River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1881-08-04
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WASHINGTON.

Col. J Ohm G. BURCH, secretary Of the
I'm tied States senate, died at his residence
in w ashington, OF heart disease.
TWELVE appointments as postmaster
| await the presidents action, which is the
only interruption to the business of that
department caused by the assassination.
IT is denied, upon the authority of his
| minister at Washington, that the king of
the Sandwich islands is attempting to sell
out his title to his country. He il travel
ing to induce emigration to Hawaii.
THE presidents wound continues to dis
! charge patches of cotton and wooden. cut
from his clothing by the bullet, and a
piece of bone slivered from the rib also
came out. The patient fears that the ball
may have permanently injured his spine,
making him cripple.
TIE postmaster general warns post
masters that their accounts must be for
warded to the auditor of the treasury inn
mediately after the close of every quarter.
The new chieftain is intent upon making
lis department self-sustaining, when he
| proposes to advocate reduction of letter
| postage to two cents.
THE presidents physicians have agreed
/ to submit to no more interviews and to
make no more public statements other
| than those contained in the official bull
letIns. This course is caused by the fact
| that what has been said to reporters has
been misrepresented.
THE fact that the presidents wound is
| freely discharging pus is considered a
| healthy sign, and the fear that py@mla
/ had set in il allayed. DR.. Hamilton, the
| eminent surgeon of New York, will re-
/ main with the patient now until he is out
! rf Aanuar Ilr RiiGa hos i,i5
tive opinion that the president will re-
/ cover.
| GUlTEAU seems to be rather pleased than
| otherwise with his present quarters. He is
afraid that if he should get outside the
| prison walls he would be meted out
| speedy Justice. The other day when ask
ed to 90 down into the warden's office he
very reluctantly consented, fearing that it
was ruse TO get him into the peoples
| hands. The cOwardly scoundrel yet ex-
| presses wish that the president may die.
ITwas found that the cooling apparatus
| kept the presidents temperature uneven,
and it was ordered out of the room. Ex-
| periments have been made with the cleo
| trical indicator upon an inmate of the
| Soldiers Home. who carries a bullet in
| his body, and Drs. Agnew and Bliss were
| convinced that the machine will disclose
the location of a ball if it be within two
/ inches of the surface.
| THE presidents surgeons have conclud-
| ed that the flow of pus from the wound
was not sufficiently free. DR.. Bliss insert
| ed his finger in the original wound and
prepared it TO receive a larger drainage
pipe. He discovered two small splinters
of the rib, which he removed with pair
Of forceps. The patient then took twelve
ounces of milk and the same quantity of
beef juice, and rested quietly.
THE consulting physicians, Drs. Ham
ilton and Agnew, were summoned to
| Washington, and il was decided to open a
new channel for the discharge of the pus.
Such channel was made by cutting an
| opening from the exterior of the back to
| the track of the bullet at a point near
where the stOppage of the flow had taken
| place. The result was entirely satisfac-
| tory. The pus began to flow out from the
| new opening the fever receded, and there
was an immediate change for the better.
THE examination made by the presi-
dents physicians during the past few DAYS
! seem to have convinced them that the ball
did not penetrate the liver, that it is not
| located in the interior wall OF the alb
| domen, and that it did not pass through
the abdominal cavity, but went dow
| afterward after it struck the rib and is
now located in the right lilac fossa the
cavity between the point of the hip-bone
and the ribs which contain the smaller in
! tCstines.