Budapest on 23 September, 1900 - "News of the World"
Fatal Duel at Budapest
A shocking duel took place at Budapest, says the "Daily News," ending with the death of one of the combatants. A few days ago a young man, an engineer, was sitting in a cafe watching a young lady who stood outside, and who happened to be waiting for her husband. The engineer sent out a waiter with a note asking the lady to meet him at the place mentioned. The young lady burst out crying at this insult, and when her husband came showed him the note. He went into the cafe and boxed the engineer's ears. The man ran after him and hit him with a heavy stick on the back. Afterwards he sent his seconds to the lady's husband with a challenge to a duel. A court of honor decided that the husband was in a position to decline the challenge; but another court of honour reversed the decision, ruling that the engineer's challenge must be accepted. The fight accordingly took place, and the would-be lover of the lady was killed by the husband's first shot.Budapest on 27 May, 1900 - "News of the World"
A Royal Romance - The Love Story of the Austrian Heir Apparent
For a long time past it has been stated that the Heir to the Austrian Throne, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, had renounced his rights of succession, with the intention of marrying Countess Sophie Chotak, a lady he has long known. One Hungarian paper, says the Vienna correspondent of the "Daily News," even went so far as to name the town where the marriage had taken place. Nothing was done to stop these silly statements, but the chief person concerned, however, appears at length to have lost patience.A Vienna morning paper, having now published a telegram from Budapest, stating that the Emperor had conferred the title of Duchess of Kerofischt upon Countess Sophie, and that this was the title she would bear after her morganatic marriage with the Archduke, an official agency at Budapest was instructed to say that the absurd statements with regard to the marriage of a Prince of the Imperial House were absolutely without any foundation. It is a fact that the Archduke Franz Ferdinand has a very great regard for countess Sophie Chotak, and I know, adds the correspondent, that he has repeatedly declared that he will marry no one else, but this does not change matters in the least.
The laws of the House of Hapsburg makes it impossible for any member of the Imperial family to marry without the full consent of the head of the House, the Emperor, unless the refractory member wishes to incur the lose of all his rights and privileges. This the Archduke Henry did when he married the actress Fraulein Hofmann, and had to live in exile in Switzerland for years, until the Emperor allowed him to stay in Maran with his wife and daughter, who were made Baroness Waldbruck. Those who have opportunities of observing the Archduke closely say that he is not satisfied with his life at present, and looks unhappy, though his health is completely restored.
Budapest on 6 June, 1900 - "Daily News"
Accident to an Electric Train - Five Killed, Many Injured
A terrible accident is reported from Budapest to have happened to an electric excursion train near there yesterday. Auwinkel, in the Buda hills, is a favourite place with Budapest trippers. Where the electric railway starts from the station there is a steep descent, which cannot be taken unless all brakes are on. Between eight and nine last evening the crowd of people, eager to get home, was so great that the guards could not keep up any kind of order. The rush to the carriages was terrible, and a passenger, it is thought, must inadvertently have taken the brake off. The train on being started flew down the rails for about a mile, when a sharp curve caused it to jump the metals and fall over on one side. When the unfortunate passengers were dragged out, four were quite dead, one died on the way to the hospital, and seven more are so much injured as to make death likely. Nearly all were more or less hurt.Budapest on 18 December, 1918 - "News of the World"
Czech Advance in Hungary
Amsterdam, Tuesday. - According to a Budapest telegram, 300 Czech troops entered Deutschendorf (Hungary) yesterday. The commander asked the Government Commissary at Kaschau whether the entry of Czech troops into Kaschau would meet with obstacles. The Commissary replied that he was resolved to oppose the Czechs' advance by force. Hungarian troops have been ordered to occupy the line of demarcation, and during the night storm troops from Hungary, with machine-guns, arrived. The Czechs advanced during the night to Mendorf. - Reuter.Budapest on 10 June, 1886 - "Daily News"
The Disturbances in Pesth
The disturbances in Pesth have now assumed an anarchical character. The students and Deputies no longer take part in the demonstrations which are mainly carried on by the disorderly and disreputable and lead to plunder. If very energetic measures be not taken more serious consequences are feared. A Radical and anti-Jewish Deputy, famous for his duels and his agitation among the lower classes, takes every occasion to incite the people still more, and the exasperation against the police and military has reached boiling point. But there is a discontent among other classes. The students have decided that they will continue agitation for a national army.The official newspaper Nemzet has published an article on this subject attributed to Herr Tisza himself, which says that whatever good might result in the future for the movement, the organization of the army must not be touched. The nation must not forget that Russia is Austria-Hungary's enemy, and might declare war at any moment. What effect would a disorganized army have in that case? The Commander-in-Chief of the army in Hungary, Baron Edelsheim Giulay, has arrived in Vienna, and had a long audience of the Emperor to-day. His Majesty wished to hear a detailed report of the occurrences in Pesth. Last night the police continued their passive behaviour, while thousands of people thronged the streets, and it was not until the disturbances became serious, and pavements were torn up and windows broken on all sides, that the soldiers were called out. The Colonel at the head of an infantry corps summoned the crowd three times to disperse, and on being answered mockingly three times, he ordered his men to charge.
The crowd did not resist the bayonets and swords, and in its wild flight many persons were injured. The mounted Hussars at last succeeded in dispersing the people and sending them to their homes. Besides the entire police force, two battalion of infantry and one squadron of Hussars were required to restore order. Should yesterday's occurrences be repeated to-night the soldiers will probably be ordered to fire. (Through Reuter's Agency.)
Pesth, June 9.
Up to half-past ten to-night perfect tranquility prevailed, and there had been no renewal of the riots in any part of the town. Groups of persons assembled here and there, but were easily dispersed by the police. At eleven o'clock the military returned to barracks. A report was current to-day that two persons had been wounded by the troops, but there is no confirmation of the statement.
Pest, June 9, evening
In the Lower House of the Hungarian Diet to-day, M. Tisza, the Premier, in reply to an interpellation of M. Csanady respecting the disturbances which occurred on the 6th inst., reminded the House of his declarations the day before yesterday, and vigorously protested against the reopening of the discussion, as calculated to encourage the rioters and promote a continuance of disorders which had already lasted too long. The Premier's reply was received with loud applause by the House
Large crowds again collected in the streets this evening, but all the principal portions of the town are occupied by soldiers and police, and up to eight o'clock no disturbances had occurred. The people taking part in the demonstration are composed only of the lower and working classes.
Budapest on 25 April, 1851 - "Daily News"
Germany
There is no doubt we are returning to the state of things before March, 1848; we knew long ago that the charter of 1849 would be but a dead letter. It was framed on sufficiently liberal principles in order to weaken abroad the sympathies for constitutional Hungary, and to enlist public opinion for Austria; and there is no doubt that this scheme succeeded with all the doctrinaires in Europe; but the people felt instinctively that Austria could not grant liberal institutions, and that the charter was but an article manufactured for exportation.Nevertheless there were a great many who thought that men like Dr. Bach, Schmerling, Baron Doblhoff, and their friends, would at least introduce administrative reforms. These ministers were all men of talent; not being brought up in the routine of narrow-minded bureaucracy everybody expected from them more comprehensive views, and the establishment of an enlightened government, though it was known that they did not like the control of representative institutions. But Dr. Bach disowned all his former principles; and, in order to retain his ministry, had become the willing tool of the Camarilla. Schmerling resigned his post as minister of justice as soon as he saw that there was no longer any hope for a liberal reorganisation of the courts of justice and for a reform of the laws.
Now his friends the Barons Sommaruga, Pratoberero, and Wurth, have come to the same conclusion, and they have given up their seats in the commission for law reform. On the other side, we see that the men of the old school, the creatures of Metternich, are now employed, notwithstanding their bodily infirmities and their advanced age.
An imperial decree was published to-day, containing the organisation of the Counsel d'Etat, which has to prepare the laws, and to give its opinion as to the measures to be taken by the ministry. The president of this boards is Baron Kubeck, under Prince Metternich Minister of Finances. The members of the council are M. Purkart, Baron Buol, Baron Krieg, Count Francis Zichy, M. Ladislas Szogyeni, Count Hugo Salm, and MM. Baumgartner and Salvotti. M. Purkhart is a man of eighty. He held the office of councilor of the state before the revolution. Baron Buol belongs to the extreme catholic party, to the jesuitical one; the too was councilor of the state before 1848. Baron Krieg is the well-known government president of Galicia during the massacres of 1846. Count Francis Zichy was under state secretary in the ministry of Count Batthyany's; he represents the Russian party. He married a Polish heiress whose large estates are in Russia, and in consequence of his Russian connexions he became Austrian commissary to the army of Prince Paskievitch during the Hungarian campaign. Ladislas Szogyeni is a man of talent; he was Vice-Chancellor of Hungary in 1847; his integrity has always been highly esteemed, but he was known as the great friend of centralisation, and acted as a tool of the anti-constitutional tendencies of Prince Metternich.
Though the preamble of the decree of the "Council d'Etat (Reichsart) contains the reiteration of the promise that all the different nationalities of the empire are to be represented in this imperial council, yet we find no Italian councilor in the list published in the official paper, for M. Salvotti is a Tyrolese, German by birth and education; it is but his name which is Italian. The Bohemians, too, have no other representative than the German Count Salm, and to take Baron Krieg, the man whose name is cursed by every Pole, for the representative of Galicia, is really too bad. The list of councilors contains no names of faithful Croats; Serbs, and Vallacks; and this will increase the dissatisfaction of the South Slavonian tribes.
Yesterday we expected an interesting deputation from Pesth. Sixty Hungarian ladies, all clad in the Hungarian mourning attire, were to implore the Emperor for an amnesty, but the slight illness of the Emperor deprived the Viennese of this sight. It was in consequence of a hint from the court that Countess Wenkheim, the daughter of Marshal Radetzky, canvassed the ladies of Pesth for this humane expedition, and it was generally believed that the Emperor will set at liberty great many of the political prisoners, whose number amount still to about one thousand. Most of them are Hungarian officers who formerly had served in the Austrian (...) tors and of the relatives of the exiles are until now entirely disregarded, but a court is now instituted, under the chairmanship of Count Maurice Almassy, where all these criminals are to be sifted.
General Wohlgemuth, late governor of Transylvania, better known by his defeat at Nagy Saclo, where he was beaten by poor Damiarich and Hlajske, died at Pesth.
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