Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1902-03-15
.EX-GOV ALTGELD is DEAD.
AFTER A PRo-BoER SPEECH
Died Suddenly at Joliet, Ill.-Cause
of Death Is Given as Cerebral
HemOrrhages - Resulted From
Owerstraining-Had Not Been Feel
ing Well for Some Time.

Joliet, ILL.,, March l4-tormer Cover
nor John p. Altgeld died at the Hotel
Munroe.
Mr.. Altgeld was the principal speaker
at a pro-Boer mass meeting in the Joliet
theater. At the close of his speech a
sudden dizziness seized him and he was
assisted from the stage. Vomiting spells
followed and continued for nearly an hiur.
The meeting proceeded, the audience not
realizing what had happened. Physicians
were summoned and Mr.. Altgeld was car
ried to the hotel across the street. He re-
tanned consciousness and urged the news
paper men to keep the affair quiet, for
fear of alarming his wife. Shortly before
midnight he became unconscious. He re-
manned in this condition until death
| The medical men here had a banquet last
night, at which DR.. j. B. Herrick, of the
Rush medical cillege of Chicago, delivered
lecture on heart disease. He and other
physicians were called from the banquet
to attend the patient. They remained
with him the remainder of the might.
When the end was nearing they worked
his arms vigorously to revive respiration,
but all to no purpose. The cause OF
death is given as cerebral hemorrhages,
there having been aA apoplectic lesion of
the brain.
The vomiting at first was taken to in
dictate ptomaine poisoning, but it was de-
termned this was due to different mani
festations of the brain trouble.
The physicians desire to hold a post
mortem if relatives will agree.
Mr. Altgeld came to Joliet in the after
noon, having been advertised as the spe
cial orator for the big viii county pro-
Boer meeting. He confessed that he was
not in the best of health, having been
troubled with some apparently simple
stomach ailment. He was not willing to
allow that to interfere with his speech,
however, his great interest in the South
African struggle having been heightened
by the announcement of the Boer success
in the capture of General Methuen.
1t was noticed during the address that
the former governor threw an unusual
amount of energy and feeling into his
words, and the collapse, the physicians
!
ready weakened physical powers.
Ever since the failure of the Globe Saw
ings bank, in 1896, in which he was in
volved, Mr.. A!tgaId has not been a well
man, and for some months after the Spald
ing crash, it was feared that his death
was only question of ii short time. Even
when serving his last year as governor.
his health was none too good.
Clarence Darrow, life long friend and
later a law partner of the former governor.
reached here this morning. He said the
governor died as he had lived, pleading
the cause of the lowly. Mr.. Altgeld in the
speech which was fated to be his last, de-
clared that all friends of humanity owed
a debt of gratitude to Governor Yates for
issuing a proclamation soliciting assist
ance for the Boer women and children in
the concentration camps which the Brit
ish are maintaining in South Africa. The
speaker said the people of America had
raised large sum of money with which
to relieve the distress of the Boer women
and children, but were unable to send it
to them because Lord Pauncefote, the Brit
ish ambassador at Washington, objected to
it. He further charged that Lord Paunce-
fote had for years meddled in American
affairs.
There were IS counts and specific
charges in Governor Algeld's Indictment
He said in substance:
"Just before the Spanish war Lord
Pauncefote. representing the aristocrlcy,
meddled in our affairs and tried to unite
the governments of Europe in making
joint protest against Americas interfer-
ence in behalf of Cuba. But when the
American people asserted themselves and
our government was compelled to 90 to
the rescue of Cuba, England issued a
strong neutrality proclamation, forbidding
all of her subjects anywhere from furnish
ing us any aid or doing anything that
would in any way be violation of the
strictest neutrality"
1t was a speech typical of the old gov
ernor, who had risen from the tow path
to the chief office of the state. Death
was at hand. but his voice had all the old
sympathy which had won him the hearts
OF many people. 1t was Governor Altgeld
who pardoned the three Chicago anarch-
lists, and whose views were called anarcn.
lstic, yet his sincerity was questioned by
few.
Mr. barrow upon his arrival took
charge of the body and opened scores of
kilograms from all parts of the country
Some were sent before death, asking for
early information of the, patients condi-
ton, while those that came late expressed
the deepest regret at the former governors
demise.