The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-11-02
Oath of Allegiance to the i.ew Car
Taken by the Soldiers at Livadia,
ST. Petersburg and Elsewhere.
TRIBUTES FROM STATESMEN
ALEXANDER'S PACIFIC POLICY NOT
LIKELY TO BE SOON CHANGED.
Career OF an Autocrat Who Ruled
100000, 900 People I'm n Manner to
Win the Love Of the Masses.

ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. 1.-The angel
of death. in the shadow OF whose pinions
the autocrat of all the Russias has been
lying for many days, to-day beckoned and
the soul Of the man who had In his hands
the lives and destinies of mil
lions upon millions of men was
borne away. Calmly and peacefully as
a sleeping babe. he. who by his slightest
word, could have plunged Europe into a
war. the horrors of which would defy de-
scription. fell into the dreamless sleep.
which ne feared not. He, though the head
OF the church. whose members number over
seventy million persons, took his last rites
few days before death claimed him from
all his greatness.
At 2:15 o'clock this afternoon the sum-
mons came, and few hours later the
thunderous booming of cannon at Livadis.
and st. Petersburg ANNOUNCED that the
Car was dead and that he who had been
the Grand Duke Nicholas reigned In his
stead. On lightnings wings the news of
Russia's loss spread throughout the world.
and 1t is safe to say that everywhere the
intelligence created sympathy for the fam
lily OF him, who, by his policy, had main
tanned the peace of Europe. From America
came words Of sympathy, for the dead ruler
had always been a friend of the great Re
public of the West, and Americans have
not forgotten how we'll his fathers friend
ship sustained the North In the war of the
rebellion.
Among the peasants Of Russia he will
be mourned with deep and abiding sor-
row. for was he not the Peasant Carr
None of the grandiloquent titles borne by
him was thought as much OF as the one
bestowed upon him by his lowly subjects.
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whose vices in him were entirely lacking.
He who denies the popularity OF the Czar
among the lowly classes Of Russia is
blinded by prejudice. His kind acts to
them in ther seasons of plague and famine
will never be forgotten, and tonight in
| thousands upon thousands Of homes, from
Vladivostock, on the Pacific, to the fort
resses of the Caucasus, millions of people
as they kneel before their icons will pray
| from the bottom of their hearts for the
repose Of the soul of their Little Father"
| who was to them as good in soul as in
| stature And there was sincere mourning
| in the royal. and imperial families of Eu-
rope. Not the conventional mourning pre-
| scribed by rule. but the mourning of little
| children. For who has not heard of the
annual visits of the Czar to Copenhagen,
| the home of his beloved Czarina, when,
with the children of emperors. kings and
princes around him, he was the biggest
| child of them all, joining in all their
sports and romping with them like a big
boy.
His death will be a most bitter loss to the
| wife he loved so we'll that II was a proverb
| in st. Petersburg that he was the ''only
| Russian who true to his WIFE" His
| home life was an ideal one, and all his
| pleasure was found with his own family.
| But as the Car and not the man he could
| be as stern and unrelenting as fate itself.
| He has banished men and women to ST.
| beria but they were men and women who
sought to kill him. to overturn the gov
| ernment of which he was the absolute
| head, and which he, by the most solemn
| oaths in the mother city Of Russia Mos
| cow had sworn to maintain In its in
| tegrity.
THE DEATH SCENE.
| Since Tuesday, when the doctors in
| formed the Car that there was no longer
| hope, his Majesty composedly waited for
| the end, attending to necessary state and
family affairs in the short intervals of con-
| sciousness and freedom from pain. These
| were necessarily brief, the doctors having
| had recourse to sedatives to procure sleep
| and allay pain. On Wednesday the Car
| was still able to be taken to a window of
the palace, whence he gazed out upon the
country he loved. The night passed with all
the aggravating symptoms and dry cough.
| DR.. Zacharin remained in attendance upon
| him throughout the night, only snatching
| brief intervals for sleep in the ante rooms
| The morning broke with rain and wind and
| heavy clouds and the weather much colder
| AS the day advanced the weakness in
| creased so rapidly that the Czar himself
still conscious, recognized that he could live
| only a few hours. He expressed a desire 20
!! receive the sacrament, which was admin
| istered to him by Court Chaplain Yanisheif
| and Father Ivan in the presence of the
whole family. The Car then conversed
long and earnestly with Father Ivan con-
| cluding by asking his family to again
gather round him. He spoke to each men,
| Der separately and at the greatest length
| with the Czarina. He blessed all his chill
| dren present. The scene was one of deep
pathos, al. being in tears. All this time his
| Majesty was sitting in an arm chair.
After taking leave Of his family the Car
| grew gradually weaker, and his voice be-
came so indistinct that it was scarcely au-
| dible. About noon convulsive fit of cough
ing was followed by slight rally. Thence,
until the end the Czar remained quiet,
seemingly free from pain. At 2:15 O'Clock
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| last in the arms of the Empress, who then
broke down with the weight Of her grief
The doctors fear the results OF reaction
upon her already exhausted system.
The body is now being embalmed. 1t will
| probably be laid for couple Of days in the
Palace Chapel The arrangements that will
be made for the funeral are still unknown
1t is believed that the remains will be en-
berked on the imperial yacht Polarnaia
| Iivezda polar Starr at Yalta. where the
Seventh Army Corps will render military
honors. The whole Black-sea fleet will es-
| cort the yacht to Odessa, whence the body
will be conveyed by railway to st. Peters
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