The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1889-03-30
JUDGE MATTHEW'S DEAD
The Federal Court Justice Before
the Great Bar.
FATAL ENDING OF HIS ILLNESS.
After Several Weeks of Suffering the
Aged Jurist is Relieved by Death
His Last Moments-His
Record Daring the
War.

I WASHINGTON, ID. o., March 2U.-AsSo'
! ciate Justice Stanley Matthe VI of the
| United States supreme court, died al
| 1905 o'clock this morning.
| The last change in the condition OF
the Justice occurred yesterday after
noon at O'Clock. In the morning he
had been feeling quite comfortable and
cheerful. At that hour, however, the
| intense pain which marked the periods
of decline recurred, and never left him
| until death brought relief. DR.. William
! W, Johnston was summoned, and, find
| ing his patient suffering intensely,
administered opiates, which toward
| morning induced state of semi-con
sciousness, in which he remained until
the end. Occasionally he would par
| italy revive and recognize the loved
! ones near him by glance or pressure
| of the hand, but relapse soon fol-
| lowed. For number of hours previ
| Gus TO death he was practically uncon-
scious. The immediate cause of death
! was exhaustion of the heart and con-
| gestion of the kidneys.
| Justice Matthews has been an invalid
| for year or more. During the winter
of 18S7-'SS he frequently complained OF
| indigestion and muscular rheumatism,
and as the spring wore on began to suf
| fer from obstinate dlarrh9a, from which
he lost great deal of strength and flesh.
| Acting upon the advice of his physicians
and friends, he went to Massachusetts,
stopping for some time at
Lenox, and then at Nantuck-
ct; but he continued to lose
| ground. During the Summer he had
several attacks of muscular rheumatism,
associated with high fever, which would
confne him to his bed for several DAYS
at a time. On his return home he be-
gan to improve somewhat, but he con-
tinued to suffer from the interc urrent
attacks, which always greatly reduced
i his strength and flesh.
Yesterday afternoon he had a pro-
longed chill and high fevel, which
brought on intense local suffering.
This was followed in a few hours
by another chill, from which
he could not rally. He CON
tinued to lose strength, and died
lew minutes after 10 o clock this morn
ing. Beside his regular attendant Dr.
Wm. w. Johnston, other eminent physi-
clans, including DR. William Pepper, Of
Philadelphia, and DR.. y. S. Lincoln, of
from time to time.
In his last hours, the dying Justice
was surrounded by mem bers of his fam,
lily who have been with him throughout
his illness. Mrs. Matthews, her daugh-
ters, Miss Matthews and Miss Eva Mat
thews, and his son, Paul Matthews, and
G. B. Matthews, his brother, of Cincin-
natl. who came to Washington week
or ten days ago DR.. Johnston and the
faithful colored servant, who only few
days ago announced to callers with great
satisfaction that Justice Matthews is
ever so much better" were also pres
ent.
The chamber in which Justice NJ at
thews bTeathed his last, and which has
been his world since last September, is
on the east side of the second story of
the elegant mansion occupied by him
for several years, on the corner of Con-
necticut Avenue and \ Street. The
tightly-drawn blinds along the entire
avenue front this morning afforded
the first indication to neighbors
and passers-by that all was
not as usual within. The reports of
Justice Matthew'S condition during the
past week had been of such cheering
nature that apprehension was in
great measure subdued, and the news
to many who had been prepared for
the announcement at any time during
the winter.
The Justice was ever a cheerful and
hopeful patient, and naturally the men,
bers of his family endeavored to be as
cheerful and hopeful as he; and it was
, owing to his own Deliei that the favora-
BILE reports of the past week were given
to those who inquired after his health
Only yesterday morning, Justice Mat
thews was discussing with his family
various plans for the future when he
should be able, as in the past, to take
part IN their execution. But at no
time since his return to Washington"
said one of the family this morning,
''have we really felt that there was hope
of his recovery"
Arrangements for the funeral are vet,
of course, inchoate. The remains will
! be inferred IN the family lot, Spring
Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, but details
will be deferred until the arrival of the
| jurist's oldest son, Mortimer Matthews,
| a lawyer of Cincinnati, and his youngest
daughter, Grace, wife of Horace Cleave-
| land, assistant United States district
| attorney at Cincinnati, and nephew of
| Justice Harlan.
Justice Matthews was born in Cincin-
| Kenyon College in 1910, and began the
| practice of law few years later
in Maury County, Tenn. lie re-
| turned to Cincinnati soon after,
| and became engaged in anti
| slavery movements, being in lS49
| assistant editor OF the Cincinnati Herald,
| the first daily snti-slavery newspaper In
that city. He became judge of the
| court OF common pleas of Hamilton
| County in 1851, was state senator in 1855,
and in lS5S-ls6l was United States at
| torney for the Southern District of
| Ohio. In March, 1861, he was COM
! nlssloned lieutenant-colonel of the
| 1wenty-third Ohio Regiment and
served in West Virginia. participat
/ ing in the battle of Rich Mountain
and Carnltex's Ferry. In October of
| the same wear. he became colonel of the
| Flfty-seventh Ohio Regiment, and IN
| that capacity commanded brigade in
| the Army of the Cumberland, and was
| engaged at Dobbs Ferry, Murireesboro,
| Chickamauga and Lookout Mountain.
| He resigned from the army in 1858 10
| become Judge of the superior court of
| Cincinnati, and was presidential elector
| on the Lincoln and Johnson ticket in
| 1864, and on the Grant and Colfax ticket
| in 1865. In 1864 ne was a DELEGATE from
the Presoytery of Cincinnati to
| the general assembly of the
| Presbyterian Church IN Newark, n. j.,
| and as one of the committee on bills
| and overtures reported the resolutions
that were adopted by the Assembly on
| the subject of slavery. He was defeated
as Republican candidate for Congress
IN 1876, and was one of the counsel be-
| fore the electoral commission, opening
the argument in behalf OF the Republic
an electors in the Florida case and max
| ing the principal argument in the
| Oregon case. In March, 1877, be was
| elected United States senator in place
OF John Sherman, who resigned, and il