Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-06-27
IT is GOOD NEWS.
No UnfavOrabIe Symptoms in
the Kings Condition.
Had Fairly Comfortable Day--Son e
Pain in the Wound.
Messages of Sympathy Coming from
All Over World.

London, June Z6.-Midnight. Those
| around King Edward continue TO be
astonished at his rapid recovery. The
slightly annoying symptoms mentioned
! in the bulletin issued Mt IL O'Clock to-
night. ere quite lncOnsecuential COM
| pared to the fact, which The Assoc
ciatcd Press has learned. that Ills
Majesty again took food. tonight, and
was afterwards allowed to smoke a
cigar.
queen Alexandra sat with her hus-
band all the evening ana only left him
after he had fallen into peaceful
sleep.
Mention by the Kings doctors of the
care with which food is administered to
the royal patient and of the return of
pain in the wound can safely be taken
as merely an earnest Of their conscien-
tious intention to make public the
slightest adverse symptoms. however
unimportant.
The Kings courage and good temper
are remarkable, and. today, he per
sonally wrote several kilograms and
one or two notes.
As evidence of the Kings persistent
refusal to efface himself from his con-
nection with state affairs. and in cor
roboration Of the statement that the
physicians are satisfiedwith their pa
TENTS condition, The Associated Press
learns that besides personally opening
kilograms. wednesday evening. King
Edward then insisted upon final in
spect,On of the honor list. There was
one appointment of considerable i'm
pOrtance which had not been definitely
decided at that time, the King approx
ed this nomination and gave the final
order to the department interested,
thus saving one of the recipients of
honOrS from severe disappointment.
Tonight, King Edward is better in
every way than he was last night or
this morning. The return of pain in
his wound is not accompanied by any
increase of temperature. In fact King
Edwards doctors are inclined to regard
the patients pain and his appetite as
healthy symptoms although, with the
reserve they have maintained through
out. they refrain from commenting
thereon.
To these hopes of a favorable issue
of the Kings illness, no less an au-
thority than the Queen gives encour-
agement Writing to the lord mayor of
London. Sir Joseph C. Wimsdale, today,
to thank him for his expressions of
sympathy of the city of London, Queen
Alexandra says, through her secretary:
THE Queen rejoices to think that the
bulletin of this morning gives favor
able report of the King.
Following the expressed desire of the
Prince of Wales the arrangements for
the city which involved
the costly erection of set pieces for
electric and gas lights, will be allowed
to remain and will be utilized ''imme-
diately it is authoritatively announced
that the King is out of danger"
BY the Kings personal desire the
royal pardons of offenders in the army
will go into effect just as if the corona
ton had occurred. This last intima-
ton suitably brings to a close the day
which was to have been notable In
English history and which, from the
viewpoint of the public, has passed
in that mediocrity which is attached to
all things that are neither wholly good
nor wholly bad.
The most striking feature of Corona
ton day. as it is still called, was the
tercession for those Of rejoicing. These
services occurred throughout the coun-
try and on board the great fleet that
lies unreviewed in Portsmouth harbor.
Yet even these lacked pathetic and
dramatic elements. In face of todays
favorable bulletins tears and litanies
are obviously out Of place. The crowds
that packed the streets of the metropo-
lis until midnight. tonight, evidently
this; they did not maj
fick." but there was general sense Of
rejoicing, which. even with the most
section. failed to become inordi-
nate. All night long the Strand was
thronged with crowds Of people, who
confined themselves to taking a fare
well look at the decorations gradually
from the front of Buck
ingham palace.
Only a slim gathering awaited the
night bulletin and when that was
posted the royal residence, save for
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