People's Pilot, Volume 5, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1896 — A Curious Prophecy. [ARTICLE]

A Curious Prophecy.

Over forty years ago an old German hermit published in a Bavarian paper a curious prophecy- In it he foretold the Austro-Russian and Franco-Russian wars, the death of Pope Pius, and the Turko-Russian debate at arms. He said that Germany would have three emperors in one year, before the end of the century, and indicated two deaths of the United States presidents by assassination. All these things have come to pass. In the same article he that when the twentieth century opens great seismic disturbances will take place, which will cause the submersion of New York city, and the western half of the city of Havana, Cuba, is to break in two, while F.orida and Lower California are to suffer total extinction. The shock of these earthquakes will raze buildings to the ground in almost every city on the continent; millions of lives and billions of dollars worth of property will be lost; there is to change in the economic conditions of almost every civilized nation. He foretells the growth of a democratic spirit in England, which will result in a revolution that will overthrow the present form of government and make the country a republic. He says the last rule of England will be the best the country ever had, and the first president of the new republic will be one of the royal family. Queen Victoria is by all odds the best ruler England has ever had, and in a recent speech the Prince of Wales said it is his desire to live to see England a republic. According to the hermit, Russia, France, and Italy, will form an alliance and will enter into war with Turkey. This war is to be the outgrowth of Turkish persecution of Christian subjects. This triple alliance will conquer the domain of the “Sick-man of-the-East.” At the expiration of the war, complications will arise that will plunge Italy and France into war with Russia. The result will be that the two countries will be gobbled up by the Northern Power, and will cease to exist as independent nations, while war is being waged between them the Pope will move the seat of Catholicism from Rome to some town in southern Ireland. A rebellion will take place in the land of the shamrock in which the country will become independent of England.. Then a conflict will arise between the ultra-Catholics of the south of Ireland and the ultra-Protestants of the north, in which the southerners will be victors. A kingdom will be established, and it is predicted that the reign of the first potentate, will become historic for its tyranny. The prophet faints a dark future for the United States. He says at the close of the century a feeling of unrest will seize the peopleThis feeling will be the outgrowth of unequal social and economic conditions. He predicts that the twenty-fifth president will be the last executive head of the United States. During * his administration the discontentedness will break into open rebellion, and the established form of government will be rent hsunder, and for a year or more anarchy will prevail When order shall be brought out of chaos, six republics will be formed, with capitals at the following cities: San Francisco, Denver, New Orleans St. Louis, Washington, and Boston.—Orange News, Orange county, Cal. J