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Show FOREIGN. Ill holiness, nit; POPE. DtMilti ii nd Lttmt iVIoiiieiilB of fop I'io Biouo. DYING Home, 7. The coodilion ol the pope changed seriously for the worae during the night, and his holiness has already received the last sacraments. sacra-ments. The cardinal vicar has been Bum raoned to the Vatican, and an order has been given to prevent auy per-' sou not specially authorized from having access to the pope's apartments. apart-ments. Egress from the Vatican is also prohibited: . foreign cardinals have been summoned by telegraph to Rome. DEAD. fThe pope died at 3 o'clock this afternoon. The conclave will be called together immediately. (j p.m. The pope died at 4.57 this afternoon, Tho correspondent of the Cologne G zelLo is of the opinion that Cardinal Cilio has a greater chance than anyone any-one else of succeeding the popo. He had great influence with Pus IX and is consequently treated with great respect re-spect by all officials of the Vatican. The correspondent describes him as an euterprising, daring and energetic 1 man, 58 years of age, and believing 1 firmly and implicitly in the syllabus. He has none of tne indecision of pur ' pose which characterizes many of his colleagues. He is a man to burn his ships behind bim. The idea of holding hold-ing the conclave abroad originated with him and he is exerting all his power to remove the difficulties which stand in Ihe way of his plan being carried out. It is his desire to wander over the earth us an exiled pope, inciting the laithful everywhere to rise iu suppurt of his cause, and that ot the church. Already be is in communication com-munication with the ultramontanes iu every country on the subject, and he is a man well fitted to carry out such a prrject. The matter is the more serious, the writer aonoludes, because there is nothing in the holy oollege to jOpDosft this well defined plan and i nm resolution. SIT WOUND ED BY PAPAL DIONITABIE3. I Rome, 7. The pope's legs were eo much better yesterday that he was able to walk a few steps. It is believed ibie exertion was fatal. The change for the worse occurred at 4 o'clock In ' the morning, when the death agony j commenced. The 'cardinals were assembled in council in the next Iroom, but all together, with the dignitaries dig-nitaries of the papal court, were at his bed lid e at the moment of death. Cardioal Panebianco administered the last sacraments. King Humbert con- ct-.nHj IV. i imuimniluu. ! AROUND THE VATICAN. No prje is now admitted to the Vat ican, except the pontifical chamber- . lains, who are charged with the office of guarding the corpse. Monsignor imeoni, the cardinal secretary of , state, has ordered the Osservatore 1 Romano, daily organ of the Vatican, to suspend publication until to morrow. I The city Is perfectly tranquil. The authorities have taken all measures they deem neoeesary to prevent' an approach to the Vatican. NO DOUBT OF IT. London, 8. There can be no doubt ol ihe popa'B death. The mornipg journal fully confirm tho previous reports. OFFICIALLY ANNOUNCED. Rome, 7. News of the pope's! death has. already been officially announced. At 8 o'clock on Wednesday Wednes-day uight the pope felt a sudden Euflbcation. Ha rallied several times, hut Baid to his physicians, "death wins this time," He wis alturnately lucid and wandering. His last moments were lucid, He said: "Guard the church I loved so well and sacredly." The immediate cause of death was the closing of the wound in tho log, which made humors mount iDto the luugB and brain. TJIE CONCLAyE. The conclave has commenced.! , Cardinal Simeoni has demanded j troops and government has acceded to hid request the ambassadors no- ' credited to tho Vatican have gone in a body to view tbecorpse. The Italian government insures I he indi-pendence of the conclave and offers any services that Cirdinal Simeoui may dum.uid. I THE HOUR OF DEATH. , London, 8. There seems to bo , considerable conflict of statement as j to the actual hour of the pope's death. A Times' dispatch Irom Rome states that at 3 o'cluck in the afternoon aa I official dispatch was sent to the cham-iberof cham-iberof deputies announcing that the pope djed at 2.30 p.m. Up to sunset the hour of death was still uncertain. HiB death was denied by the Vatican partisans, although they agreod that tho pops was dying or could not livo I through the day. Sacrament was I exposed in tit. Peter's, but covered with a white veil only. The veil was i to be removed after the pope's death, j The veil was not removed at 5 p.m., . possibly from the vain desiro to con-jOeal con-jOeal the event, J SUPERFLUOUS PREOAUTION. The barracks surrounding the Vatican are crowded with troops. This precaution is superfluous. No other movement excepting that, of curiosity is perceptible among the peo pie. Ihe ranLiella positively auuouuces that the popo ditd 5,45 p.m., while a Reuter telegram says 4.57. A special dated Home, Thursday night, says at 3 p.m. the pope was in arttcul'u myrlis. He appeared dead lo all but his physiciana, who could detect a f ebl oscillation of the heart In all the churchei the sacrament haa been exposed. I O EKU K V AND THE CONCLAVE. A Berlin dispatch Baya: It i8 safo to any Germany's conduct towards the conclave will b one of absolute noninterference, non-interference, it not of indiUerence. THE BUCCEBSOfi. A Borne correspondent of tho ! Times says a report ig jn circulation that Cardinal jjj Pietro has been elected popo bv Reclamation, but is not believed. The cardinal is young rttltl highly thought of, liberal and conciliatory, con-ciliatory, but unlikely to have many votes. |