The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1888-06-20
Death of the Emperor Frederick.

Emperor Frederick III. of Germany died
at eleven o'clock Friday morning. On
Wednesday occurred an unfavorable change
in his condition, and his doctors then adj
mitted that his case was hopeless. On that
day he was able to receive the king of
Sweden and Prince Bismarck. On Thurs
day his strength seriously declined, but he
was perfectly conscious until evening, when
he was at times apathetc He wrote few
farewell words to Bismarck. During the
night he remained in a kind of stupor. The
whole family remained in room adjacent
to his apartment all night Friday morning
the emperor lay in a lethargic state, but
during the last hour of his life he made sew
eral fruitless efforts to make himself under
stood. He died without a struggle. His
death caused intense excitement in Berlin.
Business was at standstill, all places of
amusement were closed and the streets
were filled with mourning people and en-
blems of mourning. The bundesrath met
at noon. Prince Bismarck formally an
nounced the death of Emperor Frederick
and the accession to the throne of William
who takes the title of William the Second
Before his death the emperor gave direc-
tons that his remains should be inferred in
the garrison church at Potsdam. The news
of his death was received with sorrow in
London, Paris, Vienna, Rome and Madrid
The emperor, in his last moments, is said to
have indicated his desire that there be a
reconciliation between the empress and
Bismarck.
On Saturday the new emperor issued
proclamations to the army and navy. In
the former he says: 1T is from deeply
moved heart 1 address my first words to my
army, but the confidence with which i step
into the place to which Gods will calls me
is immovably strong, for know what sense
of honor and duty my glorious ancestors
have implanted in the army, and know in
how great measure this feeling has at all
times been manifested in the army. A firm
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is an inheritance handed down from father
to son, from generation to generation, and
in the same way | refer you to my grand
father, who stands fresh in all your memo
ries as the personitication of the glorious
and venerable war lord, such as could not
be more finely conceived or in form more
speaking to the heart. I refer you to my
beloved father, who, as crown prince,
already won place of honor in the annals
of the army, and to long line of glorious
ancestors, whose names shine brightly in
history and whose hearts beat warmly for
the army"
1t is said that when Prince Bismarck paid
his first respects to the new emperor the
young man fell upon the chancellor's neck,
and, with tears in his eyes, said: " hope, j
beg of you, that we may remain unchanged"
A Paris dispatch says: 1t is worthy of re-
mark that not single journal published an
exaggerated statement or premature ac-
count of the death of Emperor Frederick.
He was respected here as lover of peace,
and mingled with the expressions of sorrow
at his death are dismal speculations as
TO the political consequences. Rightly or
wrongly, the new emperor is being regarded
as being animated by bitter hatred Of
France and a desire to render his reign
memorable by fresh laurels culled upon the
battlefield at the expense of his hereditary
foe"
Dr. Mackenzie gives it as his opinion that
the disease of which the Emperor Frederick
died was cancer. The opinions of the Ger
man doctors are less decisive of the nature
of the disease, although the autopsy APP
peared to show that it was of cancerous
origin.
The funeral of the late emperor was held
on Monday, with impressive ceremonies.
The new emperor has issued an address to
the people, which is explicit upon the EN-
peror's desire to maintain peace and
guarded upon the subject of the relations
between the crown and the people,