The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-08-02
GERMANY'S GREAT DEAD.

emperor ~ lllthu1'a GouuoAlNeSa-
To 70 Int HornIng-BismaFek'S Wli.
pIiaph he Desired on tits rOmh.
BERLIN. Aug. t.-BaFon Won Buelow.
the minister for foreign AFFAIRS. has ar
rived here and will proceed by Imperial
command to KIel In order To accompany
the emperor TO Fr9edrlchsrube.
Baron Won Buelow tells she CORE
spondeA of the Associated Press that
nothing definite regarding Prince Bis
marck's funeral will be decided till the
wishes OF Emperor William and the
family OF the deceased are ascertained.
Thus far Emperor William has tele-
grAphed twice to FrledTirhHruhe. The
first dispatch. sent on Sunday morning,
was addressed to Count Herbert Bis
marck, and set forth in the most corr
dial terms the merits Of the late prince
and expressing his majeS,y's undying
gratitude to the deceased who had been
a model OF the most faithful Perform
ance Of duty"
The second telegram begs for the fam
iIy's consent 10 bury the prince'e re-
mains In the Charlottesburg mauso-
leum, where the body Of Emperor Will
IAN I reposes. This. however. is de-
Sllned, because of Prince Bismarck's
dearly expressed wish to be buried near
the Schioss.
uIsmarelz'a WIN.
In regard 10 Blsmarck's testament, It
Is known that Friedrichsruhe descends
to Count Herbert Bismarck, the oldest
snn, the family Of Count Won Ratzau,
the husband Of Prince Bismarck's
daughter, remaining there temporarily.
Schoenhausen goes to Count William
Bismarck, the second son. The late
princes money, which Is estimated 70
amount to several million marks.
larger amount than was generally sup
posed, Is divided among the three chill
dren, and the young RatZaus. TINS
money Is partly in the Bank OF England
and partly in the Bleidroerders bank.
The decorations, diamonds and art OBJ
iects. valued at about a million marks,
are deposited at a Berlin jewelers..
DR.. Schwelnger, the princes physi-
clan, now says that the immediate
cause Of death was efusion Of blood on
The remains Of the great chancellor
have been dressed in the Uniform OF
Haiberstadt curassiers.
An enormous number Of wreaths and
other floral tributes have already ar
rived at Friedrichsruhe. So strict Is the
exclusion al the Schloss that Count Pos
adowskI, the minister OF the Interior,
had to walt twenty minutes before he
was admitted.
The ohiclal ReichsanZeiger, which APP
pears to-day with black borders, pub
fishes the telegram which Emperor
william sent yesterday to prince Her
bert Bismarck" It is as follows:
Emperor'a Condolences.
.1n deep sorrow. and sympathIzIng
with the grief which has struck you all,
for your beloved, great dead. lsment
the loss of Germany's great son. whose
faithful cooperation IN the work OF re-
uniting the Gatherland won for him the
lifelong friendship OF my grandfather
resting in God and the undyinG thanks
Of the whole German people for all time.
/ shah prepare last abode for his re-
mains in Berlin. in the Cathedral, by
the side OF my ancestors"
The emperor has ordered the court to
60 into mourning for ten daye, and has
ordered the army to go Into mourning
for eight days.
The flags on all the imperial and state
buildings will be at half mast until after
the funeral.
ReIchsanzeiEer publishes a long lead
ms article to-day extolling Prince Bis
marck's immortal services and deciar-
ing the fatherland has lost her greatest
eon.
A dispatch from Friedrlchsruhe 10 the
Hamburg Nachrichten Gays It has been
definitely decided that the remains OF
Prince Bismarck are to be inferred at
the spot selected by himself, where
simple mausoleum Will be built and to
which the remains Of his wife VIII be
transferred from Varzin. Until the
mausoleunl ia completed the funeral
rites viii be confined to the simple eere-
mony OF blessing the remains. which
viii be performed by the local pastor OF
the village Of Brunstorf.
Prince Bismarck's final written In
structions, signed by himself, express
his desire to be buried in a selected spot
in the Sachsenwald, and conclude;
"For an epitaph, wish Prince Won
bismarck, born April l, 1915. died -.
with the addition Of "A Faithful Ger
,,on Seryant of Emperor William