St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-11-02

could have plunged Europe into war.
the horrors of which would defy de-
scription, fell into the dreamless
sleep which he feared not. He,
though the head of the church
whose members number over 10000, 600
persons, took his last rites a few days
before death took him from all his great
ness. At 2:15 this afternoon the sum-
mons came, and a few hours later the
thunderOuS booming of cannon at Liva-
dia and ST. Petersburg announced that
the cZar was dead, and that he who had
been the Grand Duke Nicholas reigned
in his stead. On lightning wings the
news of Russia's loss spread throughout
the world, and it is safe to say that
everywhere the intelligence created
sympathy for the family of him who by
his policy had maintained the peace of
Europe. From America came words of
sympathy. for the dead ruler had always
been friend of the great republic of
the West, and Americans have not for
gotten how we'll his fathers friendship
sustained the North in the War of the
Rebellion.
Among the peasants of Russia he will
be m0urned with deep and abiding
sorrow, for was he not the
peasant Care"
None Of the graRdilOquent titles borne
by him was thought as much of as the
one bestowed upon him by his lowly
subjects, whose virtues were magnified
in him, and whose vices in him were
entirely lacking. He who denies the
popularity of the czar among the lowly
classes of Russia is blinded by preju-
dice. His kind acts to them in their
seasons of plague and famine will never
be forgotten, and tonight. In thousands
upon thousands of homes, from Vladi-
vOstOck oil thePacific to the fortreSses of
the Caucasus, millions of people as they
kneel before their icons, will pray from
the bottom Of their hearts for the repose
of the soul of their little father" who
was to them as great in soul as he was
in stature. There will be sincere mourn
ing, too, in the royal and imperial fami-
lies of Europe. Not the conventional
mourning prescribed by rule, bat the
mourning of little children. For who
has not heard of the annual visits of
the czar to Copenhagen, the home of his
beloved czarIna, when, with the chill
dren Of emperors, kings and princes
around him, he was the biggest child of
them all, Joining in all their sports, and
romping with them like a big boy.
His death will be most bitter loss to
the wife he loved so well that it was
proverb in st. Petersburg that he twas
the only Russian who was true to his
WIFE"
His home life was an ideal one, and
all his pleasure was found with his own
family.
But as the cZar and not the man he
could be as stern and unrelentng as
fate itself. He has banIshed men and
women to Siberia, but they were men
and women who sought to Kill him, or
to OVerturn the government of which he
was the absolute head, and which he. by
the most solemn oaths in the mother
city of Russia-Moscow-had sworn to
maintain in its integrity.
Since Tuesday, when the doctors in
formed the cZar there was no longer
room for hope, his majesty composedly
Awaited the End,
attending to necessary state and family
affairs in the short intervals of con-
sciousness and freedom from pain.
These were necessarily brief, the doc
tors having had recourse to sedatiyes to
procure sleep and allay pain. On
Wednesday the cZar was still able to be
taken to window of the palace, whence
he gazed out upon the country he loved
The night passed, with all the aggravat-
Ing symptoms and dry cough. DR.. Fac
charm remained In attendance upon
him throughout the night, only snatch.
Ing brief intervals for sleep in the ante.
soOms.
The morning broke with rain and