Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1898-07-31

his home, FREDERICKSBURG, at IL
o'clock tonight. The announce
ment of the death was not uneS
pected, as the Princes strength
has failed rapidly for several days,
and this morning preparations for
the end were made by the house
hold.
Details of the death of Prince
Bismarck are obtained with diff
Guilty, because of the lateness OF the
hour, the isolation of the castle
and the strenuous endeavors of the
attendants of the family to pre-
vent publicity being given 90 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 apprehen-
sion when the sinking of the Prince
was first announced, inspired more
by what the family left unsaid
than by any confirmation given.
But when the daily bulletins chron-
icled Improvements in the Princes
condition, detailed his extensive
bills of fare and told of his devo-
ton to his pipe, the public accept
nd ny uar,c occartiOp
when he said there was no reason
why Prince Bismarck should not
reach the age of 80 years.
The reports were deemed to be
repetition of the alarm that Prince
Bismarck was in extremis, which
had been oft repeated in the past.
All of Saturdays papers in Europe
dismissed Bismarck with a para
graph, noting the improvement,
while his condition was completely
overshadowed in the English pa
pers by the condition of the Prince
of Wales's knee.
1t appears that the EXCHANGED
lor's death was not precipitated
by sudden complications, but was
rather the elimination of chronic
disease-neuralgia of the face and
Inflammation of the veins-which
kept him in constan: pain, that
was borne with the iron fortitude
which might have been expected
The beginning Of the end dates
from July &c, when the Prince was
confined to his bed. He had been
several days Frustrated before an
mixing of his decline reached the
world. ..--.-
Although Prince Bismarck was
extremely low on Wednesday, he
so nailed on Thursday that he was
wheeled out to dinner to celebrate
with his assembled family the fifty
first anniversary of his wedding.
He never for a moment believed
himself in danger until the last
day. On Monday he ordered some
new pipes and smoked one on
Thursday and then conversed bril-
liantly on the topics of the day, dis
cussing the trial and sentence of
M. lola and the peace negotiations
between Spain and the United
States.
The Prince was unconscious for
several hours before the end came,
and his breath almost failed re-
peatedly. He died without strug-
gle.
Prince Otto Eduard Leopold Bis
marck- Schonhausen was born of an
old noble family of the Mark"
(Brandenburg) at Schonhausen,
April l, 1915. He was created
count September 16, 1865, and
Prince Won Bismarck in March,
1871.
In May of 1862 he became Prus-
sian ambassador at Paris. Five
months later he was made first
minister of the Prussian crown.
Within the next ten years he hum
bled the Austrian empire, destroy
ed the French empire and created
the new German empire. He re-
modelled the map of Europe, dis
membering Denmark and France.
He enlarged the frontiers OF Prus-
STA by the annexation of various
provinces, including the dominions
of three dethroned German princes,
and succeeded in placing Germany,
which had previously been the
weakest and least respected or all
of the great powers, at the head OF
all the States of Europe.
In 1868 Prince Bismarck Wltn-
drew for some months from ac-
five public life, but he was in
mower again before the end of the
wear. Then came the Franco
German war of 1870, and after
that, campaign consisting of an
unbroken series of victories. large
" due to the strategic genius OF
Count Won Moltke, King William
was able, through his Chancellor.
TO dictate terms of peace to his
helpless assailant.
OF the events in Prince Bis
marck's life subsequent to the
Franco-German war, it may be
mentioned that he presided at the
congress of Berlin In 1878 and
188b, and the colonial confer
encS Of 1884.
III his domestic legislation,
PRINCE Bismarck has been far less
fortdpate than in his diplomatic
policy. After beginning as free