The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-04-23
GRANTS CONDITION
NOT MATERIALLY CHANGED FROM
THAT REPORTED YESTERDAY.
Recent Negotiations Between the
United States and Spain
Give Rise to Much Dissatisfaction
Among the Cubans.
A Southern Editor Stirs Up a Fuss
for Old Jeff. Davis.
Kingman, Kansas, Visited by Terrible
and Disastrous Flood,
Which Washes Away Houses and De-
stroys Several Lives.
Recent Negotiations Between th
United States and Spain
Kingman, Kansas, Visited by Terrible
and Disastrous Flood,
Which Washes Away Houses and De-
stroys Several Lives.
The Doctors Disagree.

NEW YORK, April 19.-There is un.
solved mystery in the case OF Gen. Grant.
Rumors are plenty, and too wild IN their
nature to be even negatively published;
theories are varied and ingenious, but
the certainties are quite sufficient to estab
lish the fact that something concerning
the patient is concealed. There is, to be-
gin with, inharmoniousness among the
four physicians engaged. They are:
Douglas, the family doctor in regular
charge OF the case; Shrady, specialist
in cancerous and other diseases of the
blood; Sands, a surgeon OF considerable
fame, and Barker, an old practitioner of
wealth and standing. Douglas and
ShradV are susceptible of valuable
promotion In their profession
through the advertising Inciden-
tai to their connection with so public q
matter, and there are symptoms of
antagonism between them arising
from competition IN the getting
of personal mention in the reports.
Sands and Barker are associated with
them for consultation only, and neither
has, from first to last, signed his name to
any one of the numerous bulletins issued
by Douglas and Shrady. When Barker
was asked for the reason of this, he re-
piled: ut is not essential that four names
should be attached to those statements
two are quite enough, are they not ?''
Pressed to answer the explicit question
whether those bulletins hid more than
they revealed he took an impregnable po-
sition behind professional etiquette, and
| declined to say word for publication.
DIR. SANDS INTERVIEWED.
| G.pdo TUaS q IifiIa m nro rayalofOru
tor he said There has at no time been
any immediate danger of the general
| dying You newspaper gentlemen have
| sensationallzed the case"
| But the published accounts have
been altogether based on the bulletins
and other assertions of Drs. Douglas
and ShradY," was urged, land surely
those gentlemen ought to know what
they are talking about"
"Oh, yes, they ought to-" and here
there seemed suggestion of irony.
"But do they not?"
"StOp, now; you certainly don't ex
pect me to criticise my professional as
sociates."
However, to distinguished physician
within few days, Sands expressed hi
condemnation of the manner in which
some facts in the case mad been exagger
ated and others suppressed. Still an
other significant thing Is the refusal o
the physicians to tell what medicine
are administered beyond the morphin
and cOcoaine that are used to deadeI
pain and induce sleep. If the treatmen
were ascertainable, the nature and pro
gress OF the disease would be clear Il
any medical man,
"Do your bulletins tell the entir
truth gu Shrady was asked.
"They state nothing that isn't exactl
true" was the reply.
BRIGHT HOPES.
There is an expectation, at all event: