The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-07-10
Has Designated His Tomb and ComSIeted Final Ar-
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HISTORIC FAMILY STRIFE
 IS GREATLY AUGMENTED
Remarkable Flood of Letters of Inquiry and Teleerams Asking News of the
 Dying Pope-Queer Offers
 of Assistance Made. r

Rome, July 9.-That the pope fully realizes that his death cannot long be deferred is shown by the attention he has given during the last few days to the details of his final resting place. It is well known that he has discussed his tes- tamentary dispositions and expresses his wishes as to the place and manner of his funeral Shortly before he was taken i'll the pontiff repeated 10 Cardinal sa- tolli his desire to be buried in the church of St. John Lateran. The spot he desig- mated is on the left of the apse. above the entrance to the sacristie, correspond- ing to the opposite niche in which is tho monument erected by himself in 1891 to Pope Innocent III.
 It Is said that statue of Pope Leo. forming part of the monument has al- ready been made. In other respects the tomb will resemble that of Innocent III. consisting of sarcophagus with bas relief, two inches, two statues and two medallions.
 Lapponl and Mazzoni Martyrs. If there are real martyrs at the vati- can they are Drs. Lapponi and Mazzoni. who are inundated with letters and tele- grams from the four quarters of the earth 1 impIoring them to save the illustrious pa tient who Is so necessary to the church and the world.
 Unknown names rub elbows with those of worldwide celebrities, some of the senders asking for telegraphic news two ! or three times a day. A private secretary 1 and large fortune would be required to answer them all. It does not even end there, for admirers and worshipers or Pope Leo are sending remedies which 1 they say are sure to save the pontin 8 l life. An American has sent what he de- scribes as an extraordinary nutritive 1 liquid which will restore the dying to 1 health A South American has sent an l hemorrhoidal ointment in a rich flask Be- sides these there are prescriptions from druggists and offers to embalm the pom i tiff
 l Others offer to make a death mask: some want to paint a picture Of Pope Leo and one writer even offers to impart the secret of petrifying the body into an everlasting statue, to be offered 10 the 1 Pope's nephews.
 Family Strife Developed. | new phase of the historic strife be- tween the noble families of Colonna and ! Orsini has been developed by the illness | of the pope. Hoping to reconcile this | ancient family 1t has been the practice | to designate the head of each house as | a prince and assistant to the pontifcai throne the two positions being the high , est lay honors in the gift of the pope. In the case of the coronation Of new pontiff the princes stand on either side l of his holiness. The head of the Colon na family, Don Marco Antonio Colonna, was among the visitors at the vatican today, but the Orsini family Is tempor- arily unrepresented in this high dignity, Don Filippo Orsini having resigned in Ia vor of his son, Don Domencio, Prince of solefra. and the latters nomination hav- ing not yet been confirmed by Pope Leo. The Orsins are thus without representa- ton and this circumstance constitutes an 1 interesting historical curiosity.