The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1886-12-30
PATRIOTS REST.
Gell. ]. A. Logan Dies at 3 O'clock
Yesterday Afternoon,
After Lingering In Intense Pain for
Several Days
OF a Brain Complication Arising
from Rheumatism.
Dea THIS Messenger Comes Whils.Hs
is Unconscious.
City Council Of Chicago Pass Resc
luhons Requesting that
The Remains of Gen. Logan be In
tered in>thst City.

WASHINGTON D. c., Dec. 26-Gsneral
] ohn a. ogan died at three minutes be-
fore 3 O'CLOCK THIS afternoon. His death,
which came with startling
suddenness to his family and
and friends had mot been unexpected by
his physicians for some days. The lurk-
ing tendency to brain complication,
which had been present in q greater or
less degree, and constantly increasing in
severity during his whole Illness, had pre-
pared them to expect the worst.
The racking pains which the senator
suffered during the early days Of his i'll.
ness 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, Alter last
midnight his pulse grew weaker and
weaker, and at O'Clock this morning his
condition was such as 10 cause great fear
of his immediate death. Alter this he
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 WIS
not such as to give any hope of ultimate
recovery. DR.. Baxter relieved DR.. Ham
ilton at the conclusion of the consultation
and continued in constant attendance IN
til the generals death. The physicians
again met il consultation at 80 p. M.
when it WAS apparent that the patient
was rapidly sinking and could live but d
dew hours.
At ? O'Clock the general revived suf1-
cIently To recognize his wife, who had been
at his bedside night and day during his
entire illness. As she spoke 20 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 YEARLY closed his eyes and
sank again into a lethargy from which he
never woke.
While the public has been aware for a
week or more that General Logan was
confined 80 his roopl with rheumatism,
many even of bis most intimate friends
were as late az yesterday afternoon unsus-
picious OF the serious character OF the at
tack, and TO the masses the announcement
In IN 8 mornings papers that the states
man lay at deaths door brought shock
OF sOrrowful surprise. All day long the
carriages of sympathetic callers occupied
| the space In front OF Calumet place, while
hundreds of pedestrians of all walks of
lite climbed the hill upon which the Lo-
gan mansion stands to ask if it were true
that all hope was past. Among
those VINO thus actively expressed
their grief and sympathy were Secretary
and Mrs. Manning, Secretary and Mrs.
Whitney, Senator'S Ransom and Wall
thrslI, General and Mrs. Cockrell, Mr.. and
| Mrs. Bancroft Davis, General Malone,
Senators Piatt, Mitchell and Eastis, Con-
gressmen Hit Of Illinois and Symes OF
Colorado, General and Colonel Sheridan,
Prot. ana Mrs. Bell, Senator aud Mrs.
Payne, Justice Mathews, senators Harris
and " hitJhOrne, Senator ana Mrs. Miller,
Senators Voorhees, and Blair ana Con-
gressmen Burrows ana GoWnshend
Scores of kilograms of coincidence poured
In during the day from ali parts Of the
country, among the latest being one from
ex-senator COnkling expressing his
inability to credit the reported lmmInence
of the death and asking for information
Although the doctors had given no word
OF hope during the day, yet the attendants
as late as IL O'Clock refused to give full
| credence To the alarming bulletins aBC
whispered TO enquirers some thing of IN,
chances that the STURDY frame of the suf-
| ferer and the united skill OF the conzultinI
physicians would bring revival Of vital.
J Gy sufficient TO dominate The insIdIous poi
son ia his frame.
But, after noon, no one Ventured to ex
4 eE,aea NJ
during the day. Intimate friends gathere,
! with the grIf-strIcken and almost franti
4 relatives about the bedside, while in tn,
spacious nall and parlors below q sad
faced throDg remained in hushed expec
fancy. The stihed sobs of the wife ant
children and the inartIcuiate uEserances O
4 the dying man were audible al time
throughout the mansion.
At2 30 Dr. Baxter came out of the sicl
room and sail To one who was waiting TO
/ | intelligence: Simply say he Is dying.
3 Then the voice OF prayer II the bedsid
@ rose above the sObs OF the stricken mourn
: ers and with its end ended the lie of tn
warrior statesman.
o Among those at the bedside OF the DIV
T ing man were Senator and Mrs. Cullou
and daughter, Ganersl Sheridan, Senate
and Mrs CockTen, General R4um, Con
| gresham Henderson and Thorn 8 Of Hi
nOIs ana Mrs. Thomas, Senator Miller au
: wife, Congressman Symes of Colorado, ID
= Baxter, General Henry Strong and DAME
o Sheppard and wife of Chicago and tn
generals private secretaries, W. B Tay
y Tor and Albert Hall. AT the head of tn
l. bed knelt Mrs. Logan, one arm encirclin
her dying husbands neck, the hand {
the other stroking his forehead At be
side were John A. Logan, lr, snd th
Rev. DIR. Newman. Opposite these wer
d the daughter, Mrs. Tucker, and her hu.
K band aud George A. Logan, the general
z nephew.
4. 1.-THE scene,'' said DIR. Baxter, twas on
- the saddest thatI ever witnessed. A
present were deeply affected. The 1riC
of Mrs, Logan and her children was Dit
full in the extreme.
in THE REMAINS.
b. WASH >GToN, D. c. Dec. 27-One VIII
N saw the remains of General Logan I'll
" morning after the embaimers had com
re pleted their work and the body had bee
er made ready for the caskei, described i
appearances as lfelike and but lit
[ wasted.
Mrs. Logaa's condition is gradual
IA mending, some portions of last night ha'
to ing passed in deep sleep, the first Whit
OF she has taken TOR some days.
In Funeral Arrangements Incomplete.
WASHINGTON, Dsc. 27.-The membe
Of the Illinois delegation in congress wi
he are now in Washington met at 4
on Logan msnsion this afternoon in coz
II pllanee with the suggestion Of Nj
Logan for consultation. There We
present Senator CGIloHs and Represent
= tives Henderson, Russell. Payso
m Springer. Thomas, TeUnshend a