New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-11-08
IN MOURNING FOR THE CZAR.
EMBLEMS OF GRIEF EVERYWHERE DIS
PLAYED IN ST PETERSBURG.
THE BODY BORNE WITH IMPOSING CEREMONIALs
FROM THE PALACE TO THE CHURCH AT
LIvADIA-AN INTERVIEW WITH PRO
FESsOR LEYDEN - SYMPATHY


St Petersburg Nov 7-Mourning for the dead
Car is universal in this city Black and white
banners are displayed every house. and the
principal streets are profuselv draped. All pub
lie and private conveyances are appropriately
draped. even the tramcars carrying an emblem
Of mourning at each corner
The body Of Alexander III was removed last
night from the palace to the church in Lvadia.
The scene was an imposing one. Cossacks hold
ing torches lined the route. along which, amid
the tong If bells tAe coffin was borne by a
number of gigantic men picked from the Circas-
sian Guard. Fifty priests accompanied the pro-
cession On entering the church the coffin was
taken by the car Nicholas. the Grand-dukcs
and the high officials and placed upon red
catafaQue. The members of the imperial fam
y and court then gathered round the caiafalque'
the paE was removed and an impressive service
followed
The body will arrivr n Sebastopol tomorrow
and will lie there in state for three hours. The
town has been profusely draped for the occa-
sion.
Berlin. Nov IN an interview with a "Lo-
kalanzeig,r' reporter on board the Lemberg-
Berlin cxpr.ss train Professor Leyden said re-
garding tie late Cars aiiment:
The post -mortem examination established the aC- M
curacy OF our diasnossr hepms; hprnnsI;v "a en
argemen of the heart and sporadic iniani'nA aiHn
stories ascribing the cars illness to poisoning are
absolute fiction | do not consider that professor
Zacharin is in any way to blame for the result
The car was perfectly cognizan OF his true stat"
but ne was a fatalst and he gave up 100 eaniS' m
ment He died hero. The Czarlna Is pros
trated. but she is IN no danger ana VIII SOON 'e
cover , ,-..
Professor Leyden has intmated that the scien,
tihc features of the case of me iate Gar WI, VIII
form the subject of a lecture whlch ne Will give
AT the University OF Berlin.
Budapest, Nov. THE Lower House or the
Hungarian Diet adopted to-day. by an over
whelming majority. resolution proposed by
Herr Banffy expressing sympathy with Russia
on the death Of the Czar. Alexander Ill In th'
debate some Of the members OF the LEI sup,
ported Herr Thaly in opposing the resolution on
the ground that Russia had suppressed Hun
gary's struggle for freed m
Vienna Nov 7-Deputies Engel and Kramarz
Young Czechs. visited Prince Lobanoff. the Rus
sian Ambassador to-day. and. on behalf Of the
Czechs expressed sympathy with their sister
nation in the loss of her = veieign.
London Nov Lord Salisbury paid trih-
ute to the late car IN speech on municipal
politics In London this evening. lie embraced
the first opportunity. he said 10 express MS sr'ci
and that II his political associates at me u'a u
If Alexander III. His experience IN the hiluSn
Foreign Once had convinced him that al na-
tons We're deeply indebted 70 the !ate 'Zdr ioI
the peace which his self-restraint ana hlE'
Christian character ndu S'Nui'N
lower motives might frequently have Yielded q"
the irritation and terrible trial which AieNdh-
der had always resisted. IT,.
THE Daily News's" correspondent Al LlNah!h
saVs that a great number " women nave VS. -
Inc church IN which Alexander's body h,s. ne
hodv is attired in the unit orm NJ the fI'oni"-
;enskv Cuards and l. partly covered with an In
perial state mantle. - ,,,..
The Berlin correspondent Of The paliy
News" sends an account OF an interview VIII"
a person whose name ne does not give. but VINO
obviously is Professor L"ydcn. rms I"'S1r
;i ~, tho cars end was FASTENED 10y his
| aversion, to food. the want Of which wcak"h''
| him so much that death resulted much S'"n'I
| than the doctors had expected, mus lhW"i''lS
10 ,,,,a,,ior to have th. ceremony of Princess
| Alix's conversion take place in the car pres
| ence He admits differing in opinion WIN
/ Professor Zacharin. but says that they Away
! ,,.de an amica bic compromise. II IL not true.
| he saws that quarrel arose with Irolcss"'
| Zacharin on account Of his franknesS with 'he
! Gar.