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the Anstro-Hiingarii. 

 __ m* hod. whereby not only wn 



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vfeld two year*, the ,1.,? . r oent <- 



|ssfltsws*tobeiiM!rMMlU> U The 



Bdfafian Government. in it* negotiations with 

 IK* i-.wer* whose treaties of commerce ox 

 Jan/It, IflM. originally proposed to mak 

 gMftsral twit 15 per eenU and accepted pro- 

 vSoMilv an increase to 104 per cent I In- 



made wpreat Bn..,, 

 ani | (jit other countries pending the conclusion 

 ols>ewtflieswithm two vears. 



Thr- \**huttinii of MiimhnlolT 'Ih- 

 MvanusMQt of M. > pporUd l>y the 



Cbaservativr and Cnionist parties, crush. 



S* rathlssfth nn.l effectually as Stain- 

 done. Elections took place in the 



of February. 1806, to All vacant seats 

 in "the Sobranje. At Tirm.va ;iment 



nsjHHstT was elected by an overwhelming ma- 

 jority over Sumbuloff and a Zankoflist. but not 

 without a conflict between the military and the 

 The authorities used force also at 



and lx.ftcha; and at Hiela Slutina, 



Icon* was elected at the previous elec- 

 tion, both parties used firearms, and his sup- 

 porters were prevented from voting. The onlv 

 place where an Opposition candidate was al- 

 lowed to be elected was Rasgrad, which returned 

 Karavelofl. In the municipal elections at 

 Varna, which occurred later, the adherents of 

 rUdoaUroff were ousted after a serious riot. 

 Although the Opposition parties were deprived 

 of representation, there was no harmony be- 

 tween the factions of Stambuloff. Radoslavoff, 

 Zankoff. and Karaveloff. 

 A commission of the Sobranje, appointed to 



investigate the actions of Stevan Btambolofl 

 and Us Cabinet, on Jan. 2, 1805, obtained 



from 



the military court an order for the arrest of the 

 fallen dictator, on the charge of complicity in 

 the murd.-r of Hcltcheff, on account of which 

 Petto Karaveloff was sent to prison for (he 

 years in 1801. The latter was now set free, 

 The threatened arrest of SUmbuloff caused a 

 ml agitation among the people. The foreign 

 diplomatic agents in Sofia intervened to |.n v. t ,t 

 the arrest. The popular unrest was extended to 



the army by the action of the Government in 

 dlMDMnc. on the ground 



- 

 captains and many 



grou 

 other 



Ind of incapacr 

 DO . r- Wh0 had btSJI 



promoted by the late Govern. ..-nt. The police 

 made domiciliary visits at the house of Stambu- 

 loff. and constantl/ persecuted him nn.l 1 

 lowers. Sr%-ml of hi* police officials were con- 

 vieCed of crime. M. Lukanoff, who was prefect 

 of .Sofia during the latter reaps of his Gorem- 

 ment, was sentenced to four Tears' imprison- 

 ment on the charge of torturing persons sus- 

 pected of plotting against Prince Ferdinand. 

 Surobuloff know in April that a band of his 

 ssMSiies was teamed together to mnrd. r him. to 

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executed as BehchefT* nderatm.and suspected 



that the miniver* and the Prince were cognizant 

 of the plot. The chief of thb band was Tufek- 

 chieff. who was sentenced in Constant in<-- 

 the murder of Dr. Vulkovich. the Bulgarian 

 agent, and whom the Bulgarian Government re- 



fused to extradite and allowed t> x fr> 



with-tninlin^ it- I'P'inisr to keen him impris- 

 mied. I 'nder a law |UISHM| in the la>l M-ion 

 ..f the Siliranje. the f kfOf of S..liu and 



some employees of the GovenmeuJ f sianil>u- 

 loff were cited ln-fon- tin- trilmnals i" jrive at 

 account of their official conduct ami of tlic 

 sources "f thrir inci.me. When himself sum- 

 moned t<> le-tifv in a suit linuight apiii, 

 of Ins iii.liri- in-jM-ctors for illegal ai- 

 KisSOff, who was int.-rnrd us (lit- li-adi-r <>f the 

 conspiracy against Prince Kerdinaiid in l s '.">. 

 Stambuloff refused to obey, on the ground that 



al'inet mini-icr can not be called 

 count for hi- oIliciMl coii,|u< t exi-ept l.\ ..nlerof 



iiranje. lit- and his friends, [Oft 

 In- impending fate, begged the internment in- 

 cessantly to allow him to leave the couiitry. his 

 physician having ordered him to go to Carlsbad 

 for the waters. The Government refused to let 

 him depart, because the commi--ion of inquiry 

 Objeotea He kept armed retainers top: 

 his enemies from breaking into his house. 



On July 15, when he was about entering his 

 house, Stamluiloff wns attacked by four men. 

 two of whom shot him and two stabbed him. 

 Wounded in twenty places, he died on the third 

 day. after telling Ins wife that Haliu and Tufek- 

 chielT had killed him. getting her to promise to 

 OOSpt nothing from the palace. The p.,; 

 stead of arresting the assassins on the 

 allowed them to escape and cut down tho-e who 

 attempted to pursue them, ami then pushed their 

 way into the house of the murdered man and 

 arrested his friends and servant son the j : 

 that t hey were accomplices. The widow rejected 

 the wreath sent bv Prince Ferdinand and his 

 message of condolence and refused to l 

 any one connected with the Government or the 

 court. At the funeral a rabble danced and sang 

 ribald songs over the grave. A month later the 

 grave was desecrated and an attempt was made 

 to steal the body. Prince 1-Vrdinand. who was at 

 Carl-had when his former minister was mur- 

 dered, was afraid to return immediately. 



Deputation to si. Petersburg. In further- 

 ing the intrigue by which Stambuloff was re- 



; from office Prince Ferdinand was actu- 

 ated by the desire to become reconciled to the 



ind obtain the recognition of the powers. 



XankotT. who was pardoned and returned from 

 exile iti Juniiar. M ambit iou- to be t he 



agent of reconciliation, but the stoiioff mini-try 

 was willing to make concessions in older tore- 

 fain the goodwill of the ( xar. The Sobranje 



to send a deputation to St. Petersburg to 

 deposit a wreath on the tomb of Alexander III. 

 The Pan-la\i-t agitation in Bulgaria ceased after 

 the degradation of SUunbuloff. Prince Loba- 

 DOff, Russian Minister of l'r< i-n Affairs, sent 



circular in .March t representa- 



tives in the P.alkan states, enjoining them to ab- 

 stain from interference in the dome-tic afT;firs 

 of thoM' countri.-. The P.ulgarian deputation, 

 headed by An-hbi-hop i 'lenient and Teodon.fT. 

 President of the Sobranje. arrived in Petersburg 

 in the beginning of July and was received by 

 Prince Ixbanoff, and on July 17 had an audi- 

 ence with the Emperor. 



Macedonian Agitation. -A movement was 

 started in Bulgaria for the revival of the Mace- 



