The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-08-13
A Formal Change in Government
Takes Place Today on Occasion
Of Golden Jubilee of the
Ruling Prince
INDEPENDENT FOR MANY YEARS
Celebration Is Held to Mark Change
as il Puts Country on an Equal
ity With Servia and
Other Neighbors.

Vienna, Aug. 13.-A despatch from
Cetinje, the capital of Montenegro,
says:
The simple folk of the Black Noun
tain are rejoicing greatly today after
their own peculiar fashion, and the
welkin is resonant with the sharp and
stunning reports of rifles, muskets and
revolvers. Old and young men and
boys, gather in street. and village, and
on the mountains, and by the crack and
pink of firearms give expression to
their joy as long as ammunition lasts.
In the afternoon and evening, when
the cartridges are spent, they will
gather in front of the royal palace
term which gives an inadequate idea
of the sedate farmhouse occupied by
the Montenegrin ruler and there will
shout their "zivio's," and even plunge
into the measured excitement of the
national dance, the "kelo." In this
monotonous dance the men join hands
and form a circle, some thirty strong.
and gently swaying to and fro, sing
in strophe and antistrophe, the praise
OF old Servian heroes, the most popu-
lar of these songs having been writ
ten by the present ruler.
If-and the hypothesis is wildly
possible-there were some native wit
ness of these rejoicings who did not
know the cause of them, he would
surely ask, as II because the Crown
Princes youngest-born has killed his
first wild boar?" or, Has n new mail
coach come down from Mount Low
cen?" But the cause, as all the world
knows, Is thot Montenegro has en-
erged from a principality into a king
dom and now ranks on an equality
with Servia, Bulgaria and other of
her neighbors.
Montenegro Kingdom.
Montenegro has at last realized her
ambition of years and become a king
dom. And Prince Nicholas, the be-
loved ruler Is no longer Prince Mich
olas, but is entitled to be called king
or czar. All of which momentous
changes have been brought about by
the simple act of Nicholas I'm pro-
claiming the change i'm the style OF
government to mark the golden jubi-
lee OF his reign. He came to the
throne fifty years ago today.
The little principality could not
have been elevated to a kingdom with
out the consent of the European
powers. But the latter could hardly
withhold their approval i'm the case
of Montenegro after they had per-
mtted all the other Balkan princes
To assume the dignity of kingship.
And so, when Prince Nicholas noti-
fed the kings of Great Britain and
Italy, and the emperors uf Russia,
Austria and Germany tina he pro-
posed to make the change they ac-
quiesced, though doubtless they would
have preferred to have things in the
little country go on as they were.
The new king was born Oct. Z. 1S41,
and on Nov. s, 1860, was married to
Milena Petrovna Vicoticova, daugh
ter of Peter Vukotic, senator and vice
president of the council of state. The
offspring of the union are three sons
and six daughters. The sons are:
Prince Danilo, heir of the throne:
Prince Mirko and Prince Peter. one
Montenegrin princess is the present
queen of italy. and another now would
be queen Of servia but for her pre-
mature death. while three other daugh-
ters of the new king are the Grand
Duchess Militia of Russia, the Ouch
ess Anastasia of Leuchtenberg, and
Princess Anna of Bottenberg, respec-
lively.
Half the Size Of Wales.
The new kingdom has only $3.50
square miles Gust half the size of
wales) to support the title Though
practically free and self governing for
the last five centuries. IL was only In
1878 that the powers recognized the
independence of Montenegro. Up to
thirty years earlier IL has been an &C.
clesiastical state under the govern
ment of the vladika or prince bishop,
whose combination of secular and
sacred rule illustrated the divine right
of kings. Since 1896, however, the
reins OF power had been vested In
the Petrolvtch Nyegush family,
which celebrated its bicentenary in
1896
Montenegro is the thirteenth king
dom to come into existence within the
last hundred years. Six of these
kingdoms-the Netherlands, Bavaria,
Saxony. wurtemburg. westphalia and
Hanover-were given birth as the
result of the Napoleonic wars. Bel
gium was the result of the breaking
of In 1871 Of hcr uninn with Hol-