Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-06-25


Army all over the world will pray for
the recovery of the king.
Pray for the King.
Tomorrow has been officially ap-
pointed a day of intercession for the
king and in every parish church in the
United Kingdom special microscopy
services will be held. Catholics, Nom
Conformists, Jews, Salvationists and
other religious bodies are all arranging
special prayers, while in the camps of
colonial and other visiting troops, be
they Mohammedans, sun worshippers,
Erahmins or fire or fetish worshippers,
whether from China, Borneo Fiji, Cen
trail Africa, Hindustan or Indian reser-
yations of Canada, the usual hour for
prayers finds them supplicating their
deity in behalf of the king.
Business Stunned.
The business section of London is
slow in recovering from the stunning
effects of yesterdays developments.
While the barriers around Westminster
Abbey have been removed, decorations
are being completed for the benefit, to-
morrow and Sunday, of the crowds.
Demolition of stands has begun and
progresses slowly. Hotels and provis-
ion dealers are hit the hardest. Thou
sands of pounds of perishable food of
the most expensive varieties are crowd
ing every refrigerator in London, while
orders for many tons more were tele-
graphically cancelled yesterday, and
will remain source of litigation or
compromise. Few caterers or hotels
nvailed themselves of insurance, re-
Gently offered by the Lloyds, the rate of
10 per cent being considered too high.
Many proprietors of reviewing stands
were thus protected. But the impor-
tant question remains as to whether
the money paid for seats will necessari-
Is be refunded. Only a few seats out of
nearly half million were sold with any
specific proviso on this point.
Manufacturers of medals and SOU
venirs were badly hurt.
Altogether, London's business loss Is
incalculable and the people of Ports
mouth, where preparations involving a
large expenditure had been made to
reap a harvest from the naval review,
are simply crushed.
The authorities of st. Pauls cathe-
dral, by request, have arranged sol
emn service of intercession for the
kings recovery, to be held tomorrow
at noon The general public will not
be admitted.
kilograms from all quarters of the
empire tell of the cancelling of pro-
posed coronation celebrations.
According to the Evening News
there is good foundation for the rumor
that it was the kings earnest desire
that he be crowned in his bed room and
that the procession Friday should be
carried out without him.
AS the day progressed the crowds
around buckingham palace were aug
mented and the cautious wording of tho
early bulletin was much discussed.
was posted.
More Favorable Outlook.
This is regarded as being somewhat
more favorable and the good impress
sion which it created was enhanced
by the arrival at the palace shortly
by Duke and Duchess Acos-
ia, who came from Dorchester house
to lunch with the royal family. OBJ |
servers deduced therefrom that unless
the kings condition was fairly salts
factory the queen would not have. en-
tertained visitors, for she has been
in nursing her husband
AT $3.50 today Sir Francis Knollys |
private secretary to the king, told a |
representative of the Associated Press
no particular change had occurred, but |
the king was maintaining improve |
ment in his condition. The following
statement was made this afternoon, or
the highest medical authority:
Until the tubes now draining the |
cavity of the abcess are withdrawn
it will be impossible to feel certain
the king will pull thru. What his I
physicians have now to fear is Deriton
it's of hemorrhage may supervene. |
There must always be danger in such
cases"