Morning journal and courier., 1888-04-10
News by Telegraph FR0M ALL QUARTERS. NO HOPE FOR cONKLING. Given Up To Die By His
 Doctors. THE FARCE IN THE HOUSE. Another Day Wasted In
 Filibustering. THE DISASTROUS D" STRIKE Waged At A Cost Of Two
 Millions.

MIR CONKLINGsS CASE HOPELESS The Ex-Senator Walking About De
 lIrtous and Ready to Abandon she
 Struggle For Life.
 NEW YORK April 9.-An operation was performed on ex-Senator Conkling this even ing. Dr. Sands removed 8 portion of the temporal bone and found secretion of mat ter which was drained off. The operation was very favorable. and gives the patient g chance of recovery He remained uncon- scious throughout the operation. No opiate was administered. Doctors Sands, Delafeld and Agnew dressed the wound. MT. Conk- ling at 8:45 D. m. fell into natural sleep. This was an encouraging symptom and it was expected that he would awake much im- proved in condition. His temperature was 10315. pulse 100.
 At 9:45 D. m. Dr. Fordyce Barker on be- half of the attending physicians said Mir. Conklipg was resting much easier and that there was no immediate danger of death. His temperature was 102 and pulse about 92. Dr. Barker said the operation had been in every way successful. Two holes half an inch in diameter were made in the skull be- hind the ear and about an ounce of matter taken out. The patient seemed soon after to be greatly relieved.
 At midnight MT. Conkling was walking up and down his room in half delirious condition He sent for MT. Edward Stokes and when he arrived Mr. Conkling said to him: "Ed, it is no use am gone have fought against this for some time. I can't stand it any longer" Mir. Stokes in going out saw Dr. Sands at the door. He asked the doctor if Mir. Conkling had any chance. Dr. Sands said: 'tHe may live forty-eight houHR but doubt it."
 The cause of MT. Conkling's- illness is sup posed to date from the "hlizzard." On that now celebrated Monday evening, March 12, he started to walk home, as was his wont, from his office in Wall street to his home in the Hoffman House. It was shortly after six o'clock and the snow in some places was six feet and more deep. He had terrible trying experience, which he related the next as follows: ''There wasn't 8 cab or carriage of any kind to be had. Once during the day I had declined an offer to ride up town in 8 carriage because the man wanted $50, and started up Broadway on my pins. It was dark, and it was useless to pick out 8 path, so went magnifcently along, shouldering through drifts, and headed for the north. I was pretty well exhausted when I got to Union Square, and wiping the snow from my eyes, tried to make out the triangles there. But it was impossible There was no light and plunged right through on as straight line as I could determine upon. Sometimes I have run across passages in novels of great adventures in snow-storms; for example, in stories of Russian life, where there would be vivid description of a mans struggle on 8 snow-swept and windy plain; but have al- ways considered the presentation an exag- eeration. I shall never say so again, for af- ter what I encountered in last nights bliz- gard can believe that the strongest descrip- ton would fail to approximate the truth. I had got to the middle of the park and was up to my arms in drift. pulled the ice and snow from my eyes and held my hands up till everything was melted of so that l might see; but it was too dark and the snow too binding. For nearly twenty minutes was stuck there, and l came as near giving right up and sinking down there to die man can and not do it. Somehow got out and made my way along. When l reached the New York club, at Twenty-fifth street, was covered all over with ice and packed snow, and they would scarcely believe me that had walked from Wall street. It took three hours to make tho journey" MT. Conkling transacted business as usual for some days after this, appearing notably in the Stewart will case for two or three days until the case was adjourned over to May. It was noticed then that he had somewhat preoccupisd air, and that although his attention was centered on the case, he leaned his head on his hand. and repeated questions put to him as though he had not heard them distinctly. He complained, too, of pain in his head and ear. He undoubt- edly caught a severe chill in his walk home on March 12, but be was able to get out the next day, and, as is often the case with TO- bust constitutions, the cold grew worse with out his paying any attention to it at first. When the pains in his head and ear, how ever, became unbearable, Dr. Cornelius Agnew was summoned to attend him. This was on Friday, March 30. Dr. Agnew said MT. Conkling was suffering from an abscess in the ear. The pain in creased until meningitis was developed and by Thursday last MT. Conkling was delirious. Dr. Fordyce Barker was summoned in con sultation with Dr. Agnew. Absolute seclu- sion was ordered and no one was permitted to enter the patients room except the medi- cal men and the nurses. The ex-Senator's wife came on from Utica yesterday as soon as she learned of the dangerous character of her husbands illness and was permitted to see him in the afternoon. It is said he was sufficiently recovered then to be able to rec ognize and converse with her for some time. The interview left him. however, it is said,
 with an abnormally high pulse and greatly increased temperature with a consequent re- turn of the delirium