The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1894-10-20
T'HE DYING MONARCH.
Russian Diplomats Admit That
the Cars End Is Near,
PRINCESS ALIX HURRYIEG AHEAD

Fears That the Czarowitz's Fiancee May
Not Reach Livada in Time for the Dy-
ing Ruler TO Witness the Marriage of
His Successor.
LONDON, Oct 20.-The last red tape
Gordon that is most always drawn
around the truth by diplomacy was
broken today when NJ DeStanl, the Rus
sian ambassador to Great Britain. admitted
to the representative of the Associated
Press that kilograms that had been re.
ceived at the embassy preclude any hope
that the sufferer of Yalta would ever again
rise from his bed. Baron Mohrenheim,
Russian ambassador to France yesterday
furnished the Paris Figaro with the same
unwelcOme news If this is not sufficient
the flight of court officials, the forced and
hurried journeys Of members of the Rus
sian imperial family across Europe, the
alarm OF the various courts, and the
prayers offered up in churches are irrefut-
able testimony that the car is dying.
Throughout the day and evening rain
of kilograms has fallen in this city. Com.
piled and sifted these show the following
facts: M Benkendorff, the Russian court
chamberlain, has countermanded every
order that has been issued in connection
with the proposed visit of the czar to
Corfu. Many officials have started for
Livadia. Princess Alix, the czarowitz's
betrothed, will arrive at Yalta, where the
car is sojourning, on Monday. She will be
preceded by few hours by Grand Duke
vladimir The Grand Duke Alexis arrived
in Paris yesterday morning and left last
night on the Oriental express, which is due
at Yalta on Tuesday.
Around the palace at Yalta there was
yesterday placed triple Gordon of police
and soldiers in order that no access could
be had TO the palace from withoutand that
nothing from within 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
satisfied with curt official bulletins so
meager as to suggest in every carefully
chosen word the theory of the worst.
This is the reading by the bourses, to
which the London stock market furnished
II prompt echo. Russian securities de-
clined from weakness, but it seems that
the markets everywhere were checked later
by heavy purchases which it is reported
were made on account of the Russian
| treasury in order to prevent panic Thus
the uneasy feeling among financiers found
its foil
Dispatches received from St. Petersburg
| report that the city wears its usual aspect
| except that crowds of people are in every
street grouped about the places where the
| bulletins are posted Last night the
| theaters were open as usual, but the audi
ences We're oppressed by a sen Sc of calam-
! ity. In Russia this is entirely natural
A bulletin issued at Livadia at 10 o'clock
| last night says that the car passed Thurs
| day night almost without sleep. His
majesty rose yesterday morning as usual
| His general weakness and the action of his
heart are unchanged The oedema of the
feet which previously appeared has in
creased. His general condition is un-
| changed. This bulletin is signed by the
! five doctors in attendance upon his
majesty.
| The churches throughout Russia are
| holding special services for the recovery Of
his majesty. In the Cathedral Of st. Isaac,
| in st Petersburg, the highest officials to
| the Moujiks joined in solemn petitions to
I God to save the oZar,
In the Russian church in Paris services
were also held, and were attended by
Grand Duke Michael Nicolaivitch, the
staff Of the Russian embassy, President
! Casimir-P Perier Prime Minister Dupuy
and a number of other notabilites.
Furthur news from Livadia is anxiously
awaited All kinds of conflicting rumors
are ahoat 1t is impossible to learn any
thing in official quarters beyond the bulle-
tins. Several Russian journals have hur-
riedly sent special correspondents to Liv-
ada Grave fears are expressed that Prin-
cess Alix will arriveat Yalta too late to al
low of her marriage to the czarowitz tax
ing place before the czar's death.
What certainly is a remarkable feature
of the present crisis is the sympathy de-
veloped within the past twenty-four hours
in London for the czar, the man and the
sufferer In the clubs, omnibusses, trair 3,
everywhere where people come together,
there is hardly any subject discussed but
that of the cars Illness. The keenness of
English sympathy has been deepened by
the news that nerve specialist has been
called to the side of the czarina, sister of
the Princess of Wales, who is herself
threatened by the strain of nursing the
dying emperor.