The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1902-06-26
He Undersoss an Operation and
His Life Is in Danger.
THE CORONATION IS PUT OFF
Festivities Turned Into Hush OF Sorrow
and Mourning = Social and
Business Arrangements
Paralyzed.

LONDON, u ulo ID -Goll ~ Oh
Tuesday morning the physicians
found that an operation was nec-
essary to save the life of the king
of England The disease from
which he is suffering is almost
the same as appendicitis, and is
an Inflammation. including the
formation of an abscess OF the
tissues around the veriform APP
pendix.
The operation was performed
at 2 o'clock in the afternoon and
was successful. but the kings
life is still trembling in the bal
ance, and while hopes of his re-
covery are entertained he may
die withir twenty-fOur hours.
A brief notice has been pub
lished, as a result of which the
entire state, social and business
arrangements throughout the
country are paralyzed. The or
der is dated from the earl mar
shal's office and is as follows:
II have to announce that the
solemnity of the cn~ouation of
their majesties, lg Edward
VII and Queen .lexandra is
postponed from the Goth TO a
date hereafter to be determined.
The first news of the renewed
illness Of the king came from the
house of commons, where vari-
Gus court officials gave an inti-
nation that the arrangements
for Thursday would better be
suspended forthwith, as the cor
onation would be postponed in
definitely on account of the indis
position of his majesty.
The sudden announcement Of
the postponement of the corona
tion just on the eve Of the cere-
mony caused the utmost con-
sternation everywhere. The
news spread like wildfre. The
tens of thousands of occupants
of the streets suddenly stood still
under the shock and gazed at one
another in silent dread of what
might come next.
Upon the eve of his coronation,
stricken while the world waited
to applaud, King Edward VII
lies suffering and helpless in his
gorgeous palace, scarcely saved
from immediate death by. the
torture of a surgeons knife.
London, thronged with ENJOYS
from every nation under heaven,
the streets filed a.s they never
were before with crowds come
to pay loving homage and the
vast stands and balconies tower
ing in expectant grandeur where
the coronation procession was to
pass, all testify to the glories
and the honor prepared for this
man who, no less relieved from
physical pains than the meanest
of his subjects, lies sick unto
death and the magnificent coro-
nation is postponed indefinitely
perhaps never to take place.
A deep hush of sorrow has set
tied over the city and, though
the streets. crowded with a
swirling mass of questioning hu-
manity, are silent with the silence
that only those feel who have
one common grief, bands of rev.
elers belonging to that class
whom no tragedy can tame, no
pathos affect, in bolster Gus and
reckless drunkenness render the
nations profound segret the
more manifest.
History presents few more
pitiful spectacles than that OF
the mighty ruler of the British
empire, with millions of subjects,
with royaIists at his beck and
call, devoting himself to the
preparation of spectacle which
should surpass in magnifcence
aught that any of the empires of
the past had ever seen and then
being stricken in the heyday of