Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1903 — CARLOTTA IS DYING. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

CARLOTTA IS DYING.

The Uaforteaste Widow of Maximilian Can No* Lira Loss. Carlotta, the wife of Maximilian, the Austrian archduke who conquered Mexico, has been insane since Napoleon 111. refused her pleas that be aid her husband, who was finally captured and shot. She is now dying in her prison, the Chateau de Bonchat, near Bruesele. She still holds a mock court daily, fancying herself yet Empress of Mexico, for she has been bereft of reason for thirty-sev-en yean. Toohumor her the attendants pretend that she presides over their entertainments. Carlotta was 17 when she became Maximilian’s bride in 1857. It was a love match and the ten years of their

wedded life were a continuous honeymoon. But Maximilian was overthrown, captured, led put behind a hill at daybreak and shot by the “execution guard,” Before the capture of the Emperor the Empress pleaded with Napoleon 111. and with the Pope to aid her husband. Her prayers were unanswered. The first symptoms -of mental derangement were manifested on the day on which she had her last Interview with Napoleon. Her mania Is harmless. King Leopold seldom sees! her. It is a public scandal that he dissipated her fortune. The most pnthetic feature of Empress Carlotta’s fate is her hallucination that her hufhnnd is alive. She talks of him frequently, and often begs courtiers to send her husband to her at once.

CARLOTTA.