Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1886-12-30

terms OF touching eloquence alludeu 10 the
idehty be had shown to his family, his
friends and his country. As the last words
OF the invocation d ed aw-y the spirit of the
dying soldier passed away. The end was
peaceful in the extreme, scarcely q sigh
marking the close. Death had been mani
testify approaching all the morning. Up TO
three-quarters of an hour of the end the pa
TENTS breathing had been painfully sterto-
rous Then, as Gen. Sheridan expresses it, two
slight explosions took place. apparently in
the threat, and after that the breathing was
as gentle as ehild's, only the increased
rapidity of the respirauons indicated the APP
preaching end, After the bereaved family
had been tenderly led away to yield to the
full measure of their grief in solitude, the
watchers by the bedside descended the broad
oaken stairs and communicated the news
that all was over to the throng awaiting in
the spacious hall ana in the room below.
There was one simultaneous outburst of
grief
At $40 Representative Townshend arrived
with message from Speaker Carlisle that
he held himself in readiness to make any ar
rangemenJ the family desired, and almost at
the same moment the deputy sergeant-at-
arms, James c. Christie, in the absence of
SerReant-a at arms Canady, who has been tele-
graphed for, accompanied by Gen. Arson q.
McCook, secretary of the senate. arrived TO
taxed charge of the remains in the name of
the senate and consult the family when and
where the interment should take place.
Awaiting the time when Mrs Logan might
give instructions in this regard, Undertaken
David Barker was placed in charge. Mr.
Townshend spoke in most feeling terms of
the dead senator sHe was born and mar
ried," he said, lin my county, and Mrs.
Townshend knew him from childhood He
was my predecessor in congress for two
terms before the war. l know there is not a
man, woman or child in Southern Illinois
but will remark this event with profound
sorrow. l know our people will desire to
have him buried there in his own home in
Southern Illinois. but, of course, we must
yield to Mrs Logan's wishes" Said Mrs.
Daniel Shepard: Il never would have be-
lieved how close the general was to the
hearts of his old soldiers il had not seen
what have witnessed here to-day have
sent away people who have begged, with
te.--s streaming down their cheeks, to be al
lowed TO come in and do something
TO assist Said one. He slept under
the same blanket with me Said an
other. i nursed him through rheumatic
fever at Huntsville Ala let me see if can't
do him some good now?' 1t grieved me to
the heart to tell them it was too late, but
these incidents gave me an insight into the
generals character" As the last Of the
watchers who had been SO long by the bed
side left the house, the snow, which had
been all day threatening, began to fall in
heavy flakes and soon made transit difficult
Still hundreds Of inquiries came. The black
Grape on the door bell gave the first tokens
of the sad event to many who were on their
way TO the Logan mansion in the afternoon
to make anxious inquiries as to the generals
condition. But the news of his death soon
spread, not only ever the city, but it was
flashed through the country and,
IRRESPECTIVE OF PARTY,
kilograms poured in from all quarters Rep
resentatiye Springer arrived 10 ask IL steps
had been taken TO notify Gov. Oglesby. This
matter was undertaken by Senator Cullom.
Mrs Logan was SO FRUSTRATED as TO be una
Bile TO see any one. Her son and daughter
bore up as bravely as possible under the or
deal and greeted with saddened faces the
many sympathetic friends whose lips could
but inadequateiy form expressions of the
feelings of the heart Mrs Logan's health is
such TO- might that il has been thought lest
not TO attempt to discuss the subject of the
burial place or the date of the funeral until
Tomorrow Senator Cnllom, who left at
3 o'clot K. cook leave of the family with the
understanding that he was to call early in
the morning. at which time they could make
the funeral arrangements IL is expected
he viii be buried in Chicago The gravest
anxiety is expressed over Mrs Logan's con-
dition. The devoted wife who has watched
through So many weary nights over the bed
side of him who is now dead has stood the
strain nobly. has borne ND as few
other women ever could, but now the
end has come ana the nervous re-
Taxation. the shock has told upon
her In her room with dear friends sur
rounding her she lay, and moaned and
sobbed as though her heart would break.
At times her voice of distress reached the
ears of those below. and the pathos of the
situation was greatly intensified Among
the many kilograms of coincidence We're
those from Gov Alger of Michigan. Col. Dis
lin, A. NJ Jones, Melville E Stone and others
OF Illinois DIR. John p Newman, pastor of
the Metropolitan NJ Z church, where Gen
Logan and his wife attended a number of
years. and who. as already stated was sc
the bedside this afternoon when the senator
died, in his sermon this evening referred
todchingly to his last hours, stating also the
fact that on Sunday, Dec. 8, the general for
the first time partook of the sacrament,
kneeling devoutly, not on the cushioned
step. but upon the floor by his devoted wife,
Gen. Logan's system was very sensitive to
weather changes of a particular kind and he
has often been heard TO remark in a half
iocular way that he believed he could accu-
rately foretell the coming of snow storm
The seeds of his disorder were sown during
the war, his first attack of rheumatism hay-
ing followed Immediately the end of a TWEEN
tv .four-hour march through binding snow
storm. His last attack, too, resulted from a
brief exposure TO the snow storm of a fort
night ago. and his death preceded by but a
few minutes the beginning of a heavy furry,
which though brief, covered the earth with
a thick carpet of white
THE LATEST FROM THE HOUSE OF MOURNING
At midnight Mrs Logan and Mrs Tucker
were sleeping quietly, and Gen. Henderson
and Gen. Beale were the watchers of
the night IL was decided at a late
hour this evening that the Illinois dele
cation would meet at the house tomorrow
afternoon at o'clock and confer with Mrs
Logan about the time and place of burial
No indication can be had as yet as to
whether the place of burial will be Chicago
or not, and Mrs Logan's wishes will of
course control, and the suddenness of her
husbands death has left that question still
unthought Of