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Loup City Northwestern. VOLUME XX. LOUP CITY, SHERMAN COUNTY, NEBRASKA, FRIDAY, JUNK 19. 1903. NUMBER 32. KING FOR SERVIA PARLIAMENT IS ABOUT TO MAKE THE SELECTION. A REPUBLIC IS NOT IN FAVOR Complete Order Now Prevalent in Bel grade—Streets of the Capital Ani mated with Many Officers and Stu dents. BELGRADE—At a conference of senators and deputies held here Sat urday night it was unanimously de cided that the constitution voted by the great assembly in 1888 should be put into force and that Prince Karageorge vltch should be unanimously elected king at Monday's meeting of the Skup shtina and Senate. After the election a deputation of the assembly will be held to wait on Prince Peter and com municate to him the decision of the na tional assembly. The Servian constitution of 1888 was was more liberal than any granted pre viously and provided that all taxpaying citizens should become electors, by whose votei the Skupshtina was elect ed. It remained in force until May, 1894, when the late King Alexander by a coup d-etat abolished it and restored the constitution of 1869. Complete order prevailed in Belgrade Saturday night and absolute quiet is still reported throughout Servia. The streets of the capital bear an animated appearance, being crowded with officers and a large number of students who have arrived from abroad, it is believed with the object of demonstrating in favor of Prince Peter Karageorgevitch as king. Some republican tendencies are nota ble among the students who have stud ied in France and Switzerland; these latter, however, are quite over shadowed by the opinion of the major ity and there seems to be no doubt that the national assembly will tomorrow pronounce in favor of a monarchy and elect Prince Karageorgevttch. The newspapers continue to point out the impossibility of the establish ment of a republic and advocate the election of Prince Peter in order to as sure a brighter epoch in Servian an nals. The foreign representatives in Bel grade continue to maintain a strict re serve. Peter Viliromitch, one of the oldest and most prominent members of the radical party and former minister of state, has been appointed president of the senate, in success to M. Harinko vitch, who has resigned. M. Velmiro mitch will take the chair at the joint meeting of the senate and the Skup shtina tomorrow on the occasion of the election of the new king. Shoots at Italian Consul. HAVANA—While the Italian consul here, Vlagio Tornielli, was seated in the office, a young Italian sailor en tered and Inquired whether he was the consul. On receiving an affirmative reply, he whipped out a revolver and fired, the bullet grazing the consul’s head. The sailor turned and fled along the street pursued by the consul. The miscreant ineffectively fired the only charge in the revolver at his nearest pursuers. It is believed that he is in sane. Steel Corporation Reports. WASHINGTON.—During the past week the United States Steel corpora tion has filed, through Secretary Cor teiyou. with the bureau of corpora tions of the department of commerce, the financial report of its operations for the year 1902, including schedules, showing in detail its business and financial transactions during that year. The report is very voluminous and complete. It is the first report of any large business concern filed with the new department. Crisis Continues in Italy. ROME.—The political crisis con tinues. Former Premier Zanardelli was unable to go to the quirinal to see the king, owing to sickness. He arose in the morning but was obliged to return to bed. This circumstance is delaying the solution of the crisis, it is reported that if Sig. Zanardelli persists in his refusal to form a cab inet. the king will call on former Min ister Giolitti. Grandfather of Baby McKee Dead. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.—R. S. Mc Kee- president of the wholesale shoe firm of McKee & Co., died after a long illness. He was the grandfather of ‘‘Baby” McKee, President Harri son’s grandson. SCOUTS IDEA OF A REPUBLIC Servia Not Ready for Such an Ad vanced Government. BELGRADE—The Norodnl Listy concludes an editorial article regard ing the suggested establishment of a Servian republic, thus: “Servia is not yet ready for such an advanced government, while the army, which is really the contributing factor of the situation, would not agree to its establishment. Servia has had only two ruling dynasties and since the Obrenovitches have been extermi nated. there Is no choice except the Karageorgeovitchea.” LJubonlr Kallevitch, the new foreigu minister, in the course ot' an inter view, said that the Servian agents in London, Paris and Vienna had been informed by the respective govern ments to which they are accredited that these powers had no intention of intervening in Servia so long as pub lic order was maintained. AMERICAN KILLED BY TURKS. United States Consul at Odessa Re ports His Death. WASHINGTON—United States Con sul Heenan at Odessa. Russia, reports by cable to the state department that Qtiarekin B. Chitjlan, an American citizen, was killed in that city by a number of Turks, who have been cap tured. Chitjian was born In Harpoot, Turkey, in 1863, and came to the United States when a child. He lived at Worcester, Mass., where he was naturalized and ordained as a clergy man, returning to Europe last Septem ber. It is assumed that the Russian authorities at Odessa will mete out justice for the killing. MADE THE SULTAN TREMBLE. Will Not Allow the Word “Assassina tion” to Be Used. CONSTANTINOPLE—The terrible drama at Belgrade caused stupefac tion at the yildiz palace. The sultan was so affected that he was unable to listen to the details published in the newspaper and allowed those who con versed with him to speak only of the "death of the king and queen of Ser via," and would not permit them to mention the word assassination. It is announced here that King Charles of Roumania. who was honorary colonel of the Sixth regiment of Servian in fantry. which perpetrated the massa cre at Belgrade, has severed his con nection with the regiment, which he considers has given such horrible proof of lack of military honor. Appoints a New York Man. WASHINGTON. D. C. — Alvord Cooley of Westchester. N. Y., has been appointed civil service commis sioner by President Roosevelt to suc ceed James R. Garfield, appointed commissioner of corporations. Senator Platt of New York took luncheon with the president Saturday, remaining at the white house until nearly 3 o’clock. After his conference with the president he announced Mr. Cooley’s appointment. He did not in dicate that Mr. Cooley was his selec tion for the place. It 13 said the ap pointment was decided on some time ago and was acquiesced in by Sen ator Platt. Absorbs Steamer Line. TACOMA, Wash.—The Canadian Pacific railroad has absorbed the Ca nadian Pacific Navigation company, with headquarters at Vancouver, ano has taken over its fourteen steamers plying between Victoria, Skagway and other points. As yet there is no change in the Alaska tariff, but local lines expect that when any large amount of business is open to compe tition the Canadian road will be a for midable rival. Cholera in the Philippines. WASHINGTON, D. C.—Official ad vices to the marine hospital service in this city represent a sharp increase of cholera cases in the Philippine is lands since the beginning of the rainy season. Many of the cases have oc curred in Manila, but a rapid spead down the coast of Luzon also is re ported. About half of the Manila cases have occurred among the crews of launches and other small craft. New Trial for Tennessee Claflin. LONDON—The appeal court grant ed the application of Lady Cook (for merly Miss Tennesse Claflin of New York) for a retrial of the charge brought against her b? J. H. Wallace, her former private secretary, who was granted a veridct of $2,750 on ths plea of libel. A KING IS SLAIN _ THE ARMY REVOLTS AND COM MITS MURDER. NINE PEOPLE ASSASSINATED King and Queen of Servia Die in Each Other’s Arms—Pretender to the Throne Is Proclaimed by the Army Decision Will Be Confirmed. | BELGRADE.—A military conspir acy, which subsequent events show had the sympathy of the majority oi the Servian people, was carried out in the early hours of Thursday morn ing and King Alexander. Queen Dra ga. her two brothers and several min isters were assassinated. The following is the official list of tho killed: KING ALEXANDER. QUEEN DRAGA. THE QUEEN’S TWO BROTHERS. PREMIER MARKOV1TCH. THE MINISTER OF WAR. TWO AIDES-DE-CAMP AND TWO OTHER OFFICERS. The time of assassination is given officially as 2 a. m. Prince Peter Karageorgeovitch, the pretender to the throne, has been pro claimed king by the army, and there is every reason to believe that this decision will be confirmed by the Servian parliament, which has been summoned to meet on June 15. The revolution was executed without any opposition on the part of the people of Belgrade and the capital and the country remain quiet. While the main outlines or tne events which took place within the royal palace are known, the details are conflicting, owing to the extra ordinary secrecy with which the plot w'as contrived and carried out. The chief conspirators were all men of high rank, who acted in concert with the army. The participation of the latter In the assassination, which blotted out the Obrenovitch dynasty, which lias ruled Servia, with a short intermission, for nearly a century, is mainly due Nw the atttiude of King Alexander And his consort towards the ofllcern of the army, whom he always treated with scant courtesy. His desire to remove the war school from Belgrade to Shebatz particularly gave the offi cers offense. The date is a sinister one In the history of the Obrenovitch house, be ing the thirty-fifth anniversary of the assassination of King Alexander’s grand uncle, who was done to death by Agents of Alexander Karageorge ovitch, the then leading member of the house which had long disputed the throne of Servia against the Obreno vitch family, and whose head now, Prince Peter Karageorgeovitch, has been proclaimed king. Dissatisfaction against King Alexan der’s rule nas oeen actuated since his suspension of the constitution last April, and it is from that time that the milttary plot dates. The organiza tion of this bloody deed was carried out with consummate skill. The king for the past two months was thrown oft his guard by the apparent quietude of the reception of his recent coup! d’etat. In the meantime the conspir ators had decided on June 10 as the date for the execution of the revolu tion for two reasons—firstly, it is the anniversary of the murder of King Alexander’s grand uncle, Michael, and, secondly, because it was feared that further delay would permit the skuptschina to settle the succession to the throne according to the king’s wishes, and it was believed that the brother of the hated queen would be his choice. Expect a Special Session. TOPEKA, Kas.—It 1b expected that a special session of the Kansas legisla ture will be called to pass bills for the relief of the flood sufferers. Replies have been received from twenty-five members of the legislature, giving fav orable answers to the query as to whether they could serve without pay. Nearly $60,000 is now in the flood re lief fund. If this generous aid con tinues it will be sufficient in three weeks to go a long way toward giving North Topeka a new start. In Government s Favor. WASHINGTON, D. C.—The court of appeals in the District of Columbia decided the second class mail matter case in favor of the government, re versing the decision of the lower court The case was that o. the postmaster general against Houghton. Mifflin & Co., and involving the admission to tha mails as second class mall matter of certain puolicatlons. THE EAST ST. LOUIS FLOOD. A Workman Describes the Awful Rush of Water. ST. LOUIS—Thomas Middleton, a volunteer In charge of a gang of men working to keep back the flood, gives this vivid description of the break: "The break occurred at 11:4»*. My gang was hard at work with tne oth ers and 1 bad just looked at my watch and noted that it was almost time to take our midnight lunch. The Water was pouring over the top of the em bankm >nt in a sheet even nfter all our work. Suddenly, with a roar that l shall never forget, a jet of watet shot through the embankment almost at my feet. I was carried away, but threw out my arm and seized some firm object and pulled myself out of the water. C. D. Sherwood, a laborer standing at my side, was swept away and I sawr liim drown. In an instant the water had cut a section of the em bankment out and a stream twenty five feet wide was rushing through I looked across the torrent and saw another section of tne embankment gc out a few minutes later and then that portion standing between the two tor rents went down and the river pour ed through in all its tury. Many men. especially negroes, were drowned. I know that several negroes, worn out. were lying asleep right in the path of the break. They certainly drowned I escaped by running along the em bankment back to the city.” The alarm spread like wildfire and whistles were blown, bells rung, shots were fired and cries of warning were sounded, but even witn all this pande omnium the majority of the aroused inhabitants failed to leave theii homes. WAS LAST OF THE DYNA8TY. Killing on Anniversary of the Murder of Prince Michael. COLOGNE—A private telegram from Belgrade says: "The career of the Obrenovich dynasty was closed in the early hours of this morning, the same day of the year on which Prince Michael was murdered thirty-five years agfcln the park of Topschider, near Belgrade. Today a requiem mass was being sung in memory of Prince Mi chael, and now the last of his race, to gether with all connected with the dynasty by his unfortunate marriage. He in a bier in the palace at Bel grade. The people of Belgrade have been flocking the streets since 3 o’clock in the morning, discussing the tragedy, but without condemnation. A strong detachment of troops is encamped about the palace of the newly pro claimed king, who was a pretender to the throne for many years. He was born in Belgrade In 1846 and was married in 1883 to Princess Zerka, daughter of Prince Nicholas of Mon tenegro. She died in 1890. 8HOCK KILLS THE SHEEP. Superimposed System on War Ships is Condemned. CHERBOURG, France—The sys tem of superimposed turrets on war ships has been condemned by the na val commission, which has been ex perimenting with the battleship Henry IV. The Anal trials were to test the possibility of men occupying the low er turret while firing was being done from the upper turret. Four sheep were lifted up in the lower turret to represent gunners, and after ten shots bad been fired three of the animals were found to be dead.' The fourth had broken away and had sought refuge in the captain’s cabin. QUARRELED OVER A WOMAN One Man is Dead and the Other is in Jail. DEADWOOD, S. D.—Edward Wilson of Spearfish was shot and D. Bennett of Spearfish is in the Deadwood jail, charged with murder. The two men had a quarrel over a woman. Ben nett says Wilson killed himself. He acknowledged the quarrel and says Wilson tried to shoot him; 'that he grabbed the revolver, and that when neighbors started to separate them Wilson went back in the house, after which he shot himself. Bennett is known to have made threats that he would kill Wilson. Wilson died from the wound. Jews Need Not Fear in Odessa. 8T. PETERSBURG—General Arsfi off, the new prefect of police of Odes sa. in receiving a deputation of rabbis recently, assured them that the JewB of Odessa could pursue their avoca tions without fearing anti-Semite out breaks. THE LIGHT THAT NEVER PAILS. VICTIMS BURIED MURDERED KINO AND QUEEN IN ROYAL VAULT. BURIAL DURING THE NIGHT New Government Only Holds Office to Prevent Anarchy Till Ruler Is Named—Relatives of the Queen Ex pelled from the Country. BELGRADE—King Alexander and Queen Draga were burled during the night In the family vault of the Breno vitchs' in the chapel of the cemetery of St. Mark. Shortly after midnight the royal vic tims were carried to their last resting place. It was a pitiful sight All day long the victims were reposing in rough coffins and had lain exposed to the gaze of those who had killed them and to the privileged curious, who gave many unpleasant evidences of the pub lic resentment against them. Some persons evenspat on the remains. Outside the palace a vast crowd awaited the cortege, which included the bodies of all the victims, which were simultaneously interred, being convey ed in hearses to the Belgrade ceme tery. In the streets there was a dead silence, the public being kept back by the troops. The buriul service was brief. Two priests were present. In side the cemetery no one was allowed except a strong force of gendarmes and a few officers. Not a single friend or relative of the deceased was pres ent. The remains of the royal pair were Interred in a vault in the cemetery chapel. Two wooden crosses alone de noted the spot, marked “Alexander Ob renovlcs” and “Dragtnja Obrenovlcs.” The other bodies He outside in the cem etery in rough graves. On Friday the sisters and the nieces of the late queen who had been arrest ed were expelled from the country. Colonel Naumovics Is described in the official notice of his death as “dy ing on the held of honor for hts fath erland.” It Is now confirmed that only Queen Draga's brothers were killed. Her sis ters were taken to Pancsova by some of the conspirators. In the course of an interview Pre mier Avakumovics said: “We ministers only accepted office In order to prevent the country falling into a condition of anarchy. As soon as a king Is elected we will appoint a definite cabinet. Skupshtina can de cide the fate of the country quite Inde pendently of the army, although an agreement seems probable. In the event of the election of Prince Kara georgevltch a deputation will go to Ge neva, inform him of his election and invite him to come to Belgrade. He will be Peter I. “The constitution of 1901 will be the basis of the future governmental sys tem. As to the present position of the country, calm prevails everywhere. There have been no disturbances and the situation promises to become bet ter in the future. Those who speak of excited popular sentiment and predict further changes are entirely wrong.” Clark Chosen President. OGDEN, Utah—Chairman Keisel of the executive committee of the elev enth irrigation congress announced that the committee had chosen Sena tor Clark as president of the con gress. HOTEL HELP QUITS. Strike Declared in Practically All of Chicago's Big Hoatelriea. CHICAGO.—The strike In the ho tels of Chicago, impending tof the last three weeks, materialized Friday and twenty-five of the leading hotels of Chicago are now badly crippled in all departments. All of the hotels are running, however, and the pro prietors declare that the establish ments will remain open for business at any cost. The first call to the employes of the hotels to go on strike was made by the walking delegates at 9 o'clock in the morning and all day the dele gates visited the different hotels rep resented in the Hotel Keepers' asso ciation and called out the help. In several places the walking delegates were refused admission and were com pelled to signal the employes from the outside. In others the strike leaders were met with the informa tion that there was no need to make a call on the men to go out, the hotel proprietors telling the help It would be necessary to get out and stay out until her trouble was over. TREASURY AFIRE AT PEKIN. Firemen Trying to Put Blaze Out by Waving Banners. PEKIN—The extensive buildings occupied by the boards of revenue and rites are in flames from end to end. The revenue building contains 4, 000,000 taels. The burning buildings adjoin the legations, and the foreign military governors are doing effective service. The Chinese Are department, equip ped chiefly with banners and gongs, is helpless. The board of revenue buildings were totally destroyed by the Are and the soldiers demolished the board of sites building to prevent a further spread of the flames to the foreign section. No estimate of the loss Is obtainable at present. EAST WELCOMES HEAVY RAIN. Long Drouth la Ended and with It Go the Forest Fires. BOSTON—Rain, and plenty of it, Monday night ended the fifty days’ drouth in northern and southern New England and quenched most of the forest fires which have turned vast areas into blackened wastes. The rain already has drenched the entire New England coast line. The storm is traveling inward and will likely bring relief to all New Eng land. The drouth Just ended has been the longest and most severe for many years. Temperatures during the last fifty uays have ranged from frost to midsummer torridness and damage has accompanied each, extreme frost having killed early vegetables and the hot weather parched meadow and brush lands. Mere Troops Sent to Arizona. SAN FRANCISCO. — The First United States cavalry left Friday for Lordsburg, N. Mex., the nearest railroad station to Morencl, Ariz., there to await further orders. The squadron comprises about 250 men and eleven officers Colonel Wells, commander of the regiment, did not accompany the squadron, which re turned from the Philippines on the Sheridan, and had previously been or dered to Texas.