The Coconino weekly sun., 1894-11-08

CHAIR OF RUSSIA. est word could have plunged Europe into a war, the hor- TOTS of which would defy description, fell into the dreamless sleep which he feared not. He, though the head of the church whose members num- Der over 70,O00,000 persons, took his last rites few days before death claimed him from all his greatness. At 2:l5 o'clock yesterday afternoon the summons came, and a few hours later the thunderous booming cannon at Livadia and St. Petersburg announced that the czar 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 Flu rope. From America came words of sympaty, 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 czar 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- lo ho, hol course to 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 were afterward ad- mitted. The flag over the palace was placed at half-mast and salute was fired by the vessels in the port Short ly 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 czar. They were the first to take the oath. The grand duke was the next to swear allegiance and was followed in the order of precedence by the high court fnnctionaries, court of ficials, military officers and civil of fcers.
 The New Car.
 Nicholas II. was born at St. Peters burg May IS, 1868 Most of his child hood was spent at the Tsarkoe-Selo palace, l6 miles from St. Petersburg. He was not yet years old when Rus sia was shaken by terrible nihilist conspiracy. He was only when an other conspiracy was suppressed with cruelty rigorous punishments. When he was 8 years old the bloody Russo Turkish war began, and that same year another great trial of nihil- ists opened, wherein 160 conspirators were sentenced to hard labor for life. The list of nihilist conspiracies and trials continued all through his childhood. He was II when an attempt was made to destroy the czar, his grandfather, by undermining a rail way near Moscow, and another plot had for it's 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 12 when his grandfather, Czar Alex ander H., was assasSinated. Now Alexander III. lies dead from a malady caused by internal injuries received in a railroad accident cleverly planned by aI .I..1 IT l,. trothed to the Princess Alix, of Hesse, in April last.
 He entered the army at IS, and was little more than a 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 he could frolic in an innocent fashion with his younger fellow off cers, 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 good officer, and, although anything but passionate soldier, he is in a position to 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 hiE:, and has this ad- 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.
 Joliet's Chief Clerk a Suicide.