The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-10-25
AT DEATHS DOOR.
The Cars Death is Now Mo-
mentarily Expected.
All European Business Centers
Are Depressed by It.
WILL NEWER GET UP.
Believed the Emperor VIII
Never Rise from Bed.

LONDON, Oct. 2O.-The last red tape
Gordon that is always drawn around
the truth by diplomacy was broken
yesterday when NJ. de Staal, the Rus
sian am bassador to Great Britain. ad-
mitted that kilograms that had been
received at the am bassy preclude any
hope that the imperial sufferer would
ever again rise from his bed Baron
Monrenheim, Russian am bassador to
France, this morning fur nished the
Paris Figaro the same unwelcome
news. If this is not sufficient the
fight of court officials, the forced and
hurried journeys of members of the
Russian imperial family across Eu-
rope, the alarm of the various courts,
the shivering bOurses and the prayers
offered up in the churches are irrefu-
ia bic testimony to the fact the car
is dying
Throughout the day and evening
rain of kilograms has fallen in this
city. Compiled and sifted, they show
the following facts: M BenkendOrff,
the court cham berlain, has counter
manded every order that has been is
sued in connection with the proposed
visit of the car to Corfu MANY Off
Gals have started for Livadia- Prime
ess Alix, the czare witch's betrothed,
will arrive at Yalta, where the car IS
sojourning. on Monday, and she will
be preceded by a few hours by Grand
Duke Vladimir
The grand duke Alexis arrived in
Paris yesterday morning, and left on
the Oriental express. which IS due at
alta on Tuesday Around the pal
ace there was placed triple cOrdOns OF
police and soldiers in order that no
access could be had to the palace from
without, and that nothing from with
in could escape to the world unless it
first passed through the crucible of
censorship So grave are the issues
depending upon the cars life that
even the people of Russia are obliged
to be satis6 ID with curt official bull
letins SO meager as to Suggest in very
carefully chosen words the theory
of the worst. This is the read
ing by the bourses to which
the London stock market furnished
a prompt echo Russian securities
declined from weakness, but it seems
the market is every where we're checked
later by heavy purchases which it is
reported were made on account of the
Russian treasury in order to prevent
a panic Thus the uneasy feeling
among 6nanciers found its fate Dis
patches received from st. Petersburg
report that the city wears it's usual
aspect, except that crowds of people
are in every street. grouped about the
places where the bulletins are posted
Here they nave clustered since NOR n
ing, waiting the receipt of further
intelligence
A bulletin issued at Livadia at 10
o'clock last night says that the car
passed Thursday night almost with
out sleep. His majesty rose yester-
day morning a usual His general
weakness and the action of his heart
are unchanged The oedema of the
feet, which previously appeared, has
increased. His general condition is
3 hi eft K
by the five doctors in attendance.
Yesterday the churches throughout
Russia held special services for the
recovery of his ajesty- In the CAPT
tai, st. Petersburg, the highest Off
Gals Joined in solemn petitions to
God to save the car
In the Russian church IN Paris
services were also held and were at
tended by Grand Duke Michael
Nicolaivitch. the staff of the Russian
am bassy. President Casimir- Perier.
Prime Minister Dupuy and a mum Der
of other nOtabilities. The services
were marked with deep emotion. The
thoughts of those present must have
flown ahead. asking, when the car
is dead, what then?'
The Temps answers the question
thus. Elm the day when his majesty
passes away beyond dispute, the
prestige of Russia will not be dimin-
ished: neither will the reasons which
have drawn her to France be weak
ened: nor will the sentiments uniting
the two peoples be altered, but Europe
as moral entity will have sustained
an appreciab BILE loss She will lack a
portion of her conscience This is
great praise for prince. Alexander
a lone has merited it,
The question which the French and
Germans. and even the Russians
themselves, are asking hourly. and to
which their bourses yesterday suggest
London quite so sharply. London adj
lnits that q serious crisis is Dossible.