The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1894-10-23
RUM0RS FLY WILD
TN ABSENCE OF DEFINITE NEWS
CONJECTURE Is ACTIVE.
Russian Embassies Besieged With
Callers-Prayers offered Inces-
sanity in the ChurcheS-Rumors
of Coercion Of the CZarewitch-
His Marriage to be Hastened,

LONDON, Oct 22-Today has produced
practically to the point n regard OF the
situation of the car. In al! the CONT
mental capital and in London there have
been streams of callers, officials, digni-
taries, ecclesiastics and humble people at
the Russian embassy. To these, however.
little information was vouchsafed and that
little consisted of forebodings.
Prayers and masses are incessantly
offered from ST. Petersburg to VladivO-
stock, from Rome to Buenos Ayres.
The reported yesterday from St
Petersburg were repeated today in
still wilder forms. From Mos
COW comes report that there are people
there who insist the czarewitch has refused
to ascend the throne and that the car, In
order to compel him TO do so, has ordered
his Immediate marriage to Princess Alix.
The Moscovites fear that, should the ru-
mors prove true, they will have to face the
gravest peril possible. While the people
crowd the churches to pray for the car
the fears the rumor has bred give feryor TO
the petitions.
The Cologne Gazette prints st. Peters
burg telegram stating that the car has
given orders for a settlement of the success
sion to the imperial council. He has adj
vised that Grand Duke George, his second
son, should. on account of his health, re-
nounce his claim in favor of his brother,
Grand Duke Michael, who ought to take
the oath as heir presumptive to the throne.
The BerIiner Tageblatt publishes tele-
gram from Livada asserting the betrothal
of the czarewitch and Princess ak VIII
formally occur tomorrow and that the
marriage will be celebrated Wednesday.
This fastening of the Ceremony is said to
NF.l - of il
ing any heir apparent to marry before
ascending the throne and 10 proclaim his
successor
On this account the proclamation of
GrandDukeMichaela as the ultimate heir ap-
parent is generally expected. Another rule
in connection with the accession requires
that when the oath of allegiance to new
car is administered to the troops and
officials, an oath OF fidelity to the heir ap-
parent must be taken at the same time.
Lo> DON, Oct. ga dispatch To the
Tia es- rom St. Petersburg says that be-
I'D Is the Offering OF prayer for the recov
cry Of he car the holy patriarch has or
dered that there be prayers for the same
end offered in the army and navy and on
board squadron.
Archbishop Maghilef has ordered
prayers in all the Catholic churches.
Prince Mestschrsky's Citizen is the first
newspaper to break the dead silence in in
sor concerning expressions OF grief
because of the cars illness.
That paper gives a graphic description of
the solemn and pathetic service of prayer
within the ancient walls of the cathedral
of the Assumption in the Kremlin at Mos
COW. IL ADDS these prayers Will be contin-
ned until God listens to the Muscovite
applications.
Tue Times Vienna correspondent tele-
praphs that it is announced from Sofia that
no special services have been held there
for the recovery of the car, The clergy
appear to have been instructed from head
quarters.
LONDON, Oct. 22-The Standards St.
Petersburg correspondent sends the fol.
lowing message:
Today's bulletin is of the same unsatis-
factory nature as the former ones. Every
body 10 surprised that no mention is made
of the pulse or temperature; in short there
is no clew to what the disease is from
which the car is suffering. Medical men
are unable to form any conclusion as to the
possible termination.
1t is rumored that an operation is con- |
templared. Another story has it that the |
malady is expected to reach crisis within |
the next day or two, but as TO what the |
operation or malady are, even the best in |
formed are ignorant.
The Official Gazette announces that |
Princess AliN arrived at Layadia this |
afternoon, but does not publish a word |
about the marriage. From what l can |
learn, no marriage is likely, but there |
will be n species of formal betrothals which |
Will receive the benedictlon OF the car, |
and which, under the circumstances, will |
effectually bind the cZarewitch and the |
princess until there can he wedding cere-
mouy with the pomp betting the union. |
PARIS, Oct. 22.-1he Gaiignani Messen- |
ger says Grand Duke Vladimir brother of |
the car, telegraphed the following mes |
sage from Livsdia this afternoon:
Fl During the last two days there has been |
an amelioraJion in the conditions of his !
majesty. His condition is always very |
grave"
ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 22.-The bulletin |
issued tonight by the physicians IN attend |
apce on the car says:
His majesty slept five hours intermit- !
tently. He rose this morning as usual. |
His appetite has lessened. His strength |
has not increased"
The Times has n dispatch from Paris |
stating that Baron Won Mohrenheim, Rus |
sian ambassador to France, this evening re- |
ceceived the bulletin reporting there had |
been a sensible improvement in the con- |
uition of the car.
PARIS, Oct 22.-The papers publish opti- |
MYSTIC reports concerning the car. The |
journal des Debats says the czarewitch |
telegrsphed TO prominent parsonage in |