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Show THE CZAR IS DEAD. He Was a Ruler Beloved By All. HIS WAS AN IDEAL HOME. Mourning: for the Deceased Czar Will Be Genuine Deep and Wide Spread The Ending: Was alffoBt Peaceful One. St. Petkbsburg, Nov. 1. At 2:15 o'clock this afternoon the summons came and a few hours later tbejthunder-ous tbejthunder-ous booming of cannon at Livadia and St. Petersburg announced the czar was dead, and that he who had been the Grand Duke Nicholas reigned in hiB stead. On lightning wings the news of Eussia'a loss spread throughout the world, From "America come words of sympathy, sym-pathy, for the dead ruler bad alwayB been a friend of the great republic of the west, and Americans have not forgotten for-gotten how well his father's friendship sustained ihe north in the war of the rebellion. Among the peasants of Russia he will be mourned with a deep and abiding sorrow, for was he not the "peasant czar?" There will be f incere mourning, toj, in the royal and imperial families of Europe. Not the conventional mourning mourn-ing prescribed by rule, but the mourning mourn-ing of little children. For who has not heard of the annual vitits of the czar to Copenhagen, the home of his beloved czarina, wheD, with the children of emperors, kings and princes around n:m, he was the biggest child of them all, joining in all their sports andromp-iog andromp-iog with them like a big boy. His death will be a most bitter loss to the wife he loved so well that it was a proverb in St. Perersbuig that he was "the only Russian who was true to hia I wife." His home was an ideal one, and all his pleasure was found with his own family. Since Tuesday, when the doctors informed in-formed the czar there was no longer room for hope, his majesty waited for the end, attending to necessary state and family affairs in the short intervals of consciousness and freedom from pain. These were necpssarily brief, the doctors having had. recourse to sedatives seda-tives to procure sleep and allay pain. On Wednesday the czar was still able to be taken to a winaow of the palace, whence he gazed out upon the country he loved. The night passed with all the aggravating symptoms that had distressed him tor days. At intervals he suffered from suffocation, and toward to-ward the end from violeBt congestion of the lunga accompanied by a dry cough. Dr. Zaccharin remained in attendance at-tendance upon him throughout the night, only snatching brief intervale tor sleep in the ante-rooms. The morning broke with rain and wind and heavy clouds, and the weather was much colder. As the day advanced the weakness increased so rapidly that the czar himself recognized recog-nized that be could only live a few hours. He expressed a desire to receive the sacrament, which was administered to h;m Jay Court Chaplain Yanisheff and Father Ivan, in the presence of the whole family. The czar then conversed long and earnestly with Father Ivan, concluding by asking his family to again gather around him. He spoke to each member mem-ber separately and in greatest length with the czarina. He blessed all hia children present. The scene was one of deep pathos. This time his majesty was sitting up in an arm chair. After taking leave of his family he grew gradually weaker, and his voice became be-came so indistinct that it was scaacely audible. - About noon a convulsive fit of coughing cough-ing was followed bv a slight rally. Thence until the. end the czar ie mnined quiet, seemingly free from pain. At - 2:15 o'clock he heaved a deep sigh and breathed his laBt in the arms of the empress, who then broke down'with the weight of her grief. |
