Sir John Is Dead

SIK JOHN MACDOJïAI D. Ottawa, Ont., June 8. - Sir John Macdonald, premier of the dominion, áied Saturday night at 10:15 at EarnsclifEe. He neyer rallied from unoonsciousness and passed quietly away. It was hoped that his consciousness and abillty to take nourishment and sleep untii Friday night would lead to the absorption of the clot of blood resultinff from the original hemorrhaga of the brain, and ultimately by reason of his immense vitality to complete recovery. He died without a qtrugjzle surrounded by Lady MaodonS.ld, Hugh John Macdonald, Mary Miedonald, the only daughter of the dead chieftain, John A. Macdonald, his grandson, Mrs. Stewart, a relativa of the family, and Joseph Pope and Pred White, his secretarles. The official programme of the funeral arrangements is as follows: The body Will be privately moved from Earnsoliffe to the parliament buildings and will lie in state there from 10 o'clock Tuesday morning till the hour of the funeral. The state funeral will leave the parliament buildings at 1 o'clock p. m. Wednesday for St. Alban's church and thence to the Canadian Pacific railway station, whence the body will be conveyed to Kingston. The body will líe in state at the city hall, Kingston, until Thursday noon, when the interment will take place. The premier's death dissolves tho ministry and Canada is without a eabinet. It is now in order for the governor general to cali upon some members of the late cabinet to form a ministry. Who this will bc is of course a mystery as yet, but in all probability Sir John Thompson, minister of justice, will be the governor gcneral's choice. His excellency will thenissue a royal commission empoweriag the new premier to act and appoint the members of his cabinet. Whén this is done the premier will report his decisión to the house of commons and the new government will again live.