Killed by the Czar. STORY OF THE DEATH OF HIS CHAMBERLAIN. The Czar's Life Not a Happy One.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 179, 20 November 1886, Page 4

Killed by the Czar. STORY OF THE DEATH OF HIS CHAMBERLAIN. The Czar's Life Not a Happy One.

London, October 21. — Rumors are current that a terrible etate ef confueion and alarm exists in the Czar's household owing to the hallucinations of imaginary dangt-rsto which the Czar is subjVct. It is eaid that on seeing an Adjutant walking rapidly toward him recently the Czar seized a revolver and shot the Adjutant dead. Other accounts say that the Adjutant made an attempt to kill the Czar and the latter fired in eelf defence. The " World's " London cable of the 22nd says : Notwithstanding the official denials at the Rußeian embassies at Berlin, Vienna, and here in London, the statement that the Czar has killed one of his chamberlains, Mr De Reutern, either with a eabre or a pistol, iB corroborated by advices received from St. Petersburg. The impression among those who have had an opportunity of becoming acquainted with the present autocrat of Russia ia that the occurrence ia due rather to his ungovsrnable temper than to any mere fear of personal attack. The impression is further strengthened by the following facts : Some time after the termination of the Franco-German war the Grand Duke Alexis, brother of the present Czar, contracted a secret marriage with Mile, De Reufcern, a niece of Baron De Reutern, who at the time was the Czar's Minister of Finance The Duke withdrew with his young wife from the court. Not only the late Czar, but especially the present Emperor, was furious with the Grand Duke, and Alexander 11. decreed the secret marriage to be null and void. Alexie, however, took no heed of these measures, but continued to reside with Baron De Reutern's niece, who bore three lovely children. At length, the Grand Duke's attachment for the poor girl appeared to grow colder, and he commenced to neglect her. It waa during one of his frequent absences that Count JPeter Shouvaloff visited the young mother, and had prolonged interviews with her on behalf of the Russian Imperial family. The outcome waa that neither Mme. De Reuturn nor her children ever saw the fickle Grand Duke again. De Reutern, the gentleman mentioned as having been killed, was, I am informed, a brother of the young lady, and bad received the post of Chamberlain for hie eister's complaisance in obeying the late Emperor's behest. It ib believed here that young De Reutern was waiting to eeo the Ozar, and that in consequence of the hot

't k \ woather he had unbuttoned bis heavy Chamberlain's uniform. The monarch, suddenly entering the room, seems to have found him in this state, and probably attributing it to the fact that the young man was presuming on his quasi-relationship to the imperial family, censured him in the bitter manner which ie customary to him. De Reutern, stung by the imperial insult, most likely answered in a disrespectful manner, and thuß provoked one of those terrible fits of anger which are so dreaded by all who approaoh the Czar.