The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-09
He HAS A RELAPSE
Pope Leo Began the Day With
Signs of improvement.
Functional Disorders Suffered
Yesterday Had Passed.
He Sat Up This Morning to Be
Shaved.
NOHOPE FORRECOVERY
Passed a Tranquil Night, and
Rested Well.
Resumed His Attention to the
Affairs of His Office.
HE ATE TOO MUCH
And Brought on Trouble of An
other Character.
A Hurried Consultation of Ply
sicians Called.
HE ATE TOO MUCH
And Brought on Trouble of An
other Character.
A Hurried Consultation of Ply
sicians Called.

oASAAho OoAAOAe
Rome. July $3.50 p M.-After the
consultation of the physicians, Dr. Lap
poni said:
Il fear there is no hope. no hope
whatever. and yet the end may not
come tonight"
Rome. July 9.-5 p. m.-The pope was
suddenly attacked this afternoon with
diarrhoea. apparently caused by the
large quantity of food he had taken,
and to which he Is unaccustomed, to-
gether with his extreme weakness. The
new development in its turn augments
his weakness.
Rome, July 9.-5:O5 p. m.-Dr. Poz-
zoni has Just arrived at the sick room
in consequence of the sudden change
for the worse in the condition of the
pope. A consultation Will be held i'm
mediately. N
Rome, July 9.-Since his illness the
pope had not begun a day as satisfac-
tory as this. Indeed hopes of his re-
covery reached such a point as to make
the general public believe the pOntin
might soon be out of danger No better
than in the words DR.. Lapponi uttered
on leaving the sick room a. about noon,
that although he did not yet dare to
hope he had ceased to despair. This
promising outlook, however, was fol-
lowed by the startling announcement
that the pope had been attacked with
diarrhoea, apparently caused by the
large quantity Of food he had taken, and
that consulting physicians had beer. sent
for.
The patient when he began the day
Showed only more his iron mountaineer
fibre by rising and dressing almost
without assistance. walking across the
room to bis arm chair and having his
toilet fully performed, even to the de-
tail of being shaved. Throughout this
procedure the pope showed no sisn of
being exhausted. Indeed, he jokingly
alluded to the amount of nourshmenu
which was being imposed upon him ana
said:
I ought to grow fat. as I have never
had in my life as much as 1 get now
This buoyancy of spirit was consider
ed to be one of the principal coefficients
In the struggle with death which this
admirable old man has made in the last
seven days. The doctors previous to
the alarming attack of this afternoon.
said there was not the slightest diminu-
tiOu in the acuteness of the pontiffs
mental faculties, as shown this morning
In remarkable manner, when the pope
insisted on going over some of the large
questions Of church policy laid before
him by Cardinal Rampolla, the papal
secretary of state.
At about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, al
though no worse, the pope was not re-
ported to be any better and then came
the news of the pontiffs sudden relapse
and of the sending for a consulting
physician.
NNaghfDpfon TatIxr
cablegram from the vatican regarding
the pOpe's condition was received by the
papal delegate here today:
News of today is more consoling. We
trust in the efficacy of persevering pray
ers.-Rampolla."
DEPARTURE OF CARDINAL GLIB
BONS
New York. July cardinal Gibbons
; who goes abroad to be near Rome when
bthe conclave of cardinals is called,
should the pope's illness prove fatal
sailed today on the steamer La Tour
aine. He was accompanied by his sec
retary, Father p. c., Garvin. The car
dinal pointed out before sailing that he
was not summoned officially to Rome to
take part in the conclave. Such sum-
mons. he said, would come only after
the death of the pope
When the illness of the holy father
took a serious turn a few days ago he
received cablegram from Cardinal
Rampolla, the papal secretary of state.
suggesting tnat IL would be adVisa BILE
for the cardinal to come over
There is nothing for me to say" said
the cardinal. 7 have been advised to
go over and in the event of the death
of the pope I shall proceed directly to
Rome. If he is stiI living. which NAV
God grant, shall spend the time quiet
ly resting. 1 expect to be gone about
two or three months"
BELLS WILL NOT TOLL.
Rome, July 9.-BeSides the inquiries
from all the reigning sOvereigns, there
were received at the vatican today sym
pathetic messages from the Count of
Flanders, the Duke and Duchess Paul
of Mecklenburg-S -Schwerin. the Infanta
Isabella. Count Caserta, (pretender to
the kingdom of the two Sicilies); Grand
Duke Se~gius of Russia and Princess
Matilda of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha Prince
Albert of Belgium not only inquired
through the legation but went personal
1y to the papal nuncio al Brussels to
give expression to his grief. The vati-
can was also advised that the president
of Argentina had visited the papal in
ternuncio to demonstrate the interest
taken by him both as an individual and
an official
Orders have been given that the bells
of the vatican and St Peters shall not
be tolled for the death of Monsignor
Volponi, since 1t would disclose the
death to his holiness.
DEATH OF VOLPONI.
Rome, July 9.-Monsignor Volponi,