The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-10-26
THE CAR s CONDITION.
Cor sicting Reports Al out the RUSSIAN
Ruler,

Ruler.
LONDON, Oct. 23.-The latest reports
concerning the condition of the car
of Russia and the other mem ers of
the imperial family who have been
stricken are even more conflicting to-
day than they were Saturday. One
message from St Petersburg declares
that advices from Livadia intimate
that rally which occurred yesterday
when the car was able to leave his
bed and his appetite was improved,
was purely temporary and that
last night he was weaker than
ever. Opposed to this is the fact
that private advices received at
Copenhagen the old home of the
czarina, declared that the car had
passed good night and was some
what stronger to-day. It is. how
ever, everywhere recognized that the
cars physicians have no hope of his
recovery, but are devoting themselves
solely to prolonging his life until the
czarowitch and Princess Alix can be
married, as has been found the wish
of the car. The Grand Duke George
is still alive, but his case is hopeless.
From Paris comes the report that
the czarina had bad attack of hys-
y
she will lose her reason unless some
way can be found to induce her to
leave the sick room of the car, which
she has so far refused to do.
Special services for the car we're
held yesterday in the chapels of the
Russian embassies and in,the Russian
Greek churches in all Of capitals
of Europe. In Paris, sfayeas were
also offered in all the churches of
every denomination. Similar SER
vices were held in all the churches of
Greece. The royal family attended
services in Athens.
The North German Gazette says:
According to human foresight, hope
of a cure is excluded. Nevertheless,
the press have been overhasty in
treating the car as dead man. We
have good reason to state that
catastrophe is not expected in the
immediate future"
All the Russian newspapers, have
been requested to print special copies
of their respective journals for sub
scribers in Livadia, emitting the bull
letins altogether. This is now being
done. An extra special censor has
been appointed to control all the press
kilograms concerning the condi-
ton of the car and the
doings generally Of the i'm
perial family. In St. Petersburg.
the press is not allowed to utter
single word of sorrow. Even the
ministers and high officials of state
have to telephone all day long and
hasf through the night to the office
of the Official Gazette, begging for
information. In the remoter parts of
the empire there are probably whole
towns which have not yet heard that
the car ia seriously i'll
A dispatch from Warsaw says that
it is believed in that city that the dis
ease from which the czar is suffering
originated in the railroad accident
near Borki in October 1888, when the
imperial train was wrecked while his
majesty was returning from Crimea
to st. Petersburg, killing twenty-one
people and wOunding thirty-siX 9th
ers, among whom was the czarina.
The car suffered from severe con-
tusions on both sides of the body, and
these, it is conjectured, may have
caused some internal injury, as he
has neAer been quite well since. It
was reported at the time of this acct
dent that it was due to defective
rails but the popular belief has been
that the wreck was caused by Mini
lists. The car in which the car and
the imperial family were travelling
was constructed of steel, and to this
fact was due the escape from death of
Alexander and his travelling compan-
ions