Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1913-04-16
PONTIFF SUFFERS
ANOTHER RELAPSE
TraCheaI Bronchitis Is Added to
Other Ailments.
FEARED HEART MAY FAIL
Physician Declares Death Will Not
Be Sudden-Says Pope's Present
Condition Partly Due to
Holding Audience.

Rome, April 14-The pope has suf-
Tered another relapse, and his condi-
ton is becoming worse steadily.
Tracheal bronchitis has complicated
the other troubles with which he has
been suffering.
The pope is much exhausted on ac-
count of a persistent cough and diff
fcult eXpectOration, which caused con-
siderable pain in the chest. Some
fears are expressed that owing to the
weakened condition of the patients
heart it might not be able to resist a
long hacking cough.
The turn for the worse first took
the form of a chill and then high
fever. The pope's temperature rapid
ly rose to 1O3, but has receded to
1913.
Death Will Not Be Sudden.
Professor Marchiafava, chief of the
pope's physicians, has told Cardinal
Merry del Val, papal secretary of
state, that the pope will not die sud
denly and may live for some time.
Despite the assurance of the papal
physicians that the pontiff is not in
immediate danger, it is admitted at
the Vatican that every preparation
has been made in anticipation of the
pope's death
Professor Marchiafava stated that
the most serious question was due to
the advanced age Of the holy father.
His former rugged constitution has
been greatly weakened by the long i'll
ness and the continued inroads Of the
cardiac and nephritic conditions with
which he is affected. The physician
said that the bronchial symptoms had
remained Unchanged during the last
IL hours and that the ultimate result
of the present illness depended in
large part to the success or failure of
the efforts to check this disease.
d Takes Blame for Relapse
Professor Marchiafava has taken up
on hemself all blame for the last re-
lapse of the pope, according to an in
terview with the physician published
in a special edition of the Osservatore
Romano, the official organ
Professor Marchifava stated that he
granted a favorable interview upon
the popes condition to be published
in the Osservatore Romano because
the pontiff had expressed a desire to
read what the newspapers we're say
ing about his health and the physician
thought in this way to cheer the pa
tient.
The physician now bitterly regrets
this action, as it was after reading
this optimistic statement that Pope
Plus insisted on receiving the three
Venetian bishops and later the bishop
of Treviso. The attending physicians
felt that the pontiff had materially
weakened himself in granting the first
audience and it was during the second
that the relapse, which it is now
feared will prove fatal, occurred.
Pneumonia Is Feared.
The grave fears which are enter
tanned for the pope in the innermost
circles of the Vatican were indicated
by the publication of special editions
containing bulletins of the condition
Of his holiness exclusively.
The opinion prevailing among high
authorities here is that the bronchial
condition affecting the pope is grad
ually turning into pneumonia or that
it had seriously affected the pontiff's
heart. Professor Marchiafava, how
ever, denied that any form of pneu-
monia had as yet set in and main
tanned that there was no occasion for
irc~n, ediate anxiety concerning the
trc5e.
Second Relapse Causes Deep Gloom.
The second and most severe relapse
suffered by the pontiff cast a gloom
over Rome and especially over the
thousands of pilgrims who have ar
rived here within the past few days.
A large crowd of anxious watchers
stood through the night in the square
in front of the Vatican, where they
could look up to the windows of the
papal bed chamber. At intervals dur
ing the night Cardinal Merry del Val
caused bulletins giving q brief sum.
mary of the pope's condition to be
issued for the watchers.
EX-SENATOR HENDERSON DIES