The Twin Falls times. [volume] (Twin Falls, Idaho) 1905-1916, 1916-11-23
AUSTRIAN MONARCH
CALLED BY DEATH
Longest Authentic Active Reign
Ended Yesterday
CROWNED HEAD WHO SAW MANY
2HnROWS RESTS AT LAST.
killing OF His Nephew and MOrganatic
Wife Final Straw That Broke the
Peace OF Europe.

LONDON-Emperor Francis Joseph
of Austria died Tuesday night at 8
o'clock at Shoenbrum castle, accord
bag to Reuter- dispatch from Vienna
by way of Amsterdam.
Like the death of Pope Plus X, the
esd of the venerable Emperor Francis
Joseph is charged largely against the
great war. The one man was help
hess spectator, shocked at the horror
of such sudden and widespread
clash of arms; the other the man
whose action in avenging the assassi
nation of his heir engulfed the ma
tfons in combat.
With Francis Joseph's death in the
Midst of this great conflict there is a
remarkable climax to long list of
tragedies in the Hapsburg family
a list unparalleled in any other reign
ing house in Europe-including the
assassination or violent death of sew
en- near relatives.
Archduke Carl, the new emperor is
only 20 years of age. His wife, the
new Empress of Austria, was the
Princess Zita of Parma.
The fortitude with which the en-
Ebror bore each blow and in later
FEARS withstood the inroads of i'll
II kealth himself was the wonder of his
& people. Fears that the shock of the
assassination of his heir, the Arch
duke Francis Ferdinand and his con-
sort while on a state visit to Bosnia
on June 28, 1914, would kill the en-
peror were answered in Characters
nc manner.
The consort, Countess Sophia of
@hotek, who was killed with Prince
Francis Ferdinand, was his morganat
ic wife; that is she had all the rights
Of a wife except that neither she nor
her children would receive the rank
Of the husband and father. Since the
Austrian laws in common with the
laws of many monarchial countries
y forbid the marriage of the i'm
\perial or royal blood oustide of i'm
\erial or royal families, the law is
eNaded in case of love, by the prince
OF the blood marrying under one of
his inferior titles. Hence, the children
of the murdered crown prince could
not have inherited the throne of Aus
tria or Hungary.
Francis Joseph then nearing his
eighty-fourth birthday recuperating
at Ischl from a catarrhal affliction
which each spring had worn heavily
upon him, mustered strength to return
TO Vienna Immediately, and take a
firm grip on the confused state of
affairs.
With the royal funeral rites OBJ
served, and the new heir, the young
Archduke Carl Francis Joseph recog-
nized, the venerable emperor and his
advisers turned to Servia with de-
mands which startled Europe From
the ultimatum of July 20, 1914, de-
nouncing the anti-Austrian propagan-
da and demanding prompt punishment
Of the assassins of Archduke Ferdi-
nand according to items supposedly
dictated by Francis Joseph himself,
Practically dates the war now ravag-
Il ing Europe
The emperor had many sorrows. In
1853 he narrowly escaped assassina-
tion In 1867 his brother, the illfated
Emperor Macmillan of Mexico, was
executed A niece was burned to
death in Vienna, and later a sister
suffered the same fate in Paris, a
cousin drowned herself and his son,
the first crown prince died or was
killed under mysterious circumstances.
The second crown prince, a nephew
Of the emperor fled the country under
. the assumed name of John Orth. His
y beloved wife was assassinated by an
\anarchist and many minor calamities
Nefell him. Through his whole long
HE, Francis Joseph remained the idol
Of TIE army and the people, and ii
was long predicted that at his death
bhe Austro-Hungarian monarchy would
fall to pieces.
As the emperor grew older and sad
der he worked harder and permitted
himself fewer recreations. A week OF
shooting each year, and few bottles
ef priceless Gastein to warm his chill
in blood, a daily hour of gossip with
Katherine Schratt, who held his af-
fections-that was all. He compiled
rigidly with the required etiquette
49, the court, but personally his tastes
we're simple. He ate breakfast OF
freshly boiled ham, rolls and coffee
cvery morning at S o'clock, smoked q
three-cent cigar strolled in the morn
ing air until 6 and then got down tC
rhe serious business of the day. He
Zseldom slept more than five hours
and not that much whom he Travelled
r a press Of business waited on him