New-York tribune., 1905-08-04
PATHETIC CLOSE OF HIS CAREER

PATHETIC CLOSE OF HIS CAREER
There are few things more tragic and pathetic
than the close OF the career of this entirely self
lliaue man. who began life as the son of humble
anu lthpo 'erlshed village priest was educated at
- SEMINARY and became mathematical master
al the Russian Pedagogues' Institute His first
appearance in public life was as one of the most
energetic organizers OF the Moscow Exhibition and
ne entered the public service only after he had
T a private fortune Of several million rubes by
railroad speculation
It appears that son1s +iroo b.toro .1. ,os -
coiapse from the result of overwork which cul-
nii'lateu IN dementia and speedy death the homey
80 80 ,iah had become aware of the fact that he
was threatened with cerebral anamia and had III
consequence engaged the services of specialist
VINO accompanied him everywhere On the day on
"Hch ne broke down the physician perceived. dur
Ing the railroad trip from St. Petersburg to Cat
emma that there was some incoherence in the re-
MARKS OF The Minister. Accordingly on reaching
the imperial antechamber he quietly requested
the chamberlain in attendance 10 warn Emperor
Alexander of the stateman's condition When
therefore,, the Minister entered the audience cham
per the monarch from his chair. advanced
10 meet him. holding out both hands him. and
exclatming in the most CHEEKY and affectionate
tone Good morning, my dear IVAN, let post
pohe business until tomorrow, and. instead of
working. stay and take breakfast with me-
Reason, however, had manifestly fled at that
moment from the once so brilliant mind of the
eminent Minister. For. without appearing TO see
or hear the Car, he commenced to bow pro-
foundly to the latters vacant chair murmurng
unintelligibe phrases Thereupon taking up his
position as usual. before the imperial desk, he be-
gan to read his official report, addressing himself
TO the still vacant chair of the Car, and the
end of every sentence stopping to give English
translation thereof. 1t is scarcely necessary
that Alexander profoundly moved by this
pitiabe spectacle. Bringing up a chair the
desk he gently forced the Minister into it. and
then summoned the physician from the antecham-
Der. When he returned with the medical he
found Wychnegradsk fast asleep, with his head
resting the imperial desk. He never recovered
his reason from that moment until his death
shortly afterward
PATRIARCH OF ENGLAND's PEERAGE
Lord Leicester. the patriarch of the English
peerege. lies dying at Holkham. his ancestral
home in NorfoIkshire, and the chances of his re-
coyery but slight. He was born considerably
more than four score years ago of a father who
was seventy years of age the time. and who
had been born as far back the reign OF King
George H. seventeen years before either the first
Napoleon or the great Duke of Wellington came
into the world. The youngest of old Lord Ieices-
ter's eighteen children born eleven years ago
when his father was seventy-one and at the time
of the little fellows birth, less than years
divided him from birth of his paternal grand
father. Thomas William Coke, the first Of the
Holkham Earls of Leicester of the present crea-
ton.
succeed to the earldom and to the possession of
the famous Hokham Hall estates. has been known
until Niscount Coke and an officer of the
Scots Guards has seen good deal of active ser
vice in Egypt, in the SOuden and in South Africa
He is sinarried to a charming Irish woman, Alice
White, daughter of Lord Annay, and has three
grown-up and A couple of daughters In
spite of this their mother is still a wonderfully
young looking woman. with tall. graceful figure,
typically Irish eyes and ruddy brown hair. She
is of the clever banjosts in English
society and exces as a skater having all
sorts of trophies on the ice.
Although the Leicester peerage is Of modern
creation. having been granted in the first year Of
the reign of Queen Victoria yet the Coke family
is ancient one Sir Edward Coke having been
Lord Chief Justice Of England under Queen Eliza
beth and King James l. The great great grandson
of this Lord Chief Justice, Sir Thomas Coke,
Postmaster General in the reign Of King George II,
and created Niscount Coke of Holkham and
Earl of Leicester. Dying without issue. Holkham
passed into the possession of his sisters son, Wen
man Roberts who assumed the and
of his uncle. 1t his eldest son who for the
greater part OF his life. known from end
of England the other Mr.. Coke of Holkham
who the age of ninety created. by Queen
Victoria Earl Of Leicester and Viseount Coke