The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1894-11-09
The Cat Of
Russia Dead.
ALEXANDER III NOW BUT
CLAY.

LONDON, November 1.-The
foreign offices have received a
dispatch from the British embas.
II6sy at st. Petersburg, stating
that the cars death occurred at
go O'clock p. m.
Adispatch from Livadia saws
that at noon the action of the
cars heart began to enfeeble
rapidly. About half past one
O'Clock Inconsistencies super.
vened and the action Of the heart
becamed intermittent and scarce.
ly preceptible until its pulsations
ceased altogether.
The car was told Tuesday
that he could live only a few
days more. He listened com
posedly During the rest of
the day he passed most of his
timein disposing of his personal
and family affairs. Then he
calmly awaited the end with his
consciousness broken only occa-
sionally with short periods Of
coma.
The body will be embalmed to-
night and win be exposed in the
palace chapel for day or two.
Several State officials left st.
Petersburg for Livadia this even
ing. According to the tentative
arrangements made tonight the
body will be conveyed aboard the
imperial yacht Polar Star, to
Odessa.
Alexander the Ill. of Russia
has been called "the mouiik
car because he has in every
way favored the peasantry of his
land.
"Only those who have had the
privilege of observing him inSthe
unrestrained intimacy of his
family, especially when romp.
ing with his children or anus
ing himself with his four footed
pets, could fully realize what a
simple, kindly, nature was CON
cealed behind q by no means
sympathetic exterior
OF Alexander's surprising
physical strength the-xar!d has
often besn tolo. dis ability c
bend and twist a silver coin be.
tween his thumb and fingers. his
proves as a wrestler, his endu.
rance at and delight in severe
physical tasks, all these have
exploited. But few have been
aware that Alexander, ever since
he has been the car, was a tire,
less and unremitting worker al
the desk. Yet this is true, and
10 his determination, formed very
shortly after the death of his
father, to master the imperial
Sob is supposed to have been
the leading cause that has made
his life as one has said rather
that of a pope than of a secular
monarch.
In almost every act of his reign
he has protected this class, which
he considered the wards of his
throne, and in return he has
received the love and loyalty 81
these people for the '.little faith.
err"
Ivan the Great relieved Rus,
STA of Tartar dominion. Peter
the Great introduced a knowl.
edge of the arts and manufact.
ures and left to his people a long
legacy of good. Nicholas the
First strengthened governmental
bureaus and the police system,
not to repress the people, but to
Cypress their would-be Cypress
ors who opposed the emancipa-
tion of the serfs.
Alexander IL, the liberator
gave freedom to the serfs, the
mouiiks or farmers and pre-.
scribed rules for their direction
and protection. He succeeded
to the throne in 1855, just after
the great reverses of tho Crimean
war He strengthened the en-
pire which all Europe complac.
emily decide would fall into a
thousand pieces, the necessary
fate of all barbarous states. He
carried out the purposes of his
father in surmounting all preiu-