Show JOHN P g ALGED DEAD d Former Governor Succumbs to Attack of Apoplexy STRICKEN IN OPERAHOUSE Ho Wac Principal Speaker at a Pro Boor Mass Meeting in Jollet Just as Ho Finished With an Arraign mcnt of Great Britain for Trcat t i mont of the Boers He Was Seized With an Attack of Dizziness Became Be-came Unconscious and Death Pol lowed a Pew Hours Later j Jollct Ill March 11 Former Governor Gov-ernor John P Altgeld died at the Hotel Munroe this morning at7OD oclock I Mrl Altgeld Was the principal speaker at a proEoer mass meeting lat night in the Joliet theatre At the close of his I speech a sudden dizziness seized him and he was assisted from the stage Vomiting spells followed and continued for nearly an hour The meeting proceeded pro-ceeded tie audience not realizing what had happened BECAME UNCONSCIOUS Physicians were summoned and Mr Altgeld was carried to the hotel across I I r4ii ti Jolm P Altgeld the street Ho retained consciousness and urged the newspaper men to keep the affair quiet for fear of alarming his wife Shortly before midnight he became unconscious He remained In this condItion until death At 3U thin morning it was thought hehud le but he revived and from that lime until just before the end showed wonderful 1 vltallly although he made no move ALL EFFORTS FAIL The medical men here had a banquet I i banquet last night at which Dr J B Her rick loC l-oC the Bush Medical College of Chicago I delivered a lecture on heart disease He I and other physicians were called from I II I the banquet to attend the patient They I remained with him the remainder of the night When the end came they worked his arms vigorously to revive respiration but all to no purpose The cause oC death Is given as cerebral hemorrhages there having been an apo plep tic seizure of the brain The vomiting at first was taken to Indicate In-dicate ptomaine poisoning but it was determined this was due to different manifestations of the brain trouble Tho physicians desire to hold a postmortem if the relatives will agree ORATOR PROBOER MEETING Mr Altgeld came to Joliet yesterday afternoon having been advertised as tho special orator for the big Will county coun-ty proBoer meeting Ho confessed that he was not In the best of health having been troubled with some apparently simple stomach ailment He was not willing to allow that to Interfere with his speech however his great Interest in the South African struggle having been heightened by the announcement of the Boer success in the capture ot Gen Methuen UNUSUALLY BRILLIANT I was noticed during the addrcss that the former Governor threw an unusual amount of energy and feeling Into his words and the colllnpsc the physicians think resulted from ovcrstralnlnjj his I already weakened physical powers Ever since the failure of the Globo Savings bank In 1SOG In which he woa I involve l Mr Altgeld has not been a J well man and for some months after the Spalding crash it was feared that his death was only a question of i short time Even when serving his last year as Governor his health wag none too good VICTIM OF LOCO OTOR ATAXIA When It I was learned that he was n victim of locomotor ataxla his friends pave him up But ho rallletl although nll101gh he was never again his old vigorous I self Lately however lie disease marked him stronGly nnd nulte recently his appearance caused grave forebodings and oilxlety His mind was Just as clear Irlct active as of old but though his spirit was HUng the flesh was i weak DIED AS HE LIVED Clarence Dnrronr a lifelong friend and later a law partner of tho former Governor cached here this morning He said the Governor died us he had lived pleading the cause of the lowly l Mr Allgcld In the speech which was fated A1geld his lost declared that all friends of humanity owed a debt oC gratltudo to Gov Yates for issuing a soliciting assistance for proclamation the Boer women and children in their concentration camps which the British I oml1s cOlccntrnLon in South Africa I are maintaining Suth lcD II I SCORED LORD PAUNCEFOTB I of America I The speaker said the people A1er of money ica had raised a large sum with which to relieve the dlgtresa oC I wih and children but wei o Boer women chldrcn the unable to send It to them because Lord Pa mcofole the Brlllslt Kmbnssador at wSnSoA It Ho further objected to yaslIilgton tc i SmrScd that Lord Pauncufole had for charged Lrd meddled In American affairs year 1eddle typical of the old I was 1 who speech had risen from the tow Gocrnol the chief office or the StIle to path otCQ iiandfbut hlR voice had Dcath was at haJlfhut all the old fire and all the old sympathy which had won him the hearts or I ninny arrival took manMr Darr0t4 upon hW nlr chargo DarroW or body and opono scores DC telegrams from aU parts oCthc court cath had corn Sonic 60nt beforeAICatlt coml tn Somc or the early Information nalting Tor eah InCormlton patients conditon while those that i = came Into expressed ttieelpopost regret at the former Governors demise No will be held on thO jKistmortem wJ family does The 1 AUgeld fnmly body of Mr lgcld 1ol content with to not wih it being w1h wi1h that lo fctatcmcnt of the physicians thot Jp 6tatCICnt The dld from cerebral hemorrhage and brought I remains will be embalmed and to Chicago late this afternoon 4 ATiTGELDS CAREER John Peter AUgeld was born near Ho December 30 1817 Btrlln Germany 1n countrywhen was brought to this hen3 who lived on 0 child by his parents Chll county Ohio Attcr filim In Rushland OUlty a limited elementary education en I liJUHl 1 In the voluntcur L wny in 1SC1 and 1t ntteruJxcl taught School for several years In 1SG9 he went to St Louis a ar < grc lt part of the way on foot and later taught and studied law In norlhwest MIr < ouri belnff admitted to the elnlIlrsour belfC admited bar In 3872 In 1S73 he removed to Chicago Chi-cago where he built up a largo practice prac-tice CHOSEN GOVERNOR In ISS1 he was 1 unsuccessful Democratic Demo-cratic candidate for Congress In lO lie was chosen Judge oC the Cook Coxm e and In 1SDO ho be t uJ rIO couit came Its Chief Justice After serving 1 l as Judge for five years lie resigned giving giv-ing as his reason tbp necessity of devoting de-voting all his time to his private business f busi-ness In 1S92 he was nominated by the i Democrats for Governor and during Jiis envnss vieltcd all parts of the Stite seeking to meet voters personally C as well asby holding public meetings i He was elected by a plurality oC 23000 over Joseph W Fifer his Republican I predecessor INCIDENT ADMINISTRATION The most striking Incident of his administration ad-ministration was his protest against the sending of Federal troops to Chicago I Chica-go during the railway strikes In July isal In ISJC he was defeated for reelection re-election by John R Tanner by a plurality plu-rality of more Lhan 100000 I I During Mr Altgelds term a Governor Gov-ernor he pardoned several l of the Chicago Chi-cago anarchists who had been convicted I con-victed of participation in tho Haymar ket l riot In which number of policemen police-men were killed For tills action he was strongly criticised BODY TAKEN TO CHICAGO The remains oC exGov AUgcld were taken from Joliet this afternoon on a special train over the lon leaving at 456 oclock for Chicago A delegation ot Jollet cltlzens accompanlcd the i remains re-mains The funeral cortege through the streets was headed by tho Police department Several scores of Joliet citizens representing all parties and professions walked behind the hearse I |