Omaha daily bee., 1911-02-05
BALKAN TROUBLE FERMENTS
Coming of Spring Likely to Mark 1T
Outbreak.
TURKISH OFFICIALS TRUCULENT
Attention May he Diverted Away
from Internal Conditions
that Threaten.
by EMIL ANnRAssY.


That there will ne trouble Ia the Balkans
with the coming OF spring is firmly be-
lieved In best Informed circles here The
internal conditions in Turkey makes
foreign war TO be desired by the govern
ment and TO this may be ascribed the
turbulent tone adopted by Constantlnople
towards both Bulgaria and Greece and the
determined efforts to thoroughly ottoman
lie Albania and Macedonia. Unfortunately
Greece. or at least Crete, win not refrain
from giving just cause OF offence to Tuy-
key while Bulgaria would rather vel
come a conflict than not The great pow
ers do not want trouble. Not that they
would not be rather glad to have the
Balkan mix-up fought out and settled II
only assurance could be given that 1t
could be confined TO the Balkans. The
trouble is II fighting begins. there is no
telling where ii will spread,
AristOcrats Weep
Five young impoverished but aristro-
cratic Hungarans are just at present be-
moaning the bad luck that has prevented
them from replenshing their exhausted
Golfers by a wealthy marriage. In Aus
tria and Hungary it Is the habit Of rel
atives OF girl to make inquiries at pri-
vste detective offices as to the means and
!
under consideration as a suitable husband
for her. Young men black list" at the
inquiry office Good parts" are, on the
other hand, put down on the white list"
The five young Hungarian aristocrats
In question were involved In debt to such
an extent that the only possibility OF re-
trieving their fortunes lay in making rich
marriages. They, therefore, formed a kind
Of company for the purpose of finding
wives. Each was to be provided with a
rich bride, preferably an American heir
ess as his turn came. They gathered
about $500 together for the prellmlna ~
| purpose Of having their names taken off
| the BLACK list" One OF their number
then approached an employee OF the private
detective office and by means Of brides
succeeded in getting the names OF all five
removed.
! As all five men bear high-soundlng titles
they expected to encounter little diff.
Guilty with their matrimonial venture once
the agencies spoke well OF them. The
nobleman who was at the head of tbs
company was to try his luck first A
| whole page in the white list described
his fortune, ancestry, and other virtues
He went to Berlin with the intention Of
discounting bills 20 raise, further funds
He was arrested there and extradited t
budapest at the instance Of his creditors
4 The alterations that had been made In tbs
agency offices were soon discovered. The
three officials concerned were arrested
but afterwards liberated as It could no
be proved that they damaged anyone b,
the alterations they had made in tn,
books.
Unusual Surgical Operation.
An unusual surgical operation has beer
performed here at the Franz Joseph hos
pital by Professor Lotheisen upon a mar
OF 40, named Tacha. He had been confine,
in public lunatic asylum, where, abou
three months ago, he secretly abstracte,
fourteen iron spoons and swallowed them
This strange nourishment at first. cause,
him no annoyance. The spoons wer
missed, but nobody suspected their where
abouts. Although Tacha has quite SCUM
lungs, he began splitting blood some day
ago, and was cross-questioned, until a
last he confessed that he had swallows
the iron spoons. lie was taken to tn
hospital and an application OF Rontge
rays soon showed the three surgeons VIII
carried II through were completely sue
cessful. A small opening was made 4
the stomach, where the intestine was lai
bare for the purpose, and one by one tn
large spoons were extracted. They weighe
altogether two and three-fourth pounds
The patients condition is quite sRtisfac
tory, and he will soon be able to be dis
charged from the hospital,