Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-12-23


courts. The United States will be rep
resented by Henry Lane Wilson, the
minister to Belgium, and U. Grant
Smith, the new secretary who has ar
rived here from Santiago.
Paris, France-In an interview, M.
Picard, the legal adviser of Baroness
Vaughan, when asked if the marriage
of King Leopold and Baroness Waugh
an was effective, replied: "The bar
oness has really been married by re-
ligious rites; that I can attest"
''Then have the children of the I'M
ion rights to the throne?"
"Judicially no; the Belgian law is
quite clear" said the counsel Never
theless, anything may happen and be-
lieve me, the affair is only beginning"
A man employed on Leopold's Cape
Ferrat estate related 10 the Mathis
Nice correspondent that he accompan-
led King Leopold and Baroness Waugh
an in an automobile to the Franciscan
chapel at Bordighera, in February,
! 1903, where, he asserts, a marriage
was celebrated.
Brussels.-King Leopold died at
2:95 o'clock Friday morning, his aged
and wasted body being unable to stand
the strain put upon it. The collapse
occurred suddenly and at moment
when the doctors seemingly had had
the greatest. hopes for his recovery.
Prince Albert Arrives.
i
physicians did everything possible to
prolong life, but without avail. The
end came quickly and after period
OF weakness, peacefully. Prince AL
bert arrived at thu death bed about %
minutes later. He was accompanied
by Princess Clementine. Albert kissed
the dead king and left the chamber
weeping.
Leopold H., king of the Belgians,
son of the late King Leopold l. upon
whose death, which occurred Dec. 10,
1865, has succeeded to the throne, was
born at Brussels April 8, 1887. His
father was the former Prince of SAKE
Coburg Gotha and his mother Princess
Louise, daughter of King Louis Philip
pc VI
On Aug. %, 1853 he married the
Archduchess Marie Henriette, daugh-
ter of Archduke Joseph of Austria.
She died Sept 10, 1902. There were
three daughters born of this union,
Louise, Stephanie and Clementine.
The two elder processes have been
estranged from their father, but Glenn
.,aN -. l.; CO.
There being no direct hereditary
heir, the crown passes to Prince AL
bert, the only son of Leopold's broth
err, the late Philippe, count of Fland-
ers. The new monarch was born
April 8, 1875, and on Oct. 2, 1900, mar
ried Princess Elizabeth of Bavaria.
They have three children, Prince Leo
pold, eight years old; Prince Charles,
six years old, and Princess Marie-Jose,
who was born Aug. 4. 1905.
The filing of the will Of King Leo
pold shows that he divided $4,000
900 between his three daughters, Prin-
cess Louise, Princess Stephanie and
Princess Clementine. This practical
disinheritance of his children signal
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battle to obtain the kings wealth SINH
lar to that which ensued on the death
of their mother, Queen Henrietta.
The exact amount of Leopold's for
tune probably will never be revealed.
Senator Winer, the kings friend and
confidential legal adviser, told the AS
ISOLATED Press that Leopold turned
over a considerable portion of it to
the Baroness Vaughan and her child
rem and created a stock company of
his estates in order to forestall pos
sible raid upon them by the Princess
es Louise and Stephanie or their cred
itors. Senator Winer said that later
perhaps, considerable portions of his
estate would be handed over to Bel
GUM. The Princess Clementine, aside
from the bequest she will receive, is
provided for by special income from
Congo properties.