The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-10-20
The Car is Seized With Series
of Commissions.
His Death Cannot be Now Long
Delayed
DUKE GEORGE DYING.
The Czarina is Also Reported 70
be III.
Princess A1ix Summoned to Re-
ceive EInperor's Blessing

ceiVe Enper0r's Blessing.
ST PETERsBuRG, Oct 2O.-The latest
reports received here from Livadia indi-
cate that although the car is still alive,
be is rapidly weakening.
LONDON, oct 2O.-When the contents
of the bulletin issued in st. Petersburg
at s o'clock Iast night became generally
known today, there was a certain feeling
Of relief in knowing that the czar still
lives. as the official silence of the previ-
Gus twenty-four hours created intense
anxiety
The bulletin referred to was q dispatch
from Livadia. saying that the car had
passed the night Of the 18th almost
sleepless. It was added that his majesty
rose in the morning friday As usual, al
though he was suffering from great weak
ness aud the action of the heart had not
changed.
tn addition the edema Of the feet,
which had previously appeared. had IN
creased. The general condition OF the
patient however, was unchanged This
bulletin was signed by the five doctors in
attendance upon the czar and was cabled
TO the Associated Press last night.
Private adyices from Livadia state
toms continued These advices add that
his majesty was terribly depressed
throughout the day
St Petersburg advices of this morning
say that prayers are being offered up to-
day throughout the Russian empire for
the recovery Of the czar and il is also
stated that great impatience is mani
tested at the scantiness of Of
fetal news sent out in regard
10 the condition of his majesty Early
f,-h g.
tersburg announces that the latest re-
ports received there from Livadia state
that although the czar was still alive he
was rapidly weakening.
The striking fact in connection with
the cars illness is the difference of
malady from which he is suffering.
The Figaro, for instance, today de-
clares that the symptoms disagree with
the usual sym ptoms of kidney disease,
and states that there Is a conflicting in
side to the cars illness which has per
plexed his physicians. The Figaro adds
that one of the czarina's sisters, fort
night ago, received an official COM
muniQue stating that the czar was suf-
fering from a tumor below the left
kidney, respecting which the doctors
disagreed
Prof. Zacharin was convinced that il
was cancerous and impossible to operate
upon. This was his ground for recently
informing the czar that he could not pos
sibly live as the disease was incurable
Prof. Leyden, however, was more opti-
mistic, and after careful study Of the
symptoms Of the cars trouble, express
ed the belief that it was true that
tumor existed, but he added, it
was Of benign nature and curable-
The Figaro then proceeds to make
the startling statement that the car has
been badly nursed and that the arrange
ments for his care were quite Of a
primitive nature.
The Figaro did not give its authority
for making the latter assertion. The
statement is somewhat unkind, as it is
known that the cars most assiduOus
nurse has been the czarina, who accord
ing to rumor has broken down under the
strain of attending continually upon her
dying husband
There is no doubt that outside of Rus
sia the greatest concern for the health of
the car is felt in France.
The Temps, in an article which NAV
be regarded as an expression of the gen
eral feeling Of sympathy of the French
people, says that there il not a
corner OF France where prayers have
not been offered up for the recovery OF
the car, and not u household in France
where his illness is not the chief topic OF
conversation
Of France quite bear out the truth of the
statements made by the Temps.
The car, since the fetes at TouIon,
following the arrival there Of the
Russian squdron under Admiral Avel-
Ian, has every where IN the French re-
public been considered as the life ally of
France and enc could hardly enter a
peasants cottage or farm house with
out hnding that the central fea-
ture displayed on the walls is
the colored print which was distributed
broadcast At the time of the Russian fes-
tiyities.
This print represents the czar as offer
ing his hand 20 the late President Car
not with the nlasts Of Cronstadt and Tou-
Ion squadrons in the background
PRAYERS FoR THE CAR SUNDAY.
All It's Temples.
LONDON. Oct 2O-A dispatch from
Paris to the Daily News says that the.
conslatory Of the Reformed church has
ordered that prayers be offered for the
car on Sunday in all its temples The
dispatch adds that tidings received bv
Grand Duke Alexis afford little room for
hope that his najesty's life viii be pro
longed until Sunday.
Dr Germain See. who some time ago
was consulted by Drs. Zacharin and
Hirsch, on the subject Of kidney dis
ease says that nobody suffering with such
an ailment ought to be allowed TO
travel It would be a mistake. he adds.
q move the car.