Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1886-12-27

LOGAN DEAD,
Senator John A. Logan Suddenly Called
Away
AT 9:67 YESTERDAY AFTERNOON.
The End Sudden and Completely Un-
expected.
FEVER AND BRAIN COMPLICATION
FEVER AND BRAIN COMPLICATION
And q Weakened Condition from 0yerwork
the Cause.
THE GENERALS S SENSITIVE SYSTEM.
Interviews With Prominent Men, nclud-
ing Mr.. Blaine.

his family and friends, had not been un-
expected by his physicians for some days.
The lurking tendency to brain complica-
ton, which had been present in q greater
or less degree, and constantly increasing
in severity during his entire illness, had
prepared them to expect the worst. The
raeking pains which he suffered during the
early says of his illness, yielded to treat
ment, but left him in weak and exhaust
ed condition, from which he never rallied,
and upon which the fever preyed with in
creasing 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 imme-
diate death. After this he rallied some
what, and 1t 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 rs to
give any hope of ultimate recovery. DIR.
Baxter relieved DIR. Hamilton at the con-
cluSiOn of the consultation and continued
in constant attendance until the Generals
death. Tho physicians again met in con-
sultatiOn at 1:S0 p. H., when it was
apparent that the patient was rapidly
sinking and could live but q few hours.
At two o'clock the General revived suffi-
ciently to recognize his wife, who has been
at his bedside night and 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 CONSCIOUS
NESS.
He then wearily closed his eyes and
sank again into q lethargic sleep from
which he never awOEe.
While the public has been aware for a
week or more that General Logan was
confined to his room with rheumatism
many of even his most intimate friends
were as late as yesterday afternoon unsus-
picious 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 a
shock OF SOrrowful surprise. All day long
the carriages of
SYMPATHETIC CALLERS
have occupied the space in front of Calu-
met Place, while hundreds of pedestrians
of all walks in life, have climbed the hill
upon which the Logan mansion stands, to
q . haA oil tra
passed.
Among those who thus actively express
their grief and sympathy were: Secretary
and Mrs. Whitney, Secretary and Mrs.
Manning, Senator's Ransom and Walthall,
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 Sheridan, Professor
and Mrs. Bell, Senator and Mrs. Payne,
Justice Matthews, Senators Voorhees,, Blair,
Harris and WhitthCTne, Senator and Mrs.
Miller, and Congressman 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 Conkling, ex-
pressing his
INABILITY To CREDIT THE REPORTED
Of danger and asking for inior-
nation.
Though the doctors have given no word
of hope during the day, yet the attendants,
rs late as this noon, refused to give full
rredence TO the alarming bulletins and
to inquirerS something Of the
chances Of the sufferer, and the united
skill of the physicians would bring a re-
yival Of vitality su ufficient to dominate the
insidious poison in his frame. But, after
noon no one ventured To express hope
that the Sufferer would last during the
day.
Intimate friends gathered with the
GRIEF-sTRICKES AND ALMOST FRANTIC
relatives about the bedside, while in the
spacious hall and parlors below, sad
faced throng remained in hushed expect
sncy. The stifled sobs of the wife and
children and the inartieulate utterances Of
the diving man, were audible at times
throughout the mansion. At five min
utes before three DIR. Baxter came out of
the sick room 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 mourn
ers, and with its end,
ENDED THE LIFE OF THE WARRIOR
STATESMAN.
Among those at the bedside of the dying
man were Senator and Mrs. Cullom and
daughter, General Sheridan, Senator and
Mrs. COckrsll, General Raum, Congress
men Henderson and Thomas Of Illinois,
and Mrs. Thomas, Senator Miller and
wife, Congressman LymeS, DR.. Baxter,
General Henry Strong, and Daniel Shep-
ard and wife, of Chicago, and the Generals
private secretaries, W. B. Taylor and Al
bert 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. Lo-
gan, Jr., and Rev. DR.. Newman. Oppo-
site these were the daughter, Mrs Tucker,
and her husband, and George A. Logan,
the Generals nephew.
The scene" said DE- Baxter, ''was one
of the Saddest that / have ever witnessed.
All present were deeply affected. The
grief of Mrs. Logan and her children was
pitiful in the extreme"
It is stated that the Generals body viii,
no doubt, be taken
To ILLINOIS FOR BURIAL
but no definite arrangements for the funer-
al will be made until Mrs. Logan, who is
wholly prOstrated, can be consulted Sem
ator Cullom, who was at the dying mans
side continuously from last evening, was
requested to temporarily take charge Of
matters. He sent at once for the Deputy
of the Senate, who, upon
his arrival half an hour later, entered upon
the usual preliminary arrangements for
the funeral by summoning an undertaken