Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1898-08-05
PRINCE BISMARCK IS DEAD
Passed Peacefully Away in the
Night at His Home in
FriedriChSruh.
VERY SUDDEN RELAPSE.
Princes Family Summoned to His
Bedside Early Saturday Evening
and Present at His Death.

as Countess Rantzau Wiped His Lips-He
Talked Politics in the Morning and Ate
Well at Lunch-ono of Europe's Greatest
statesmen-He Held DestinieS OF Nations
IN HIS hand-""erinany Man oil iron.
Friedrichsruh. August 3.-Prince Bis
mnrck died of CONGESTION of the lungs
Saturday night mt eleven o'clock The
end came peacefully. His last words
werc:-"Ich danke dir. mcin kind"
addressed to Countess Won Rantzau,
who wiped the perspiration from his
forehead
Immedintrlv after his death. the
windows of his room were thrown
oppn. and the household could see
from the garden their master living Mt
resi- nm fine niUnv of his he'd. covered
with a white cover. and Herbert Bis
marck lrudinp rriof-stricken gazing
into his fathers race
rho olo,nont. 81. ot t,c do,tb of
Nanolcon l. seemed to particinate in
the tragic occurrence. A storm rag-d
that night along the North Sea, and
there was n bitter autumual cold next
morning
Pismorcl, bunhInd Austria and mad .
tho North German Tnion He CON
.ouorod 1.roncn and founded fine Ger.
man ,r,t,iro His shadow Iav ovor thp
,to+o, ana .,,tos,,o., or tl,o Contfnont
for fuIl thirty vnors In if rrnutations
,,,i+borod ,nd un,,.or. vornd .n.ll
mon orov ornat ami notiops were Gro
ated rho uoushurpnrs were thrust
aside ana tbo Uop,nortes vnr. d.
+bro1,od 1,be Io,roi. of tho Nr.tt,r.
ni,.bs ond tho Scbv.orznpLnro. dtnd
o,,.,v ana tho Caea,n. l1ontnuff.1s
and Cou,,b,u.ore u-.r, r,r,ntta.,
Nt,,,, dissemination, ,,itb him, ,,,o,. ,,,.
nosition +o him ,.os fni,,n and thn
MINES ,f Crisn Gnrtschokon Noluo-
Nv Ar,lr,..,.. and ,,i,r. ,r,.rn known f.,
all tbo ,v,rld His heavy hand was
f,,t in ,,.o,.,. Colinot and Co,,rt III.
1ifo boc,mn tbn bistorv of modnru
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his lifo w,. thot of an invalid Few
q, I
a,.orr nrocautior was tol,nn tn nrnvnnt
any. 1i.tr,.l,n,co ~ ,iu ro.t and oriot
nm, v.,, II, 81 n,oos,,ro tho ro.llt of
tho o>.,o,.io,oo ~ , Iomburr renortor
who want to r,riod,,,1,erub to inorira
oftor pis,,orcI.,. hooI+h and vol r..
ooi,.od I. count p,ntyou in sucb 4,
r..,. tl,o, t,o ronortor won - euit for
,laI,,rn. From, tho Count He cortrih.
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u,n,ln,r,,o,. Noohricbtor durin,, t,o
mas, ,.o,r .rbn.n worn dictotnd - tI,o
o1i+o,. v.ho ,.,,,o +o bi. bo,so 10
son+ n,n,, monorandume to tho obi.
FOR boN,n,ar ana those ba usuoIl,. dic
totnd IN bis nrivota sncratorv Dr
Cb,.,.,,,lo,. ,,sod to rood tbo n,nors to
him ana learned RussL,n for tho MIR.
nosn of tronslotinc to him article.
from IN. two nrincinol newsnonors Of
II po+oreh,,rg In addition to these
which n. sometimes througb his smou
l,nn,ylodrn of Russ,.n wos ohIo 20
road in tho oricinoI- Rismorcl, rocr.
larlv read three London newspapers
He usuoIIv rosa Iate ota = heortr
b,ool,fos+ vitbout +be occomnonip,on+
of tao mr. coffee Int frnorantiv includ.
inc ~ much ne a nornd nf nioat 10
always took This aIonn rooding Soma
Of his mail Of tho time Uo u,os oIIo
to ride only n few Ytmes Iost snrino
and then for only brief neriod Iost
January he undertool, what was for
him an unusuaI overtion Tie stood ~
godfather to twins horn of one If tba
1vo,.l,non in his sovmm This wa,