The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-14
C0NKLTNG'S CLOSE CALL.
HE NOW HAS ONE CHANCE IN SIX
OF RECOVERING.

DR.. Agnew Stricken Down With
Peritonitis and Fatal Termination
Feared-The Bulletins Concerning
the Ex-senator Not Considered
Cheering at the Hoffman House.
NEW YORK, April Ex-senator Conkling
rested we'll all night. He awoke only when
called to take his medicine. The favorable
symptoms in the patients condition con-
tlnued to increase during the early morning.
Mr.. Conkling's sleep was said to be of that
kind which would be likely to recuperate to
some extent at least, 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 ad-
vanced at any time by the doctors.
DIR. Anderson told the reporters this morn
ing that the patient no longer walks the
room as he did two days ago. He gets up
at intervals and moves around, but not in
the same nervous way that he formerly did
OUT OF THE FIRST CRISIS.
"He has now passed out of the first acute
stages of the disease said the doctor, land
he does not suffer the pain that he did at
| 1lrst he took more nourishment last night
than on any previous night"
| The patient had not lost 60 pounds of
flesh. He never had much spare flesh, but
was always a very muscular man. He has
great fund of strength even now, but the
fact Is that his disease is not in so acute a
stage as it was At 9:55 o'clock DR.. Barker
issued the following bulletin: 'Mr. Conkling
passed good night. He slept we'll and his
mind is clearer this morning: his pulse is
| "a and his temperature 99.n
Mr.. Conkling spoke to DR.. Barker and
| shook hands with him when he entered the
| room.
The doctor gives his chances of recovery
now as one in six.
FEARING THE WORST.
| NEW YORK, April 13, Z P. M-The gem
eral impression at the Hoffman House is
that Mr.. Conkling's condition is more pre-
carious than is Indicated in the bulletins of
Or. Barker. 1t is known that the physician
| does not wish unnecessarily to alarm the
| public while there is a shadow of hope left.
| While some of the bulletins have been fav-
orable, yet there seems to be a world of
reservation in all that DR.. Barker has given
out. On the other hand not single favor
able bulletin has been issued while the dis
| tlngmshed patient was otherwise than
| asleep or at least in a doze. When awake
he is either very nervous or, even worse,
excited. In the meantime his strength is
recedlng hourly. Today came the most
unfavorable symptom in his refusal to take
milk, on which he has subsisted, and in
nervous twitching of the hands. Dr. Bar
ker did not have his usually affable smile
this afternoon and is evidently much wor-
ried at the turn the case has taken.
DIR. AGNEw IN DANGER.
DIR. Cornelius R. Agnew, the eminent
| specialist in diseases of the eye and ear,
who was called in as consulting physician
when Mr.. Conkling's ear trouble became
serious, is now very i'll from peritonitis. and
DR.. Sands, who was also one of MIR. Conk-
ling's consulting physicians, and who per-
formed the operation on Mr.. Conkling. was
to-day called upon to perform the operation
of laparotomy upon his colleague, DR..
Agnew. The latter is said by his physicians
to be in more danger of losing his life than
Mr.. Conkling.
HOW HE WAS AT NIGHT.
NEW YORK, April Is, :45 p. M.-Dr.
Barker called on Mr.. Conkling shortly after
II o'clock tonight and stayed half an hour.
Mr.. Conkling shook hands with the doctor
| and seemed to be comfortable He fell
asleep before the doctor left. He is still
taking his nOuriShment, consisting of milk
and little whisky. His temperature has
risen slightly since the doctors previous