The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-29

- STEIN, VINO on lahdlhs III Nc"
~ York on Thanksgiving Day was
- conveyed to DR.. Bulls sanato'
rum ON a stretcher. after having been
operated on for appendicitis Whiie
crossing the ocean, in the midst OF d
severe gale, is the divorced husband
of the only daughter and helress OF
the late Sir John Blundell Maple, OIL
the retail furniture emporium IN inc
Tottenham Court Road, London. VINO
few months prior to his demise AZ
tanned. despite his lack OF a asp I1,s,
tho distinction Of election TO the bhs
lish Jockey Club.
The divorced Baroness Ecbnardsteih'
who in her matrimonial diilcuitlsS
with the baron retained all the SYN.
patty of the Kaiser and of the Ger
man embassy in London--the present
German ambassador Count Wolff Met
ternich, assisting her. by the En-.
perors orders. to do the hohors q
an entertainment which she gave al,
ter her divorce. and at which several
members of the English royal ram
lily were present-recently maTrieo
again, her second husband being Gap
tain Archibald Weigal. of the North
WeigaI. and grandson through her
Of the eleventh Earl of Westmore
.and Her fortune, even IN spite o.
the enormous inroads mace there i.,n
by Baron Won EcknardSleAi' iSitis'tti'
at over s12.0o0.000.
Baron Eckhardstein was for num-
Der of years attached to the der man ~
embassy at washington. where ne ~
mainly remembered In connection WITH
a legend according TO which ne Is
asserted to have jumped or dro spp,sa
out of a second story window oil the
old metropolitan Club. after midnisn.'
for the sake of wager, Witnout su 10
tatning any injury. The baron Is ~! no
longer connected with. the diplomas
service, and the record of the divorce
proceedings which resulted IN the Sis
solution OF his marriage TO MISS ma
pie. furnished most interesting reaa.
ing. especially the ingenious schemes
to induce her to give him money, IN
Guiding pretended attempts at sulcLaa
The baron is descended from llau
of the name of Ernest Eckhardt. VINO
made his fortune as an army con.
! tractor in the early part OF the las,
century,, and who was ennonieu py
way of part payment OF some pscuniat
claims of his firm against the pr sia ~
really blue blood in his veins comes
| to him through his mothers side o,
the house; for she was the, grandcnll9
of the famous Prussian field ina ,;,
Count kleist. one OF the mos ie4ote
| figures in the Napoleonic wars
When the ex-Shah of Persia, Mo.
manned Ali. was deprived o. ms
| throne, and his son was. much 10 .ne
little fellows distress and misery cry
hepan royernmentswa forced by Great
Britain and Russia to assume the re.
sponsibflity for the deposed ruier
enormous debts and to allow him an
annuity of $4,000 a year. payable on
| the condition that he refralneu TON
intriguing against the new resii ,.s
and that he would remain IN the MUS.
covite city Of Odessa. when ha9 r pesn
dence There has been conslderaDie
| trouble about the payment OF this an.
| nuity, and the Russian ana BRUSH
ministers at Teheran have been COM
PEELED to resort to extreme measures
| in order to obtain the money.
AS every one has been made aware
| by the cable dispatches, affairs IN
Persia are in so parlous g conpl.ion a
and there is such a complete absence
| of all law and order. that Russla mas
been compelled to intervene Win an
| armed force from the north ana EHs-
Hand from the south, for the protecti,osn
! and interests.
To complicate matters still more, the
I Shah has suddenly left Odessa, with ms
| favorite Wife, two of his sons ana .
daughter, as we'll as his doctor an ana
some servants, and has gone to Wen
ma and to Paris, whore he Is now now
| IN active intercourse with several
| leading Persian statesmen who We're
exiled at the time of his deposition, or
who We're forced by, the new regime
to seek refuge in flight abroad,
All this points to an early restora /
ton OF the deposed Shah, with the
approval of Russia, and presumably or
could not have left odessa, where he
was more or less militarily interned.
1 without the sanction OF the Muscovlte
authorities. There Is 9 very strong
party In Persia that desires his, re-
turn to the throne, and the abolition
4 OF the preposterous parliamentary re.
gime at Teheran, for which form Of
government the country Is utterly I'M
lifted, and which is really responsi-
BILE for the, confusion which relgns
| much indeed as Ii both the Russian
md the English governments had
come to the conclusion that the only
/ blnnce or law and order In Persia
would be by replacing Mohammed
/ All on the throne Neither England
nor Russia ls anxious to annex Fer
j STA. for they ure aware that any
J. y 4 /, \ Is IS u .