The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-10-20
AT DEATHS DOOR,
The Cars Death is Now Mo-
mentarily Expected.
All European Business Centers
Are Depressed by It.
WILL NEVER GET UP.
Believed the Emperor Will
Never Rise from Bed.

LONDON, Oct. 2o.-The last red tape
Gordon that is always drawn around
the truth by diplomacy was broken
yesterday when NJ de Staal, the Rus
sian ambassador to Great Britain, adj
mitted that kilograms that had been
received at the am assy preclude any
hope that the imperial sufferer would
ever again rise from his bed Baron
Monrenheim, Russian am bassador to
France, this morning fur nished the
Paris Figaro the same unweIcome
news If this is not sufficient the
fight Of court officials, the forced and
hurried journeys Of mem bers of the
Russian imperial family across Eu-
rope, the alarm Of the various courts,
the shivering bourses and the prayers
offered up ia the churches are irrefu-
table testimony to the fact the car
is dying.
Throughout the day and evening a
rain of kilograms has fallen IN this
city. Compiled and sifted, they show
the following facts: NJ. Benke ndorf,
the court cham berlain. has counter
handed every order that has been is
sued in connection with the proposed
visit of the car to Corfu Many Off
Gals have started for Livadia. Prime
ess Alix, the care witch's betrothed,
sOjOurning, on Monday, and she will
be preceded by a few hours by Grand
Duke Vladimir
The grand duke Alexis arrived in
Paris yesterday morning, and left on
the Oriental express. which is due at
Yalta on Tuesday Around the pal
ace there was placed triple cOrdOns of
police and soldiers in order that no
access could be had to the palace from
without, and that nothing from with
in could escape to the world unless it
first passed through the crucible OF
censorship. So grave are the issues
depending upon the cars life that
even the people of Russia are obliged
to be satisfied with curt official bull
letins SO meager as to suggest in very
carefully chosen words the theory
of the worst This is the read
ing by the bOurses, to which
the London stock market furnished
a prompt echo Russian securities
declined from weakness, but it seems
the markets everywhere were checked
later by heavy purchases which At is
reported were made on account of the
Russian treasury in order to prevent
a panic Thus the uneasy feeling
among fnanciers found its fate Dis
patches received from St Petersburg
report that the city wears its usual
aspect, except that crowds of people
are in every street. grouped a bout the
places where the bulletins are pos cd
Here they have clustered since nor 4
ing, waiting the receipt Of further
intelligence
A bulletin issued at Livadia at 10
o'clock last night says that the car
passed Thursday night almost with
out sleep His majesty rose yester-
day morning as usual His general
weakness and the action of his heart
are unchanged The oedema Of the
feet, which previously appeared, has
increased His general condition is
unchanged This bulletin is signed
by the five doctors in attendance
Yesterday the churches thrOug hout
Russia held special services for the
recovery of his majesty In the capt.
tai, st. Peters burg, the highest Off
cials joined in solemn petitions to
God to save the car.
In the Russian church in Paris
services were also held and were att
tended by Grand Duke Michael
NicOlaivitch. the staff of the Russian
mbassv President Casinlir- Perier
Prime Minister Dupuy and a number
of other nota bilities. The services
were marked with deep emotion The
thoughts of those present must have
flown ahead, asking, when the car
is dead, what them"
The Temps answers the question
thus: I'm the day when his majesty
passes away beyond dispute, the
prestige of Russia will not be dimin-
ished: neither will the reasons which
have drawn her to France be weak
ened; nor will the sentiments uniting
the two peoples be altered, but Europe
as a moral entity will have sustained
an appreciable loss. She Will lack a
portion Of her conscience This is
great praise for a prince Alexander
lone has merited it,
The question which the French and
Germans. and even the Russians
themselves, are asking hourly. and to
which their bourses yester day suggest
ed the common answer. was not felt in
London quite so sharply London ad-
mits that a serious crisis is p ssible.