The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-13
J. P. ALTGELD IS DEAD
CEREBRAL HEMoRRHAaE CAUSE
 OF HIS DEMISE.
Delivered an Impassioned Speech at Joliet, Ills, and Collapsed Soon After-sketch of His Event. full Career.

Joliet, Ill, March 12-Former Governor John P. Altgeld died in room No. sS. Hotel Munroe, this morning at 7:09 o'clock. He had been unconscious since midnight.
 MT. Altgeld was the principal speaker at a pro Boer mass meeting last night Tn the, Joliet Theatre. Just at the close of bfs speech, sudden dizziness seized him. and he was assisted from the stage. The meeting proceeded. the audience not re- alizing what had happened. MT. Altgeld was taken to the door. of the theatre. where several vomiting spells seized him. This continued for nearly an hour. and was so pronounced he could not be re- moved to ihe hotel Physicians were hastily summoned. and MT. Altgeld was carried to the hotel across the street. He retained consciousness and urged the newspaper men to keep the affair quiet for fear of alarming his wife. Shortly before midnight he became unconscious. He remained in this condition until death.
 At 3:41 this morning 1t was thought he had died. but revived. and from that time
 until shortly before the end. showed wonderful vitality. although he made no move.
 J. B. Herrick of the Rush Medical Col- lege, and other physicians were called to attend the patient. They remained with him the balance of the night. The cause of death is given as cerebral hemorrhage, there having been an apoplectic seizure of the brain. MT. Altgeld came to Joliet
 yesterday afternoon. He complained ol not feeling well, having been troubled with some apparently stomach trouble He was not willing to allow that to in- terfere with his speech however, his great interest in the South African strug- gle having been heightened by the an nouncement of the Boer success in the capture of General Methuen. It was nos ted during the address that the ex-Gov- ernor threw an unusual amount of en- ergy and feeling into his words. and the from over-straining his already weakened physical powers.
 Ever since the failure of the Globe Saw ings Bank in 1896, in which he was in- volved, Mir. Altgeld has not been a well man, and for some months after the Spalding crash 1t was feared that his life was only question of short time. Even when serving his last year as Governor,
 his health was not too good.
 When it was learned he was a victim of locomotor ataxia, his friends gave him up. But he rallied. although he was again his old vigorous self. Lately, how. ever. the disease marked him strongly and quite recently his appearance caused grave forebodings and anxiety.
 MT. Altgeld in the speech which was fated to be his last. declared that al friends of humanity owed debt of grati tude to Governor Yates for issuing 6 proclamation soliciting assistance for the Boer women and children in the concen.
 tration camps which the British are main taining in South Africa.
 He said that the people oi | America had raised large sum of money with which to relieve the distress of the Boer women and children, but were un l able to send it to them because Lort .Pauncefote, the British Ambassador a Washington, had objected to it. He fur | ther charged that Lord Pauncefote hat | for years meddled in American affairs There were eighteen counts and specific charges in Governor Altgeids indictment | It was a speech typical of the old Gov l ernor who had risen from the tow patf to the chief office of the State. Deati l was at hand but his voice had all the olt
 Ire and all the old sympathy which hat
 won him the hearts of many people. Il was Governor Altgeld who pardoned tho three Chicago anarchists. and who's, views were frequently called anarchistic yet his sincerity was questioned by few.