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Show POPE IS SERIOUSLY ILL; HE MAY NOT LIVE LONG - Rome, April 8. -- (Special.) - Ku -j mors are current In Home that Pope IMur Is mar death Although these rumors are indignantly denied, it is at least admitted that his holiness Id far from well. The sedentary life of the Vatican duriug the last ten years has told upon him Pope l'lus Is 7K years old, the sanv age as Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore, and ten years younger than the venerable ven-erable Monsignor Capac-olatio, cardinal cardi-nal bishop of Capua and the dean of the sacred college Thar hia health is impaired Is due not alone to his Bed-pntary Bed-pntary life but to flic many vexed questions of Vatican state raft railing for immediate derision The recent dath of his sister also told upon him Already (here ib talk of the death of the pontiff as something which cannot can-not be long In coming and there is much speculation as to who will be his successor. Among those most prominmitlv mentioned aro Merry Val, Rampolll and Palconio Ra- i poll! verv nearly : i. M ; to but the Austria veto prevented nis election Del val has the disadvantage a (i bi-inu- i Spaniard and a papal sec- gy retary who has irritated several mem- j . hers of the college. Cardinal O'Connell of Boston is alo mentioned as a possible successor. |