Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1886-12-31
DEATH OF JOHN A. LOGAN.
The Sudden Summons of the Noted
Soldier and Statesman.
Consciousness Returning a Few Min
utes Before the End. He RecOg
nizeS His Wife.
Sad Scenes at the Dying Mans Bed
side.

Sad Scenes at the Dying Mans Bed
side.
! WASHINGTON, Dec. 26.-John A. Logan
! died three minutes before o'clock this
! afternoon. His death, which came with
| startling suddennesSl to his family and
| friends, had not been unexpected by his
| physicians for some days. The lurking
| tendency to brain com plications, which
! had been present, in greater or less, and
| constantly increasing in severity during
| his entire illness, had prepared them to
| expect the worst. The rackipg which he
| had suffered during the early days of his
| illness, yielded to treat ment, but left him
| in 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 o'clock this morning his
condition was such as to cause great fear
of his Immediate death. After this he
rallied somewhat and at the consultation
| which was held at 9 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-
covery.
The physicians again met in consElta-
tiOn at 1:30 o. H., when it was apparent
that the patient was rapidly sinking and
could live but a few hours. At 2 o'clock
the general revived sufficiently to recog-
nize his wife, who has been at his bed
side night and day during his entire i'll
ness. 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 consciousness.
He then wearily closed his eyes and sank
again into a lethargic sleep from which
he never awoke.
sORRowFUL SHOCK.
While the public has been aware for q
week or more that Gen. Logan was CON
fined to his room with rheumatism,
many of his most intimate friends were,
as late as yesterday afternoon, unsus spic-
ious of the serious character of the at
tack; and to the masses the announce
ment in this mornings papers that the
statesman lay at deaths door brought
shock of sorrowtul surprise. All day
long the carriages of pathetic callers
have occupied the space in front of Cal
umet place, while hundreds of pedes-
trians have climbed the hill upon which
the Logan mansion stands, to ask if it
were true that ell hope was past. Among
those who actively expressed their grief
and sympathy were Secretary and Mrs.
Whitney, secretary and Mrs. Manning, Sen
ators Ransom and Nathau. Gen. and Mrs
Cockrell, Mr.. and Mrs. Bancroft Davis,
Gen. Malone, Senators Platt, Mitchell
and Eustis, ConCressmen HIT and Symes,
of Colorado, 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 Con-
gressmen Burrows and Townsend.
Scores of kilograms of coincidence have
h-rz. rsoei.a9 Curing the aay from al!
parts of the country, including ex-Sen-
ator COnkling, who expressed his inabiI-
lty to credit the reported imminence of
the danger and asking for information.
Though the doctors have given no word
of hope during the day, yet the atten-
dants, as late as this noon, refused to
give full credence to the alarming bull
.etlns, and whispered to the inquirers
something the chances that the sturdy
frame of of the sufferer, and the consult
ing physicians, would bring a revival of
vitality sufficient to denominate the insid-
ious poison in his frame.
But, after noon, no one ventured to
express a hope that the sufferer would
last during the day. Intimate friends
gathered with the grief-stricken and al
most frantic relatives about the bedside,
while in the spacious hall and parlors be-
low a sad faced threng remained in hush
ed expectancy. The stifed sobs ofts
wife and children and the inarticulate
utterances eff the dying man were aud
INfa al tipaa thrnnrhnnt tho
At five minutes before DR.. Baxter came
out of the sick room, and said to one
who was waiting for intelligence: 'Simp-
ly say he is dying" Then the voice of
prayer at the bedside rose above the
sobs of the stricken mourneTs, and with
its end ended the life of the warrior
statesman.
AT THE DYING MANS BEDSIDE.
Among those at the bedside of the dy-
ing MAJ were Senator and Mrs. Cullom
and daughter; Gen. Sheridan, Senator
and Mrs. Cockrell, Gen. Raum, Congress.
man Henderson and Thomas, of Illinois.
ana Mrs. Thomas; Senator Miller and
wife; Congressman Symes, of Colorado;
DR.. Baxter, Gen. Henry Strong, and
Dasiel Sheppard and wife, of Chicago,
and the generals private secretaries, W.
B. Taylor and Albert Hall.
At the head of the bed knelt Mrs. Lo-
gan, one arm encircling her dying hus-
bands neck, the hand of the other strok-
ing his forehead. At her side were John
A. Logan Jr., and the Rev. DR.. Newman.
Opposite these were the daughter, Mrs.
Tucker, and her husband, and George Lo-
gan, the generals nephew.
The scene" said DIR. Baxter, "was one
of the saddest l have ever witnessed. All
present were deeply affected. The grief
of Mrs. Logan and her children was pitt
ful in the extreme"
1t is said that the generals body will, no
doubt, be taken to Illinois for burial, but
no definite arrangements for the funeral
will be made until Mrs. Logan can be con-
suited.
Senator Cullom, who was at the dying
mans side continuously from last eve.
ming, was requested to temporarily take
charge of matters. He sent at once fo-
the deputy sergeant-at arms of the sen
ate, who, upon his arrival, half an hour
later, entered upon the usual preliminary
arrangements for the funeral, by sum-
moning an undertaken and telegra phing
to the sergeant-at-arms and to others at a
distance.
Gen. Logan's system was very sensi-
tive to weather changes of q particular
kind and be has often been heard to say
in half iocnlous way that he believed
he could accurately forstell the coming
of snowstorm The seeds of his dis
order were sown during the war; mis- first
attack of rheumatism having immediate
ly followed tae end of & twenty four
hours march through q binding snow
storm. His last attack, too, resulted
from a brief exposure TO the snowstorm
of s fortnight ago, and his death preced-
ed by but few minutes the beginning
of q heavy furry, which though brief.
covered the earth with thick carpet of
white.
WISCONSIN GENERAL NEWS.
The G1and Army post aud the military
company at Waupun are preparing to
erect an armory.
The electric light plant at Marinette is