Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1901 — PEOPLE AND EVENTS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PEOPLE AND EVENTS

DEATH OF VON HATZFELDT. Count von Hatzfelt, former German ambassador to Great Britain, who died in London November 22, resigned his post with the permission of the emperor a short tiihe ago, because of ill health. Death occurred at the German embassy. He had been ailing for years from heart trouble...an<L internal complications. When it was seen that he was sinking the last sacrament was administered. He remained fully conscious to the last. Count Paul von Hatzfeldt-Wildenburg was born on October 8, 1831, and waß specially educa-

ted for the diplomatic service at the ter in order, that their daughter might universities of Berlin and Bonne.. He was secretary of legation at Paris under Bismarck in 1862, and in 1874 was appointed German minister to Spain. He was subsequently promoted to the post of ambassador to Turkey, and was recalled from Constantinople in 1883 to serve as secretary of state for foreign affairs. In 1885 he succeeded Count Munster as Ambassador to the court of St. James. Count von Hatz-feldt-Wildenburg married the daughter of Charles Frederick Moulton of New York. He was divorced from her in 1886 at the instigation, it is said, of Bismarck, who objected to her because her mother had been an actress, and who refused to recommend Count Hatzfeldt to the post of foreign secretary unless he secured a divorce. The separation was only nominal, however, and they were remarried two years laniarry Prince Maximilian of Hohenlohe.

COUNT VON HATZFELDT.