New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1886-12-29

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DEATH OF GEN. LOGAN.
HIS LAST HOURS
WASHINGTON, Special Telegram, Dec. 90
At three minutes of 3 o'clock to-day the
soul OF John A. Logan, patriot. soldier and
senator. passed to his rest The wife and
children with whose life his own was SO
closely knit were by his bedside, and re-
| ceived the last fickers Of intelligent recogni-
ton that his pain-racked brain was permit
ted to give. The chief of the army OF the
nation in whose service he had achieved
such gallant deeds watched with brother
love and sympathy his last sad fight; and his
associates of the senate and house, prospect
i've of party, awaited in reverent awe the
end which all alike deplored. When Sur
geon General Hamilton entered upon his all
night vigils by the sick mans side last
night he stated confdentialy to one of
Gen. Logans brother senators that unless
reaction should set in within twenty four
hours he would have no hope of his pa tents
recovery. Through the long watches of the
night the physician watched in vain for some
symptom to indicate that the terrible pres
sure on the brain which was drawing the
life blood away from the heart had relaxed
but all through the night the condition re-
manned unchanged except for the worse, the
fever and restlessness increasing, and when
Dr. Hamilton was relieved by DR.. Baxter
shortly after 8 O'clock he abandoned all hope
IF recovery. His vigils during the night
were shared by Gen. Beale, Gen Grants
most intimate friend in Washington, and
Representative Symes of Colorado The lurk-
ing tendency to brain complications, which
had been present in a greater or less degree,
and constantly increasing in severity during
his entire illness, had prepared his friends to
expect the worst. The racking pains which he
suffered during the early days of his illness
yielded to treatment, but left him in a weak
and exhausted condition from which he
never rallied, and upon which the fever
preyed with increasing violence until the
hour Of his death After last midnight his
pulse grew weaker and weaker, and at 4
,, o'clock this morning his condition was such
!, as to cause greao fear 81 his INN ediate death;
After this he rallied somewhat, and at the
consultation which was held ats o'clock this
morning his pulse was found to be
somewhat stronger, but his general condition
was not such as to give hope of ultimate re-
sultation at 1 80 p. NJ, when it was appar-
ent that the patient was rapidly sinking and
could live but a few hours At 2 o'clock the
general revived sufficiently to recognize his
wife, who has been at his bedside night ana
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 manifestation of con-
Ito hon vii
and sank again into a lethargic sleep, from
| which he never aWoke. While the public
has been aware for week or more that Gen.
Logan was confined to his room with rheu-
matism, many even of his most intimate
friends were as late as Yesterday afternoon
unsuspicious of the serious character of the
attack, and to the masses the announcement
in this mornings papers that the states
man lay at deaths door brought
a shock Of sorrowful surprise.
All day long the carriages of sympathetic
callers have occupied the space in front OF
Calumet place, while hundreds of pedes-
TRANS have clibmed the hill upon which the
| Logan mansion stands, to ask it it were true
! that all hope was past. At 8 o'clock a con-
sultation OF all three physicians, Doctors N.
S. Lincoln, Baxter and Hamilton was held
and then it was announced to the family
and the most intimate friends that all hope
had been abandoned From in the morn
ing until the sad end came the senator's de
voted wife lay by him on the bed seeking by
every term OF endearment to arouse some
spark of returning vitality.
NO SCENE MORE PATHETIC
could be inlagined-no scene so sacred cal
adequately be portrayed. In the outbursts O
her sorrow she repeatedly ejaculated: sHt
was true in every thought and deed of hi
life The inmost act OF his life could be ex
amined with honor to him. "Those aroun(
the deathbed understood fully that this re
mark and others of similar character referred
to the charge that Gen. Logan had not beer
true to Gen. Grant, and q painful rumor wa
circulated that one OF the physicians ha.
ascribed the cerebral trouble which prove,
the most dangerous feature of the general
illness to his brooding over this matter in hi
weakened condition of health. AS the da
wore on, and the news of the senator's hope
less condition spread, nearly every membe
OF the senate and house of representative
remaining in the city called to ascertain b
personal inquiry the truth OF the sad intelli
gence. Senator Cullom, with his wife an
daughter, was the earliest to arrive Sen
ators Allison, Voorhees,. Wilson, Blair an
Dolph remained until the last The repre-
sentatives from Illinois, Thomas, Payson
Henderson. Townshend, Hit and Syringe
were present Senator Cockrell and wife Q
Missouri entered the chamber of death as th
: last breath was being drawn, and Sen
ator Warner Miller and wife were i
waiting in the reception room below
Gen. Green B. Haum, Gen. Logan's fas
friend in the army in congress and in CIV
life, arrived about IL o'clock and was close
" followed by Gen. Sheridan, both remain
ing deeply moved attendants at the bedsid
of their comrade until all was over. At Ia