Morning journal and courier., 1890-10-13
IN A SINKING CoNDIrIoN.
Justice Miller Nearing the End-Nol Expected to Live Through the Day Sketch Of Hfs Career

Justice Miller Nearing the End-Not
 Expected to Live Through the Day
 Sketch of His Career.
 WASHINGTON, D. O., Oct. 12.-There has been little change in Justice Miller's condition since early morning. All day the physicians and watchers have been gathered around his bedside. momentarily expecting dissolution, and it has only been owing to his wonderful vitality and recuperative powers that he has lived through the day. The justices respiration has greatly increased and his throat is rapidly filling with mucous which will ultimately result in death. His physicians say that he has been dying all day, and that the end is not far off This morn ing respiration became shorter, his pulse slightly increased, his lungs filled with phlegm, and he experience great difficulty in breathing. Throughout the day he has been in a comatose condition with no indication of rallying and the beat of the heart indicating the only sign of life to his watchers. From .daybreak it was evident his condition was gradually growing worse, every develop ment showing plainly the approach of death. Dr. Cook has been in attendance at the sick mans bed nearly all day, being relieved several times by Dr. Lincoln. At three o'clock when Dr. Lincoln called he noticed marked change in the patients condition and knew then he was past medical assistance. During the day and evening large number of persons called, many only leaving their cards, among them being the justice's associates on the supreme bench, members of the cabi- net and other prominent officials. The justices only were admitted to the sick room where Mrs. Miller and the nurses have constantly watched by the bedside of during the day saying that Mrs. Tauzalin and Mrs. Corkhill, the justices daughters, had left Omaha for Washington and would arrive here tomorrow afternoon. During the day Mrs. Harrison called and spent some time at the house and in the evening Chief Justice Fuller called and remained several hours. Chief Clerk McKenney, ot the supreme court, has been in constant attendance at the house to give any in. structions that may be necessary.
 At o'clock Justice Miller was sinking rapidly and his breathing had grown more difficult. It is hardly possible at times tc tell whether he is dead or alive, so feeble is his respiration.
 
 Samuel Freeman Miller was born 1T Richmond, Ky., April 5, 1s16. He wal graduated ct the medical department o Pennsylvania university, Kentucky, il 1888, practiced for short time and after
 ward became lawyer. He was strongly il
 favor of emancipation, and did much t, further that cause, and although he tool
 no part in politics, the course of publi,
 affairs induced him to remove il 1850 from Kentucky to Iowa, wher
 he became leader of the republican party He was offered and declined numerou state and local offices and devoted himsel
 to his profession, in which he took higl
 rank. In 1862 he was appointed by Presi
 dent Lincoln associate justice of tn
 United States supreme court, which ofic
 he still occupies. He was the orator a the constitutional centennial celebration a Philadelphia on September 15, 1887.