The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-10-16
RUSSIAN CONSPIRACY
SENSATIONAL STORY REGARDING
THE ILLNESS OF THE CAR.
He Is Said to be Slowly Dying from
POison-Priests Scheming Against
the Cx~areyvitch.

MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 15.-Has the Car
Of all the Russias been skillfully poisoned
and slowly put to death by scientific means
in the hands Of Nihilists? DR.. George F.
V. Schmidt, a German traveller, now in
Minneapolis, has just received secret dis
patches from ST. Petersburg which throws
a strong light on the crisis in European
politics caused by the impending death of
the Car. These dispatches came written
in sympathetic ink, on apparently blank
pieces OF paper. The application Of heat
brught out some strange stenographic
characters which the Doctor readily trans
lated. He showed one of the DISPATCHES to
a reporter to-day, and remarked that in
order to send such things from St. Peters
burg it was necessary 70 doubly protect
them by the use of sympathetic ink and
a secret code. The most sensational mat
ter in the dispatch Is the intimat:on that
the Cars illness is caused by other than
natural means. The Doctor translated the
dispatch as follows:
The Car is lying at the point of death.
the excitement in the higher circles OF
Russia is simply tremendous. 1t is UNDER
stood In Russia that the Cars sickness
mat his death will not be a natural one.
II is on account of this that the journals
TSm.rauict the tact OF the Cars sickness.
Czarewitch on the throne. The Czarewitch
is or a cranky and melancholy nature, is
inclined to institute the most radical re-
forms throughout Russia, and has already
made plans for such action. He is very
nuch hated by the clergy. The patriarch
OF MOSCOW, who is at the mead of the
Greek Church, has Travelled about with
the Car in order to persuade him 10 put
his second son on the throne instead of
the Czarewitch.. The Greek Church of Rus
STA is feverishly excited. The council of
1ne empire is daily holding secret council.
the Pan-Slavic party is with the church
ana against the Czarewitch, VINO is a great
TREND OF Germany. Should the Car de-
clde to place his second son upon the throne
this would be looked on as a direct insult
TO Germany, and would be attended with
the most serious results. The second son
or the Car Is friendly to the French,
d~readfully despotic, and in the highest de-
gree headStrong. and a strong autocrat. 1t
Is feared that on the deathbed OF the Car
the church influence will succeed in induc-
ing him to call his second son as his sue
cessor. AS this second son is very hot
headed ne is sure not to remain long on
the throne without becoming seriously IN
VOWED in state troubles. The eighty-eight-
year-old Patriarch of Russia has had a
two hours conference with the Car at
his ~deathbed, but no one knows the pur-
Car is very despotic, opposed to the lib
erty OF the people, and is of an envious
nature. He is a fine soldier, fond OF fight,
is an enemy of England and OF Germany.
and, above all, of America. This prince
is by all odds one Of the greatest generals
In Russia, having been with Gourk and
Tomash-Chief, and having studied with the
latter. All OF the cabinets OF Europe are
alarmed. 1t is rumored that the entrance
OF England into the dreibund, that is, the
triple alliance, is about to take place.
Already between Russia and France secret
relations have been entered into"
DR.; Won Schmidt is a second lieutenant
IN the PrusSian army travelling on leave.
He is bound for japan and the Orient