New Mexico state record. (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1914-19??, 1916-11-24
ARCHDUKE CHARLES FRAN.
CTS, GRAND NEPHEW OF
LATE EMPORER FRANCIS
JOSEPH SUCCEEDS HIM
EMPEROR'S DEATH
WAS EXPECTED
AGED RULER IN ILL HEALTH
FOR MANY MONTHS BUT
WORKED DAILY WAS AL
MOST 81 YEARS OLD WHEN
THE END CAME


THE END CAME
London, Nov 22-EmperorFrancis
Schocnbrun castle. Death was caus-
ed by a cold which the aged mon
arch caught while walking in the
palace park a few days ago with the
King of Bavaria. The cold develop
ed into pneumonia of the right lung.
Wwen it was realized yesterday that
the emperor's condition was serious
his daughter. Archduchess Marie
Valerie, and his. nephews, the Arch
dukes Charles Francis, heir apparent
and Joseph Frederick, were sum
noned to the bedside.
Veteran Dies in Harness
Dispatches say that the emperor
rose at his usual hour Tuesday and
engaged in governmental business
He received his daughtr at 8 o'clock
and two hours later gave audience
to Foreign Minister Burian. In the
afternoon his condition grew worse
and in the early evening his temper
ature rose and the physicians realiz-
ed that death was approaching. 1t
is reported in Berlin that Emperor
William will attend the funeral.
Longest Reign in History
The death of Francis Joseph ends
the long fist of trabedies of his fam
dy-a list unparalleled in any other
reigning house in Europe. He dies
in the midst of the worlds greatest
war, which he himself largely
to avenge the assassination of his
heir, the Archduke Francis Ferdi
nand. as the result Of an alleged
Serbian conspiracy.
He was in his 87th year having
been born August 18th 1880 He was
only nineteen years of age when he
assended the throne of Austria, un-
der the abdicaton Of his uncle. Fer
dinand l., December 3 1913. making
mis- reign extend over period of 68
years, all but the first twenty of
which he was Apostolic King of
Hungary. 1t is the longest authen-
ticatcd reign in history. The closest
rival and the only one of modern
times is that of Queen Victoria, who
Ieigned "a years.
The New Emperor
Archduke Charles Francis, grand
nephew of Emperor Francis Joseph
became heir to the throne of Austria
when Archduke Francis Ferdinand
was assassinated prior to the out
break OF the war. He has been in
command of the Austrian armies On
various fronts during the past two
years. Today he became monarch
Of the warning nation.
Archduke Charles Francis was
born on August Y, 1887. His wife
was Princess Zita of the Bourbon
house OF Parma. His father was the
Nrchduke Otto, who was the Young
brother of Francis Ferdinand.
Saw Many World Changes /
Francis Joseph's reign was as
eventful as it was long. From his /
imperial vantage point he saw the |
black pinions of the Prussian eagle
stamped on the flag of the new Ger
man empire--later to tower threaten
ingly over Austria Itself; he saw the
papacy shorn of its territorial de-
mesne. while about a pickering family
OF petty principalities was welded in
to united Italy; he saw Spain, once
the greatest of colonial powers, lose
the last of her dependencies in two
oceans; he saw Japan opened to
western civilization, and later defeat {
he sprawling Colossus of two con-
inents; he saw the most ablute I
espotisms-Russis Turkey and =
representation to I
United States cement its federation a
With the blood of a great interne- L
inc war, and he saw his own brother
'rove that monarchy could not take t
lew root on American soil.
In his own country he faced in ',
ernal dissensions and. external ag- q
ressions from the moment he came Y
0 the throne. By the war - 1850 e
nth France and Sardinia be was y
orced to cede Lombardy to Italv. .
y force of arms and by treaty he y
,st the Duchy of Holstein to Prus- e!
ia and Venice to Italy: and by the 81
evolt of Kossutil. the Hungarian pa a.
not, he barely escaped having his 81
ual empire cut in two. lpi
His Family Tragadies ar
~
But in human interest his personal III
'rrows oversh dowed all. One after NJ
lother they came upon him. In 1853 bc
!e. list of tragic incidents began ar
18th an attempt upon his own life. ro
1867 mis- brother. the Archduke na
aximilian, after three years expert in
ent as emperor of Mexico, was cap- n,
red by the army of the patriots w;
i'd condemned to death by a court DO
artial whose sentence was execut- a
notwithstanding intercession in az
behalf By the government of the ly