Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1888-04-14
HOPE GROWS FAINTER
A CHANGE FOR THE WORSE In C0NK-
LING'S CONDITION.
The Day at the Distinguished Patients BedNds-A
Belief That tho Bulletins Do Not Tell ali
That Could bs TOld-An
Alarming Sign.

NEW YORK, April 13.-Another night
of wholesome rest is placed on the record
for MIR. Conkling.
The patient awoke but twice during the
night, and then only to dozs off quickly
again. Patient doctors and attendants
were all resting at Z o'clock.
DR.. Anderson left the house at 7:3O
o'clock and returned soon after eight
O'Clock. When asked what the condition
of Mr.. Conkling was this morning, he said:
''Mr. Conkling rested well. sill night and
slept quite as well as the night previous
He only awoke when called upon to take
his medicine"
At quarter past eight Mrs. Conkling
came down stairs. There was marked
change for the better in her appearance.
The faithful wife bad also enjoyed a
good second nights rest. Mrs. Coakiing
spoke hopefully about her husband. The
doctors, she said, had spoken to her in the
most encouraging manner with regard to
his condition.
The favorable symptoms of the patient g
condition continued to increase during the
said to be of that kind which would be
likely TO recuperate, to some extent, the
terrible waste of the disease in the last
two weeks. No very definite hopes for his
recovery are, however, expressed, nor have
such hopes been eyinced at any time by
the doctors.
DR.. Anderson told reporter this morn
ing that the patient NO longer walks the
floor as he did two days ago. He gets up
at intervals and moves around but not in
the same nervous and excited way that he
formerly did. ''He has now passed out of
the first acute stages of the disease" said
the doctor, "and he doesn't suffer the pain
that he did at first. He took more nour-
ishment last night than on any previous
night. The patient had not lost sixty
pounds in flesh. He never had much spare
flesh, but was always very muscular
man. He has great fund Of strength left
even now. The fact is, that his disease is
not in 80 acute stage as it was"
At 9:55 DR.. Barker issued the following
bulletin: Mr.. Conklipg passed good
night. He slept we'll and his mind is
clearer this morning, His pulse is IA and
his temperature 99."
Mr.. Conkling spoke to Dr. Barker and
shook hands with him when he entered
the room. The doctor gives the chances
of recovery now at one in six. A physi-
clan stated to-day that in case OF fatal
termination, the sick man would probably
remain in stupor for many hours before
death.
Ds. Barker talked freely to a reporter
this morning. He stated that Mr.. Conk-
ling was doing as well as could be ex-
pected. He was free from stupor or coma.
II he continued to improve point day
for the next six days he would he out of
danger. He was now in the second stage
of depression. This accounted for the fact
that the patient had so little to say. The
wounds caused by the operation were not
dressed this morning, as it was deemed
unnecessary. DR.. Anderson said that the
fact of the patients pulse being down to
78 showed he was improving.
AN UNFAvoRABLE TURN.
At 6:10 p. IN. Henry Melville, Mr..
Colklings law partner, came out of the
house and said that there was no change
10 Mr. Conkling's condition. The family,
he said, were very anxious. The phySic-
ians had predicted that Mr. Conkling
would be better inside of three days. The
prediction had not been fulfilled. Ia the
Hoffman house it is believed that
Mr.. Conkling is very sick man.
The twitching of muscles is believed to in
dicste an accumulation of more pus and is
regarded rs a bad sign. 1t is generally be-
lieved that he cannot hold ont much long
or. The general impression at tho Hoffman
House is that Mr.. Conkling's condition is
more precarious than indicated in the bull
letins Of Dr. Fordyce Barker.
Mr.. Conkling is either very nervous
or even worse-excited. In the meantime,
his strength is receding hourly. To-day
came the most unfavorable symptom in his
refusal to take the milk on which he h a.
subssted, and in the nervous twitching o (
the hands. DR.. Barker did not have his
usually afable smile this afternoon, and is
evidently much worried at the turn the
case has taken.