The accounts of the murder of Prince Michael of Servia
are still very conflicting. All that seems clear is that he was walking in the park he has made near Bucharest, with Madame Anka Obren- ovitch and her daughter, his cousins, when all three were attacked by three men—a father and two sons—who had some grudge against the Prince. Prince Michael and Madame Anka fell mortally wounded by revolvers, and the younger lady is not expected to survive. The succession, under the" Beret," may be regulated by the reigning Prince if childless ; and it is said the Prince had expressed an intention of naming his nephew, Milan, a lad of 14, now in Paris. In that case, the Regency would probably be assigned to the Princess Julie, Michael's repudiated wife ; but the matter will ultimately be settled by arrangements between the Skouptchina or Diet, and the representative of the Five Powers. The country wants a strong hand, but the people like only two families, the reigning one and that of Kara George.
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