Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1886-12-29
JOHN A. LOGAN DEAD.
Senator Logan Gone to the Land of
Silence-Arrest Of Train Robbers
and General News.
DEATH OF GENERAL LOGAN.

DEATH OF GENERAL LOGAN,
The Warrior Statesman Passes to tn,
Unknown Beyond.
WASHINGTON, December 26.-John A
Logan died at three minutes to tire
o'clock this afternoon. His death, which
came with startling suddenness to his fam
ily and friends, had not been unexpected
by his physicians for some days. A Turk
ing tendency to brain complication, which
had been present in a grea Ger or less degre,
and constantly increasing in severity dur
ing his entire illness, had prepared them t.
expect the worst.
TPE RAcKING PAINS
which he suffered during the early DAYS O
his illness yielded to treatment. but lef,
him in a weak and exhausted condition
from which he never rallied, and upor
which fever preyed with increasing violence
until the hour OF his death. After last
midnight his pulse grew weaker and weake,
and at 4 o'clock this morning his condition
was such as to cause great fears of his i'm.
mediate death. After this he rallied some
what and a consultation was held at g
o'clock this morning. His pulse was found
to be somewhat stronger. but his general
condition was not such as to give any
OPE OF HIS ULTIMATE RECOVERY.
DR.. Baxter relieved DR.. Hamilton at the
conclusion OF the consultation and con.
tinued in constant attendance until the
Generals death. The physicians again
met in consultation at 3 p. m. when it was
apparent that the patient was rapidly
sinking and could live but a few hours. At
9 o'clock the General revived sufficiently to
recognize his wife, who has been Mt his bed.
side night and day during his entire illness.
As she spoke to him he looked up into her
face, and all who were present knew that
he recognized her. This was the last mani
festation of consciousness. He then wear
iy closed his eyes and sank again into a
Iethargic sleep, from which he never woke,
While the public has been aware for a
week or more that General Logan was con.
fined to his bed with rheumatism, many,
even of his most intimate friends, were, as
late as yesterday afternoon, un%suspicious
of the serious character OF the attack, and
to the masses the announcement in
this mornings paper that the
statesman lay at deaths door brought
A SHOCK OF soRRowFUL SURPRISE.
All day long carriages OF sympathetic
callers have occupied the space in front o!
Calumet place. while hundreds of pedes-
TRANS OF all walks OF life have climbed the
hill upon which the Logan mansion stands
to ask if it were true that all hope was
past. Among those who actively expressed
their grief and sympathy were Secretary
and Mrs. Whitney, Secretary and Mrs.
Manning, Senators Ransom and Waltham,
Gen. and Mrs. Cockrell, Mr.. and Mrs. Ban
croft Davis, Gen. Malone. Senators Platt,
Mitchell and Eustis, Congressman Hit. of
Illinois, and Symes, of Colo, Gen. and Col.
Sheridan, Prof. and Mrs. Bell, Senator and
Mrs. Payne, Justice Matthews, Senators
Harris and Whitthorne, Senator and Mrs.
Miller, Senators Voorhees, and Blair. and
Congressman b. Burrows and Townshend.
have been pouring in during
the day from all parts Of the
country, among the latest being one from
EX-SENATOR CoNKLING
expressing his inability to credit the immi-
Though the doctors have given no word OF
hope during the day, yet attendants as
late as this noon refused to give full Gre
dence to the alarming bulletins and whis-
pered to inquirers something about the
chances that the sturdy frame OF the suf-
ferer and the united skill of the consulting
physicians would bringa revival of vitality
sufficient to dominate the insidious poison
in his frame; but after noon no one ven
tured to express the hope that the sufferer
would last during the day. Intimate
friends gathered with the grief stricken and
ALMos FRANTIC RELATIVES
about his bedside while in the spacious
hall and parlors below a sad faced throng
remained in hushed expectancy. The stihed
sobs of his wife and children and the in
articulate utterances ofthe dying man we're
audible at times throughout the mansion.
At five minutes before 3 DR.. Baxter came
out of the sick room and to one who was
waiting for intelligence simply said:
HE Is DYING.
Then the voice of prayer at the bedside
rose above the sobs of the stricken mourn
ers and with it's end ended the life OF the
warrior statesman. Among those at the
bedside of the dying man were Senator and
Mrs. Cu,lom and daughter, Gen. Sheridan,
Senator and Mrs. Cockrell, Gen. Kaum.
Congressmen Henderson and Thomas OF
Illinois and Mrs. Thomas, Senator Miller
and wife, Congressman Symes OF Colorado,
DR.. Baxter, Gen. Henry Strong n
Daniel Shepard and wife OF Chicago. and
the Generals private secretary, and w. !:
Taylor and Albert Hall. At the head OF
the bed knelt Mrs. Logan; one arm encirc-
ling her diving husbands neck and the hand
OF the other stroking his forehead. At her
side were John A. Logan, Jr. and Rev. Dr.
Newman. Opposite were his daughter,
Mrs. Tucker and her husband and George
A. Logan, the Generals nephew. 1.-The
scene," said DR.. Baxter,
"wAs ONE OF THE SADDLE
that | have ever witnessek. All present
were deeply affected. The grief OF Mrs. Lo-
gan and her children was pitiful in the eX-
treme." 1t is stated hat the Generals
body will, no doubt, be taken to LIMOS
for burial, but no definite arrangements Tor
the funeral will be made unit! Mrs. Logan.
who is wholly FRUSTRATED, can be c~onsuited
Senator Cullom, who was at tine dying
mans side continuously last evening was
requested to- temporarily take charge OF
matters. He sent at once Tor the deputy
Serceant-at-Arms of the Senate, who. upon
his arrival. half an hour later, entered
upou the usual preliminary arrangements
for the funeral by ~summoning an under
taker and ~telegraphing to the Sergeant-at,
Arms and to Others at q distance. GeneraI
Locan's system was very sensitive TO
weather changes of a particular KIND, ano
he had often been heard to remark IN a
half ocular way that he believed no couid
accurately ~foretell the coming OF snow
storms. The seeds OF his disorder were
sown during the war, his first attack o,
rheumatism having followed Immediately
at the end OF a tw~enty-four hours marcn
through a binding snow storm. Ills Ias'
attack, too, resulted from a brief exposure
to a snow storm a fortnight ago, ana hls
death preceded but a few minutes the De
ginning of a heavy furry. which, thooen
brief, covered the earth as with q tnich
white carpet.
AMONG HUNDREDS
of EXPRESSIONS regarding Gen. toganf
death the following are selected as SHOWN
the place he held in the estimation OF tnose
with whom he was associated in his daily
and public social life. Avn
Congressman Townshend-"l am over
whelmed with profound grief. Gen. Loga1
was horn, grew up and married IN my a.s
trict. He was my predecessor in Congress !,
don't there is a human Delns !.
Southern illinois who will Q receive .H I'll,
news with deepest sorrow. Our people WI
be very DESTROYS hat he should De our .aI
there, but of course this will DE iel' III
Mrs Iogan tn decide"