Kootenai County Republican. (Rathdrum, Idaho) 1899-1903, 1902-03-14
EX-GOV, ALTcELD IS DEAD
AFTER A PR0-BoER SPEECH.
Died Suddenly ut Joliet, Ill.-Cause
of Death IL Given as Cerebral
NemOrrhaEes - Resulted From
Overstraini Not Been Feel
ing Well for Some Time.

Joliet, H., March l4.-Former Cover
nor John Z. Altgeid died at the Hotel
Munroe.
Mr.. Altgeld was the principal speaker
Mt a pro- Boer mass meeting in the Joliet
thcater 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. lie 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 banquet last
night, at which Dir. J b. lIerrick. of the
Rush medical cillegc Of Chicago, delivered
a 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 night.
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 hemorrhaees.
there having been an apoplectic lesion OF
the brain.
The vomiting at first was taken to in
dictate ptomaine poisoning, but it was de-
termined this was due to different mani
festations Of the brain trouble.
The physicians desire to hold 4 post
mortem ii relatives will agree.
Mr.. Al,gcld came to Joliet in the after
noon, having been advertised as the spe
sial orator for the big Will county pro
Boer meeting. He confessed that he was
not in the best OF health, having been
troubled with some apparently simple
stomach aiIment. 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 Bocr 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
think, resulted from overstraining his al
ready weakened physical powers.
Ever since the failure Of the Globe Saw
ings bank, in 1896, in which he was in
volved, Mr.. Altgeld has not been well
man, and for some months after the Spald
ing crash, il was feared that his death
was only a question Of short time. Even
when serving his last year as governor,
his health was none too good.
Clarence barrow, a life long friend and
later a law partner Of the former governor.
reached here this morning He said the
governor died rs he had lived, pleading
the cause Of the lowly. Mr.. Altged, in the
speech which was fated to be his last. dc
clared that all friends of humanity owed
a debt Of gratitude to Governor Yates for
issuing a proclamation soliciting assist
ance for the lsocr women and children in
The concentration camps which the Brit
ish are maint1ining in South Africa. The
speaker said the people of America had
raised large sum OF money with which
10 relieve the distress of the isoer women
and children but were unable to send it
to them because Lord Pauncefote, the Brit
ish ambass ,dor Mt Washington. objected to
1t. He further charged that Lord Paunce-
fote had for years medded in American
affairs.
There were ls counts and specific
charges in Governor Algeld's Indictment.
lie said in substances
".Just before the Spanish war Lord
Pauncefotc representing the aristocracy,
mcddlcd in our affairs and tried to unite
the governments Of Europe in making