The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-12-27

was rapidly sinking, and could live but few
hours. At2 o'clock the General revived sufi-
ciently TO recognize his wife, who had been at his
bedside night and day during his entire lnesa
AS she spoke to him he looked up into her face.
and all who were present knew that he recog-
nized her. This was the last manifestation Of
consciousness. He then wearily closed his eyes
and sank into lethareic sleep, from which he
never woke.
While the public has been aware for a week
or more that General Logan was confined to
his room with rheumatism, many, even Of hts
most intimate friends, were, as late as yester-
day afternoon, unsuspicious of the serious char
acter of the attack, and to the masses the an
nouncement in the morning papers that the
statesman lay at deaths door brought shock
of sorrcwful surprise All day long the car
riages of sympathetic callers have occupied she
space in front of Calumet Place, while hundreds
of pedestrians of all walks in 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 thus actively expressed
their grief and sympathy were Secretary and
Mrs. Whitney, Secretary and Mrs. Manning,
Senators Ransom and Walthal General and
Mrs. Cockrell, Mr.. and Mrs. Bancroft Davis.
General Malone, Senators Platt. Mitchell and
Eustis, Congressman Hit, of Illinois. and
Symes of Colorado General and Colonel Sheri-
dan, Professor and Mrs. Bell, Senator and MIRA
Payne, Justice Matthews, Senators Harris
and Whitthorne Senator aud Mrs. Miller,
Senators Voorhees, and Blair, and Congress
men Burrows and Townshend.
Scores of kilograms of coincidence have been
pouring in during the day from all parts of the
country. among the latest being one from ex-
Senator Conkng, expressing his inability to
credit the reported imminence of danger, and
asking for information. Though the doctors
had given no word of hope during the day, yet
the attendants, as late as this noon, refused Co
give full credence to the alarming bulletins. and
whispered to inquirers something of the chances
that the sturdy frame of the sufferer and tho
united skill of the consulting physicians would
bring revival Of vitality sufficient to dominate
the insidious poison in his frame. But, after
noon, no one ventured to express houe
that the sufferer would last during the day. In
innate friends gathered with the griefstricken
and almost frantic relatives about the bedside,
sad-faced throng remained in hushed expectancy.
The stifed sobs of the wife and children, and the
inarticulate utterances Of the dying man. were
audible at times throughout the mansion. at
2:55 o'clock DR.. Baxter came out of the sck-r
and said to one who was waiting for intelligence.
"Simply say he is dying" Then the, voice of
prayer at the bedside rose above the sobs of the
stricken mourners, and with its end ended the
life of the Notwithstanding.
Among those at the bedside of the dying man
were Senator and Mrs. Cullom and daughter,
General Sheridan, Senator aud Mrs. Cockrell.
General Raum, Congressman Henderson aud
Thomas of Illinois, and Mrs Thomas Senator
Miller and wife, Congressman Symes of Color
ado DR.. Baxter. Gen. Henry Strong and Daniel
Shepard and wife of Chicago, and the Generals
private secretaries, W. B. Taylor and Albert
Hall.
AT the head of the bed knelt Mrs. Logan, one
arm encircling her dying husbands neck, the
hand of the other stroking 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 A.
Logan, the Generals nephew.
1.-THE scene" said DR.. Baxter. twas one Of the
saddest have ever witnessed. All present were
deeply affected. The grief of Mrs. Logan and
her children was pitiful in the extreme"
1t is stated the Generals body will, no doubt.
oe taken to Illinois for burial but no definite ar
rangements for the funeral will be made until
Mrs. Logan, who is wholly prostrated, can be
consulted. Senator Cullom, who was at the dy-
ing mans side continuously from last evening,
ctad 10 fauo ri1p tol1o oho of
matters. He sent at once for she Deputy Ser
geant.at-arms of the Senate, who upons his ar
rival, half an hour later, entered upon the usual
preliminary arrangements for the funeral by
summoning an undertaken and telegraphlng to
the Sergeant-at-arrns and to others at distance
General Logan's system was very sensitive to
weather changes of a particular kind, and he
has often been heard TO remark, in a half jocuar
way. that be believed he could accurately fore
tell the coming of snow storm. The seeds of
his disorder were sown during the war, his first
attack of rheumatism having followed immedi-
atsly the end of twenty-four hour march
through binding snow-storm. His last at
tack. too, resulted from brief exposure to the
snow-storm of fortnight ago. and his death
preceded by but few minutes the beginning Of
heaVy hurry, WHICH, tnough orleI, covered the
earth with thick carpet of white.
Mrs. Logan Completely Frustrated
Special to the Indianapolis Journai.
WAsHINGToN, Dec 26.-At q late hour to-
night no arrangements had been perfected in re-
gard to the funeral and interment. The delay
is owing to the distressed condition of Mrs. Lo-
gan Although tie death was not unexpected to
her, 1t proved great shock when finally it came.
She was completely prostrated. Mrs. Logan had
for three weeks been at work in the
MANAGEMENT Of the Garfield memorial
fair, of which she had been the leading spirit.
and want to the hadside of her husband vvlen h{a