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r mJ MVWIr SSV - - wwiiipiimjMiiijji lWftw iflWrstwMjpi HE POPE IS DEAD VENERABLE PONTIFF YIELDS TO ATTACK OF DISEASE THE LAST MOMENTS PEACEFUL Cardinals Relatives and Members of the Papal Court at the Death Bed Burial Will Take Place in Nine Days ROME Tho pope died shortly after 4 oclock Monday afternoon His last moments were comparatively peaceful and painless and were preceded by a period of insensibility Around the bedside at tho final mo ment were the cardinals tho relatives and the papal court Before lapsing ntb unconciousness the dying pontiff feebly moved his lips his last artlcu late words being those used in bestow ing a benediction Gradually the shadow of death spread over the pontiff his extremities became cold his features assumed the fixed rigidity of death and Dr Lapon ni noted his last fluttering heart beats which gradually became slower and weaker until they finally stopped The news of the popes death spread rapidly throughout Rome and caused a most profound sensation The whole city is in mourning During the alarming crisis about noon while the pope was lying on his bed perfectly motionless and around him knelt the cardinals and other members of the papal court praying without -any preliminary restlessness ihe pontiff opened his eyes which fell on Cardinal Oreglia who was at his side and said solemnly To your omlnence who will so soon seize the reins of supreme power 1 confide the church in these difficult limes Of the supreme moment Dr Laponni gives an impressive description He said Death occurred through exhaustion although in the last two hours Pope Leo made a supreme effort to gather together all his energies He suc ceeded in recognizing those about him by the sound of their voices as his sight was almost entirely lost Still he made a marvelous display of his energy and even his death was really grand It was resigned calm and se rene Few examples can be given of a man of such advanced age after so ex haustive an illness showing such su preme courage in dying The pontiffs last breath was taken exactly at 404 I put a lighted candle to his mouth three times according to the tradi tional ceremonial and afterward de clared the pope to be no more I then went to inform Cardinal lapsing at another rallying with ex Oreglia the dean of iie sacred college who immediately assumed full power and gave orders that the Vatican be cleared of all curious persons having no right to be there Contemporan eously the cardinal instructed Mgr Righl master of ceremonies to send jthe Swiss guards from the Clementine ball to the close all the entrances to the Vatican and dismiss all persons from the death chamber the body be ing entrusted to the Franciscan peni tentiaries CEREMONY AT THE VATICAN Cardinals Formally Declire that Pope Leo XIII is Dead ROME Tuesday morning began Ihe first of those grandiose and unique ceremonies which follow tho demise of a pope and although private it was conducted with great pomp and was most impressive All the cardinals present in Rome numbering twenty nine assembled at the apostolic palace to view the re mains of the late Leo XIII and to offi cially pronounce him dead Cardinal Oreglia dean of the sacred college and camerlingo of the holy Roman church had to put aside his cardinals sign of deep mourning and was gowned entirely in violet The other cardinals wore crimson robes with violet collars indicative of mourning Within the death chamber the body 3ay with a white veil over the face on the bed surrounded by the Francis tan penitentiary while outside the noble guard maintained a solemn vigil The profound silence -was only broken by the chanting of prayers for the dead Into this solemn presence came tho mourning procession of cardinals who kneeling silently prayed Then the prelates reverently looked on while Cardinal Oreglia approached the remains For this function the popes bed room has been transform ed into a mortuary chapel an altar at one end having in the center a crucifix surrounded by six lighted can dles Four candles stood at the bed corners The white veil was then re moved from the dead mans face re vealing the camen like features of the departed pope rendered sharper and more transparent by death So life like was the body that those present liad expected Leo to raise his hand in the familiar gesture of blessing A -moment of breathless silence en suedsand then the cardinal earner lingo taking the aspersorium sprln and said in a Arm voice Gioacchino the Christian name of the deceased holy father When thoro was no an swer the same word was repeated three times louder and louder After which turning to the kneeling cardi nals tho camerlingo solemnly an nounced Papa vertu mortuus est tho pope Is really dead As the words were uttered there arose from tho kneeling cardinals a sigh a tribute paid to the late pontiff by these princely heads of the church After this in voices trembling -with emotion the ranking cardinals recit ed the De Profundis gave absolution and sprinkled the body with holy water The vicar of Rome Cardinal Pletro Re3pighi has caused to be attached to tho doors of the churches an an nouncement of the death of Pope Leo with instructions regarding the pray ers to be offered and also giving in formation about the funeral services The government of the Catholic church has been officially assumed by Cardinal Oreglia as dean of the sa cred college and as doan of the car dinal bishops He will be assisted by the deans of the other two orders of cardinals Cardinal Macchi of the car dinal deacons and Cardinal Rampoila for the cardinal priests the latter however as a substitute for Cardinal Netto the patriarch of Lisbon who when he arrives will take over his own duties GIBBONS OUTLINES PROGRAM 9 Cardinal Leaves Instructions Which Will Likely Govern Churches BALTIMORE Before Cardinal Gib bons departed for Rome he left with Rev Dr William A Fletcher rector of the cathedral an outline of the services he desired held in the churches of this province and which will supposedly be followed by the Catholic churches throughout the Uni ted States The plan is set forth in the following statement furnished by Dr Fletcher Tuesday at the request of the Associated Press Prior to his departure for Rome his eminence desired that a solemn pontifical requiem mass be celebrated in the cathedral to which all the bishops of this province and the rever end clergy of the archdiocese will be invited The mass in the cathedral will take place on the day of the funeral n Rome Right Rev Bishop Curtis will officiate The discourse will be preached by Right Rev Bishop Dona hue of Wheeling The ceremonials and music will be cf the most impressive character The cathedral will be draped in mourning within and without for thir ty days Every evening until after the fu neral at the of the de profundas at 7 oclock rhe cathedral bell will he tolled for thirty minutes This is the program which has been adopted for the cathedral No doubt the pastors of the other -churches will make similar arrangements IN STATE AT ST PETERS People of All Nations to Pay Their Last Farewell ROME The body of Leo XIII lies in state in the basilica of St Peters Beginning Thursday at sunrise the people of Rome and those of all na tions now in the Eternal City will be admitted to pa their last farewell Opportunity for this solemn tribute will end Saturday Until 5 oclock Wednesday afternoon the remains of the dead pope lay in the throne room of the Vatican where the leaders of the diplomatic clerical and civil world were allowed to pass the bier The - ceremonial at night when the body was conveyed from the throne room to St Peters was one of the most striking of all the obsequies During the day the congregation of cardinals met and decided to hold the conclave under the Identical regula tions which obtained at the conclave which elected Leo Dr Laponni in the course of the day presented to Cardinal Oreglia a report of the autopsy which was held and which showed that there was no sign of cancer in the popes body POPES BODY 13 EMBALMED Doctors Perform Autopsy and Find Pleurisy Only Ailment ROME Dr Papponi presented to Cardinal Oreglia dean of the sacred college the official report of the au topsy performed Tuesday on the body of the pope which was conducted so far as permissible in connection with the embalming The report is chiefly important in disproving the presence of cancer or nephritis The text of the report follows Rome July 22 Yesterday even ing from 4 to 8 the embalming of the body of his holiness Leo XIII occur red After giving the names of those who assisted and those who were present at the autopsy the report says We began by injecting into the thigh over five litres of special pre serving fluids Having opened the ab domen the lower viscera were ex tracted and found to be perfectly healthy The spleen and kidneys were absolutely normal In the lat ter the cortical substance was well preserved and of a pale pink color After opening the thorax it was iiiliiik5 POPE LEO XIII found that the heart the aorta and the carotid arteries were healthy ex cept that in the arena aorta was found an athersimateus excresence Nothing unusual was found in the per icardium The pleura on the left side was quite normal but on the right side the pleura was full of liquid of an orange yellow color above and bloody at the bottom with a large clot of fibrine floating More fibrine was on the free surface of the pleura towards the ribs with a slight scrap ing of fibrine easily detached allow ing a view of the surface serum The upper part of the right lung was quite what- hard and cracked at the touch and while cutting a whitish frothy liquid oozed out The inferior lobe had partly adhered to the wall of the thorax and when this was cut a dirty white abundant liquid without gas oozed out showing complete hepa tization rALK AS TO THE NEW POPE Conditions Are Such He May Be Man Not Yet Mentioned ROME According to a statement coming from a high ecclesiastical source the arrangements at the Vati can are being pressed forward which will enable the conclave of cardinals to- begin sitting August 1 However it is thought the sessions may last con siderably longer than at first expect ed even long enough to permit Car dinal Moran of Sydney N S W to arrive in time to take part in the pro ceedings An ambassador accredited to the yatiean says Leos successor is the question of Pope a peculiarly open one at the present moment The per sonality of the candidates plays a much more important part than in any preceding conclave since the condi tions prevailing in the past are now entirely changed Cardinal Svampa is quoted as say ing The conclave will be very short as were the last two At the utmost I think it may take one week as now there does not exist in the sa cred college the marked political dif ferences of other times Therefore it will be possible to arrive at an under standing more epsily and quicker WAR IS SCENTED Fear that the Fear East Will Breed Hostilities LONDON The Dall Mails Toklo correspondent sends a rather alarming view oC -- situation in the far east I He says Russias rentlon of Manchu ria the increase of Its fleet the dis patch of reinforcements to Manchu ria the southward movement of tho army occupying Manchuria and the defiant conduct on the Corean fron tier all alarmed the Japs many of whom are convinced that it would be better to fight now than risk the eventual loss of Corea and the rele gation of Japan to a secondary place The Jans he proceeds are accumulat ing stores and negotiating the pur chase of ships and already have a squadron off Vladivostock to whTch port Russian vessels have been sent as a precaution and both fleets are ready for action at any moment The Siberian press is declared to reveal the aggressive spirit of the Rus sian military party and to show that the Russians believe they will lose prestige If they give way now as their far eastern empire will be lost and Japanese influence will become predominant The appointment of Marquis Ito as president of the Privy council the correspondent says is favorable to peace but Russia must retreat or there will be grave danger of wan The Japanese believe France and Eng- lang will join in the expected con flict which diplomatists at Tokio think if once begun will continue for years involving disastrous results to Japan financially and the creation of a sort of Balkan difficulty in Corea He adds that confidence is shown in the Anglo Japanese alliance TWO FIRMS GO UNDER W L Stow Co Sink First and T J Taylor Co Afterward NEW YORK The announcement on the stock exchange late Friday afternoon of the suspension of T J Taylor Co and of W L Stowe Co was the cause of a period of ex cited selling of stocks and wide cuts in prices which has not been equaled since the present movement to liqui date set in There is nothing in either failure that can be traced to business or industrial conditions out side the exchange the case lying close to a diagnosis of speculative collapse Beth firms have been largely concern ed in speculative stock market pools formed for the purpose of takingon a line of stocks sustaining their price by supporting orders real or manipu lative and seeking to realise profits by selling out to outsiders at the high prices Such operations have resulted in increasing difficulties with the growth in the stringency of money the solicitude of bankers over loans em ployed in such production and the jaded appetite of the public for such securities The operations of the firm of W L Stowe Co were on a large scale in Mexican Central and the difficulties accumulated by them are added to the price of 11 touched recently compared with 34 last year MAKE SERVICE ATTRACTIVE Government to Provide Amusements at Navy Yards WASHINGTON D C With a view of making the naval service as at tractive as possible to enlisted men and lessening visits to dives and de- normal but the lower part was some- j sertions the navigation bureau is now working on a scheme for the lishment of recreation halls and grounds in navy yards and stations One of the most complete projects so far unfolded within reasonable price came from the Norfolk navy yard This plan makes provision for a foot ball ground base ball diamond grand stand cinder track swimming pool a recreation hall costing 35000 with gymnasium and library dance hall and smoking room It is probable that where sufficient ground can be se cured these Norfolk plans will be adopted as a type for other yards An appropriation for the purpose will be requested at the next session of con gress PRINCE FERDINAND FLEES Fears He Might Meet Fate of Alexan der of Servia BERLIN Notwithstanding the offi cial denial that Prince Ferdinands de parture from Servia amounts of flight the Vossiche Zeitung which gets well authenticated private information from Bulgaria says that the rumor of the princes flight has some founda tion and thinks he has left the coun try until the excitement subsides A special dispatch from Sofia srys that HJfg jWfnWQgiitowMwyBW fiUST KNOW CHUttCH HISTORY Important to the Maintaining of Pcll glous Connections Admitting that knowledga of Prea oyterianism is far loss important than knowledge of Christianity and the avangellcal truths wo still claim that t has an importance of Itu own Jsind How can we hope to keep within the membership of our own church those who do not know anything about our ilstinctive principles and history If ve allow them to think that one hurch Is as good as any other that t is a matter of indifference to what ihurch they go that the differences ot doctrine worship and government vhlch distinguishes our church from others are all trivial differences not Aorth teaching publicly cr privately vhy should they not let their church connection bo determined by their joclal associations or chance whjms or the toss of a penny Is it strange hat the daughter follows her husband Dut of our church and the son also respects the preference of his wife for another church Is It strange that the Presbyterian family moving into a new locality passes by the Presbyterian church for no other rea son than merely social reasons What reasons do they know for adhering to their own church Pittsburg Banner THE FIRST STEAM CARRIAGE Honor of Invention Is Claimed for London Physician In these days of fast motoring and high railway speed it Is interesting to recall that it was in July 1829 some little time before George Ste phenson had solved the problem of steam transport that Sir Goldsworthy Gurney made his famous journey in a steam carriage from London to Bath and back Gurney was a surgeon In Marylebone greatly given to the working out of Inventions in his spare time and it took him some years to complete his first motor in his backyard in Albany street He ac complished the journey to and from Bath at the rate of fifteen miles an hour and there was only one disturb ing incident when a crowd assembled at Melksham set upon the machine and having burned their fingers threw stones and seriously wounded the stoker This Gurney journey stands as the first example of loco motion by steam in this country London Chronicle MRS WESLEY A SHREW Great Evangelist Most Unfortunate in His Marriage One of his biographers declarei that if he had searched the whoje kingdom the evangelist John Wes ley would hardly have found a wo man more unsuitable than she whom he married She did not even con fine herself to her tongue in her at tacks More than once she laid violent hands on him Jack said John Hampson to his son I was once on the point of committing mur der It was when I was in the North of Ireland and I went into a room and found Mrs Wesley foaming with fury Her husband was on the floor where she had been trailing him by the hair of his head and she herself was still holding in her hand vener able locks which she had plucked up by the roots I felt continued Hampson who was a giant of a man though not one of Wesleys warmest friends I felt as though I could have knocked the soul out of her Everybodys Magazine The Other Girls You ask me of the other girls sweet heart A question women always ask of men The end of all the sweethearts ques tionings And yet the point at which they all be Jjin You ask me of the other girls Well this God never mad a liner lot than these Fond lovers never kissed from Iistlessnosa A fairer child than dimpled Eloise The pulsing passions of an hundred years Made sweet in purer ways where virtue sows Myriad forms of potters clay have made But none so lithe as star eyed laugh ing Rose The sculptor art In tracoments line in his wildest dreams of of the ligaments and Could never once the gracious equal find Of Clementine my own sweet Clemen tine The poet and the painter in their turn May praise and love the beauties that they know Nor once in all their dreaming And One equalling the charms of little Clo Man never wooed a finer lot of girls God never made a lnr lot to woo Hs never made red lips so like the rose Ior languid eyes more like the glinting dew You ask me of the other gilds sweet heart You ask me if I love them still I do Each beauty that I found in each of them Each grace of mien each virtue that they knew I find them all and love them more sweetheart Because they are so much a part of you Girlish and Mannish America When it is here remarked that the male American is declaring symptoms of dawning effeminacy no occasion is offered for indignant reprobation The average American has so much thor ough masculinity that he can spare enough to dower a less vigorous peo ple What is meant is that the nat urar reaction to the paramountcy of the American girl has set in As she ohares the pursuits the pleasures and toe liberties of her brothers and im poses her commands upon them she Incomes more masculine they more feminine her shoulders square off theirs begin to slope She dons the sweater and the blazer and wears her skirts shorter and shorter they take to pink shirtwaists and clocked open work stocklnss and their ever hap- an attempt against Prince Ferdinands j Eier trousers worn so long that they life is not impossible Servlas exam- have to be turned up at the bottom pie having a profound influence on seem fashioned on a seraglio pattern the princes enemies I York Mail and Express M 1 1 1 S 1 1 1 1 1 1 i THE LIVE STOCK MARKET Latest Quotations Prom South Omaha and Kansas City 3 8 M 1 1 SOUTH OMAHA CATTLE There wuh u modorate run of cattle and aB the demand was in pretty good shape a very satisfactory markot resulted Tho cattle began moving toward the close In Rood sea son so an early cloarance was made Botjf stoers sold nt stead to stnyng prices as compared with yesterday Tho prices paid though showed considera ble variation owing largely to the rapid fluctuations that have been going on ka compared with the close of last week it is safe to quote cattle gonerally 15c higher and in a good many instances the Improvement has been even mora than that The bulk of the fair to good cattle sold from S4C0 to 5 with choice going from that up to 525 which is tho highest price paid in some time The cow market held about steady on desirable grades There was good demand for anything decent In IJhe way of corn Ted cows or helfera and good grass stock sold without diffi culty but when it came to tho cannera and cutters the market was very dull with the tendency of prices downward Bulls veal calves and stags did not show enough change from yesterday worthy of mention HOGS There was a fairly liberal run of hogs ami the market was In Just about the same condition it was yes terday that is rather unsatisfactory to the selling interests Buyers started out and bought a few of the best light-weights about a nickel lower than yes terday They sold largoly from 520 to 530 After hey had picked out a few of that class the situation grew rapidly worse until at the close hogs had to soil a big dime lower Heavy hogs sold largely around 515 and 517 and on the close even light hogs had to sel around S515 SHEEP Quotations for grass stock Good to choice lambs 350575 fair to good lambs 500 550 good to choice yearlings 375 400 fair to good yearlings 350 375 good to choice wethers 350 375 fair to good wethers 300350 good to choice ewes 2755350 fair to good ewes 250275 feeder lambs 350 400 feeder yarlings 300350 feeder wethers 2750325 feeder ewes 150 250 jA - KANSAS CITY f 11 CATTLE Fat cattlo steady quaran tine steers steady quarantine cows steady to 10c lower stockers and feeders strong calves higher choice export and dressed beef steers 470 525 fair to good 400470 stockers and feeders 250435 western fed steers S300O4G0 Texas and Indian steers 3254G0 Texas cows 200 320 native cows 200440 native heifers 240540 canners 125250 bulls 250375 calves 175500 HOGS Market 5 10c lower top S540 bulk of sales 530540 heavy 525540 heavy 525540 mixed packers 32554G light 532 545 yorkers 540545 pig3 540 545 SHEEP AND LAMBS Market firm native lambs 315585 western lambs 300550 fed ewes 200 475 Texas clipped yearlings 300 495 Texas clipped sheep 275400 steers and feeders 275 3G5 WILL RETURN INDICTMENTS Result of Inevstiation in the Post office Department WASHINGTON D C Four indict ments resulting from the postal in vestigations are likely to be returned by the federal grand jury in this city next Monday This is the fruit of the jury deliber ations at which Postmaster General Payne hinted just before his depart ure on his ten days cruise along tho coast The jury has had the cases under consideration for a long time They involve contract matters closely related to transactions which have al ready resulted in sweeping action on the part of the investigation officials It is understood that these postal offi cials and a contractor are involved One of these parties is not a resident of Washington Extreme reticence has been observed regarding the cases Robert Fitzsimmons Marries SAN FRANCISCO Cal Robert Fitzsimmons actor and pugilist was on Friday granted a license to marry Julia May Gifford the actress The ceremony will take place Saturday at Miss Gilfords hotel Fitzsimmons gave his age at 41 and that of the prospective bride 23 Buildings Ceded to t e Churches SAN JUAN P R All the munici pal rights in the church buildings at Guayma Arroyo and Cayamas have been ceded by the provincial authori ties of those places to the Catholic churches The ownership of the churches has been disputed ever since the United States took over the islands Spain during the old regime claiming the churches which were maintained out of the municipal funds Condemn Northern Press MEMPHIS The fourth annual con ference of the Industrial and ex slave organization convened here on Friday with representatives of thirty four states in attendance Resolutions were passed condemning the northern press for its attitude in the negro question and extending a vote of thanks to the southern newspapers for their stand in regard to the recent lynchings in some of the northern states - s J S t i u n If i
