The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-11-25
PRACTICES On GEAR
NaturaIized American HypnO-
fist Accused of Worst Yet,
PUTS CZARINA TO SLEEP
And Ministers Object TO His
Ways.

St. Petersburg. Nov. 24-Tt hasd been
learned that the recent summoning of DR..
Merzhievsky, one Of the foremost spec
ialis1s in nervous diseases in the south
Of Russia, which gave rise 10 the report
that he was going to attend The Car or
the Czarina. or both, their ma jesties in
turn having been alleged to be suffering
from melancholia, was to visit Balaklava
where the Grand Duke Nicholas Kon-
stsntinovitch is detained as insane.
Some observers of the situation do not
believe taht the accession OF the grand
duke Vladimar uncle of the Car, to
the throne in the event of the Cars alb
dication and death of his brother, the
Grand Duke Michael, the heir presump-
tive. would be unpopular and they do not
credit the reports that the advent to
supreme power of the Vladimir family
would materially alter the existing state
Of affairs, as the masses are ignorant
in regard to every Cars true charac-
ter and the educated people attach mere
subordinate importance thereto The pos
sible effect Of the Draconian system I'M
der a sterner ruler on the prospects OF a
possible revolutionary movement is re-
garded as idle speculation.
The latest reports about Phillip the
mesmerist. who is said TO have the Car
completely under his influence, are that
he is former French physician, a nat
uralized American and that he has been
in Russia for about year, living in the
houses of two Montenegrian princes who
yr77 5ad &c hof he
Car granted Phillip the right to prac-
tice medicine in Russia and to wear the
epaulettes of a military surgeon of a
councillor of state. which equpals that
of q general. Finally, it is asserted that
the court physician, DR.. OFT went to
Lividt and succeeded in persuading the
Car to forbid Phillip to ractice on the
Czarina and the departure of the minis
ters of war, Of the interior and of Finan-
Ella Lividia was interpreted as a sign that
Phillips influence was broken. 1t is also
said that these ministers jointly present
ed a report to his majesty discrediting
Phillip. that the Gar defended Phillip
and resented what he classed as interfer-
ence with his personal affairs. but final
" yielded. This is looked upon in some
quarters as evidence that the optimistic
statements on the subject of the Cars
mental condition require limitation NJ
merous persons who have returned from
Livodia within the past three days assert
that the Car has been moody and dis
gusted because his early hopes of intro
ducing a happier regime in Russia were
frustrated by the reactionists. whose in
timidation imposed distasteful role
upon him. His majesty was also said to
be in genuine fear that his abdication
would be demanded, which was strength
ened by the sudden return of the Grand
Duke Michael and the latters demon
strative public appearances. Persons
knowing the Car assert that if he was
forced to choose between the throne and
domestic happiness, he would abdicate.
The acceptance of the authoritative
but unimportant misunderstanding of
Apanges by the Cars bosom friend
Prince Obolensky, is interpreted as go
ing to cover" before possible changes
which might destroy the value of his
influence. In any case. the min
listers departure from Lividia possibly
indicates that the crisis is passed.