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Newspaper
Geneseo Republic
Location
Geneseo, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1903
Page
11
Reports from Belgrade recount a palace massacre in which King Alexander and Queen Draga were slain by armed officers amid a plot to remove the Queen. Accounts differ on method with bullets and an axe cited. attacks extended to Premier and guards with multiple deaths. The dispatches note abdication pressure and a palace bloodbath that unsettles the region.
The Belgrade mob killed King Alexander and Queen Draga and dumped their bodies in a single grave in St Mark’s cemetery. Relatives and officials were buried above them as executions followed in the palace and royal apartments. The revolt propelled Prince Peter Karageorgevitch to the throne amid public upheaval and fear of further upheaval in Servia.
Newly proclaimed King Prince Peter Karageorgevitch, long known as Peter the Pretender, rises from a revolutionary lineage. His granduncle Karageorgevitch and ancestors once swine dealers, the family held no political power until 1804 as they opposed Turkish rulers of Serbia.
Royal coup leaves Queen Draga and King Alexander targeted. Victims include Nikola Loungnevitar and Nikodem Loungnevitza, both brothers of the Queen, plus premier Zinzar Markovitch and ministers Velimir Todorovitch Pavlovitch Petrović.Columns report palace assault and royal guard casualties.
The narrative traces King Alexander's stormy path from infancy through youth to marriage. It notes kidnappings, palace power grabs, reckless acts, and battles with regents. It describes his struggle to choose a suitable royal bride and the political dangers around the Servian throne and Draga Maschin.
At Clifton Arizona the rush of water from Chase creek into the San Francisco river swept away many victims with twelve bodies recovered and the death list set at thirty one. A Clifton hero on horseback warned settlers to flee five minutes before the torrent, saving hundreds as searches continue for missing amid wreckage and death.
About 3 000 Chicago barbers secure shorter hours through non strike effort. A London auction room sells Raeburn portrait of Sir John Sinclaire for 73500. The wife of a Frankfort banker is arrested for throwing a perch on his helmet. Patterson Stewart, famed Kansas City horseman since 1859, dies after a three week illness. O B Simpson joins US entomology bureau in Transvaal government.
News from Portland reports Heppner Oregon wiped out by a cloudburst and Willow Creek flood Sunday evening. 400 to 500 lives feared lost with only scattered bodies recovered by early morning. 1250 residents, main industries farming and stock raising, await official tallies as Lone and Arlington relay grim updates.
At Jackson Kentucky a large two and a half story hotel owned by B J Ewen was burned Sunday morning amid the Hargis Cockrell feud now two and a half years old. Five assassinations and several arsons are recorded in the feud. Ewen testified against Jett and faced threats, with guards near the burning scene to prevent an assassination. Ewen and his family were left homeless as the hotel and its fixtures valued at about fifteen thousand dollars were destroyed.
Reports show porters organizing in Chicago Denver workers paid 3 75 daily shoe market control in Spain unions forming in Toledo and Cincinnati workers building laborers joining unions wage increases for cigarmakers in Kansas City carpenters in Boston and teachers in Council Bluffs wage disputes at Reading hat finishers and San Antonio Brewery settlement arbitration urged amid broad labor movement in early 1900s contexts.
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