Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1885-07-30
Surrounded by His Wife and Chill
dscn His Death il Peaceful
and Painless.
Tributes of President Cleveland
and Hosts OF Others 60 Ills
Invaluable Services.
The Physicians Desire To Make
an Autopsy bat His Family
Will Not Consent.


| ties OF Lis death aud the limit OF life left the
sick man Mrs SaTtors and Stenographei
! Dawson were eonyersing little distance
away, when Henry, the nurse, stepped hastily
| upon the piazza and spoke quietly TO the
| physicians lie told them he Thought the
/ general was very near TO death The med.
| ical men hastily entered the room where the
sick man was lying and approached his side.
Instantly upon seeing the patients face DIR.
Douglas ordered the family 10 be summoned
70 the bedside Haste was made. and Mrs.
Grant Mr.. Jesse Grant and wife. Y. .. Grant,
Jr. and wife aud Mrs Col Grant were
quickly beside the doctors at the sick mans
cot, and Mrs Sartoris and Nh. Dawson bad
followed the doctors in from the piazza, and
the entire family was present
AT THE DspsDE
Col Grant seated himself Mt the head OF
the bed with his left arm resting upon the
pillow above the head OF the general, who
was breathing rapidly, and with slightly
gasping respirntions Mrs Grant, calm, but
with intense agitation bravely suppressed,
took seat close by the bedside. she leaned
slightly upon the colonel. resting upon her
right elbow, and gazcd, with tear stained
eyes, into the generals face. She found
there, however, no token of recognition. for
the sick man was peacefully and palnlessly
passing into another life Mrs Sartoris came
behind her mother. and leaning over her
shoulder, she witnessed the close of life in
which she had constituted a strong element
OF pride Directly behind Mrs. Grant and
Mrs. Sartoris, and "A little distance removed.
stood doctors Douglas Shrady and Sands
as spectators OF closing life their
efforts and counsel had ~ prolonged
On the opposite side of the bed from his
mother and directly before her stood jesse
Grant and Y. & Grant. Jr, and near the cor
ner OF the cot, on the SAINT side as Jesse and
near 10 each. was N. Il Dawson, the generals
stenographer and confidential secretary At
the foot OF the bed. and gazing directly down
into the generals face, was Mrs Col Fred
Grant and Mrs U. \ Grant, Jr., and Mrs
jesse Grant while somewhat removed from
the family circle, Henry, the nurse, and
Harrison 1yrell, the generals body servant.
were respectively watching the closing life
OF their patient their master DR. Newman
had repaired to the hotel for breakfast and
was not present Tho generals little grand
children, U. \ Grant, Jr., and Nellie, were
sleeping the sleep of childhood In the
nursery room above. Otherwise the en-
tire family and household were gath
cred at the bedside OF tba dying man
SUMMONED JUST IN TIME
The members of the group had been sum.
moned not moment sooner than was
prudent Tho doctors noted, on entering
the room Rnd pressing TO the bedside, that
already the pgrplish tiage which was one of
signals of Gn&i DISSOLUTION had
settled beneath tbs finger nails Tbs hand
that DIR. Douglas lifted was fnst growing
colder than 1t had been through the night
The pulse had nuttefed beyond the point
where the physician could distinguish it
from the pulse beat in his own finger tips
The respiration was very rapid and was o
succession Of shallow painting i,ibalatiens,
but toward the close they became less lahored
and almost noisoaess THIS fact was in It's
result comfort To the watchers by the bed
side to whom was spared the scene OF an
agonixiag or otherwise than peaceful
death. The vito almost constantly stroked
tho face, forehead and hands of the dying
and nc times, ns tiae ,s.ssionate long
ing To prevent the event so near would rise
within her, Mrs Grant pressed both has
hands ana leaning forward tcnderly kissed
the face OF che stalking man. Col. Fred
Grant sas silently, but with eyigogt feeling,
son at the deatiibed OF here father Y. s.
Grant Jr, was deeply moved. but Jesse boro
the scene steadily. and the ladies' while
with wet checks, were silent as
beattad the dignity OF 4 life such NJ was clos
ing bsfors them The morning had pissed
five minutes bayoEd o'clock and there was
not one OF
THE STRAINED AND WAITING wAYeHERs
-. -.
tide 10 its iinal ebbing DIR Douglas noted
the nearsass OF the supreme moment and
quietly approached the bedside and bent
above Il, and while be qid 20 the sorrow OF
the grny-haired physician seemed ilasely
allied with that Of the family DIR Shrady
also drew near u was seven minutes after
\ o'clock and the eyes ~ tho general We're
closing. His breathing grew Hore hgshea
rs the LIS. functions OF tho heart and hangs
rcEc sssstoled 20 the closing OF .he TX -presi-
dents life peaceful expression seemed TO
be deepening in the firm and strong lined
lace and Ia ~gs reflected Is q closing CON-
Tort In the sad hearts that beat quickly under
ihs ntress of loving suspense Aminute more
passed aud was closing as the gensTal drowa
ieeper breath There was an exhalatlQn
ike TINT OF ons relieved OF long and anxious
,cnsion The members OF the group were
mpelled each 10 step nearer tbs bed, and
zach waited 20 note the next respirstiop,
but It did not come then. Il never came
There was absolute stlllness la the room
md n hush of expectant surprise. 10 sound
,reke the silence save the singing Of birds In
he pines outside the cottage and the meas
ired breaking of the engine that all night
had awaited by the little mountain depot
Iowa the slope
yBy END OF ALL
at y ali over. quietly spoke Di. Doug
ns, aud then came heavily u eqch witness
he realization that Gen GRAFT Was dead
Then the doctors withdrew; the nurse
,losad the eyelids aud composed the dead
yeneral's head. after which each % the FAM
ly group pressed TO the bedside one after
he other and touched their lips upon the
a4s no lately stalled DIR. Shrady passed
ut upon t4s piazza, and rs he did NO he met
Dr. Newman haste4iFg up the steps "Iie is
Isad.s remarked pr Sigaag quietly. The
act OF hayipg been absept froip the SHE OF
he dying asag aud bis family at the last
was n cause Of sorro0 and regret TO the cler-
lyman. who had awaited all right qt The
cottage lie had been summoned IRAN bss
breakfast moment too late. and reached
he cottage only IN Time TO minister to the
amiiy sorrsy nnd gaze upor the scarcely
rushed lips of the sopcrai, 10 whom DR.
Sewman's loye had bound hil4 w such close
relations
LOOKING RACK
Soon after Drs Douglass aud shrady left
he death bed they converted feelingly Of
he latter hours OF Gem Grants lifs The
pulse first had Indicated failure, and the In
5cliect was last To succumb its clearness and
sonscious tenacity, which occurred after
lest night. though circumstances
It Is o'clock indicated cognizance
DO YOU want anythins, tstherY- questioned
"a Fred At that hour
"wSter,- whispered ths general. hpxk,ly,
But wbe4 offered water aud milk they !
,urgled IN his tlroes and were elected. and
hat one word Of response was the last utter /
.nce OF Cen Grant pr Douglas remarked I
hat the pacallarity Of Gen. Grants death 1
vas explained By the remarkable vitality /
hst scanned to present ma oDstaole " the 1
OF death
10 was gradual passing away ~ the vital .
orces end reflex sonscionsness, tho doctor |