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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 a brothers
love and sympathy his last sad fight; and his
associates of the senate and house, prospect
i've of party, awaited in reyerent 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 confdentially to one Of
Gen. Logan's brother senators that unless
a reaction should set in within t~wenty-fodr
hours he would have no hope of his patents
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
DE. ldL1llGOu w a ISIJSNCu ny H. DdAbC
shortly after 8 O'Clock he abandoned all hope
of recovery. His Vigils during the night
were shared by Gen. Beale, Gen. Grants
most intimate friend in Washington, and
Representative Symes of Colorado. The Turk
ing tendency to brain complications, which
had been present in q greater or less deg rec,
and constantly increasing in severity during
his entire illness, had prepared his friends TO
- NJ Al 1rs Tho ronlrinr ,oafno xuhich 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 A
o'clock this morning his condition was such
as to cause greatfear of his immediate death.
After this ne rallied somewhat. and at the
consultation which was held at 8 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-
coyery. The physicians again met in con-
sultation at 1:30 p. m, when it was appar-
emit that the patient was rapidly sinking and
could live but a few hours At 2 o'clock the
general revived sufficiently - recognize his
1 WIG WAO hAc OCCiA az AlO bCICi0 hi0
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-
seriousness. He then YEARLY closed his eyes
and sank again into a iethargic sleep, from
which he never awoke. While the public
has been aware for q 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 carria GEES of sympathetic
callers have occupied the space In front OF
Calumet place, while hundreds of pedes-
TRANS have cIibmed the hill upon which the
Logan mansion stands, to ask If 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 fanny
and the most intimate friends that all hope
had been abandoned From 2 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 ATHLETIC
could be imagined--no scene so sacred car
adequately be portrayed. In the outbursts o.
her sorrow she repeatedly calculated: @Ht
was true In every thought and deed Of BIZ
life. The inmost act OF his life could be ex'
mined with honor to him. Those around
the deathbed understood fully that this re
mark and others Of similar character ~referret
TO the charge that Gen. Logan had not beer
true to Gen. Grant, and q painful rumor wal
circulated that one OF the physicians had
ascribed the cerebral trouble which yrove(
the most dangerous feature Of the g~enerall
illness to his brooding over this matter in hi
weakened condition or health As the da,
wore on. and the news Of the senator's hope
less condition spread. ness1y every membei
OF the senate and house of representative
remaining in the city called TO ascertain b.
personal inquiry the truth OF the sad intelli