Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-08-01
DEATH OF BISMARCK.
Last Illness Of the Great German
Was Brief.
DIED PEACEFULLY AT home
The Great Founder of the Modern Ger
man Empire Was Hopeful to tho Last.
Diminishing Strength and LAes< Of
Power fastened the End.

Berlin, Aug. 1.-The death OF ex
Chancellor bismarck comes As q sur
prise to all Europe. Despite the family
denials, there was an undercurrent o
apprehension when the sinking OF tn
prince was first announced, inspkSe(
more by what the family left unsafe
| thanby any information given. But " her
the daily bulletins chronicied improve.
ment in the princes condition, detailed
his extensive bills Of fare and told Of
his devotion to his pipe the public &C.
cepted DR.. Schweninger's assertion when
he said there was no reason why Bis
marck should not reach the age Of &c
! years.
The reports were deemed TO be a rope.
utior of the alarm that Prince Bis.
marck was in extremis, which had been
oft repeated in the past. All the Satur-
day papers In Europe dismissed Bis
marck with paragraph, noting the i'm
provement, while his condition was
completely evershadowed in the English
papers by the condition of the Prince of
Wales knee.
1T appears that the -chancellors
death was not precipitated by sudden
complications, but was rather the Gull
mination OF chronic diseases-neuralgia
of the face and Inflammation OF the
vetns-which kept him in constant pain
that was borne with the iron fortttude
which might have been expected.
His Last Illness.
The beginning Of the end dates from
July ~, when the prince was confined
to his bed. He had been several days
Frustrated before an inkling OF his de-
cline reached the world
On Friday DIR. Schweninger said:
For the past nine days l have hardly
changed my clothes, having been trav-
cling nearly all the time between Ber-
lin and Friedrichsruh. as you may no.
tice by my shabby velvet jacket
He then declared that his patients |
lungs, stomach and kidneys We're sound |
in fact, that his whole gigantic frame |
was sound. LAS yet" said DR.. Schwen-
niger, there is no Qualification of thu
blood vessels, but the pains in his face
and legs worry him and shorten his
Sleep Dr. Schweninger added this
verdict, With his extraordinarily ro-
bust nature he may, excluding compli-
cations, reach 90"
During DR.. Schweringers brief alb
sehces from Friedrichsruh DR.. Chrys-
ander was in constant attendance upon
The patient. Although Prince Bismarck
was extremely low on Wednesday, he
SO rallied on Thursday that he was
to the dinner table with his
assembled family to celebrate the fifty
lra anniversary Of his wedding.
Optimistic to the End,
He never for moment believed him
'eif in danger until the last day. On
Monday he ordered some new pipes and ,
smoked one on Thursday, and then
brilliantly upon the topics
u the day, discussing the trial and sem
ence OF M. zola and the peace neratia-
ions between S&A and the United
tates. Count Won Rantzau, the princes
on-in-law, read to him from a nevspa-
er an obituary notice Of himself. at :
Inch he was greatly amused. He De-
Used the papers daily and this was one
eason why the family deprecated tho
larmist reports as to his health.
The French press showed unabated
amlty when discussing his possible
cath. The Temps compared his end
lth that OK Gladstone remarking that, =,
Tough the British statesman had b
hied In his policy and had eonpro-
Used his party, he died regretted by
on account OF the grandeur Of his
oral influence, whereas Prince Bis
arck, whose life had been successful.
ould perish execra,ed by many even
Germany.
DR.. schweninger was present when I
rlnce Bismarck died, having arrived
ON Berlin at 1890 O'Clock. The prince
as unconscious for several hours be-
re the end came and his breath al
ost failed repeatedly. He DE with
II struggle.