The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-11-09

IN WNNNA EN&WNE pedceIul oduS he,
IAN WNSSA1's EsSS who by his slight
GEAR OF RUSSIA est word could have
plunged Europe into a war, the hor-
rors of which would defy description,
fell into the dreamiess sleep which he
feared not He, though the head of
the church whose members num-
Der over 100000 persons, took
his last rites few days before death
claimed him from all his greatness
At 2:15 o'clock yesterday afternoon the
summons came. and few hours later
the thunderous booming cannon at
Livadia and st. Petersburg announced
that the car was dead, and that
he who had been the grand
duke, Nicholas, reigned in his
stead. On lightning wings the news
of Russia's loss spread throughout the
world and it is safe to say that every
where the intelligence created SYM
pathy for the family of him who by his
policy had maintained the peace of Eu-
rope. From America came words Of
sympathy, for the dead ruler had always
been a friend of the great republic of
the west. and Americans have not for
gotten how well his fathers friendship
sustained the north in the war of the
rebellion.
Since Tuesday, when the doctors in
formed the car there was no longer
room for hope, his majesty composedly
waited for the end, attending to neces-
sary state and family affairs in the
short intervals of consciousness and
freedom from pain. These were neces-
sarily brief, the doctors having had re-
course 20 sedatives to procure sleep
and allay pain.
When all was over, the czarowitz,
Grand Duchess Xenia and the other
imperial relatives approached the bed
side in turn to take last farewell. The
court officials and members of his
majesty's suite we've afterward adj
mitted. The flag over the palace was
placed at half-mast and a salute was
fired by the vessels III the port. Short
" after o'clock the members of the
palace guard were marShaled in the
square in front of the palace chapel for
the ceremony of swearing allegiance
TO the new ear. They were the first
10 NdAC liiC OdNA- AhC anu " as
the next to swear allegiance and was
followed in the order of precedence by
the high court fnnct.onaries. court Of
ficials. military officers and civil Of
fcers.
The New Gar.
Nicholas ii. was born at st. Peters
burg May Is, 1S6s. Most of his child
hood was spent at the Tsarkoe-Selo
palace. Is miles from st. Petersburg.
He was not vet , years old when Rus
STA was shaken by 3 terrible nihilist
conspiracy. He was only when an
other conspiracy was suppressed with
cruelty rigorous punishments. When
he was years old the bloody Russo
Turkish war began, and that same
year another great trial of nihii-
lists opened. wherein leo conSpirators
were sentenced to hard labor for
life. The list OF nihilist conspiracies
and trials continued all through his
childhood. He was IL when an attempt
was made to destroy the car, his
grandfather, by undermining a rail
way near Moscow. and another plot
had for its object the destruction of
the winter palace, to be followed in a
few weeks by an explosion under the
dining-room of the palace, in which
eleven soldiers lost their lives and
forty-seven were wounded. He was
y when his grandfather, Gar Alex
ander IL, was assassinated- Now
Alexander III. lies dead from a malady
caused by internal injuries received in
a railroad accident cleverly planned by
the same active nihilists. He was be-
trothed to the Princess Alix, of Hesse,
in April last.
He entered the army at Is, and was
little more than child as regards his
way of looking upon life at that time.
He abhorred the homage of court and
official life. and was only really happy
when ne could frolic in an innocent
fashion with his younger fellow Off
GERS. when the elder ones. especially
his tutor-for whom he has always en-
tertained the greatest esteem-were
out of the way. In this way his char
acter became more independent. He
became a good officer, and, although
anything but a passionate soldier, he
is in a position 10 recognize mistakes
and to appreciate efficiency. He is de-
voted to duty. and does everything that
he undertakes thoroughly.
In many ways he resembles his
father. but is, in scientific knowledge,
in advance of him, and has this adj
vantage over Alexander III. that from
his earliest years he has been brought
up as the heir apparent. whereas the
latter was 20 years of age before he
came into that position.
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