The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1914-08-29
POPE Plus IS DEAD
Grief and Worry Over European
War HaStens End of
Aged POntiff.
NEWS CAUSES BIG SENSATION
Head of Catholic Church Had Pray
ed for Peace Since War Cloud
First Appeared.

Rome.-POpe Plus Y died AT 100
o'clock in the morning OF bronchial
complications He had been III sew
eral days but alarming symptoms did
not develop until the day before.
Throughout the day Doctors Mar
chiafava and Amici devoted their Ut
most energies TO stimulating their pa
tient and keeping him alive The car
dinals were notified OF the pOpe's
grave danger and some of them who
entered the sick room described in
pressiTe and heart-rending scenes. es-
pecially when the pontiff, rousing him
self from time TO time, spoke. Once
he said:
In ancient times the pope by .
word might have stayed the slaughter,
but now he is impotent''
Prayers were said BY thousands and
the bells Of the churches sounded
when the sacrament was exposed upon
all the affairs.
When the court learned OF the pOpe's
condition there was the deepest con
Germ. King Victor Emmanuel person
news was communicated TO the queen
,Eother
Prepared for End.
Extreme JUNCTION was administered
by Monsignor Zampini, sacristan 70
his holiness, amid a most touching
scene. The sisters Of the pope and his
nisce were overcome with grief Car
dinal Merry del Val knelt by the side
Of his bed, where oJner cardinals
Joined him, the members OF the house
hold intoning prayers.
The dying pope in a moment OF lu-
cidity said:
Now I begin TO think as the end is
approaching that the Almighty in His
inexhaustible goodness wishes 70 spare
Re the horrors Europe is undergoing
Wednesday was one Of the most
anxious days in the history Of the
papaey. The whole world knew that
the pope was indisposed, but il was
supposed that ne was suffering from
his usual ailment-gout- Up TO noon
even the members Of the household
were unaware OF the seriousness OF
the developments.
Change Was Sudden
Almost without warning came the
word that the pOntin was at deaths
door
All day his agony continued At
times he revived and was able TO say
few words, but hope of saving him
finally was abandoned. Several times
throughout the city and at the palace
the rumor spread that the end had
come, only to be denied later.
In the presence Of Cardinal Merry
del Val, the papaI secretary, and Car
dinals Ferrata, CagianO and Bisleti,
and the two sisters Of the pope, q
bulletin on the condition of the pOntif
was posted early in the afternoon on
the bronze door Of the Vatican, where
the Swiss guards stood watch A
great crowd outside gazed with grief
stricken faces I'D at the pOpe's cham
Der on the second floor. where the
windows were closed with shades
At the commencement Of the EU-
rOpean crisis he had addressed an ex-
hortation to all the Catholics OF the
world, asking them TO lift their souls
toward Christ, who alone was able TO
aid, and ne called upon the clergy 20
offer public prayers.
Shocked by Warfare.
The break between Austria and Ser
via from the first became 4 source Of
great grief 10 him, for the Vatican was
most friendly toward both nations.
He was inexpressably shocked. he
said, at the assassinati OF Archduks
Francis Ferdinand, the heir to the Aus
tTian throne, who, like all the HapE-
burgs, was an ardent Catholic. and
was sympathetic toward little Seryia,
with which the Vatican had but re-
Gently concluded a friendly coneOz-
dant-
The pope's views on peace, en-
bodied in an aIlOcution delivered at
the cOnsistOTy at which he created
thirteen new cardinals last May. con-
stituted such a remarkable document
that the Carnegie Peace union, found
ed in February by Andrew Carnegie,
with an endowment OF $4,000 900. de-
eided to begin among the clergy OF
the Roman Catholic church its educa-
tional activities in behalf OF disarma-