The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1911-01-09
OFFERS ROYAL N
BONES FOR SALE
Illinois Doctor Says He Has
John 0rth'S Skeleton.
OLD ROMANCE IS REVIVED

Heir to Austrian Throne Renounced
Succession to Wed Pretty Actress.
Supposed to Have Lost Life During
Hurricane In Southern Seas-Man
Claiming to Be Archduke John
Recently Bobbed Up In Painesvllle
(o) Machine Shop.
New York, Jan. g.--"FOR SALE
The skeleton of Archduke Johann,
brother Of Emperor Franz Joseph of
Austria, the genuine. and intact. Box
as, Denver, Illinois"
This was an advertisement in a
New York newspaper. In response to
petition by Archduke Joseph Ferdi-
nand of Austria, the nephew and sole
heir If Archduke John Nepomucene
Salvatore, known as John Orth, the
latter was officially pronounced dead
by the high court marshals office in
Vienna on July of last year. The
high court marshal decided that
ArchdulIe John Salvatore had died
sometime between Aug. and Aug
D, $780, when the barque st. Mar
gucrite, of which the archduke under
| his assumed name of John Orth was
master, went down in a hurricane
near the little island of Nuevo Ano,
Off TERRA del Fuego Since this Off
cial pronouncement OF the missing
archduke's death no report of his
being alive and well had come from
any of the quarters of the world that
had occasionally discovered him be-
fore.
Alexander Won Nuker, consul gen
eral of Austro- Hungary in New York,
heard the news that the genuine
and intact" skeleton of Archduke
John was fer sale out in Illinois with
out showing great concern. He laugh
ede as he declared his belief that the
imperial family in Vienna would not
be bidders for the merchandise that
Box 46 has put on the market The
consul general said that 1t was true
that nobody in Austria was sure just
where Archduke Johann died. but
that nobody would believe that 1t
was in the region OF Denver. ILL.,
Archduke John first brought notice
to himself outside the court when he
fell in love with Ludmila Stubel an
actress of peasant birth. The arch
duke realized that he could not as
| such marry the pretty actress, so
finding that he was genuinely in love
with her and that he preferred life
with her to all that his rank offered,
he renounoed his titles and with
| them any pretentions to succeed to
the throne, and in London he married
Ludmila Strubef He assumed the
name of John Orth, choosing the
name OF castle of his on Gmuden
| lake.
Several times John Orth was re-
ported from Paris. Once, and that
was only last summer-when a Ger.
tain Baron de OFT visited New York
and stopped at the Netherlands and
the Waldorf hotels, word came from
Paris that the baron was John Orth
and New York lawyer did not hest
tate to declare that his client might
well be the famous person. The Chi
cago stockyards and the machine
shops of Painesvile. o.. also got in
line not long ago with their respec
tive candidates for honors due q
missing archduke. II was story
good erough for almost any summer
Sunday. OF course man who found
the archduke's bones west of TERRA
del Fuego night take them TO Den
yer, ILL.,, which, although the popula
tion is only 1876, is on the c., B. g. O..
and therefore accessible; but as
above stated, Austria Is not-li likely to
go there searching for hem.