The herald., 1894-09-25
THE WHITE CAR HAS GONE MAD
RusSia's Monarch Is a Raving
Maniac.
Fear of Nihilists Has Dethr0ned His
Reason.
His Majesty Under the Care OF Crazy
Doctor in an Isolated Castle.
The Czarina to Take
the Throne.

by the AksOcleteu fress.
ST.. PETERSBURG, Sept. 24.-The throne
OF Russia presents the remarkable spec
tacle OF crazy monarch, Alexander
ILL.,, forced to 60 into retreat in a castle
in a forest wilderness, and there be
placed under the sole care of an sccen-
trio physician as mad az himself. Co.
incident with this deplorable denoue-
ment in the reign OF the czar is the
startling information that the success
sion of the throne may not pass to the
czar's son, as would seem TO be the
natural result, but that it will 60 to the
empress Marie, the czar's wife.
The cars son, the czarowitz, who is
necessarily the heir presumptive, lie the
subject OF grave doubts as to his mental
abilities and physical standing, and the
would be foolhardy to place on the
ly and mentally unfit, but whose chances
Of long life are extremely slim. That
ths consent oil dsfnrNay;s hs<.srse.Asn.
Great Britain having first been OBJ
tanned, is the common belief. In fact,
it is his imperative duty In case the
crown 10 offered to him.
The car has been ailing from third
attack of influenza, misnamed mild
catarrh" by the court circular. for some
time. His illnesa made him moross
and suspicious, fear of assassination de-
tsrred him from taking physical exer-
else. with the result that he has grown
enormously in bulk ever since his re-
turu from Deumark Last fall,
The Psterhof plot of August 9Th, when
the troika of the Grand Duchess Xenia
and her husband, Alexander Michael.
loyitch, was wrecked by dynamite, ieal-
| lied Alexander's worst apprehensions
Of nihiljstic evil, and his nervousness
became intolereble. The doctors dag
nosed his case as Brights disease, ac'
companied by dropsy. To alleviate the
patient'a excrxciating pains, they doaed
him with narcotics, and one fine morn
ing. recently, when Alexander woke
from the rest induced by the opistes,
he was q raving maniac. His medicine,
he believed, was a species OF slow
poison, and that bis physicians and
even his relatives were in league with
| his enemies.
Itwas then that the czarina, his wife.
called in the eccentric Moscow Havant,
Professor Sacharjin, who holds Russia
monarch under complete subsection and
whose strange and unheard of remedies
are the wonder and ridicule OF the med
ical world OF Europe. 1t was this same
ouack doctor under whose treatmen
the czsr cnce before was saved from tht
grave. and naturally, In bis skill, tht
Taving monarch Of all the Russians hal
periecs confidence.
Sacharjin was recognized inntantly b.
the sick man, who hailed him AZ on
mot in the conspiracy" At once tn
Moscow navant took the patient IL
charge. He Immediately wet-cupps'
his msiesty, that is, took large quan
tity of blood from the right arm. A tee
of this blood showed that it containe
an abnormal quantity OF water and ais
; signs of degeneration. He gave it on
that the czar's mental condition wa
morbid emotional depression, the re
suit of the weakening of the brain an
body by influenza and the fear OF con
spirators, the latter condition being 81
, eggerated by his surroundings, even b
: the uniforms Of the armed men Rbou
c him.
/, sachariin then ordered the ear to b
. isolated far from the scene OF all h
Q fears and hallucinations. A chalet
i Betoweschki forest-a veritable wilde
9 ness, enlivened only by divisions {
3 gendarmes and regiments OF Coesacl
l. from old Russia-wss made ready an
thither his majesty was transported in
hospital car.
To keep the czar's true condltio
# secret as long az possible, the cont
Q mental papers in the pay OF M. De Gier
t who controls journals in Berlin, Pari
g Brussels and Vienna, are publishir
h misleading paragraphs day after day a
y nouncing the Russian emperor's pr
d posed attendance at this or that fun
a ton, or that he has issued ukasss @
= dering certain changes in the admin
n tration or in the peraonnel OF the coul
z VIENNA. Sept. 24.-It is semi.offioial
:. stated here today that the czar ia suffe
d ing from Bright's disease of the ki
b neys.
DARMsTADT, Sept. 24.-Ae the graz
duchees OF Hesee is in delicate heait
- it ia said that the marriage of Prince
10 - Aix of Hesse, sister OF the grand dui
ID TO the czarowitz, may be postpon
~ again. this time until February. ln Il
~ connection IL 10 again announced II
a the conversion Of Princess AK to
IT'S Greek faith 10 completed.
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