Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-02-12
HEIR TO THRONE LOVES HIS VINE
Believed He Will Insist on Making
Her Empress.
Is NOW A SIMPLE DUCHESS
Peculiar Agreement Made at Time Of
Marriage.
QUESTION OF STATUS IS SERIOUS
Doctor who Was Considerations DIES
as Result of Persecution from
Powerful People who
Sought 90 MuEzIe Him.
ny EMIL ANDRAssY.

ny EMIL ANlltNASS1.
VIENNA. Feb 11-(Specal to The Bee)
When Archduke Francis Ferdinand as
cends the throne will he attempt to over
turn the family arrangement made when
he married Countess Sophia Chotak. now
duchess Of Hohenberg, and seek to make
her his empress?
This question has been given added inn
portance from the fact that the heir APP
parent refused to attend the recent state
ball because under existing court etiquette
at state functions his wife would have
had to give precedence to even the young
est OF the debutante archduchosses.
His imperial highness remembered that
two years ago at a state function his wife
had to walk at the very end of the royal
procession entirely unattended and he did
not propose to submit her to this humili-
alton again.
When he becomes emperor this question
Of the position OF his wife will become a
very serious one. He loves her devotedIy
and while he agreed to the arrangement
which deprived their children of the right
Of succession and the duchess Of any
standing as the consort Of an imperial
prince, he did It under protest and when
he becomes head of the family and the
state 1t will not be surprising IL he re-
pudates the arrangement and declares his
wife the empress. II he SHOULD do so II
viii surely create sensation in Vienna
society.
Tragedy of "A Poor Doctor.
The tragic story Of country doctor in
Upper Austria, affords a close parallel
to lbsen's play, AN Enemy OF the People
and has attracted widespread sympathy
mere especially in medical circles DR.
Franz the parish doctor Of his native place,
Hiedau, small market town of 500 in
habitants, made himself unpopular last
summer by doing his duty in notifying the
district nrefeculTH'l - Lac, ta.pi,oid
'''nieff- ndo' occnffed. NJ spite 81 the at
tempts of the buTgomaster and OTHER inf1u-
entail persons I'm the town to induce him
10 hush 1t up. In consequence of the
NOTIFICATION, some of the usual summer
visitors stayed away from Riedau last year.
ana body of military who would other
wise have been billeted there during the
maneuvers were sent elsewhere. The trades
men of the place, with the burgomaster
at their head, thereupon organized a how
colt OF the doctor and his family, In order
TO revenge themselves on him for the
business they had lost They refused to
sell him provisions, organized mobs 10
break his windows, wrote threatening let
ters Finally, they dismissed him from hIs
position as parish doctor.
Victim of Malice.
DR.. Franz appealed to the prefeot ~ Oh.
district, who at once took strong measures
to support him. The parish council v,as
dissolved, the burgomaster deposed the
dismissal Of the doctor declared illegal ana
gendarmes were quartered in the pIaca 20
protect him and his family. This however
ala not save DR.. Franz from being ruined
his old patients refused to pay their hills
no new ones came, and at length his health
broke down under the strain of his nosI-
uon' few days ago he died suddenly
OF stroke' at the early age of SO, leaving
his mother, wife and children penniIess
The Austrian Medical association has for
bidden any doctor to take the vacant most
ana Is endeaVoring to induce the govern
ment to provide for his family ON IN.
ground that the doctor has fallen n vtctir1
to the conscientious fulfllment Of his duty
to the state.
Millionaire Murdered.
In the Identical suburb Of Vienna WHARF
the humpbacked sewing girl, Louise Weiss
was murdered in a most terrible manner
short time ago, another murder was com
mltted on Monday, An aged Armenian
millionaire named Jacob Dedejan. who re-
slued In the brisittenau, was stabbed with
a dagger
DedeJan was reputed to be eccentric. and.
In spite OF his riches was very misery. Az
midday an Armenian fellow countryman. a
bookkeeper named Altman, who had re-
Gently arrived from ConstantInople. d.
manded money OF the old man, who refused
1t. Altman, II is stated, thereupon fell on
the old man with his dagger. and then fled
policeman who remarked his blood
stained hands captured him. A large sum
Of money and n dagger were found In All
mans possession