CiShteSH iSai %
In the palace of Ninaven is beau
tiful theater. There in 1889 brilliant
company of guests had gathered to
hear pretty Fraulein Mizzi Steubil,
the most famous operate singer that
Austria has produced, says the Man
chester Chronicle.
That night the prima donna sang
as never before. And she sang her way
into the heart of the great Archduke
Johan Salvador. So fascinated was this
member of the royal house OF the
Hapsburgs by Mizzi's singing and her
surprising beauty, that he then and
there fell in love with her. The result
of that meeting was fraught with dis
aster to them both In fact, so
quickly had the emperor detected the
impression which Fraulein Mizzi had
made upon the archduke that he gavs
orders prohibiting her from appearing
in the last act of the opera. The sing
er protested against this strange act
ION of her sovereign, which she did
not then understand. But Francis
Joseph is a stern king and Fraulein
Steubil had perforce to submit.
Shortly atterward Vienna had
new sensation.
The Archduke Johann Salvador had
disappeared in the night! He had re-
nounced his claim to the throne. He
had fed from Austria by sea. That
was all the Viennese knew. The story
as it leaked out later was a strange
revelation.
When he left the emperor's pres
ence he went straight to the home of
Fraulein Steubil, where everything
was ready for fight The pair then
journeyed to Flume, where he had a
yacht called the Marguerite. He now
had this fitted out as a merchant ship
and taking the name of John Orth,
sailed away with his wife.
Nothing more was heard of him I'M
til the close of 1890, when it was re-
ported that the ship had been wreck
ed on the coast of South America, and
that all on board had been lost. Some
months later, however, it was report
ed that he had escaped, and since then
from time to time there have been
tales, first that he was fighting with
the CHILEAN insurgents, next that he
was leading the Japanese armies I'M
der the name of Marshal Yamazata
and then again, that he WIS living
the simple life IN the wilds of Para
quay.
None of the stories have been
credited in Austria and to the world
at-large the archduke has been reck-
oned almost as one dead.
Now, however, a wealthy South |
American man, M Eugenio Gazon, |
who is well known in Paris and who
has shown the attention with which
he has always followed the missing
romantic career by pub
fishing book entitled John Ortiz"
in which he has related at length the
life and adventures, has
produced circumstantial evidence to
prove that the archduke under the
name of John Orth, was alive so late
as 1900, when he was working on the
estate of Sig. Villa Rey, at Chaco.
Paraguay
1t is also stated that on June 6 last
DR.. Emmanuel Quintana, son OF the
ate president of the Argentine Re
public, arrived in Paris from Baenos
Aires and informed M. Gazon that Oh
board the steamship Araquaya, by
which he had reached Lisbon, there
was no less person than the famous
Johann Orth, who came from Rio de
a Plata
DR.. Quintana had become on friend
y terms with the ex-archduke and In
he course of conversation had allud-
I'd to the book published by Eugenio
Iazon. he archduke said that he had
'ead notices of the book in the South
American papers and had been greac- c
y interested in some OF the private e
ietails of his life. On Dr. Quintana's b
stating to the archduke that he was a d