New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-10-12
JUSTICE MILLER DYING.
LYING IN A PROFOUND COMA. WHICH wILn
PROBABLY CONTINUE UNTIL THE END.
MRS. MILLER AND HER son CONSTANTLY Al
HIS BEDSIDE-MANY FRIENDS CALLING
TO EXPRESS THEIR SYMPATHY.

TO EXPRESS THEIR SYMPATHY.
Washington, Oct. ll.-At midnight Justiod
Miller still alive, but steadily growing weaker.
and the end seemed TO he near. At that hour his
brOthcr-JuSticcs had gone to their homes, and he
was left in tho hands of his family and attend.
ants. No one dared to hope that he would sur
vive the night.
This has been a day of terrible anxiety
and suspense for tle family Of Associate
Justice Miller, who since early dawn
had been in comatosc state, and evidently sink.
ing into the long sleep which knows no waking
this side of the grave. The unfavorable condi-
ionS which became apparent last night steadily
grew worse. and when the rose this morning
the physicians had hope that its setting
tonight would find their patient alive. His fond
and devoted wife and affcctiOnate son, the only
members of his family at home. were compelled
to surrender the last faint hope which had bren
! inspired by the unyiclding courage and buOyano
spirits of the sufferer only few hours hfOro.
! Early morning callers, and some Of them were
very early. came away with sad downcast faces.
The bulletins hourly grew more disconraginS.
~ o'cocl; This afternoon DIR. Lincoln could
mold ont no hope. Justice Miller is dying, he
said and probably that the belief which he
had not shaped into words twelve hours before.
At & o'clock the report from the sick chamber on
the authority Of the physicians was this:
".Justicc Miller is barely alive. and is steadily
sinking lie cannot live through the night.
All day long a steady stream Of sympathetic
and gricf-Si rlckcn friends Of the dying man stead.
liz flowed TO the shut doorway. which for 50 many
years has opened with such warm, quick hOspi.
tality, bnt which to-day uncoscd only that mes.
sagcs of sympathy and coincidence might he re.
cciyrd The callers, of course. included nearly
,boiy If al "a,
of men an, women OF humber Professionalism
Justice Miller had been rcspccter Of persons.
and his personal friendships were as wide as was
his extensive acquaintance with people IN every
walk in life. From all parts OF the country. TOO.
the wires brought messages Of inquiry, frcichted
with words Of sympathy and hope. none OF when
coulI reach the or brain of the UNCONSCIOUS
sufferer. who lay in his darkcncd chamber, virtu-
ally dead 10 tie world and all its hopes and fears
I and ambitions.
Down stairs. in the room which Justice Miller
had used ~ an office and study. in which he wrote
or Dedicated his lrttcrs and did much other work.
everything lay as lie had left it yesterday morning
wien. af,er dictating a long tter 10 his daughter,
! Mrs. Stocking. who is in Vienna. he started on
what was 10 lr his last journey 10 the Supreme
J Court rooniS in which hc has spent 50 large
! part of the lal twenty eight years Of a busy
life That h" lad no prcmonition OF the deadly
| stroke winch WIS 80 rear is evident. The letter
y hirh he ll,d dlr'aied he said Re would sign when
hr returned from the Capifol-thc letter in which.
! after rr'crring to flc physical am'nt from which
| he had been suffering. he had added the words:
"To-day | feel quite rcstorcd"-thc letter he
did not live 10 sign.
! Everything in the Office was left In good order
| The bundles of papers are neatly arranged, the
magazines are in thrce orderly little heaps
| and alongside one of these were the horn-rlmmed
! spec. iclrs which the Justice always wore when
! hr had 10 read or write New and untouched Is
one lar.c volume Just where tho right hand "
one sitting in thr big chair can reach il. On its
, cover in pilt letter, are the words: Justice
: Millrr Octohrr term. ls0o." II is the private
,!orkc, which members of IN" court have in their
u.,>..>,ion. and The lorli which keeps it's covers
ro-.tlcr ,ay never be- troubled by the key now
tied 10 il by s'rap of twlac.
Iml.r Miller is MAJ. Ct massive frame. full-
hlomirl. and stout. lie had during the last
several years often spoken Ia his family OF his
fclrs of stroke of paralysis. IL is said that
his hr"fhcrs. ore or TWO Of whom had died from
paralr,l>. strinrly re~cmhled him III build and
his know lrl-c .:,lned in his early lifr ny reading
nl.llr!rr iad made hi'n apprrhrnslve that some
day h" m.hi =" ~ iirl had Lore.
Al,h1u.h i.r >tinyc To l~ and was so cheerful
rs soon a> he rallied f:o"l tho stroke yesterday
and SEEMED 10 treat it h-ht'y. II is probable fhat
.I.,iltc Miller realized taa' IT was serious anu
mIsAi prove fatal one of his friends To-day
sad that Justice Mlr was prompted tn abandon
the prl,ti"r of medicine 10y th" mental anxiety
and torture which hr >girrrd Will" in attend
.,.-. upon near and der friend ana rea'lVe
vh, l,y for ,ay, at the p"ini oi death. and whose
hlr v.i> stNr. by u ptiuiUi d"d risky Surclcal
n;rrat .Dn performed hy the Noun- phNs!rEhl ai'er
| many h"Irs of ANXIETY and hcsiiail"n. Nri'hcr
| nt I,I>,l,, MIilcrs daughters mas been IN Wash
| lu.ion ,ni mouths. onc of them, MIS-
| .fa.,iin.. j. IN Europe and the other. Mrs. LON
| Ian i. in color do With the latter is Mis-,
| ,.r,;iir. a granddaughter. whose mother died
! .,r, ,,,r. 40 Irvin- Miller. the only son OF
,i.. j. .trr - here sustain his mother In her
| ,u,I,!,a and deep ali'irtion