The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-03-13
HON. JOHN P. ALTGELD DEAD.
Had Just Concluded speech for
Beers When Seized With Fatal
Attack.

Beers When Seized With Fatal
Attack.
Joliet Ills, March 12.-Ex-Gov. John
P. Altgeld died in room So of Hotel
Monroe this morning at 1909 o'clock. He
had been unconscious since midnight.
Mr. Altgeld was the principal speak
er at a pro-Boer mass meeting last
night in the Joliet Theater. Just at
the close of his speech sudden dizzi-
ness seized him and he was assisted
from the stage. The meeting pro-
ceeded, the audience not realizing what
had happened. Mr.. Altgeld was taken
to the door of the theater, where sew
eral vomiting spells seized him.
This continued for nearly an hour
and was so pronounced he could not
be removed to the hotel
Physicians were hastily summoned
and Mr.. kltgeld was carried to the
hotel across the street He retained
consciousness and urged the newspaper
men to keep the affair quiet for fear
of alarming his wife. Shortly before
midnight he became unconscious.
He remained in this condition until
death. At 3:41 this morning 1t was
thought he had died, but he revived,
and from that time until shortly before
the end showed wonderful vitality, al
though he made no move.
The medical men here had banquet
last night, at which DR.. J. B. Herrick,
of the Rush Medical College of Chi
cago, delivered a lecture on heart dis
ease. He and other physicians were
called from the banquet to attend the
patient. They remained with him the
balance of the night. When the end
came they worked his arms vigorously
to revive respiration, but all to no pur-
pose. The cause of death is given as
cerebral hemorrhage, there having been
an apoplectic seizure of the brain.
Overtaxed His Powers.
1t was noted during his address that
the Ex-Governor threw an unusual
amount of energy and feeling into his
words, and the collapse, the physicians
think, resulted from overstraining his
already weakened physical powers.
Ever since the failure of the Globe
Savings Bank, in 1885, in which he was
involved, MIR. Altgeld has not been
well man, and for some months after
the Spalding crash it was feared that
his life was only a question of
short time. Even when serving his
last year as Governor his health was
none too good.
When IL was learned that he was
victim of locomotor ataxia his friends
gave him up. But he rallied, although
he was never again his old vigorous
self.
Lately, however, the disease marked
him strongly, and quite recently his APP
pearance caused grave forbodings and
anxiety
Mr.. Altgeld, in the speech which was
fated to be his last, declared that all
friends of humanity owed a debt Of
gratitude to Gov. Yates for issuing a
proclamation soliciting assistance for
the Boer women and children in the
concentration camps which the British
are maintaining in South Africa.
Roasted Lord Pauncefote.
The speaker said that the people of
America had raised a large sum of
money with which to relieve the dis
tress of the Boer women and children,
but were unable to send it to them be-
cause Lord Pauncefote, the British am
bassador at Washington, objected to it.
He further charged that Lord Paunce-
fote had for years meddled in Ameri-
can affairs.
There were eighteen counts and spe-
cific charges in Gov. Altgelds indict-
ment. He said in substances:
Just before the beginning of the
Spanish war, Lord Paucefote, repre-
senting the aristocracy, meddled in
our affairs. and tried to unite the gov
ernments of Europe in making a joint
protest against Americas interference
on behalf of Cuba. But when the
American people asserted themselves
and our government was compelled to
go to the rescue of Cuba, England is
sued a strong neutrality proclamation,
forbidding all of her subjects every
where from furnishing us aid or
doing anything that would in
any way be a violation of strictest
neutrality"