Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-07-07
LEO'S LIFE EBBINC.
His Holinsss Is Unmistaka- bly, Sinking.
EXTREME JUNCTION. ADMINISTERED.

pr. L@pp@ni Stntes That the Low | Temperature Is the Grave symp- tom, and No ConsOlin@ News l Can Be Given. | ROME, July 7.--The condition Of the pope has grown worse, and the news, together with the tone of the last bulle
 tin, has caused the gravest alarm pr.
 Lapponi said that it was necessary to keep up the ponttm's strength through artificial respiration.
 | The change for the worse in Pope Leo's condition is augmenting rapidly His holiness is unmistakably sinking, 50 that Dr. Lapponi, alarmed, consult Led with the pope's relatives, Cardinal RaTnpo11a and other ecclesiastics, who decided that extreme unction should be given, and it was administered by Mgr. pineri, Pope Leos confessor. | Dr. Lapponi during his brief absence from the Vatican was asked regarding the august patient and said: "Unfortu-
 nateIy I cannot give you any really consoEng news. cannot share the op-
 tirRisn1 which is spreading, which is l not owing to definite change for the
 better, but to the spirit of the pope,
 who is giving further proof that his in- 1 Aefatigable energy continues.
 "The truth is that the pontiff's condf- tion is stationary, which means that it
 is very grave.
 ''The worst symptom, apart from the 1 feebfeness of the pontiff's pulse, is his I low temperature, which is stationary I at 31 centigraGe. He continues to take l nourfshn1ent at short intervals, but not l In such quantities as his weakness re- l quires or his doctors wish. Nothing ! medical science can suggest and his or ganism can stand has been left untried;
 for instance, oxygen, cutaneous revtll-
 sfves, digitaIis and caffeine which
 have also been injected to produce ! more rapid effect.
 faThe disease, as announced in the l 6rst bulletin, is senile pneumonia in a
 torpid form, which is now at its maxi
 mum intensity, but which may have i begun unobgervsd before the pope com
 pIained of any feeling Of illness.''
 For the last three hours the pope has
 remained motionless. He has refused
 all nolrishnaent and is sinking rapidly. 1 The body is assuming the stiffness of
 death All present in the chamber are I praying.
 Repeated doses of chIoral have ena- bled the pontif to sleep; but, contrary I to previous nights, artificial respiration
 Is continued, and Dr. Lapponi goes ev- cry five minutes to the bedside to ob- serve the patient and listen to his breathing. Great activity reigns among the car
 dinals now that it is sure that con- elave cannot be far off. It is even said that there has been an exchange of tel sgrams in cipher between the members of the Sacred college in Rome and those in the provinces or abroad.
 Innumerable rumors are circulating
 and scarcely any cardinal is deprived ef the sfattery of being considered 3 candidate. The candidates who are re
 Sar1ed as having fair chance are Car ainal Svampa, archbishop of Bologna
 and Cardinal Richelmy, archbishop o1
 Turin Cardinal Rampolla is thought 9Y many to have the best chances o1
 being elected. According to the most
 accredited Vatican gossip, however Cardinal Rampolla has entered into ar
 agreement with Cardinal Gotti, prefec1 l sf the Congregation of the Propa ganda | 70 support the election of the latter or
 condition that he himself be appointed Gotti's successor as prefect of the Prop aganda, the holder of which post Ii
 called the red pope"