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Show JOHN W, MAGKAY DEAD The Well-Known American Passes Away in London. HEART FAILURE THE CAUSE Stricken Last Tuesday Ho llad Improved Im-proved Up to Saturday When a Change for tho Worse Occutred He Was Unconscious Most of Day Sunday and the End, Which Was Very Peaceful, Came at Six O'clock Iist Evening-Short Sketch of Ills Life and Career. . K K V. . . t H v H e. . s. t " UN PKANCISCO Jul) 51 '- ti Plags are at half mast ou the K '. Postal Telegrai h company s n . building the Jteichants ex- . change and manj downtown r. K business houses tolay In re- s". . spect to the memoiy of the late V. " lohn W Macka). t 5 K K K . K v. K v. K . v. tt . n y. r, LONDON July ;1 -John W Mnckay of ban l'ranclsio. who his been suffering suffer-ing fiom heart prostration since Tuesday Tues-day list died at hlx residence nt Carlton Carl-ton House terrace at half past 6 o clock last evculn Tho lmnie lite cause of his death was heart ralluic The right lung was found to he congested and tho symptoms symp-toms Indicated pneumonia Mrs Mick iv. her mother and Countess Coun-tess Telfener were present with Mr. .Maekay when he died and Prlncesa Oalltro Colonra arrived from Paris half an hour after her stepfathers death The remains of Mr Maekay will be taken to New York for Interment In Oieenwood cemeter, Brooklyn The exact date for the removal of the body and the arrangements foi the funeral will not be decided upon till the ar-llval ar-llval in London of bis son Clarence Maekay, who sallcj from New lork on last baturdaj Mrs John W Maekay is quite prostrated pros-trated vvlth grief. The afternoon newspapers as well as the morning papers, ptlnt long obituaries obit-uaries of Mr. Mackaj. |