The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1902-11-25
GOSSIP ABOUT THE CAR
AND HIS POSSIBLE ABDICATFON OF
THE RUSSIAN THRONE.
His Majesty Said to he Completely
Under the Influence of an Amer
lean Mesmerist.

ST. PETERSBURG. Nov. 24-It has been
learned that the recent summoning of DIR.
Merziehevski. one of the foremost special
lists i'm nervous diseases, TO the south of
Russia, which gave rise to the report that
he was going to attend the Car or the
Czarina, or both, their Majesties in turn
being alleged to be suffering from melan-
choia, was to visit Balaklava. where the
Grand Duke Nicholas Constantonivitch is
detained as insane.
Some observers of the situation do not
believe that the accession of the Grand
Duke Vladimir, uncle to the Car. to the
throne, in the event of the Cars abdica-
ton, and the death of his brother, the
Grand Duke Michael, the heir presumptive,
would be unpopular, and they do not credit
the reports that the advent to supreme
power of the Vladimir family would ma
terially alter the existing state of affairs.
as the masses are ignorant in regard to
every Cars true character and the edu-
Gated people attach merely subordinate i'm
portance thereto. The possible effect of the
Draconian system under a sterner ruler.
or the prospects of possible revolution
airy movement is regarded as idle.
1t is reported that Philip, the mesmerist.
who is said to have the Car completely
under his influence, Is a former French
physician, and a naturalized American. He
has been in Russia for about a year, living
in the homes of two Montenegrin princes
who married Russians 1t is rumored that
the Car granted Phillip the right to
practice medicine in Russia and to wear
the epaulets of a military surgeon of the
rank of councillor of state, which equals
that of a general. 1t also Is asserted that
the court physician. DIR. OFT. went to Ii
vadia and succeeded in persuading the Gear
to forbid Philip to practice on the Czarina
and the departures of the ministers of war,
of interior and OF finance, from Livadia.
was interpreted as a sign that Philip s
influence was broken. 1t was also said
that these ministers formally presented a
report to his Majesty discrediting Philip.
that the Gar defended Philip and re-
Sented what he clasSed as interference with
his personal affairs. but finally yielded.
This is looked upon in some quarters as
evidence that the optimistic statements on
the subject of the Cars mental condition
REQUIRE limitation Numerous persons who
have returned from Livadia within the
past three days assert that the Car has
been moody and disguised because his
early hopes of introducing a happier regime
in Russia were frustrated by the reaction
lists whose intimation imposed a distaste-
full role upon him. His Majesty was also
said to be in genuine fear that his abdica-
ton would be demanded. which was
strengthened by the sudden return of the
Grand Duke Michael, and the latter's de-
monstrative public appearances. Persons
knowing the Car assert that IL he was
forced to choose between the throne and
the domestic happiness he would abdicate
The acceptance of the lucrative but un.
important Enthusiastically of Apanages
by the Cars bosom friend. Prince Obolen.
ski, is interpreted as going to cover" be-
fore possible changes which might destroy
the value of his personal influence In any
case the ministers departure from Livadis
positively indicates that the crisis is past.