VOLUME XXII. NUMBER 15.
SEWARD, ALASKA, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19, 1927.
PRICE TEN CENTS
Mad Empress Of
Austria Is Dead
111 Many Years
MENTALITY BROKE DOWN FOLLOWING MAXI
MILIAN’S DEATH DURING REIGN NAPOLEON
III.—REMAINED IN SECLUSION OVER FIFTY
YEARS—CHATEAU SPARED BY GERMANS
BRUSSELS, Jan. 19. (/P)—Ex-Empress Charlotte
died at her home near Brussells at 7 o’clock this mom
in g.
The life of the “mad Empress” Charlotte was filled
both with romance and pathos. For more than half a
century, after she fell in a faint at the feet of Napoleon
III. at the court of St. Cloud when he refused the aid of
France for her husband, she was considered by many to
have been insane, but whether she was really mentally
unbalanced has remained a mystery for all that time.
While she lived in the utmost simplicity at a little Bel
gian chateau, her fortune grew thruout the half century
until it was estimated to have amounted to 60,000,000 to
100,000,000 francs.
Charlotte was the daughter of Leopold I. of Belgium,
the sister of Leopold II. and the wife of Maximilian, arch
duke of AuAstria, who was shot at Queretaro, June 19,!
r 1867, at the end of his ill-starred Mexican adventure. She
was born at Laeken, Belgium, in 1840 and baptised “Marie;
Amelie Augustine Victoire Leopoldine.” Her mother!
woq PrWp«s Louise of Orleans, the daughter of Louis
Phillippe, King of the French. Charlotte was an aunt of
King Albert of the Belgians.
SI ANTILLES UNION
WIRE LABOR PAPERS
IKS THREATENING
PEACE OF LATIN-AM ERICA MAY
BE RUPTURED BY IMPERIAL
ISTIC INVASION
MEXICO CITY, Jan. 19. (/P)—'The
Central and South American Antilles
union, a Spanish-American society
sent a message to labor leaders, news
papers and social and political organ
izations thruout the world as follows:
“Latin-American peace is threatened
by the Yankees’ imperialistic inva
sion of Nicaragua and threatened rup
ture with Mexico.”
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COAL MINERS KILLED
WELCH, W. Va., Jan. 19. (£>)—Four
miners are believed killed in an ex
plosion in the Central Pocahontas
Coal company mines at Caples. Sev
en others working near the centre of
the blast were uninjured.
BERLIN, Jan. 19. (JP)—Two cous
ins, John and Baptist Doblinger,
quarrymen of Speyer, born on the
same day, died the same day, and
wrere buried side by side. The fath
ers of each had also been born on
the same day and died at the same
hour.
LONDON, Jan. 19. (/P)—A hint to
^ the Royal Family that “if they took
more interest in music, things in the
musical wrnrld in England would be
better,” has been given by Mme.
Blanch Marchesi, veteran singer, who
' < often performed before Queen Victo
ria.
Princess Charlotte was reared with
great care at the court of her father,
and as a girl was not only noted for
her beauty but for her rare gifts, be
ing possessed of quite remarkable
artistic and literary talent. In her
seventeeth year she married the Arch
duke Maximilian of Hapsburg, a broth
er of the Emperor Francis Joseph, and
her early married life gave promise
of much happiness.
Maximilian -was then chief of the
Austrian navy, and soon afterward,
as governor of Milan, took up his resi
dence at the charming castle of Mira
mar, near Trieste, where the young
couple for a time led an almost ideal
existence. The archduke was a man
of liberal viewrs and attracted the
Italian poeple ot him, but the bureau
cracy managed to undo the good im
pression -which he created. During
the negotiations at Villafranca, Na
poleon III. offered to create the king
dom of Venetia for the archduke, but
Francis Joseph refused.
A voyage ito Brazil in 1860 shat
tered the archduke’s health, but later
-when the great “Mexican plot” to
overthrow the republic and place a
European prince on the throne was
hatched by Napoleon, Maximilian was
approached. The City of Mexico had
already fallen to the French troops.
An assembly of nobles offered, him the
throne. After long hesitation, Maxi
milian accepted, and in May, 1864, he
and his consort arrived at the City of
Mexico.
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S. S. WATSON NORTHBOUND
SEATLE, Jan. 19. (£>)—'The S. S.
Admiral Watson sailed at 10 o’clock
this morning and carried 67 passen
gers. Among Seward passengers are
F. R. Martin, Allen Strickland and
brother. 1
I MUST ANSWER WEALTHY WIFE’S
COMPLAINT THAT HE STOLE
$57,000 FROM HER
VANCOUVER, B. C., Jan. 19. (£>)—
George Francis Scolland, arrested on
a grand larceny charge, waived ex
tradition and left for Bellingham to
answer his wealthy wife’s accusation
that he stole $57,000 from her. Scol
-land has been under surveillance of
i private detectives two days. He reg
istered as Robert Harvey in an apart
ment house where his former wife,
;Mrs. Maud Harvey, of Edmonds, Wn.,
resided.
REWARD FOR HUSBAND
SEATTLE, Jan. 19. (JP)—Mrs. Scol
lard’s attorneys offered $10,000 re
| ward for the capture of her husband
and missing securities valued at $57,
000.
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NOT WORTH LIVES
TEXAS REPRESENTATIVE MAKES
CRITICAL ANALYSIS NICARA
GUAN MEXICAN EVENTS
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. (/P)— Rep.
Connally (Democrat of Texas) de
manded in the House that the foreign
policy be “democratized.” In a criti
cal analysis of Nicaraguan events, he
said: “The mahogany concessions in
i Nicaragua and the oil veils in Mexico
are not worth the lives of American
soldiers, nor loss of American influ
ence abroad.”
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KELLOGG APPROVES SUGGESTION
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. (^—Sec
retary Kellogg approved the Senate
proposal to arbitrate the Mexican
lead and oil controversy. Kellogg, in
a formal statement after Senator
Robinson (Democrat) made the pro
posal, said he welcomed such an ex
pression, declaring that he is giving
careful consideration to the question
of arbitration.
PLANS TO CONTINUE STUDY
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. (^—Pres
ident Coolidge expects Secretary Kel
I
logg to continue efforts to solve the
Tacna-Arica problem unless a study of
the Peruvian note of rejection reveals
every hope exhausted.
J.I. Sic™, FORMER
SUPERIOR JUDGE IS DEAD
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TACOMA, Jan. 19. (£>)—'The funeral
of Judge John A. Shackleford, former
Superior court judge and leading State
politician for 40 years, will be held
Thursday. His brother, Lewis P.
Shackleford wias former Democratic
national committeeman from Alaska.
Judge Shackleford died Monday in Se
attle.
FISHERMAN DIES
PRINCE RUPERT, Jan. 19. (JP)—
Captain Carlson of the fishing vessel
Virginia died last night from burns
received aboard the craft at Ketchi
1 kan. He had been painting the hold
with hot creosite and tar, and while
attempting to hand the pot thru the
hatch it overturned.
MONROE Did!
CONTROLS POLICY OF
U.SJNWll
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COOLIDGE ASSERTS QUESTION IS
SHALL AMERICAN PROPERTY
BE CONFISCATED
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. (JP)—While
Congress renews the debate oh the;
Mexican and Nicaraguan embroglio,
President Coolidge reoutlined his at
titude toward Mexico’s land and oil |
regulations, which, he said, boiled )
down to a question of “shall .the prop
erty of American citizens in Mexico,
be confiscated or taken without being
paid for.” Every step the Administra
tion has taken is with that in mind.
The Monroe doctrine controls the Ni
caraguan policy.
PROPAGANDISTS EXERTING ALL
MEANS TO INCITE POPULACE
ANTI-CHRISTIAN UPRISING
FOOCHOW, Jan. 19. (£>)— Altho
the authorities promised protection to
foreigners, lack of discipline among
the troops and the circulation of sinis
ter reports caused many women and
children to leave. Fifty-nine Ameri-|
cans'left the mission for Manila.
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PROPAGANDISTS BUSY
AMOY, Jan. 19. (IP)—Propogandists
! are exerting every means to incite the
populace to an anti-Christian uprising.
Feeling is running high.
STRENGTHENING DEFENSES
CANTON, Jan. 19. (IP)—Sailors from
the British gunboat Cicala began
strengthening the defenses around the
concession. They erected an iiion
barricade along the bacabund of the
Shameen foreign settlement.
LAUSANNE TREATY
TURKEY REJECTER
WASHINGTON, Jan. 19. (£>)— The
Senate rejected the Lausanne treaty
with Turkey. Senator Borah led the
supporters, who failed to muster the
necessary two-thirds majority. The
vote was 50 for and 34 against, six less
than necessary.
SEATATLE, Jan. 19. (£>)—Seven
Filipinos were jailed as the result of
an investigation into (the fatal shoot
ing of Juan Belarde, aged 22, during
a political discussion last night.
BRITISH PUBLIC PERPLEXITY
OVER SEEMING DISCREPAN
CY OF AUTHORITIES
LONDON, Jan. 19. (j^P)—Public per
plexity over seeming discrepancy in
extensive naval preparations and the
governments’ announced policy of con
ciliation towards China was increased
by the announcement that a thousand
marines will sail for China at the end.
of January from Southampton. Offi
cial quarters offer assurances that
nothing warlike is embodied in these
movements, but the public is appre
hensive. Revelation of Hankow press
dispatches severely censored added to
the feeling of uneasiness.
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MAKES UNEXPECTED APPEAR
ANCE IN OKLAHOMA—POS
SES HEAVILY ARMED
TULSA, Okla., Jan. 19. (/P)—Armed
with a machine gun and four pistols,
■which he took from the county jail,
from which he escaped Sunday, John
Mayo, bank robber, continued to ter
rorize Oklahomans with his unexpect
ed appearances. Heavily armed pos
ses are searching for Mayo.
BOAT REPORTED LOST
SIGHTED ON COLBI#
ASTORIA, Jan. 19. (&)—The six
masted schooner Oregon Fir, which
was reported lost north of Vancouver
Island, with her sails partly torn
away, entered the Columbia river un
der her own sails. Her masts are bad
ly damaged. Two vessels abandoned
search for the Oregon Fir a week ago.
FRIGID RUSSIAN WEATHER
FILLS TO TWENTT-FOUR
SAMARA, Russia, Jan. 19. (/P)—
Eight persons were frozen to death in
outlying districts of Samara, in South
eastern Russia. Eighteen perished
at Puschev and many in isolated Vol
ga river villages, the 40 below weath
er killing thousands of camels.
WALTER GLEGHORN WINS
FROM ST. PAUL BITTLER
SEATTLE, Jan. 19. (£>)—Roy Cliffe
of Courtnay, B. C., ISO pounds, won a
decision over Ernie Owens of Los
Angeles, 17'0 pounds, in the main event
of a boxing exhibition here. Walter
Cleghorn of Seldovia, got a technical
knockout verdict over A1 Arney of
St. Paul in the second round of a
scheduled six-round bout. Both are
middleweights.