Democratic Sentinel, Volume 12, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1888 — THE FOREIGN BUDGET. [ARTICLE]

THE FOREIGN BUDGET.

Delay in the settlement of the Bnlgarian question continues to threaten the peace of Europe. Increasing irritation in Russia is plainly indicated in the cable dispatcher Orders have been issued to hasten the collection of military stores at Warsaw and for the immediate return of officers absent on furlough from their regiments. Should the powers continue to postpone action Russia may any day yield to the pressure of inilimed public sentiment and herself undertake the expulsion of ierdinand and the selection of his successor. A bulletin was issued at San Remo on the 6th inst, signed by all of the six doctors in attendance upon the Crown Prince, which ran as follows:

In view of the reports published in the press alleging that there are differences of opinion among the physicians attending the Crown Prince of Germany, the undersigned declare that as regards their ideas of the nature of the illness no such divergencies exist. Just as little do they maintain that a dangerous turn in the malady is imminent. The local disturbances in the larynx have not adpreciablv altered. The wound has healed and the canula lies comfortably. The patient’s lungs are in a healthy condition. The cough aud expectoration have diminished. The patient’s strength is more satisfactory. His appetite is increasing. There is no digestive disorder, no pain or swelling, and no headache. He sleeps, with interruptions,for hours together. Lord Lonsdale is on his way to the far northwestern portions of the Queen’s dominions in America, to hunt polar bear and musk oxen.

“The grief of Berlin at the loss of the Kaiser is pitiful,” says a cable dispatch from the German capital. The streets and churches are thronged with weeping men and women, heartbroken over the common sorrow. The people are congregated near the monument of Frederick the (treat, opposite the palace, gazing with tearful eyes at the windows of the darkened imperial chamber, where the body of their beloved King Is cold in death. Late Thursday night the royal patient gave an astonishing exhibition of tnat wonderful vitality which has maraed the closing days of his life. About 11 o’clock he recovered irom the effects of a swoon, which gait rise to the premature announcement of death, and found Bismarck and his grandson William close to the bedside. Despite the remonstrance of the physicians the aged Emperor entered into conversation with both, discussing with old-time vigor the state of affairs of the greatest moment, the probability of peace, of war, and the illness of Frederick. When Bismarck brought to ths dying Emperor for his signature the paper he read a few hours afterward in the Reichstag the Emperor held the pen with a steady hand and wroto his full name, though Bismarck suggested that the initials would do. The Emperor’s iast signature is as bold and distinct as any he ever made in his life. Alter his talk with Bismarck aud William, the Emperor had a Bhort conversation with other members of the sorrowstricken family. Tears rolled down the old man’s cheeks as he spoko of the affliction of the Crown Prince. His parting with his only daughter, the Graud Duchess of Baden, was most affecting. She has always been a companion to her father, accompanying him on his daily ride and Bitting at his knee when at work in the study. After bidding the fumily goodnight, the Emperor sank into a sleep, from which he did not rouse, and breathed his last at 8:30 o’clock Friday morning. Toward 8 o’clock the physicians saw that the moment of dissolution waa near, aud summoned all members of the imperial family staying in the palace, as well as the Cabinet Ministers, Generals of tho army, and court dignitaries, who wero near at hand awaiting the call. That deathbed scene will make a groat historical picture They found the dying Emperor reclining against the pillows on the little narrow iron camp bedstead on which he always slept. His oyes were closed, and a smile played about his lips. The room, which is not large, was crowded with people. Members of the royal family were grouped around the bed. Prince William at the "head, was bending over the pillows to catch his dying grandfather’s last breath.