Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1898-08-08

the yeins-which kept him in con-
slant pain. He had been several days
Frustrated before an inkling OF his
decline reached the world. Although
he was extremely low Wednesday, he
so rallied Thursday that he was
wheeled to the dinner table to cele-
brate with his assembled family the
51st anniversary of his wedding
Never for a moment did he believe
himself in danger until the last day
He ordered some new pipes and
smoked Thursday and then conversed
brilliantly on the topics of the day.
The Lokal Anzeiger says that the
prince was unconscious several hours
before the end came, and his breath
almost failed repeatedly. He died
without a struggle.
Was of Noble Birth.
Prince Otto Won Bismarck Schoen-
hansen was born of an old noble fam
lily at Schoenhausen, April 1, 1915. He
was created count Sept. 16, 1866, and
prince in March, 1871. He spent some
time in the army and subsequently
settled down as country gentleman.
He was brought up in the political
faith of the Prussiantory squirearchy
and he became in 1916 member OF
the provincial diet of Saxony and Of
the Prussian diet, i'm which he first
attracted attention by fiery speeches
in defense Of the old monarchial
party. Bismarck was sent as an am
bassador to ST. Petersburg in 1850
and held the position until 1862. In
May, 1862, he became Prussian am
bassador to Paris. Five months
later he was made first minister of
the Prussian crown. Within the next
ten years he humbled the Austrian
empire. destroyed the French en-
pire and created new German en-
pire. He remodeled the map of Eu-
rope, dismember1ng Denmark and
France. He enlarged the frontiers of
Prussia by the annexation of various
provinces, including the dominions OF
the three dethroned German princes,
and succeeded in placing Germany,
which had previously been the
weakest and least respected of all the
great Powers, at the head of all the
states of Europe. Bismarck obtained
great popularity for creating rep
resentive branch of the new federal
government on the basis of manhood
suffrage. The diet. which first as
sembled in 1867, consisted Of delegates
representing a nation of 100000
Germans. Bismarck mex achievement
was to prevent the ATTEMPTED annex
alton of Luxembourg by Napoleon III.
Then came the Franco-German war of
1870, consisting of an unbroken series
of victories In domestic legislation
Bismarck was far less fortunate than
in his diplomatic negotiations. In his
economical policy, after beginning as
free trader, he adopted the protec-
ZIONIST policy. While he thus alien
ated the liberals by many laws which
were afterwards repealed, he also in
te,rfered with religious liberty OF
bhe Catholic priesthood which led to
a long and bitter struggle with the
Catholic church and made all of it's
adherents his bitter enemies. Equal
ly severe was his policy in regard to
social democrats, his drastic meas
ures against whom produced the pro-
foundest discomfort among the work
ing classes of the large cities. Bis
marck took a prominent part in con-
nection with the triple alliance be-
tween Germany, Austria and Italy,
which was understood to be directed
against a possible alliance between
Russia and France against the Ger
man powers. 1t was reported that
the resignation of Bismarck as Prus-