Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 189, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1910 — TEARING DOWN LEOPOLD'S BRIDGE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TEARING DOWN LEOPOLD'S BRIDGE

BRUSSELS. —The people of Belgium are pleased to note that one relic of the dissolute life of the late King Leopold has been removed. This was the so-called “Love Bridge,” which connected his majesty’s palace at Loeken with the residence of Baroness Vaughan, whom he married secretly shortly before his death. The bridge crossed a handsome thoroughfare and was an eye-sore, In addition to being a reminder of Leopold’s unworthy conduct