The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-08-02
B|SMARCK'S LAST WILL
How the Property of the Prince
Will Be Divided.
AN EFFUSION OF BLOOD
The Direct Cause OF the Death of
Great OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Williams
Telegram to the Family-wrote
His Own Epitaph-

1Ah
Bismarck's testament, IL is known that
Friedrichsruhe. with the title of prince,
descends TO Count Herbert Bismarck.
the oldest son. the family of Count Won
Rantzau, the husband of Prince Bis
marck's daughter, remaining there tenn
porarily. Schoenhausen goes to Count
William Bismarck, the second son. The
late princes money, which is estimated
to amount to several million marks, a
larger amour than was generally, sup
posed, is divided among the three chill
dren and the young Rantzau. This
mone is partly i'm the Bank of Eng
and inc partly in the Bleidroeder's
bank. The decorations, diamonds and
art objects, valued at about a million
marks. are deposited at a Berlin jewel
er's.
DIR. S~chweninger, the princes private
physician, now says that the immediate
cause of death was effusion of blood on
the brain.
The remains of the great chancellor
have been dressed in the uniform of the
Halberstadt Cuirassiers. Thu enormous
number of wreaths and other floral
tributes have already arrived at Fried
richsruhe. So strict is the exclusion at
the schloss that Count ~Posodowski, the
minister of the interior, had to wait 20
minutes before he was admitted.
The official R-eichsanzeiger. which APP
pears to-day with black borders, pub
fishes the telegram which Emperor Will
lam sent to Prince Herbert Bismarck. 1t
is as follows: I'm deep sorrow and SYM
| pathizing al the grief which has struck
you all for your beloved great dead. l
lament the loss of Germany's great SON,
whose faithful cooperation in the work
of uniting the fatherland won for him
the lifelong friendship of my grand
father, resting in God, and the undying
thanks of the whole German people for
all time. I shall prepare a last abode
for his remains in Berlin, in the cathe-
dral, by the side of my ancestors"
The emperor has ordered the court
to go into mourning for 10 days and
has ordered the army to go into mourn
ing for eight days. The flags on all the
imperial and state buildings will be at
half mast until after the funeral.
The R~eichsanzeiger publishes a long
article to-day, extolling Bismarck's
immortal services and declaring the
fatherland has lost her greatest son.
! After saying that Prince Bismarck was
not only the unifier but also the educa-
tor of his people, the Reichsanzeiger
continues: IF ii is true that states are
maintained by the spirit and power in
| W 4 lltN Il itoANN NAANh ~ AN''
OF Bismarck will remain for us as a
device and a revelation at all times. As
Bismarck once declared at Frankfort.
a Prussian who could ~renounce the in
heritance of the great Fl ederick does
not exist in Europe. In the same way
the German empire could not exist at
any future time unless Ii holds fast TO
tho legacy of its founders, the first
H~ohenzollern kaiser and his great
chancellor"
A dispatch from FREDERICKSBURG to the
Hamburg Nachrichten says IL has been
definitely decided that the remains of
Prince Bismarck are to be Inferred al
the spot selected by himself, where a
simple mausoleum will be built, and 10
which the remains of his wife will be
transferred from Varsen. Until the
mausoleum is completed the funeral
rites will be confined 10 the simple cere-
mony of blessing the remains, which
will be performed by the local pastor
of the village of Brunsdorf.
Prince Bismarck's final written in
structions, signed by himself, express
his desire TO be buried In a selected spot
in the Sachsenwald, and concludes:
For an epitaph I wish, Prince Won Bis
marck. born April 1, 1915; died -,
with the addition of "A faithful German
servant of Emperor William the First