Morning journal and courier., 1888-03-24
News by lelegrapn
FROM ALL QUARTERS.
CHIEF JUSTICE Waite
Passes Away After A Short
Illness.
MORMONS ON THE WARPATH.
Bell Telephone Takes A
Drop.
THE q" SWlTCHMEN GO OUT.
A Lady Dies In The Ball
Room.
THE @" SWITCHMEN GO OUT.
CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE DEAD.

CHIEF JUSTICE WAITE DEAD.
sudden Nervous Failure of the
Heart Action Causes Death-His Son
and Daughter a the Bedside-GeneraI
Grief in Washington At His Death.
WASHINGTON, March 23.-Chief Justice
Waite of the United States Supreme court
died at his residence in this city at 6:1O
O'Clock this morning. The chief justice was
in his usual health, though exhausted by his
recent severe labors, until Saturday night,
when on returning from Senator Hearsts,
where with his daughter he attended recep-
ton, he complained of chill. This feeling
passed off during the night, but he remained
in bed throughout Sunday and until it was
time for him to go to the court on Monday.
Suffering then from vague indisposition, he
did not read the opinion in the telephone
case, but sat through the reading and then
returned to his home. He was wakeful Mon
day night and on Tuesday morning symp-
toms Of acute bronchitis appeared, accompa-
MED by insomnia and great restlessHess. His
condition Tuesday was not alarming, but on
Wednesday circumscribed pneumonia showed
itself. During Thursday night he was COM
Portable and no particular alarm was felt. but
at o'clock this morning failure of the
hearts action was observed and ten minutes
after he passed away.
His daughter, Miss Mary F. Waite, and
his son, Mr.. @. c. Waite (vice president of
the Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton rail-
road) were with him when he died. Drs.
Caroline B. Wirslow and Frank A. Gardner
were in attendance. Mrs. Waite left Wash
ington for California about a week ago and
is supposed now to be in Los Angeles.
When the Supreme court met this morn
ing Justice Miller announced the death of the
chief Justice and the court Immediately ad-
journed till Monday. Both houses of Con-
gress adjourned Immediately after assem-
bling and hearing the announcement of his
death. appropriate resolutions having been
adopted. The President was informed OF
the death of the chief justice by Colonel La
mont The latter was at his residence pre-
pairing to go to the White House when a
messenger arrived with note from Mr..
c. c. Waite, son of the chief justice, say
ing that his father died this morn
ing ana requesting him TO notify the
President. He also received letter from
Dr. Ruth of the navy giving him the same
information and adding few details as to the
cause of death. The President was very
much shocked at the intelligence. Quite an
intimacy had sprung up between the two
officials since the Presidents terra began and
the latter has often been heard to express
himself in terms of the highest praise of the
chief Justices character and ability. The
President at once wrote letter to Mrs.
Waite expressing his deep sympathy for her
in her deep bereavement, which he said was
not only personal loss to himself but great
loss to the public service.
Additional particulars of the Illness of the
chief Justice are obtained from DR.. Caroline
P. Winslow, who has been the family physi-
clan for the last thirteen years. The lmme-
diate cause of his death, the doctor said, was
nervous failure of the action of the heart, and
it came with such startling suddenness as to
be absolutely appalling. There was not the
vaguest symptom of heart complication
throughout his sickness. On Saturday night
the chief Justice attended the authors recep-
ton given by Senator and Mrs. Hearst, but
feeling slightly indisposed he left the house
early. About half an hour after he arrived
at home he was taken with chill and ina
mediately retired. At 8 o'clock in the morn
| ing Dr. Winslow was called and found the
chief justice suffering acute pain in his back
and bones. Later on in the morning he felt
somewhat better and rested quite comfort
| ably At this time he said to his physician
| in tone of inquiry that he must
| attend court on Monday, but was
cautioned to take no chances.
He persisted that he felt quite well able TO
ride to the Capitol and return and anticipat-
/ ed no unfavorable results from little out
| ing On Monday after his return from the
| Capitol the physician called and found him
| complaining of a soreness in his right lung
| and when asked TO take along breath said that
| the effort caused him pain. An examination
showed that o part of his right lung two or
1 more inches in diameter was hepatized. This
| was accompanied with slight cough. He
| was very restless as indeed he had been
l from the first, and his face was much flushed.
| He was very wakeful during Monday night,
l lying on his right side most of the time. He
rested easier on that side, he said than on the
1 other or his back. While his illness was by
| no means regarded as critical his physician
| on Tuesday suggested that his son, Mr.. G. G.
Waite, be telegraphed for. which was done.
| He arrived yesterday afternoon at 2:30. The
| chief Justices condition remained much the
| same during Tuesday morning. He was very
| cheerful and laughingly remarked to those
| present that he did not know how to be sick,
but later in the day symptoms of acute bron-
| ehitis appeared and on Wednesday symptoms
| Of pneumonia made their appearancein his
| affected lung. He breathed hard and with a
| slight groan and when asked if he was in pain
| smilingly replied that he was not in pain, but
he really did mot know how 70 be sick. u
There was no material change during the day.
He remained cheerful, talking pleasantly
| with his nurse and attendants. During the
| night of Wednesday and on Thursday he was
| quite comfortable, no one feeling any alarm
| though naturally anxious. He was getting
| aleng well, everyone believed, aud when at
| ten O'Clock last evening his physician left
| him he responded to her GOOD night" as
| cheerfully and in as strong voice as he did
/ in health The nurse, who remained during
| the night, observed no change in his
| condition, not even in the expression
of his countenance, until six O'Clock
| this morning when he turned over on his
back and in ten minutes was dead. On Mon
| day when he attended court he was accom-
panied by his daughter, who took wraps and
q bottle of hot beef extract in case he should
need them, but aside from slight fatigue he fe
| comparatively we'll. AT the beginning of his
illness the chief justice, fearing to needlessly
| alarm his wife who was on her way to Cali
fornia in company with an invalid sister,
cautioned those about him to keep his condi-
ton from the newspapers. he was not
alarmed himself and was unwilling that his
/ wifes Journey should be curtailed or inter
fered with by his slight indisposition. 1t il
/ said by his physician that this was the only
| severe illness the chief justice ever had in
his life except that of two years ago when he
suffered some time from erysipelss in his fact
and hands.
| Mr.. Waite was the first occupant of the
position of chief justice to die during ses
sion of Congress and there is consequently
no president by which to judge what further
| proceedings the two houses are likely to take
to manifest their respect to the memory o.
the dead. The frat chief justice of the
United States was John Jay of New York
who was appointed in September, 1889, anG
resigned to become minister to England ii
1895 John Rutledge, of South Carolina, wa
| appointed TO the O11co III ouiJ, 1tSo,
recess of the Senate, was nominated to thu
Senate at the December session, but was re-
ieeted, having become since his appointment
1 the victim of an ineurable mental affection
william Gushing, of Massachusetts, wal
nominated in January, 1896, and con
f1msd by the Senate, but declined
the Office. He associate
| Justice at the time and his is the
| only instance in which associate justice
has been appointed to the position of chic
Justice. Oliver Ellsworth, OF Connecticut
was appointed on March 4, 1895, and resigned
in 1895 to become minister to France. Johl
Jay, who was then Governor of New York
was reappointed chief justice and was coll
drmed in December, 1900. There was SOM
question in the Senate and in the public mine
about that time regarding the propriety o
appointing members of the Supreme court t.
other Offices, it being argued that the practic
might have q tendency to interfere with tn
impartiality of the Judiciary by opening
paths to political pre- erment, but no impu
tation seems to have been attached to eithe
Mr. Gushing or Nr.Jay. Mr.Jay declined tn
Office after being confirmed and John Marshal
was appointed in 1901. He died in 1873
during the recess of Congress, being the frs
chief justice to die in Office. Chief Justic