The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-11-02

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 London. Nov. LA dispatch to the Daily News from Yalta says the czar died at l:s0 p. m.
 The Standard also publishes the an- nouncement that the czar Is dead.
 The death Of the czar is further con- firmed by dispatches from Livadia to the Westminster Gazette.
 Alexander IT,, emperor of all the Russias. was born at St. Petersburg on March 10. 1s45. He was the second son of the emperor Alexander IT.. who was assassinated on March 15. 1881. AL though a life, that of the czarewttch Nicholas. stood between him and the throne, the young Alexander shared In full the scheme of education laid out for his elder brother.
 The elder brother of Alexander died at Nice on April 4, 1865. Never was there greater contrast between two brothers. Nicholas had been a sickly weakling and had been kept alive by nursing. Alexander, who now succeed ed him as cZarewitch had the appear ance of an ideal monarch. He stood 6 feet inches in his stockings and was famous for his feats of strength. At any rate. he looked well on horse in his Cossack uniform. Everybody felt that his substitution as future successor to the throne was welcome act of God.
 When the Franco-Prussian war of 1S70-1S71 broke out the cZarewitch for the first time showed that he had a mind of his own in political matters. Alexander II. had always been friendly to Prussia. It was tradition of his family, which had not forgotten the visit of Napoleon and his legions. Nat urally the czar sympathized with the united Germans and the policy of Bis marck. But the younger Alexander showed openly that he hoped for the success of the French.
 The war with Turkey began in 1877. and the czarewitch saw military service in the field. He had command of the Twelfth and Thirteenth army corps, and was present at number of big engagements and the seize of Plevna.
 Upon the assassination of his father Alexander III. mounted a throne which there were few to desire The nihilists had struck their blow with such deter imitation that few thought that the new ruler would ever live to be crowned. Terror was in the air. It was only deepened by the knowledge that the army, and the royal family itself, were infected by the propaganda of the party which wanted to win a constitution by bomb and dagger. It was during this terrible period that the Grand Duke of Vladimir stood by his brother. His advice was always at the command of the ruler, who did not know whom he could trust. Alexander III came to the throne a believer in reform. But the times were so out of joint that every thing had to be put aside before the bare necessity of self-preservation.
 Alexander III. was no lover of war He had seen slaughter with his own eyes in the Turkish campaign. The impressions written on the spot by the future czar have been published. They show the same sensitive hatred of hu- man suffering, the same human kind ness in the soldier, that have been his most conspicuous marks as man as husband and as a father
 With all the weight of the external rule of the huge empire upon his indi- yidual shoulders Alexander III lived a life of constant trouble at home. The first years of his reign were marked by revolutionary outbursts, attended by freouent and daring nihilistic enter nrises. Between 1881 and 1885 two gen. erals, two chiefs of police and a prefect of police were assassinated in broad daylight at St. Petersburg, Odessa and Karkoff.
 Conspiracies having in view the death of the emperor were of constant oc' currence. Their discovery made neces' sary the most vigorous repression. Lit tie by little the leaders were transported to the Siberian prisons or 1lada theil 1 escape to England. One fact comforteo the czar. The mass of the common peo' ple had nothing to do with them. Tc them he was the head of the nation and the head of their religion, and was both loved and trusted. The nihilists were for the most part enthusiasts who were full to the lips of III digestcd half understood and wholly i'll applied radical theories.
 The czar had striking testimony o1
 the love which his people bore toware him, in the demonstration which follow
 ed the railway accident on the Krakof
 road in 1888. The emperor, his wife ani
 children were in a car which was
 among those derailed. The czar held ur
 unaided the collapsed roof untll assist
 ance came. Though a number of per
 sons perished the imperial family es
 capped unhurt. In every part of the em
 pire the most enthusiastic, demonstra
 tions of national thanksgiving fol
 lowed.
 The growth of a Russian navy ha:
 been the work of Alexander III. It wa!
 he who worked persistently to obtain {
 naval station south of Vladivostock
 which is ice-bound for great part O the year. The Russian warships whicl
 visited New York on the occasion of tn, Columbian celebration shows how sue
 cessful the emperor's wise policy fl naval matters had been.-
 It is hard to understand how the ma1 could have done so much. He was hi own cabinet, congress, keeper of hi! 1 own conscience, his own everything ] The wires of the huge empire all center