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Show BRAZIL'S PRESIDENT DEAD. Was One of Dom Pedro's Ministers Who Had Risen to the Presidency. Rio de Janeiro. Dr. Alfonso Mo-, reira Penna, president of Brazil, died on June 14. He was stricken with influenza on June 2, and although quite seriously ill for a time, improvement im-provement was noted on June 6, which continued until Saturday. The president, then suffered from relapse, and there were marked pulmonary and gastric symptoms. Dr. Penna was elected (o office by universal suffrage in the twenty federated fed-erated states in 190G. and assumed office November 15 of that year. His term would ihave expired in 1910. He was a native of the state of Minas Geraes, and his success was the outcome out-come of a coalition of the principal states against Sao Paulo, which has supplied all past presidents. Dr. Penna was one of Dom Pedro's ministers min-isters who accepted and supported the republic after its proclamation of independence. He had been president of his state and governor of the Bank of the Republic of Brazil. He was vice-president of the republic and president of the senate at the time of his election to the chief magistracy. |