Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-08-16


trary, the Presidents unfavorable symptoms
are considered but temporary, and IL is
thought they will soon pass away.
| ANXIOUS GATHERING AT THE WHITE HOUSE.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, Aug.
Is, 113O p m.-Although there has been a
feeling of anxiety at the Executive mansion
all day, no alarm was felt in regard to the
Presidents condition until late this afternoon
The fact that none of the attending surgeons
have entered the business apartments OF the
mansion during the day occasioned unfaVor'
able suspicious which the evening bulletin
proved was warranted. Since that bulletin
was issued, there has been a constant arrival
| of anxious enquirers at the White house. Inc
room of Private Secretary Brown has Deen
crowded all the evening. Among those mrs!
| to arrive were Postmaster General James anu
| Attorney General MacVeagh. After came
| Assistant Secretary of State Hit, secretary
| Window, and Secretaries Kirkwood ana annt,
Second Assistant Postmaster General Ever
First Comptroller Lawrence, Gen. rrdncis Fra asaa A.
| Walker, Associate Justice Harlan, Gen. Sner.
man, Gen. Drum, and many more OF
| prominence. Secretary Lincoln is in New
| York and Secretary Blaine in New Hampshire.
Both of these gentlemen have been comhu-
nicated with by telegraph, concerning Inc
SERIOUS CONDITION OF THE PRESIDENT.
Private Secretary Sweet SAID tonight he ex'
pected Secretary Lincoln to return to WASH
ington tomorrow. One of the attendants
said at 1890 D. m. he did not consider
his condition necessarily alarming, al
though it certainly warranted anxiety.
He had not vomited during the last SIX hours
and that his sleep had been perfectly natural.
In the opinion of the gentleman, everything is
being done for the patient that professional
skill can suggest, and he feels quite sure the
morning will show improvement. The mem
bers of the cabinet left the mansion for their
homes about IL O'Clock, at which hour
the patient was still sleeping naturally
apd quietly. Drs. Bliss and Reyburn remain
at the mansion during the night. Assistant
Secretary Hit deemed 1t advisable, at late
hour tonight, to inform Secretary Blaine OF
the unfavOrable change in the PRESIDENTS
condition, in order that he might return to
Washington.
FLUCTU ATOMS OF HOPE AND FEAR.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-The anxiety re-
gardipg the condition of the President which
BECAME apparent throughout the city soon
after the issuance of the morning bulletin
grew in intensity as the unfavorable indica-
lions of pulse and temperature became the
creasing number of persons. The persistent
irrltabllity of the stomach noted in the bulle-
tins was new phase in The
condition of the patient which
perpleXed and added to the anxiety of some
and lessened the hopes of the most saDguine.
The assurances which came later direct from
the attending physicians to the effect that
they did not feel alarmed at the presence OF
NAUSEA AND VOMITING,
nor, in fact, at the general condition of the
President in the morning, did not allay the
feeling of uneasiness which pre-
vailed throughout the city. The anxiety was
lessened little, if any, by the noon
bulletin, which, although it reported cessa
ton of nausea and decline of temperature,
still recorded more frequent pulse. The de-
crease In temperature was expected as a re-
suit of the usual durnal fever ebb, and when
the fingers recorded ninety-nine it was reas-
suring only 10 the more sanguine. The in
crease of pulse reported by the noon bulletin,
11s, caused a change in the feelings of many
from that of extreme anxiety to
POSITIVE ALARM.
Notwithstanding the assurances which
came from the mansion that the unfavorable
symptoms were but temporary. When the
evening bulletin made its appearance contain
ing Information that the irrtabilty of the
stomach had returned, that he had vomi-
ted three times since l p. m. together
with his admission his condition on the whole
was less satisfactory, the feeling among those
who have watched the progress of the case
closely from the beginning, was apparently
that of greater anxiety and alarm than has
been evinced since the Sunday following the
day on which he received his wound.
EXTREMELY WEAK.
EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON, $50
p. m. Unofficial bulletin.) AT this hour the
news obtained from the attending surgeons is
to the effect that the Presidents wound is
doing very well, and that it is apparently not
the cause of the present trouble. The fact
cannot be concealed that the patient is
extremely weak and that his dsabil-
ity is such as to cause anxiety.
1t has been determined not TO disturb his
stomach by permitting food at present and
pourishment is being administered by means
of injection. The surgeons explain the difi
Guilty by asserting the Presidents stomach
has failed to respond as it should, hence the
determination to inject nourishment. There
is decided feeling of anxiety among the
members of the cabinet and attending sur
geons, and at this writing the situation is at
least
VERY GRAVE.
Nothing has been heard from the sick room
during the last hour, and the cabinet officers
are now in waiting to hear the latest news.
Attorney General MacVeagh said, in response
to a question, "We have heard nothing since
the bulletin was issued Weiexpect to hear
something very soon."
GREATEST EXCITEMENT SINCE SHOT.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.-There has been
the greatest excitement here to-day about the
President since the day he was shot. Business
was almost entirely suspended, and people
were running everywhere, hunting for the lates
news. The White house was filled, and throngs
pressed about the gates. The excitement was
started with the morning bulletin which was
considered very unfavorable. The midday
bulletin instead of reasuring the people in
creased the uneasiness, and the night bulletin
made matters still worse. Everybody wanted
to find out what the surgeons thought
of the case and what hopes they had
but this was rather difficult
as the surgeons kept themselves out of sight.
This added to the alarm, and at night the
whole population was on the streets going to
their homes and the White house. The sur
geens remained close by him, and the grounds
at the White house were thronged, but little
could be learned that could be called definite.
Those who had access to the President would
say but little. COL Corbin said the
SITUATION WAS CRITICAL.