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Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4274, 12 September 1882, Page 2

General Skobeloff, -the 'greati PanSclavist, died suddenly of rupture.of the heart, at Hotel Dussaux, 'Moscow, on July 7. Akakseff, the well known editor, and a Pan-Sclavic leader, was , present with the General at the time of'his death. The remains were interred in tho city of Spask. There were at first reports of foul play, but examination showed death resulted from the cause stated. The trouble, it is thought, oamo, in the first place, from a contusion received during' the attack on Plevna. His end was without warning, as a week before he rode 70 versts in a little over one night. The obsequies were performed by the Archimandrite Athanasius, assisted by numerous priests, in the presence of thousands-, of people. The Emperor sent thefol-' lowing telegram to the Princess Belosselsky, the General's sister:—"l am terribly overcome and grieved by* the sudden death of your brother. It is ao irreparable loss to the army.. All our. ' soldiers will weep for him/, It is,sad, sad indeed to lose a man so useful and^devoted . to duty." A Moscow despatch, to the Now York Herald ,says tho r belief that SkobelofF wdL. poisoned,,,by , l the ' Germans has taken firm hold of the popular. / mind in Russia, amkwill be difficult *a ' eradicate. Medical examination of tho } body, made after death, showed ooovinc. ingly that Skobeloff's death was due to japoplexy. Nothing suspicious was discovered upon the woman in whose company the General happened to be at the time of his death. This woman was temporarily detained by the police, but soon released;

A paper announced the illness of its ' editor, piously adding—" All good paying subscribers are requested to make mention of him in their prayers; the pother, class; need riot, as the • prayers of the wicked^ avail nothing,' according to'- jrood authority." V ; >.