Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1916-12-01
is PROCLAIMED
DUAL MONARCH
Charles Francis Becomes En-
perOr Of Austria.
he is ONLY 29 YEARS OLD

Francis Joseph Passed Away Peace
fully After Spending an Active Day
In Governmental Affairs.
Archduke Charles Francis Joseph
mas been proclaimed emperor OF Aus
tria and king of Hungary, succee ing
Emperor Francis Joseph, who died IN
Vienna, says a despatch from Amster-
dam.
No date has been set for the corona
!ion. Even if the emperor had lived
the archduke would have come into
power on December as regent.
Although Vienna has so far with
held official court confirmation of the
death of the aged emperor, his demise
has been confirmed in special des-
patches from various sources.
The new ruler of the nation which
made demands on Serbia ami precipi-
tated the great war is twenty-nine
years old and is supposed to be at
the front in command of Austrian
troops operating in the Carpathfans
against the RumaniaRs.
The man who will now become Aus
tria's ruler is known to have had
good military education and has
achieved some success as a military
commander in the great war. He has
not lacked any training whatever in
statecraft or diplomacy. Moreover, he
assumes the throne at a time when
the strongest Of men would have
task in maintaining the empire of Aus
tria-Hungary intact and strong.
Dispatches from Vienna declared
that the aged emperor's death was
peaceful.
The emperor was apparently in fair
ly good health Monday night, twenty
four hours before his death. He arose
at his usual hour on Tuesday morning
and went through his customary pro-
gram of busying himself in govern
mental affairs. Later he received the
Archduchess Marie Valerie and Baron
Rurian, from the foreign office. Late
in the afternoon he became suddenly
worse. Itis temperature rose alarm
ineiy. 1t was obvious then that the
end was near.
The ArchGuchess Marie Valerie as
sisted the aged ruler to his bedroom
early Tuesday night. He was unable
TO sleep and kept complaining of pains
in his throat At nine o'clock he ap-.
peared more quiet and seemed to be
resting. But twenty minutes later he
suddenly gestured to his throat, SEEM
ed to strive for utterance, and died
within a few moments, presumably OF
1aa catarrahl affection resulting from
a cold which he had constantly suffer-
ed since July.
The Archduke Charles Francis Jo-
seph, who has been in Vienna for some
time, was Immediately notified. The
telephone connecting Schoenbrunn
pa!ace with the German headquarters
In the field was used to notify EN-.
perOr William of Germany.
100000 steel Workers Get Increase.
The United States Steel corporation
announced an increase of ten per cent
in the wages Of the employees Of its
steel and iron companies, effective De.
cember Is next.
Wage and salary advances In other
departments of the corporation also
will be equitably adjusted. it was stat
ed.
The increase affects, in all, about
100000 employees, and probably adds
nearly S20,OOO,OO0 to the corporations
pay roll.
This is the third advance within
year. On May last wages were rails
ed ten per cent, and on February an
advance of about the same proportion
was announced. Prior to Lnat~ time
the corporation had restored the sala'
ries CT the tonnage men, which had
BEEN cut 121s per cent during the big
depression of 1915.