Show ALTGELD STRICKEN AT AI PRO ALLY DIES FROM APOPLECTIC ATT ATTACK CK I Address oc o Former V For an Arraign nt ent of For Her Herr r of Kruger's Sub Sub- Health ts Bad for Years I March 11 Former H.-Former Gov- Gov died ded at the Hotel morning at r 09 o'clock speaker I iRas lEri was the principal mass ss meeting last night theatre theatre- A At t the close of his ide d dizziness seized him ass sted ted from the stage us ed and continued 1 hour bour ir The meeting pro- pro not realizing what I. I were ere summoned and Mr d to the hotel across Ie ii r consciousness e men to keep et for or fear lear of alarming before midnight he hels ls Ious He remained In in l until death At 3 41 this s thought he had bad died but n nd from that time until l e Jend end nd showed wonderful igl he made no move a Banquet m nn n here had a banquet which Dr J J. B B. Herrick r College of Chicago ture ture tule on heart disease He Hes s ans Were called fr m mend Attend end the patient They l i him the remainder of hen ien the nd came they tr ins ms s vigorously to revive t tal al to no purpose The i hIls given as cerebral I 1 there having a been an apo- apo Rf the h brain fn I Et t first was vaa taken to inne in- in ne poisoning pOisoning but it was his hs was due to different different the the brain trouble The Their Theo ir to o hold a post mortem S 'S IQ s wil 11 Ill agree Meeting came came to Joliet Tollet yesterday been advertised as ast astor t tor r for the big Will ill counting coun coun- eting ting He lie confessed that I Ithe the best of health having I ith some apparently h h ailment aUment He- He not H was was- not that hat to interfere with JW wyer ver his great interest st African struggle having l by the announcement success uc ess in the capture of during the address that threw an unusual l e gy y and feeling Into his hisIe hise Ie e colli apse the physicians d a rom rom overstraining hiS hiS' ned nd physical powers powers' th the failure of the Globe Un 1896 in in which he was Altgeld has not been a some months after crash it was feared that s t onlY a question of a al alen l Ev len en n when serving his G Governor vernor his health was vas Ataxia l that he was a I r ataxia his friends U- U Ut But t he rallied although gain again his old vigorous ejer er r the disease marked nd quite recently his grave forebodings L His His mind was just as asas yeas as of old but though willing the flesh was a long life-long friend L wf partner of the former ched hed here this morning 1 Governor vernor died as he had Rhe he cause of the lowly n the speech which was wasis is is last declared that all an I friends of humanity owed a debt of I gratitude to Gov Yates Yate for fOt issuing issuing- a proclamation soliciting assistance for forthe forthe forthe the Boel women and children in their J concentration which th the British are maintaining in South Africa Scored Lord The speaker said the people of AmerIca America America Amer Amer- ica had raised raise a large sum of money with which to relieve the distress of the Bo Boer r women and children but were unable to send it to them because Lord the British at Washington objected to it He further charged that Lord had for years meddled in American affairs It was WiS a speech typical of the old lId Governor who had risen from front the tow towpath towpath towpath path to the chief office of the State was at hand but his voice had all the old od fire and aU alj the old sympathy which had won him tho the hearts of many I persons It was Gov Altgeld who parI pardoned par par- I the three Chicago anarchists and whose views were frequently called anarchistic vet his sincerity was vas questioned questioned questioned ques ques- by few fe Y Mr 11 Darrow Upon his arrival took charge of the body and opened scores of telegrams from all parts of the country coun coun- try Some sent before death had come com asking for early information 1 of the patients patient s- s condition while those that came late expressed the deepest de regret at tie the former G Governors Governor s demise No post post mortem will be he held on the t body of Mr Altgeld The family does not wish it being content with the statement of the physicians t that at he died from cerebral hemorrhage The remains will be embalmed and brought to Chicago late th this s afternoon Career of John ohn P. P Altgeld John Peter Altgeld was born near Berlin Germany December 30 1847 He was vas brought to this when a achild child by his parents who lived on a farm in Rushland county Ohio After a limited elementary education he enlisted enlisted en en- en listed in the volunteer army in 1864 and afterward taught school for several years years- ears In InS 9 he went wert to St St. Louis a great part waYton foot and later taught and studied l law w in northwestern northwest northwest- ern Missouri l be admitted to to the bar tar in 1872 In 1875 he removed to Chicago Chicago Chigo Chi Chi- cago go where he built up a a large practice practice tice I he ha was was an unsuccessful Democratic Democratic Democratic Demo Demo- cratic candidate for Congress In he was chosen Judge of the Cook County County Coun Coun- ty Superior court and in 1890 he became became became be be- came its Chief Chie Justice After serving sering as S Judge for five years he resigned giving giving ing as his reason the necessity of d da- da voting all his time t tp his private business busi busl- n ness ss In 1892 he heVa's Vas Va's was nominated by the Democrats for foi Governor a and ad d during his canvass visited all p parts of the State seeking to meet voters personally as well as by holding public meetings He was as elected by a plurality of f over Joseph W. W Fifer his Republican predecessor The most striking incident of his administration administration administration ad ad- ministration was was his protest against the sending of Federal troops to Chica Chicta- go during the the railway strikes in July 1894 In 1806 1896 he was defeated for re reelection reelection reelection re- re election by John R R. Tanner b by a plurality plurality plu plu- of of- more than During Mi Mr Altgeld's Altgeld s term tern as Governor Governor Gov Gov- ov- ov he pardoned several of the Chicago Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago anarchists who had been convicted convicted convicted con con- of participation in the Haymarket Haymar- Haymar ket riot not in which a number of policemen policemen police police- men nien v were ere killed For this action he was strongly criticised I |