Omaha daily bee., 1898-07-31
BISMARCK IS DEAD
Germany's Iron Chancellor Goes to His
Long Home,
PASSES PEACEFULLY INTO THE BEYOND
End Of Life Comes About an Hour
Before Midnight,
LIVED TO THE AGE OF %EIGHTY-THREE
Prominent Figure Among the Nations of
Continental Europe,
DID MUCH TO SHAPE GERMANY'S POLICY
Powerful Factor in the stirring
Events of the Latter Half of the
Nineteenth Century - Bio.
graphical Sketch.
Prominent Figure Among the Nations Of
Continental Europe.
DID MUCH TO SHAPE GERMANY'S POLICY

BERLIN, july W.-Prince Bismarck died
shortly before II o'clock tonight. He passed
away peacefully.
Details of the death of Prince bismarck
are obtained with difficulty, because of the
lateness of the hour, the isolation of the
castle and the strenuous endeavors of the
attendants of the family to prevent pub
licity being 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 undercurrent
of apprehension when the sinking of the
prince was first announced, inspired more
by what the family left unsaid than by any
information given. But when the daily bull
letins chronicled improvements in the
princes condition., detailed his extensive
bills of fare and his devotion to his pipe,
anxiety was somewhat allayed.
The reports were deemed to be a repe-
tition of the alarm that Prince Bismarck
was in extremis, which had been oft re-
peated in the past. All the Saturday papers
in Europe dismissed Bismarck with a para
graph, nothing important, while his con-
dition was completely overshadowed in the
English papers by the condition of the
Prince Of Wales knee.
1t appears that the eX-chancellor's death
was not precipitated by sudden complica-
tions, but was rather the elimination of
chronic disease, neuralgia and infamma-
ton of the ~veins-which kept him in con-
slant pain, that was borne with the iron
f~ortitude which might have been expected.
Beginning of the End.
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 decline reached the world
On Friday DR.. Schweninger said: For the
past nine days l have hardy changed my
clothes, having been travelling nearly all
the time between Berlin and Friedrichs-
ruhe."
He then declared that his patients lungs
stomach and kidneys were sound, in fact thai
his whole gigantic frame was sound. g
yet said DR.. schweninger, there is nc
Qualification of the blood vessels, but the
pains in his face and legs worry him and
shorten his Sleep
DR.. Schweninger added this verdict
"With his extraordinary robust nature hi
may, excluding complications, reach ninety
During DR.. Schweninger's brief absence
from FREDERICKSBURG, DR.. Chrysender was
in constant attendance upon the patient
Although Prince Bismarck was extremely
low on Wednesday he so rallied on Thurs
day that he wheeled to the dinner table tt
celebrate with his assembled family thu
fifty-frst anniversary of his wedding. HI
never for a moment believed himself II
danger until the last day. On Monday HI
ordered some new pipes and smoked one OF
Thursday, then conversed brilliantly on thu
topics of the day, discussing the trial ant
sentence of M. lola and the peace negotia
lions between Spain and the United States
Count Won Rantzau, the princes son-in-law
read to him from a newspaper an ordinar!
notice of himself, at which he was great.
amused. He perused the newspaper dali,
and this was one reason the family depre
Gated the alarming reports as to his health
Biographical.
Bismarck's full name was Otto Edward
! Leopold Won Bismarck chonhausen. HI
was born at the manor of Schonhausen II
D Magdeburg on April l, 1916. His family hal
a pedigree of five centuries and had Away
been prominent and noted in the militar.
and diplomatic circles of Prussia. The fathe
} of Bismarck was a captain in the Roya
i Guards of Prussia.
In 1882 the young Bismarck entered tn
} university at Gottingen and studied juris
prudence. The succeeding year he matricu
d lated at the University of Berlin and wa
r admitted to the bar in 1885. He then per
y formed his military service and while in tn
n army made an exhaustive study of tn
n science of husbandry and an inquiry int
e the condition of the agrarian population O
the kingdom. In after years these researche
S served him well. In 1S47 he made his actua
entrance into politics and statecraft as
t delegate to the United Diet at Berlin. II
o was the representative of the nobility O
n Saxony and at once, in vigorous speeches
e declared his determined opposition to al
: the proposed liberal reforms. At the sam
y time he violently denounced the tendenc
n toward democracy and defended the divin
: right of monarchs. When the revolution G
1S4S broke out Bismarck was the champio
Of the royal nobility and became the prac
teal leader Of the Junker party, the younge
) adherents of the classes against the masse!
In 1S40 and 1850, as a member of the Prus
e sian Diet. he announced his life plan, tn
unilcation of Germany. In these years b
also argued vehemently for an increase c
the powers of the monarchy. For the mex
} nine years he held numerous diplomat
d posts and in 1859 he was made ambassado
s to ST. Petersburg. He was sent to thi
IS distant post because the king feared Bis
k marck would involve Prussia In the wa
y then going on between France and Italy.
d Made Ambassador.
6 Returning from Russia he was made am
bassador to Paris in 1862 and soon afte
v succeeded Prince Hohenzollern as prim
: minister and minister of foreign affairs {
Prussia. He at once began the agitatio
for the increase of the army and the con
struction of forts and defenses in prepare
tion for the great events which eliminate
in 1870 with the humiliation of Franc,
King William made him a count in lSt
and then arose the Schleswig- Holstein al
fair. In June. 1866, the Diet at Frankfol
declared war against Austria. Bismarc
TO took the field himself and in six weeks Aus
l. tria was crushed at the battle of Sadow,
h sehles wig Holstein was secured to Prussi
and Austria was eliminated as a Germa
power and Prussia became the head
ID the North German Confederation.
Of From this hour Bismarck was the i'd
" OF Prussia. The king. the nobility and Ii