Show assassinate EULERS KING AND QUE QUEEN N OF SERVIA MURDERED unpopularity of queen said to have caused slaughter of royal family and selection of new king the ling king and queen bt bf servia have I 1 been assassinated and a new govern ment set up thus ending the lobreno dynasty which has ruled servia for almost a century it Is generally claimed that the assassination and change of government was the result of the unpopularity of queen draga according to uie best information obtainable from belgrade servia the assassination as the result of a mil gitary conspiracy which had the sym pathy of a majority of the servian people and was carried out in the early hours of thursday morning when king alexander queen draga her two brothers a and nd several mints met death prince peter Kara georgevitch the pretender to the throne has been pro claimed king by the army and there Is every reason to believe that chati this I 1 decision will be confirmed by the lan ian parliament which has been sum boned to meet on june 15 the revo lution was executed without any op position on the part of the people of belgrade and the capital and the country remain quiet while the main outlines of the events which took place within the royal palace are I 1 the details are conflicting conflicting owing to the binary secrecy with which the plot was contrived and carried out the chief conspirators were all men ol 01 high rank who acted in concert with the army the participation ol 01 the latter in assassinations that blot ted out the Ober dynasty which has ruled servia with a short intermission for nearly a century Is la mainly due to the attitude pt klag alexandea Alexan dei and his consort toward the officers ot of the army whom he al ways treated with scant courtesy HI his desire to remove the war school from belgrade to particularly gava gave the officers alexander I 1 was born august 14 1876 and succeeded his father king milan I 1 upon his abdication march 6 1889 at that time alexander was in lils his minority so a regency was dished to last until he should attain alq 1 eighteenth ear nhon but 17 hov ever he overthrew the regency and assumed the royal prerogative upon hs own aut authority bority on august 5 1900 he married draga maschin who was born arn september 23 1867 ya previous attempt pt wag was made Karale a few years ago to reinstate the Kara geor cr jevitch dynasty which has net not been in power since 1808 when servia was taken laken under protection of the euro powers it was mas immediately Immediate jy cup up pressed however the leader being captured and killed prince alexis Kara georgevitch denied that he was a party to the tho ill timed event following lathe official list ot of the killed king alexander queen draga the queen queens s two bro brothers theirs premier marl 0 01 itch the minister of war tv two 0 aides decamp de camp and two other officers the time of the assassinations Is div en officially as 2 a m it Is expected that the servian ment will confirm tae lie proclamation by the army of prince peter kara georgevitch as king of servia the newspapers papers forecast a better future tor for servia and the new state of clings Is heartily welcomed by the masses nothing definite has been de decided c aided re garding the buical of the dead one report of the tragedy states that the kinland king nd queen quarreled aej in a fight between supporters of the two the royal couple were killed the king icing himself I 1 illing filing queen draga but this report Is generally considered as idle gossip |