Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 45, Number 46, Jasper, Dubois County, 24 July 1903 — Page 2
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C. IUHM. I'tiblitUrr. INDIANA. The poetmsster general pr.lprril. on the l'th. the establishment of lk free delivery pOetal service, on .ep t cm her 1 at Jamestown. N. D. CoL hfeaifc H 1'. knap, of Ivdt y'Av. on Hi Kth, wa nominated "0 the first ttalh't a the republican canilijgte f,r MrtrtOt Of Kentucky. "I ran not suy the pop is better, lut h i no wirc " In these word lr. Lapponi. on t he Kth. summed up t lie pontiff' condition at tlie eud of the second efk if Ins .Üiicx. t apt. Williams of the Imrk Andrew Hehn, engaged in whaling in .lavan--e wuter, reported to Son . ram i00, on the ih, that the w-scl already bad on board JDQ barrels of oil. Franz Von Lerbach. rn the ITth finished a portrait of Qen. Stewart L Woodford, who was United State minister to Spain at the outbreak of tbe Spanish-American war. for exhibition at the St Louie ntyOftlol. The branch appellate court, in ("hi cago, on the 17th. affirmed an in junction issued by the lower court at the beginning of the slrike at the Kell. gg twitch board anl Supply Co.'i plant, against picketing by the -Tik era. It was learned, on the K:h. that the sta'e department hai received a reply from Hussia stating that it neither would receive nor consider the matter of the Jewish titon on the subject of the ki,ch-m ff itiei dent. Mi-- 1-f ia J Fi -r. i-ter in law to Hob. Qtaat, a well-known at torney at Sapinaw. Mich., was accidentally killed, on the 17th. by fall injr from a window in Mr. QntBft'l ofrite on tbe sixth floor of the Bddj building. .lustice Prinditille. In Chieapo, on the l'th. signed warrent for the arrest of President Younfr and Secretary Howard, of the Va-liiiifrt"n Park club, and 1" lx-'k makers wh" have been 0HTatinjr at the Wtahlltg ton Park track. At Fountain City. Wi.. the On tral hotel, one of the landmarks- of we-tern Wisconsin, was destroyed by fire on the 14'li. Ail t!;.- oii'ts earaped. Three of them jumped from tlie windows just ia time to esea; with their he-. Gen. Mils completed hi horseback rid from Von sill to Fort Raso, a distance f mile-. n the 14th. In nine hour- nnd ten minutes. At the etui of the record -breakinf j' tirtiey lo- on less fatif ae 1 than any man in the party. .:ishop Isaac Joyce, president of the Epworth League, doe not hellere tht the Christian Kndeaor -iiL't'cstion, made r.T lner. for the arna'jrama-t.-ii of the Christian Endejaeor, Epworth League and Baptisi Tooag People'n union : rn 'i. able. Associate Justice P. ni l J. I'.rew-t. r Of the United St.ites - .preme court ileclared. in the cuur-e of an interview at Milwaukee, on the 1 :th. that K.r man who participates in th lynching or burning of a negro ia murderer pure and simple." The president, on the 14th. approed the action of the court martial in the cape of Second Lieutenant John V. Mct'arthy. Nineteenth infantry, recently stationed at Fort LeureBWOTth, Kas. He nvictei) of duplicating hi pay acopnttta and leatenead to lie dlmised froni the arniv. P. M. Arthur, grand .href engineer c 'he ltrotherl of Locomotiva Kngineerv. dropped dead, on the night -f the I '! It. while ad Itis-ing ;t iian met t the Brotherhood of Imr omotlaa Kngiiieer-' lomention in Winnipeg, Man. Hi last word were: "It may ha mv parting words to many of on." amuei Herbert DougaL the perpatrator of th- Mouthouse murder, who sun canrietad if tL rbrlnfrtri (Knglandl as-ie- June 13 of the killing "f Mi. t amile e ile Rottend Buffrow Waiden, Essex, and sentenced to death. vas hanged at the helms fird jail. On the Hth. afier making full confession. Cornaflns Vanderbilt haa been forgi and peace has settled apoa the Vanderbilt familv foe the first time In sficn year ever ktaea he married Miss (.race IVUaoa in definne f his father- command. Alfred Owynae V anderbilt. Coruettu' young er bn'ttier. i- cr.-dited with Im ut the result. ringing A V.-t'le full of counterfeit $" go piece- wa eapt'ired by U0toei in St. Jo-. ph. Mo . on the 19th. Much counterfeit roil of late de-eription ha he n put in circulation 'here of late nnd although government -e.-ret ervIce operatlsa nave bee diligently at sork I he bare been great ' v mvstitied bj the elerei operation of th crook The action of the Michigan Central direc tors in renewing tbe lea of the Onaads Boatbern f"r . period of Hi year- nnd tlie proposition to refund 9.1.00.(,00 of bond- Of the Ijik- File V Drtroit hier railroad, anntroltaa by the i'ere MarqUettO, Ihn 991 nrlnjj lower rate of Interest, wm ftitiii.-d t a f uual storkholdri rncctina Ike Lath.
PERSONAL AND GENERAL. The trial of Jack Minia. an Italian Uho kiLtil Joseph Ciseieue in a 1 tiI with halve, a in 'ii It npo, at Chillirot he. 111., commenced on the 1 -t tit The qcarrel which ended W murder dated to the I Um the Im unn rf hoy in Italy . With tbe reception gben on board Lear-Admiral (.'otton's rl.ighip. Kcir-
MMR. . .. the 1Mb. the official xinrt of the Vmei.cau M,,iadro0 to Kl gl.ii.d ttTf iWitnl The statement of the treasury balante, in the iremral fund, ec!uie of axelu e of the flSO,UOU,OO0 goU rescre in the division 01 redemption, on the .4th. i bowed' Available cash balance Sn331.t-73; foid. tQSJMBS3, Tlie r out occupied by ten. CasslW M. tia.x. at Wlutehall. Kv., has been tripped of weapon by an order of the eotnni ttee appointed, on the 14th. by the Kichmond court to take charge Of Iii iiC. An rxprma train "n rhe Ceateal Mat cbttaetti dlviaioa of the Boat 4i Maine road, tun Into the rear en I f an express train on the New N rk. New HarR A' Hartford railroad at the uiii. n station. I iifton, M.i.. on the l'th. lee Rrowa, alias .bdin Tin-lev. the negro who killed Patrolman Mar, if Kan-.Ile. Intl.. was rep-in.-d. tiu the l"'th. to le in a critical Condition nt tlie .leffersont ille reformatory. His Ilia i- j r. nonnced t. he pnea niotiia. Jante A Hi son Bowen, (f chicafro. on the I4tb. resiened the pot of dep uty l'nite I state- consul geaeral a Pari-, in eonaequence of oontlnued id health. Hear-Admiru! Terry was ordered, on the l'th. to eomtuand the natal i-Ta:i-r, at Hnnololil, and Kear-A lttdtnl Miller ha- been ottered command of tlie Soatb Atlantic atatloaVi At a nuetinp of the directors of the Leniffa Valley Railroad to., in Philadelpnl, na the 15th, the apeeJal eoBMntttae ipftofated to consider a plan for tue adjustment of the !inain e- of the c-unpany reported fa rorabl.x to The iM'ard. Nithiiijr va areompllahed nt Pttta burp. Kaa., n the l'th. in the c.nferetiie of miner- and opera t or and tl;e joint contention stand adjourned anbjeei to call. The Arm rican Hardware tfaaafaie tmers' BMHoetatioa and the Boutbrni I Hardware Jobbers' association held a ' joint meeting nt Saratoga, N. Y., a the l'th. The statement of the tre:-nr bal-: ance- in the general f ind. ecl i-iv of the tllOjOIMUMM) gold reserve m the dlrlaion of redemption, on the ISth abowed: Aval la hie cash balance. -eyMO; piM. 9101,739,749. An hrrolantary aetitii n in bankruptey w is tiled, on the l' th. av'ain; Frank Tennyaoa XeeJjr, a S"ea "rk publisher. I a alleged baakrapt inly 15, adntltted hi- wriUlngue , l be adjudged a bankrupt and notified hi- creditor! of hi inabilitv to meat oblitration-. liefere.' ndg of p.-neral -fieared. R thl Mi M sions. Mth. , in the e...)rt n York, apr -"iitence. t harle- St. r-,. who, in 1999, while en cared in a banking business in th: ity disappeared with f 12,009 ef the batik money. While there are some Kanaai comatie which toed more outside help t.i harvest the wheat, the larger part of the harvest is completed. Frederick Kelson of New-market, N. J., a brother of Mr-. ( harle. Fair. who was killed in an automobile iieeident nbrond. had a narr, w es, -ape from u similar death on the l'th. vtier l wo nayi work, a jury waI -elected. OB the 19th, in the ea,. of 'borge Collins, the CnJou (Mo.) bank r bber. charged with the murder of Detective Schumacher. Abner McKinley, brother of the it President McKinley, was reported Janger'iily ill. on the 16th, at f u r Set, Pa., with paralysis. Three Indictments were returned, on the 19th, by the federal grand juryin Hrooklyn. N. V. Two are beii.-i. 1 to have direct bearing n rhe pist office department automatic -asli register seandal. Maude Jordine was declared not guilty of the murder at her two- earold sister at Bloomiugtou, 111 . on the K'th. the preliminary be ring ending villi her dismissal. A verdict f f guilty of murder in the firt dia,r.e was rendered bj the Jury at Hamilton, 0, n the 16th. in the cn.e of Alfred Knapp, the flrif murd. rer. The Manehnrtea ouestioa has been nettled satisfactorily to this government. As-uranees lone been r--eeived from the bines government that It will, in the near future, open as treaty ports, with tb assent of l.'usein. severa ports now eloaed to the world s trade. Four persons lost their lives in B fire earlt oa tbe morning of the 19th. which destroyed Boaeer SpriMi simitariutn. at Banner Spring. Kas. vVelhMa cireu train wa wrecked at Rhelbyrille, III. m the 19th, while being fiil. t racked, tine man vvas killed anil a BUmbet injured, some -e-rloiiply. Be TB I trick horses vvpre so badly hurt that they had to be shot. The sixth annual eanveatlon of the Epworth b-.ij. M-ned ni:spieiousv In lletrnlt. Mb h . on the 11th. with sn tlmat9d attendance of I&VWBj The statement of the treasury bBlbnees in the general fund, exklusiv "f the liSOJOBJMN gold reserve in the BThdon of redemption, on the 17th. bowed: Available cash balance, 12s-. .". .785; gold. tl99,99t,?99. A t rtiHil at Mreat.ir. III., -n the 17th. killed five persons, Inj rod a em i i f other in I caused prei ert v loss of f,0ö,0ou.
A tert i . !e nie und rain storm passed oter aut h western Iowa, on the Kth i!i'i:;f giv.it damage th Crop of aall grata which I just re.uiy fi r the haltest. lie lueerBatlonel Retail ch-rk" conventioi.. ;, .'..nc tile. O., on the t:h. 14 ted officer follow- I'reablent. Joint H T.iicn. Albany. N Y.; ccretary-treaurcr. Max Morris, Paavor, J, i. w..ri. si Louta, wa elected a ice president. The election STS a IctOTJ for the admin i-t rat '.i. tot -i The all of ihe board of doch com
! """"""'f r ntcsfmg the grant the irrnnt tf ril ','L"' the Krise., road al New I Or. cj, :i . wa- decided ill faor of the r:,iin 1 '' bl EUta, in lb lower I ourt, Ihe ITth. I he isril n ti atner Monteree, which we . a-ln re tc-t of Point Plato, Island "f St. I'lerre-Miipiclon X. F.. Jviy H. will be a total wreck. S'cie -ertice ajrents captured - en ItulUt a counterfeiter in Hrooklyn, N. N . on the 17th, after a hard tighr in which r.-t. wr- w... Irawn. LATE NEV.S ITEM3. ?'f Ksr.s Cfy Star h.t" hegua oeeessfully th operation of its paper mill, built there within the la-t nln Bsoatha. The capacity of the mill i four tons t-f white paper daily, all of which will lie con-unied by the Star aii. I its no rninir paper, The Times. Postmaster-General Henry C. Payne, who .p, :;; the luth off Totapkinsrllle, 1 I., on board the rerettu eurer Oaondaga salted for Boston, where he expected to remain thre days, returning then to New York for another brief stay. A violent hail storm, on the V''h, loiioweii ny n ci. miihurst one imlt sontb of Trinidad, CoL, caued thou-sand-of dollar damage and a number of families 'o flee for their live-. The hail c.oere! the ground to a deptli of -ix inches. The body of i'eter M. Arthur, granä, chief engineer of the llrotherhoo I of tecoraotlvc Engineers, who died sud. dealy in Wlantpeg, Man., on the I'itU rencbed (Tevelaad, .. on the ttth. As the result of a colli-ion between electric cars na the Oberlla branch ot the Cleveland A Soufhanttern railway, on til. I th. E. L (iarln. of IberBat, 'V. was killed and a number of I persons were seriously hurt. Prof. Hamilton ('. Timberlake. nt the I'utversitj "f Wisconsin, dropped dead t heart di-ea-e. n the lath while taking a bath. ILe wa- M vear- old, ail 1 l ad been married nly three w.-. .1 eph Scott, the neyt Snulted Helen (l-on. a" MiM . 09 the l-th. was s in jail early on the 1 9th. v. ho as. St. Paul. V lodged s.-'itt doe not hesitate to admit his guilt. Luther fttieriager, one of the maa eminent eiactrieal engineer- of th vorld. died at Pas u na. ( al.. on the i'.'th. of con -ill nipt ion. a'ed tear. Indrew .1. t ravtford. aired Ol. mil'llcn.flre Iron manufacturer and ei opera 1 1 r, died at bis home jn Terra (Baute, lud . oa the 19th. r"Mr Persons were instantly killed. l0n t1"' m :,r Av.ndab . .. on the Pennsylvania railroad, while walking on the track-. The state encampment f the na Honal guard of Miouri opened at 'like . nfrary on the l'.ith. Tl.r.' thousand men. under command of .Brig -io n. Clark, ar.- ttendnee I he til er ttiJI . f the Mv I't -od del iFaper ( .. at MayrlOe, S, P.. WM ihn rnerl on the 19th. Th.-- loss is PIC,'ooo. witii laevrenee of bout half. At am er '-sing at Burlington, la., on tbe 80th, the bicago Hurlingtm Ä- Quincy ft mail train struck a carriage containing Mr. and Mrs I). I), (.rant and two boys named storing Mr. Grant wa bwtaatl killed and Walter Stolting was so badly mangled that he died soon after. pope ie.i Xiii. the two hundred and sixty-third jsjiitifT of the atholic church, died at 4:09 o'clmk. n tbe 19th, juat HI days after he vvas strick"ti with pneumonia. Ile wa- ''1 years old and had reigned as the supreme head of the Catholic church J' year-. The funeral if the late Chief F, M. Arthur, of the I'.rotherhood of LoaO m''iw- Engineer, took place, on th Mth, at ( let eland. O. Hundred of railway men. represeBt Ug all sections of the country, were prc-cnt. Interment wa- ,-i t I-ike View cemetery. io. Odell "f New York and his party, on the 20th, spent the day in Sightseeing .it San Francisco. Mayor BchmitS waited on the governor in tbe morning, and made him air! bin friends the citv's gue-ts for the day. Gov. ( hatt rtoti of Wyoming, on the Hth, declared be would call ui the prosecuting attorney of Pig lb ri. COUBtj t" take active slept, towatd bringing t. justice the men enge ceroi d in the Ii ih hing at Hasin. The statement of the treasury balancein the general fund, exclusive, of the - I 'm.iks i.i n mi r. serv in ''C division of redemption, on the Soth howed: Available cash balance, 9339397,739; fold. $'.7..V.I.08a. The I iiuiiti- "f the iate Mrs. James t;. Bbune, widow nf the fo reset saere tary of state, were interred at li.ik Hill cemetery, Washington, n. c. oaj the fOth. Bar. fir. Hamlin, of Washington, nfiictet I. A severe balls torra strnalt Sheldon, In., on the Joth. The Murin was about ten miles wide It lasted but 13 minutes, ,t did Iio.iHNi damage in the country. 'I he Princeton I loch o., qj the 2f'th. Stade au eiMgttUsettt. receiver will he eppointed soon. It i- said that ihe enmpaBJ will reorganize. The convention af Hint glam rorh rn and of green bottle blowers, at f inoinnriti. n the Mth, rejected OBOb pther-' plan for conaslldation, Fiedeti.k Jordan, head of the American Type Founder' to., of Phil del pbia, died on the Vl'dh.
ALLOVKR THE STATE.
Evcuts in Various Portions of Indiana Told by Wire. tare l'rotf It I - U lUihhu. lud.. Jult M -The Mi.ti i cur for a corn mat cause Miss Clara Houe, a farmer s dauj.ht. r. rt sidiiiK in blackford county, to loss bat loot. She vtas UaTerlai With a com. and her father, following an old tradition that a snail COUM remove the growth, obtained one and applied it lb r toot Is now swollen to twice lis natural st.e and It Is ft an d amputation mat he necessary I'hxsitans sa tlurc is nothui niisonous aloiit a snail, and ate WWlMfl to a count for the result. Sertoli I Ihara. Manir.st ille. ad., Jul L'" ItosUM Morrison. It", tears old. charged In r lather. Janus MotriMin. with stistainitiR itntnoral relations with her. am I a warrant was lea tied for his urn st He beard of it atid rode a btejrcl away from his home, two inilis south of town, sat ins he was gaiaf to lit . (lord The gtrl'l mother says she lm of th praithe uoinn on for the last six months, but feared death if sh n ported it fun Male. Hammond, ad., duly Sft.- Minnie Brani and Beasht Moraek, both Claim inp the affections of John Thi l. a young man of this city, fought a fistic duel to dctd which should bask in hir. smiles The match was not tlttishnl. (cause p deteriorated lato a hair pule IBS match and Instand rs intirfmd. The combatant declare tby will m ithI r u!ve up Thiele, nnd may flpht apain. llnnk fixture . Rlehmojtd, tad., July 19. The fixtures in the defUBCt t'iiizens' hank at MiltOO have been sold at private sal to the protnoti rs of the new bank to he - s'abüsl . d thi r- Th. -alt prh i was t, whlen was note than the appraised valu. . The new hank will he known as the Farmers', and l.ycurpus v Be aeon, one of tbe best knows mal Of MHton, is the prime mover. iirii. it tu MNM e. Bloom netd, lad., July IA. Charles She! ton, a landing colored man of tins place, has received a letter from Linton. Bhrnorting to be from a ''eouualt tee.'- narnlttg the negro9 to leart the county before the j."ith Inst, or they will he "waited Bpou." On account of the enmity againsl their race at Linton, the colored people, especially tin women, are much alarmed. . 11. .rt leiil I ii nil .ctcf . Anderson. Ind. July All of the farmers' organizations in Madison county are jointly perfecting arrangements for the annual meet inj; of the Indiana Horticultural society, to lie held at Pendleton, August 4 and I in addition to the programme of leitureg and other entertainment Iber Will he a display of fruit and cut flowers. 9toes iiurii..i. Terr. Haute. Ind . July 2". Th firebug who. in the past month, baacaaeed the fire depart meat to be called out many Ihnes at nigh', started a fire in Souies livery stables, which destroyed IS of the ."' horses in the building Two hours later be Ktartnl another fir. in an alb y a hiock away, but it was uiscovered In time. Vrn I'ucliiri. Mooreaville, lad., July 2" The Mooreaville Improve nseat association has closed a contract arttb William Batter, of Indianapolis, for the srectiofl of an iron bedstead factory, to cost, when completed, at bast 190, The factory is to have a capai ity of 4 0 completed Iron bedsteads daily. Ille. I at lurkian. Mnnete, Bid . July 2". A few days ago a barn door fell on OortB Htu kley, the little ten-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs Alexander Htukley, of this ity. breaking her leg Loehjnn devel .pei and the child died afn r suffering intense awony. Farmer Kills MISStC Lownfl, Ind.. July 20. Clinton A. Taylor, three miles north of this place, was found dead in his barn, having committed suicide by hanging lb BBS 4" years old and a substantial farmer, hut mentally affected Held to Ihr Ol. I ntin. Hammond. Ind.. July 20. Dr. A. A. .'.ertsh. the oldest practicing and most eccentric physician in northern Indiana. Is dead at Liwell He was a bachelor, very wealthy and dre-sed at he did before the civil war. Will trt.t lleei.se I ,i I . Hammond, lud . July L'o MapOf Knotts announces that In- will veto the ordinance passed at the last noitlngof the city OQUBCll of Hammond, reducing the saloon license from 1290 to 100 s ear I niter it In. In. Hammond, lud . July ffl Raahe, af Cblcngo. thren bli the wheel of the ndlanopolli the Motion near thl- plai . going r.T nubs an hour nt.: -1: k If tit. ii r I ruin on b it was s killed. HOT WEATHER HINTS. People need mote Mean in summer than tn triatl r Pnripi fruit s generally Indigestible. Unripe rherriea and pBachai are especially harmful Huttermllk is a summer drink for all, particularly helpful m f,(is, whocannot dlgfst fats The most r freshing bjth n hot Pip Into It up in the neck Let the water flow out and half fill the tub with rnld ntt r The body Is in a glow, yet abl to withstand the LeaL
HEM'S KM.
After Remarkable Figh'. Against the Grim Reaper Head of Catholic Church Passe Away. UM0S1 SUPERNATURAL VITALITY. I'lnnl In Ile-Mlh rhnnihr wait fo ii ml I v suget e Toarklim Ptnrn inr-rra m e World lor le.nrr.l Soul nU rsfilii luiu i. Hut ilea Roma, July M, 5 p. Popa ho Sill., the two hundred and fifty eight! pontiff of the Catholic church, died at 4: (U o'clock, lust 1 8 da I after he was stricken with pneumonia. He wa- tilt year old und had reipned na the supreme head of the Catholic church 13 .cars. The announcement of his death was dulayed Iwa hours by the Italian jfovernmeat, which demanded full continuation before it allowed the newto he Hashed throughout the world. Then the groat bell at the Vatican, which ring! "lily to announce the passing ot a poniitT, was -ounde I, and all Itoine knew that the end of L had come. That the pope could not Ii v through another day was announced by the doetora at midnight last night. I, ileep u.i- disturbed frequently and he was almost constantly deliri ous. The cardinals were summoned to the Vatican to be D resent when death should i ; um the poutitf. lib PR LEO XITI three nephew - ati I his valet were at ins oeUMQe. i Mice tney were -iiiti-nioned lata the room, ns the custom provides, but were ipiickly evclnd n beiT the pa t leal ret ived, vt two o cluck tie lost all con sciousness and -.ink gradually and peacefully Into the final sleep o;' death. Ilfeglia Will lioiniliate a secretary af the consist, rv to succeed the lat . . mm . .Mtrr. votpini. -Mgr. 'oopari is men lioaed. he officials identification of th pontin a iioiv wn: occur tomorrow morning la the preset f dm mn '.ers of the sacred college. Then Cat -1 ; S , ,, la . . . . uiiiai .'reg-ii.i win tap tlie iimik- on tin head to ascertain if he is dead. When it became known, shortly fa mure p m. tn.it tue Kipe s journey through the allev of death was al most Intehed, Cardinal Vhanntelll hurried again to his bedside, and wa . followed shortly afterwards bv what is called in tatlaua phraaaologe th ft-i . ,t . i . .... .. . i ... , i mi hi s.-cii-i . nun me noun family." besides the "personal fain lly, Including th late pope's nephews t otnte I.udoMco, Iticardo and Caiuilln .iikI else till the cardinals at the vail can. who afterwards retired to the ad Miming; iinrary, niter tney nail liccti allowed to kiss the pontiff s hand and pass along, presenting another of those pictures which will liie in the memorj I f all those participating in it. Ihe pipe, when he had lucid inter vals, also realized that the end was at hand. ion will not win your bfBVfl fight against death to day." he Said to Iddoctors this BWrnlng OB awaking. ( onfliles I liureh t i arillnal Orealin HI .1 ! . , , .in-ii. uiiiing nie alarming crisis about BOOB, lie wa lying OB fate bd perfectly motionless, while arounl him knelt the cardinals and other memban f the papal court, p ravins ua not knowing whether the pope was not already dead, without, any preliminary rctlBSS, the pontiff opened bl eye, which fell on ( at !i mil tprcgha, who wa at his side, and -aid solemnly: "To v our emlnenee wno vull so soon sete the reins of supreme power, l confide the chum in these difficult time," men Mgr. tusieu, the master of the chamber, naked for the nones benediction for the court, which the granted, ddiag: I'OJK- I 'Be thi- mj but greeting." Iben the pontiff gave Ins hand to kiv to tbe cardinals present, wIm were Oreglla, Rant pol I, Vannutelll, Dolln Velpe end Vlves Y Tuto. Dr Lapponi, profiting by the animti"n, administered restorative. whereupon the patient saati baeh asuddenly a- he had revived. The age I pontiff was lying prune nnd BttCOnScioUS, propped up, to Maisf him in breathing. One hand lay 69 the red silk coverlet, the heavy jMin titical ring being in danger of falling from the shrunken linger, while th, other hand clutched his rosary and crucifix. Though he was enti- h- tin conacioua. gleams of Intal ligenc seemed tn flit, eries the WOffl face, and the Standi of KBtite fell 091 the pallid lips hcu the nephew.
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pa- ed nud rrrerently kii.lt 1 kr -cd the 0001 tiainL No mrd va spoken. The only tOUnd wliiih broke tic silence o Ida death rot wae th rattle of Iba ai bm of the noble guard, who wet. t. tidied tit every, door of the pontiff private tpartmeata it bains tbelv privileges snd righd sadae the cueuuistancs to taki- possession of the apartments and guard the faodt of lb pope I'lnal Seeae la llmlli haml.er. 'Ihe final scene in the death chamber wa- profoundly impressive. "Mia pope's death having been evpeeteil -ince BOOB, his deathbed was surrounded b prsctienllj all tbe members of the sacred college now in Rom and the whole papal court, while the pontiffs nephews remaned in th p.ipal library until lhJ re calved word from the doctors which announced that bis la-t expiring breath wa- approaching. Then tbe moved illently within the doath Chamber, some standing, soine kneeling, all awaiting the awful in uncut of dissolution. In the ante chamber had sBembtd the high ecclesiastics, members of the diplomatic corps und repreaeBtatlvet of the papal sristocrscy, awaiting the announce ment that the final momeal had come. Ir. Lapponi, who atmoat eonctantly hal his fingers on the pope's pulse, felt it become gradually weaker and
weaker, and at the -,,,. time the pontiff! extremities began to get cold, hi- lips became blue, his eyee sank an re deeply Into the head, hit breathing hc.-umc even more difficult, and there were strange rattling in his throat. Finally, the pope was aked to bles his i,t phew s and ;i the others present. He attempted to raise himself, and the extreme emaciation of Ids person, covered with a fine aightihlrt, was rendered more pronounced by the lurroundlngs, It wa- a most solemn moment, Tli3 head of the pontiff, with its whit skullcap, no whiter than the fringe of til very hair, rising above th crimson envoi Kt. bis hand raised iti the familiar gesture of benedic tion, the kneeling assemblage being too earnestly absorbed In deep affin tloa, veneration end weening to even na ke a moi ement. Profound silence reigned in the pope's bedroom, only broken by the doctors rising- to render their expiring patient more comfortable, by thj sobs of the ever-faithful valet. Plo Centra, or the murmured prayers of Mgr. Pi fieri, the papal confessor, himself s4 year of age. who had to lie as-s'-'od to the bedside. 'raver Iteelie.l for the D.lni; Softly he recited the prayers for the dying, the pontiff at one moment appearing to follow them as though cons.-ious of what Wl transpiring, but he could not speak. Then the thing nope murmured something to himself, in which those bending oer him heard the Oorda. "Father" und 'Mother." The lat conscious act of the Bon tifT wa- to turn his eyes toward the great crucifix oa the wall, aftet which be suffered from a paroxysm of choking, during which he BBS ed a nay. Then the silence of awe stricke i Bssembtegd was broken b the sonorous, solemn voice of Cardlanl Be rail bo Vannutelll, the grand penlteatiarr, intoning the reipiicum aeternam (rest (ernal). Out -iile tlie death chamber evpectstion .i- intense, but tbe sight of the sorrowing fae.-s of those leering the room wa- sufficient, Without words. to spread the sad news, which was not lot,!' In inrcadine throughout - 9 I. une. OeeailCBCe In Dentl hambrr. I'he occurrences in the death chamber Immediately following the pope's demise were of impressive sol malty. ( ouriefs fand been dispatched to summon tlio-(- who are delee-aled t.i perform the first religious offices toward tbe (Nad pope, and soon the chanting af the Franciscan monk WBI beard, as two bv two. in course. tom it habit, nnd with sandaled feet, hey proceeded 10 the room in whic'i Leo ly dead. Prom lime immemorial rranetaeans have been peniteatieriea f St. Peters. Toll. 'Wing them came the n bit guard to watch over the pontiff re main-, the brilliant of their uniforms eontra-tinp StriklnglJ with the SOBS' ber attire of the qualfltly garbed' monks and the solemn dignity of the chamber itself. Pbe only sound heard was the measured chanting of the naalm of penitence, bj group d monks kneel ing beside the couch nf death. Th noble gaards took up positions at thu foot of the COUeh am) stood by, riirid and silent a statue, with swords draw n. Th death chamber preserved much the same appearance a- it did at th time of the final illness ( f the nop,. ios the middle of the room h tig leavy oraperies, partly concealinir the bed on which lay the silent, form of the it id ; oatiff, By the side f the low bed burned a number of ennlla, end from shove looked down I e picture of the Madonna, with the infant ( hrist in her a rni Leo'l desk was cloned, but SOBM 0 the I Ks on religion topics which he kept, remained on it. Ihe holy lay exactly ns it was al the moment of the pope., nt expir ing breath. A white rati was thrown Over the dead man's face, while awaiting the -oleum entrance of the l timralengo, who was to offrrially pros lloun. e the p I ntitt net italic ile:.. I Th greWSOtne details of th etnbalmini will not be performad until after the lapse of hour-. ThOBI the body will be robed j full pon: id eal vestments tor tbe i tnposiiig t uner-
al ceremonies.
