DEATH of the EMPEROR WILLIAM.
£by elbotbic telegraph — oopybight] [per press absooiationJ. Berlin, March 7. The official bulletin issued as to the condition of his Majesty the Emperor shows that he is suffering from throat affection and painful abdominal disorder, and also from a marked decline of strength. General Brousart von Schellendorff, Minister of War, has made a statement m the Reichstag that there is no ira mediate danger of the Fmperot's death The Duchess of Baden has been' summoned to the Palace. The medical officers m attendance upon his Majesty have ordered that morphia should be largely injected, m order to alleviate all pain. The Reichstag will not dissolve until Saturday. The Federal Council has been hastily summoned together. (Received March 9, 10 35 a.m ) £T Bbblin, Maroh 7. The Emperor William's condition is now critical, and he has made his final will. (Reelved March 9, 12.20 p.m.) Beblin, March 8, 6.5 p.m. The Emperor Wilnelm is dead. (Received March 9, 11 30 am ) Berlin, March 8. At ten minutes past five this evening the Emperor was getting perceptibly weaker, and an official bulletin just issued states that the worst fears are entertained for his recoveiy. In consequence of the announcement contained m the official bulletin referring to the condition of the Emperor Wilhelm all the theatres here were ordered to be closed and great consternation prevails m the city. At five minutes past six his Imperial Highness passed away. We tak6 the following from the "Men of the Times":— William, Emperor of Germany and King of Prussia, eon of Frederick William 111 , and of Princess Louiae of Meofelenburg-S'relHz, and brother to the late King of Proßsia, born Match 22ad, 1797, was educated bb a soldier, and took part m tte campaigns of 1813 atid 1815 ■gainst Fraace. In 1840 he wia appointed Governor of Pomeranfa, wh'chpost he held till the revolution <f 1848 broke out, when he took refuge m England. He was elected a member of the Constituent Assembly m May, 1848, retnrned to Berlin, and took his seat m the Ateembly, Jure Bib, 1848, and waa made Gommander«in-Chief of the Prussian army acting agahiat. the r- voiutW ary forces of Baden, Jn Jcne, 1849, When thfl mind of hla brother gave way, m 1858, the Prince waa created Repent, and he Immediately dlsmlesed the Krenz or aristocratic party, and adopted a liberal p^Hoy. Hia brother, Frederick Wil i«m IV., djlng without iohue, January 2od, 1861, be succeeded, under the title of William 1., to thecr»wn. which he placed upon hisowa head at Bo itesbtrg, Ocober 18th, on which occasion be emphatically asserted the doctrine of the " right d vine of kinM." The course of policy he pursued efter he became king disappointed the hopes that were firmed VMgard ng him. No eooner was he seated on the tnrone than be began a contest With the Chamber of Deputies, which gradually became more critical, until, after Count Bisroarck-Scl conhausen had been Appointed Prime Minister, m 1862, thr feud threatened to end m civil war For tunately the aggressive war on Denmark waged by Austria and Prussia diverted the attention of his peonle from home affairs for a time ; and, since the clobo of that war of aggression the king has proved by bis firm attitude his fitness as a sovereign Much against his inclination, he embarked on a still more ambitions scheme, and prepared to obtain supremacy m Germany b; force of aimp. For many years military preparations had been made, and early In 1866 the scheme was ripe for executU n A treaty of alliance was concluded with Italy, an ultimatum was forwarded to the •mailer States m the north of Germany, and an Immense army was set m motion. War was declared against Austria, June 17th, and, after a short campaign, In which William I. and the yoyal princes took part, Austria was compelled to make a humiliating peace. The powerful effects of the needl6 gun created quite a pa&ic In the Austrian army, and ber generals found it would be useless to prolong the straggle. Id 1867, the King of Prussia became the bead of the powerful North German Confederation, comprising 22 states, representing a population . of 29,0C0 000. The part played by King WiNintn In the Franco-Proßeian war of 1870 71 has been already described m the memoirs of Prince Bismarck and Napoleon ILL, and therefore it will only be necessary to state m this place that the result was the complete realisation of the Prime Minister's of a united G3rm&ny, and thai on January 18th, 1871, King William o 1 Prnssia waß proclaimed German Emperor, within the Hall of Mirrors, m the palace of the French kings at Versailles, Id presence of the Geiman princes, nnder the standards of the army before Paris, and surrounded by representatives of the different regiments. The meetirg of the Emperors of Germany, Russia, and Austria, took place &t Berlin the autumn of 1872. In October that year the Emperor William gave a decision adverße to England on the Han Juan Boundar question which had be^n submitted to hie arbitration by the British and American governments. I" April, 1873 he visited the Czir at St. Ptterebu'g. and m October of the fame year he proceeded to Vienna on avis t to the Emperor of AustrU The *eU known correspondence between the Emperor William and the Pope relative to the persecution of the Church m PmaMa was pubH^bfd at Berlin. Oct. 14, 1873. In M y 1875 the Caw paid * visit to the Emperor of Germany a* Berlin. William I. married, June 11 1829, the Princess Augusta, daughter oi Charles-Frederick, Grand Dnke of Weimar
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1785, 9 March 1888, Page 3
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946DEATH of the EMPEROR WILLIAM. Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1785, 9 March 1888, Page 3
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