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Benedict , on his part , had visited the printer of the `` Journal des Postes '' who engaged to furnish , within two hours , two hundred copies of the telegrams interchanged by the king and queen . He further undertook , on condition that the notices were not unduly large , to get them posted by his usual billstickers , who were ready to take the risk of officially announcing the good news to their neighbours . Accordingly , two hours later , two hundred bills were stuck beside the former ones . They contained the following words : `` Yesterday , at two in the afternoon , as is already known , Baron von Bülow blew out his brains , in consequence of a quarrel with General Sturm , in the course of which the general had insulted him . The causes of this quarrel will remain a secret for such people only as do not care to solve it . `` One clause of the baron 's will instructed Madame von Bülow to go to Berlin , and to beg of Her Majesty Queen Augusta that the levy of twenty-five million florins , imposed by General Manteuffel , might be withdrawn . The baroness paused only long enough to put on mourning garments before setting out .