The Penn's Grove record., 1888-06-02
GENERAL SHERIDAN
HAS ANOTHER SERIOUS RELAPSE-A
COUGHING PARoXYsM BRINGS
RECURRENCE OF HEART

TROUBLE.
WASHINGTON, May 3l-12.45 A. NJ.
General Sherldan's physicians have
lust Issued the following bulletin:
"At 10 O'Clock last night General
Sheridan was suddenly threatened with
suffocation from pulmonary ~effusion
aud for a while was in imminent peril.
The attack was mastered with din
Guilty. At this hour the immediate
danger has apparently passed."
Notwithstanding the last sentence Of
the bulletin, all the physicians are at
the Generals bedside, and fear that
death may ensue at any moment.
2 A, M.-An Associated Press re-
porter telegraphs the following from
the Western Union uptown office:
General Sheridan's condition has
changed for the worse again. He is
now in a very critical state"
INCIDENTS OF THE ATTACK.
WASHINGTON, May 80, Midnight
I he first symptoms Of the present at
tack were noticed about 5 o'clock,
when the General was seized with a
spell OF coughing. 1t was not thought
at first that this cough was of such a
dangerous character as subsequent
events proved to be the case. AS time
went by this coughing increased i'll fire.
quency and in vigor and grave alarm
began to be felt among the household.
| About 10 O'Clock the General was
seized with a severe retching cough
! which filed all within the house with
the gloomiest forebodinRs. This pull
l ,orur an aantinp hrnttnht IN annthnr
faintness of hearts action and the
pulse grew weaker and weaker.
Mrs. Sheridan and the physicians,
who had all been called TO the sickroom,
sprang to the Generals bedside, and
everything that was possible to be done
was Immediately undertaken. Digi.
tails was administered to counteract
the feebleness of the heart, and a cab,
| which has constantly been kept in wait
ing every night for use in case of emer
| gency, was hurriedly dispatched for Mr..
| Monkey, a local merchant, who manu-.
features oxygen gas and has supplied
the gas used heretofore when the sick
man was at his worst. Meantime the
Generals condition grew worse, and
Notwithstanding all that was done the
attack stubbornly refused to yield to
treatment. The oxygen gas arrived
| shortly before 10. 30 O'Clock, and Mr..
Monkey was hurriedly shown into the
sick room, in the Northeast corner OF
the residence, where General Sheridan
lay breathing heavily, in imminent
danger of s%uffocation. A jet of gas wa:
thrown into his mouth and he was al
lowed to inhale it for a few seconds
| The gas made him Eighty and IRA
tional. 1t was then discontinued ant
| other remedies applied, only to give
way at frequent intervals to a renewa
of the oxygen treatment. For som
time the General appeared to be very
much like a drowning man. and it wa.
| feared that the end had come.
By extraordinary exertions, however
| the patient was rallied again, and at /:
O'Clock he had improve to some extent
| His breathing was still labored and
heavy, and not a person In the room
left his bedside. Colonel Kellogg camt
out of the house for a minute to send tn,
| cabman off. His face was solemn and
sad las if apprehensive of the worst; ant
! In response to a reporters inquiry hi
merely said: "The bulletin will be GU
| soon, ''and hurried back into the house
| The most intense anxiety peryaded thu
| entire household and there was again al
| all prevaIling air OF intense, neryou
| fear, which has characterized the at
tendants at the house whenever Genera
Sheridan has been at his worst.