Perth Amboy evening news., 1903-07-14
IS RAPIDLY SINKING.
Pope Leo XIII Now Lies Un.
conscious.
he SAID, 81 WILL DIE THURSDAY.
1t Developed That the Patients Kid
neys Were Not Performing Their
Functions, and There Are Signs
of Approaching Dissolution.


ROME, July 14.-The pope is rapidly
sinking All his relatives have been
summoned. He has relapsed into a
state of unconsciousness-h asleep,
half coma. The heat of the body is
high for the patients organism and
appears to be feverish.
while there is life there is hope was
all the consolation DR.. Lapponi could
give in admitting that Pope Leo's con-
dition was every grave"
The pontiff has suffered another re-
lapse. and he is now in a more critical
condition than at any time since the
middle of last week.
The semicomatOse condition into
which he has fallen and the confused
state of his heretofore lucid mind on
his awakening, accompanied by great
depression, are regarded as symptoms
of the gravest nature and as pointing
to an imminent dissolution.
1t has developed, as the result of a
careful medical examination, that the
condition of the pope's kidneys is
worse. The doctors feared that his
system was gradually approaching a
state of dissolution. No traces of al
bumen were found, indicating that, al
though the kidneys were not perform
ing their functions properly, they were
not themselves organically diseased.
The pope is reported to have said,
'If | am destined to die from this ill
ness feel shall expire on Thursday,
the feast day of the Carmelite Madon-
ma, whom specially worship"
The night was a rather sleepless one,
particularly during the early morning
hours The official bulletin spoke of
agitated periods during the night and
said that the general condition of the
patient was more depressed. The de-
preston was marked and continued
throughout the forenoon, at one time
assuming an alarming aspect, when the
pope became dizzy and seemed to lose
his grasp on tangible surroundings.
Outside of the passing periods of de-
preston the general conditions of
mental alertness continue. When Drs.
Mazzoni and Lapponi made their call
the pope inquired about DR.. Rossoni,
asking, "Why doesn't he come to see
me2"
Being told that DR.. Rossoni was i'll,
he said, "Tell him he must take care of
himself"
At both the Vatican and the house of
DIR. Lapponi the arrivals Of patent
medicines, surgical instruments and
medical apparatus of all kinds con-
tinue, each accompanied by assurances
that the pope would recover if it were
used according to directions. From
Vienna have come machines for, pro-
ducing artificial respiration and for
making oxygen. The pope, however,
has not required the administration of
oxygen for the last three days. "What
need" said Pope Leo, ''is air-fresh
air. Besides, should be allowed to
rise. An old man of ninety-four should
not be kept in bed when without fe-
ver"
Mgr. O'Connell rector of the Catholic
university at Washington, has arrived
here, accompanied by Father Cornelius
G. O'Keefe of Highland Falls, N. Y.
and William ]. Onahan of Chicago
Mgr O'Connell's object in coming here
was to submit to the pope's considera
| ton the condition of the university. In
view of the illness Of the pope, however
he laid his report before Cardinal Sa
| tolli, under whose jurisdiction the uni
versity comes. Mgr. O'Connell will
take trip through Italy and return t.
Rome later.
LONDON. July 1.-THE Daily Tele
graph correspondent at Rome tele
graphs: Il am authorized to state or
the authority of two cardinals, one oi
whom is himself candidate. that nei
ther Cardinal Gibbons nor any other
foreign member of the sacred college
possesses the remotest chance of sue
ceeding PODe Leo"