The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-02-08

as at any time within six days, the dis
ease may take a sudden turn for the
worse. The president also is asked not
to go to Groton, as his visit might ex-
cite the boy who is not in immediate
danger
owing to the request of the doctors
the president has abandoned his trip to
Charleston.
Should a turn for the worse occur, the
president is prepared to leave at a mo
ment's notice special train.
FIRST NEWS OF THE DAY.
washington, Feb S.-President Roose-
welt received a telegram this morning
from the physician at the Groton school
informing him that the condition of his
son Theodore, Jr., was unchanged since
last night.
The first information to reach the
president and Mrs. Roosevelt of the i'll
ness of their son was received at the
White House by telegraph. The Message
was signed by the president Of the col
lege where the young man is a pupil
and stated in effect that a slight indis-
position had developed into an acute
and sharp attack of pneumonia and thar
he was seriously i'll. Another message
stated that the young mans tempera-
ture was 1o4. Arrangements were at
once set on foot for Mrs. Roosevelt's de-
parture for Groton and since the first
intelligence was received the president
has been in almost constant communi-
cation by telephone and telegraph with
the college faculty
There is no attempt to minimize the
danger of an acute attack of pneumonia
and the president and Mrs. Roosevelt
are we'll aware that the young mans
condition is serious Everything possi-
BILE is being done for him and the best
physicians and nurses are in constant
attendance President Roosevelt him
self is very likely to go to Groton and
will do so except in the event of very
reassuring news being received. If ne
does 60 he Will return almost immedi-
ately if his sons condition will admit.
1t already has been decided that Mrs.
Roosevelt must remain by her SON s
bedside, but if his condition is such as
to make it safe for the president to go
farther away from him he will keep his
engagement to go to the Charleston ex-
position.
No ladies will accompany the presi-
Dental party owing to the absence of
Mrs Roosevelt and the hurried nature
of the modified arrangements. The pres
ident instead of leaving here Monday
night will not start until Tuesday morn
ing. He will go direct to Charleston and
will take part in the exercises of We'd
nesday and be present at the banquet
and then will return to Washington,
reaching here sometime Thursday. The
three cabinet officers who it was an
nounced heretofore, would accompany
the president Secretary Cortelyou and
a stenographer will comprise the entire
party as now arranged.
MRS. ROOSEVELT HURRYING- ON.
Boston, Feb. S--Mrs. Roosevelt. wife
of the president reached this city at z
o'clock this morning, bound for Groton
Mass. where her son, Theodore, Jr., is
i'll of pneumonia. She ate breakfast at
an uptown hotel, and at s O'Clock. was
on board the train at the Northern I'm
ion station which was to take her to
Aver, the nearest railway station to
Groton.
Groton Mass. Feb. S.-The condition
of Theodore Roosevelt, jr., son of Presi-
dent RooseH 1t and student at Groton
school, who is i'll of pneumonia, is re-
ported as being "as comfortable as
could be expected" Those who are in
attendance at the lads bedside declined
to give anything more definite. 1t was