Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1894-10-16
A SECRET DISPATCH.
horr'o'e suspicion That Somebody Is Po
soning the Czar by Degrecs

so"ing the Cxar by Degrees.
MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 16.-Has the car OF
All the Russias been skillfully poisoned
ana slowly put to death by scientific
means In the hands of nihiltists. DR..
Georg V. Sck,ridt, the German traveller
now in Minneapolis has just received 60
crct dispatches from St Petersburg which
throw strong light on the crisis in Eu
ropean politics caused by the impending
death OF the car. These dispatches came
written in sympathetic ink on an appar
entity blank piece of paper The applica-
tion OF heat brought out some strange
lstenographic characters which the doctor
readily translated. He showed the dis
patch to the Associated Press reporter
and remarked that in order to send such
Things from st. Petersburg it was neccs-
sary To doubiy protect them by the use
Oh sympathetic ink and secret code. Tho
most sensational matter in the dispatch is
.hc lhtiination that the cars illness has
pcen caused by other than natur al means.
translation of the Dispatch.
The doctor translated the dispatch for
the Associated Press rs follows:
'The car is lying mt the point of death.
Russia is tremendous. 1t is understood in
a wide circle in Russia that the cars
sickness was brought about by scientific
means, and that his death will not be a
natural one 1t is on account of this that
the journals contradict the fact of the
cars sickness. There is II ar;y that
wants to set the cZarowich on the throne.
The cZarowich is of the cranky, melan-
choly nature; is inclined to ins titute the
most radical of reforms throughout Rus
sia, and has already made plans for such
action. He is very much hated hy the
clergy. The patriarch of Moscow. who is
Mt the head of the Greek church. has tray-
eled about with the car in order to per-
suade him to put his second son on the
throne instead of the czarowich. The
Greek Catholic church of Russia is fever
ishly excited.
Holding Sccrc: Council.
THE rcichsrath or council Of the en-
pire, is daily holding secret council. The
pan slavic party is with the church and
against the cZarowich, who is IA great
friend Of Germany. Should the car de
eide to place his second son upon the throne
this would be looked upon rs a direct in
suit to Germany and would be attended
with the most serious results. The second
son OF the cZar is very inimical to the Ger
mans, friendly to the French, drcadfully
dcspotic and in the highest degree head
strong and a strong autocrat. 1t is feared
that on the deathbed of the car the
church influence will succeed in inducing
him to call his second son rs his successor.
| AS this second son is very hotheaded he is
sure not to remain long on the throne
without becoming seriously involved in
state troubles The SS-year-old patriarch
of Moscow has had a two hours conference
with the czar ut his deathbed, but no one
knows the purport of this talk.
The Czxr's Second Son.
! 'The second son of the car is very dcs.
potic, opposed to the liberty of the pco,
pie, and is of IN envious nature. He is u
fine soldier, fond of fight. "a martial fellow
and very ambitious. He is an enemy of
England, of Germany, and above all OF
America. He not only intends to increase
| the size of Asiatic Russia, but also to at
tempt the tremendous task of bridging
the Bering straits and extending his en-
pire in the direction of America. This
prince is by all odds one of the
greatest generals in Russia, having
been with Gourka and Tinaschieff and
having studied with the latter. All of the
cabinets of Europe are alarmed 1t i:
lrumored that the entrance of England
into the drcbund, that is the triple ALI
ancc, is about to take place. Already
between Russia and Franco secret rcl,i
tions have been entered into"
DR. Won Schmidt is u second lieutenant
in the Prussian army, travelling on leave
He is bound for Japan and the Orient.