The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-11-02
HE WAITED FOR HIS DEATH
THE GEAR WAS CONTIGUOUS ALMOST
 TO THE LAST MOMENT.
He spent Tuesday in DisposinG of Personal and Family Anairs and Then Calmly Awaited the End-The Oath of Allegiance Administered.

and Family Afrairs and Then Calmly
 Awaited the End-The Oath of Allegiance
 Administered.
 Yalta, Nov 1.-The czar was told on Tuesday that he could live only few days more. He listened composed ly. During the rest of the day he passed most of his time in disposing of his personal and family affairs. Then he calmly awaited the end with his consciousness broken only occasion ally by short periods. He looked for the last time from the windows yes- terday. He was long silent. Then he said 1t was pleasant to feel that he could pass his last hours on Russian soil. Last night he had no sleep. He was racked constantly by violent coughing and hemorrhages. His heart grew so weak that 1t often seem- ed to have stopped beating. These distressing symptoms became more ac- centuated at 10 o'clock this morning, but shortly afterward the czar rallied slightly. He was fully conscious. He wished the sacrament to be given him in the presence of the family, and he received the viat1cum with grateful fervor. An hour and half later he was seized with violent spasms. It seemed as If death had come, but he rallied again, and at 12:30 he appeared to be free from pain-even comfortable. But the weakening heart-beats and breathing told his physicians that the end was coming fast. He was con- scious almost to the last moment.
 At 9 o'clock his eyes closed slowly and he ceased breathing.
 The body will be embalmed in Liva- dia tonight and will be exposed in the palace chapel for day or two. Several state officials left St. Peters, burg for Ltvadia this evening.
 According to the tentative arrange ments made tonight the body will be conveyed aboard the imperial yacht Polar Star to Odessa. It will be es- corted by the whole Black Sea fleet, which has orders to assemble at once of Yalta. From Odessa the body will be taken on a special train to St. Petersburg and will be placed in the cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul The final ceremonies will be held prob ably in about two weeks. ,
 It Is understood that the Czar Nicho- las II: will be proclaimed tomorrow, that the Grand Duke George, Alex ander Ills second son, now Ill in the Caucuses will ba4. declared the heir, and that the troops and state officials will take the oath of loyalty and al- legfance on Saturday. State mourning is expected to begin on Saturday.
 The ceremony of administering the oath of allegiance was performed in Livadia this afternoon. The grand dukes took the oath first, then the high court functionaries, the military officers and the civil officials.
 London, Nov. 1.-The Daily News hears from St. Petersburg that the oath of allegiance was administered to all troops in Cronstadt.
 It is, stated in Darmstadt that the Princess Alix will return from St. Pet ersburg after the funeral.
 In Vienna the news made a deep im- pression and the sadness seemed all the greater as the streets and restau- rants were crowded with people re- turning from the cemeteries after the All Saints services. The Grand Dukes Sergius and Alexi crossed the Austrian frontier tonight and continued their Journey to Alegria, where the Grand Duke Alexei passes the winter on ac- count of pulmonary phthisis.
 The Daily News correspondent in Yalta, who throughout the czar's so- journ there has obtained the smost trustworthy and interesting informa- tion, has sent this dispatch:
 ''The czar died at 2:15 o'clock this afternoon. He was fully conscious. When he felt that his last hour was approaching he asked for extreme unc- tion. This was administered by Father Ivan, who afterward conversed with the dying man for some time. The czar next asked that his family should gather round him. He spoke with each member separately. but at the great est length with the czarina. He then gave all his blessing. Finally he bade all farewell. Little by little he grew weaker. His voice at last became hardly audible. Soon afterward he passed quietly away.
 .'"The oath of allegiance to Nicholas II. was then administered to the whole family and at 4:30 o'clock cannons were fired to announce the fact to the world"
 After confirming the account of the funeral arrangements already describ- ed, the correspondent says. \
 ssThs entire Seventh Army corps will pay military honors to the dead emS peror when the body shall be embarked at Yalta, The train from Odessa to St. Petersburg will stop at every im- portant station, where the local gar rison will be drawn up to render mili- tary honors to their dead commander. The czarina Is quite broken down and the doctors are again fearful that her health may not withstand the weight Of her grief. 4s
 Paris, Nov. 1.-The president has sent the czarina 2 personal message of con. dolence. M. Hanotanx, French minister of foreign affairs, sent to M. GierA, Rus 5 sia's foreign minister, a dispatch ex- pressing in the name of the government the grief which the news of the czar's death had caused In France. Premier i. Dupuy telegraphed to the prefects of the departments the order that their fiaas be draped in mourning and raised at half-mast.
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