The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-07-31
Prince Bismarck, the Iron Chancellor, Summoned
By the Dread Messenger.
DEATH OF THE FAMOUS STATESMAN
COMES AS A SURPRISE TO ALL EUROPE
Was Due to Chronic Disease, Which Caused Him Great Pain
His Iron FOrtitude

Berlin, July SO.-Prince Bismarck
. died shortly before II o'clock tonight.
Details of the death of Prince Bis
marck are obtained with difficulty, be-
cause of the lateness of the hour, by
the isolation of the castle and the
strenuous endeavors of the attendants
OF the family to prevent publicity be-
ing given to what they consider private
details.
The death of the ex-chancellor comes
as a surprise to all Europe. Despite
the family's denials, there was an IN
dercurrent of apprehension when the
sinking of the prince was first an
noumced, inspired more by what the
family left unpublished than by any
Information given. But when the
daily bulletins chrOnicled improvements
in the princes condition, detailed his
extensive bills of fare and his devotion
to his pipe, the public accepted DR..
SchweniEger' assertion that there was
no reason why Bismarck should not
reach the age ot So
The reports were deemed to be a rep
atition OF the alarm that Prince Bis
narck was in eXtremis. which had been
aft repeated in the press. All of the
Saturday papers in Europe dismissed
Bismarck with a paragraph, nothing
important, While his condition was COM
pletely OVershadowed in the English
papers by the condition of the Prince of
Wales knee. 1t appears that the eX-
Chancellors death was not precipitated
by sudden complications, but was
rather the elimination of chronic dis
ease, neuralgia of the face and inflam-
nation Of the veins-which kept him
in constant pain, which was borne with
.g.-l-A
been expected.
The beginning of the end dates from
July 90 when the prince was confined
to his bed. He had been several days
FRUSTRATED before an inkling OF his de-
cine reached the world.
On Friday Dr. Schweninger said:
For the past nine days I have hardly
changed my clothes having Travelled
nearly all the time between Berlin and
Friedrichsruhe, as you may notice by
my shabby velvet jacket" He then
declared that his patients lungs, stom-
ach and kidneys We're sound; in fact,
that his whole gigantic frame was
sound LAS yet" said Dr.. Schwenia-
ger. there is no Qualification of the
blood vessels. but the pains in his face
and legs worry him and shorten his
slee9-"
DR.. Schweninger added this verdict:
with his extraordinary, robust ma
ture. he may, excluding complications,
reach So
During DR.. Schweninger's brief alb
sence from Friedrichruhe, DR.. Chry-
sander was in attendance on the pa
tient. Although Prince Bismarck was
extremely low on Wednesday, he so
rallied on Thursday that he was
wheeled to the dinner table to cele-
brate with his assembled family the
fifty-first anniversary of his wedding.
l.
self in danger until the last day On
Monday he ordered some new pipes
and smoked one on Thursday, then
conversed brilliantly on the topics of
the DAY. discussing the trial and SEN
tence of NJ. lola and the peace nego-
tiattOns between Spain ard the United
States. Count Won Rantzau, the princes 1
son-in-law, read to him from news
paper an obituary notice of himself, at
which he was greatly amused. He
perused the papers daily, and this was
one reason why the family deprecated !
the alarming reports as to his health.
The French press showed undated /
enmity when discussing his possible Z
death. The Temps compared his death /
with that of Gladstone, remarking that
though the British statesman had [
failed in his policy and had compro- /
missed his party, he died regretted by I
all on account of the grandeur of his I
moral influence; whereas Prince Bis I
marck, whose life had been successful, /
would perish, execrated by many, even I
in Germany. and inquired grimly: /
What sort of a funeral win be given /
him by the millions of socialists who I
have been Matched by his tyrannical /
laws?"
The LokaI Anzeiger publishes a dis /
patch from FREDERICKSBURG, saying that
DR.. Schweninger was present when I
Prince Bismarck died, having arrived +
from Berlin at 1920 o'clock The
prince was unconscious for several /
hours before the end came, and his
breath almost failed repeatedly He (
died without a struggle.