The Bamberg herald. [volume] (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, 1902-03-20
ALTGELD IS NO MORE
Ex-Governor Of Illinois Victim
Of Apoplectic Stroke
WHILE APPEALING FOR BOERS
At Close Of Impassioned Philippe
Against Wrongs Of Struggling !
Patriots, He Sinks Down /
and Soon Passes Away. is,

A special from Joliet, ILL.,, says: For.
mer Governor John P. AItgeld, died
in room So, Hotel Monro Wednesday.
morning at 7:e9 o'clock. He had been
unconscious since midnight.
Mr.. Altgeld was the principal speak.
er at a pro-Boer mass meeting Tuesday
night In the Joliet theater.
Just at the close of his speech q
sudden dizziness seized him and he
was assisted from the stage. The.
meeting proceeded, the audience not
realizing what had happened. Mr.
Altgeld was taken to the door OF the
theater where several vomiting spells
seized him.
It continued for nearly an hour ana
was so pronounced he could not be
removed to the hotel. Physicians were
hastily summoned and Mr.. Altgeld was
carried to the hotel across the street.
He retained consciousness and urged
the newspaper men to keep the anafr
quiet for fear Of alarming his wtf6l
Shortly before midnight he became un.
conscious.
He remained in this condition until
death, the cause of which Is given "a
cerebral homorrhage. there having
been an opoplectic seizure Of the brain.
The vomiting at first was taken TO
indicate ptomaine poisoning, but 1t was
determined that this was due to dit-
ferent manifestations of the brain
trouble.
Mr.. Altgeld reached Joliet Tuesday
afternoon, having been widely adyer-
tised as the principal orator for the
big Will county pro-Boer meeting. He
complained of not feeling well, having
been troubled with some apparently
simple stomach ailment.
He was not willing to allow that 70
Interfere with his speech, however,
his great interest in the South African
struggle having been heightened by
the announcement of the Boer sue
cesses of a day or so ago. 1t was noted
during the address that the ex-govern-
or threw an unusual amount OF en-.
ergy and feeling into his words, and
the collapse, the physicians think, re-
suited from overstraining his already
weakened physical powers.
It is said that the governor d1ed az
he had lived, pleading for the cause
Of the lowly. 80
Mr.. Altgeld, in the speech which
was fated to be his last, declared that
all friends of humanity owed debt
of gratitude to Governor Yates for
issuing a proclamation soliciting as
sistance for the Boer women and chill.
dren in the concentration camps which
the British are maintaining in South
| Africa
There were eighteen counts and spes
| cifc charges in Governor Altgelds
indictment. He said In. substance:
"Juse before the beginnip9 or the
Spanish American war, Lord Paunee-
fote, representing the aristocracy.
meddled in our affairs and tried 70
unite the governments of Europe IN
making joint protest against Amer
lean interference in behalf OF Cuna.
But when the American people assert
ed themselves and our government
was compelled to go to the rescue OF
Cuba, England issued a strong neu-
| trality proclamation, forbidding all
| her subjects everywhere from furnisn-
ing us any aid OF in doing anything
| that would in any way be a violation
Of the strictest neutrality"
1t was a speech characteristic OF
the old governor who had risen from
the towpath to the chiefest ONCE O.
the state. Death was at hand, but
his voice had all the old fire and aii
the old sympathy which had won MN l
the hearts of many people. 1t was
governor Altgeld who pardoned the
three Chicago anarchists and whose
views were frequently called anarch-
istic. yet his sincerity was questioned
by few.