The record-union., 1894-10-20
HEALTH OF THE CzAR.
st. Petersburg Advices Announce That
1t is Desperate.

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1t is Desperate.
ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 19.-It is an
nounced here this afternoon that the con-
dition of the Gar is desperate.
+ Professor AIerschejewski, a distin-
guished specialist on nervous diseases.
has been summoned to Lividla to take
part in the treatment of the Gar.
There seems to be no longer any rea-
sonable doubt that the Gar is rapidly an
preaching his end. A dispatch from Lii
vida to-day announces his condition has
changed for the worst since yesterday
and the imperial family is alarmed, 4
special dispatch received subsequently,
from Lividia says the Gar last evening
suffered from sudden spasln Of the
heart, which compelled him to lie down.
His condition became so critical that his
contessor, Father Yanisohew, was hastily
summoned.
1t is reported here this afternoon that
an imperial edict will be published Mon
day intrusting the regency to the Care
witch; General Count Vorontsotfdachoff.
Aid-de-camp of the Emperor and Minis
ter of the Imperial House; X. Z, Pobie-
bonoStzetf, Procurator of the General
Holy Synod; Actual Privy Councillor
Witte Minister of the Interior, and Cen
eral Vannovski, Minister of War.
NO HOPE FOR HIS RECOVERY,
LONDON, Oct. 19.-The last red tame
Gordon that is always drawn around the
truth by diplomacy was broken to-day
when Nj. DeStaal, the Russian Embas-
sador to Great Britain, admitted TO the
representative of the Associated Press
that kilograms had been received at the
EN- bassy preclude any hope that the inn
perial sufferer would ever again rise
from his bed.
Baron Mohrenheim, Russian Embas-
sador to France, this morning furnished
the Paris Figaro the same unwelcome
news.
If this is not sufficient, the flight of
court officials, the hurried JOURNEYS of
the members of the Russian imperial
family across Europe, the alarm of the
various courts, the shivering bourses and
the prayers offered up in the churches are
irrefutable testimony of the fact the Gar
is dying.
Throughout the day and evening q rain
of kilograms mas fallen in this city. Com
piled and sifted they show the following
facts: NJ. Benkendorff, the Russian Court
Chamberlain, has countermanded every
order that has been issued in connection
with the proposed visit OF the Gar to
Corfu. Many officials have started FOR
LividIa. Princess Alix, the Czarowitch's
hetrothed, will arrive at Yalta, where
the Gar is sojourning, on Nom
day, and she will precede
by few hours Grand Duke vladimir,
The Grand Duke Alexander arrived in
Paris this morning and left this evening
by the Oriental express, which is due at
Yalta on Tuesday.
Around the palace there were raised
triple cordons OF police and soldiers, In
order that no access could be had to the
palace from without and nothing from
within could escape to the world unless il
first passed through the crucibIe of CEN
sorship. SO grave are the issues depend
ing upon the Cars life that even the
people of Russia are Obliged to be satis-
tied with curt bulletins, so meager. as to
suggest in every carefully chosen word
the theory of the worst. This is the read
ing of the bourses, TO which the London
stock market furnished prompt echo.
Dispatches from St. Peters burg report
that the city tonight wears its usual as
pect. except that crowds of people are
grouped about the places where the bull
letins are posted. The keenness of Eng
lish sympathy has been deepened by the
news that nerve specialist has been