Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1891-02-19
THE, MoKN1NG BULLETINS.
The Generals Condition Considered Hope.
less from an Early Hour To-Day.

The Generals Condition Considered Hope
less from am Early Hour To-Day.
New YORK, Feb. 15.-Senator Sher-
man, at le30 this morning, sent the fol-
lowing message to his family In Wash
ington:
General Sherman lives; the family is with
him. He Is conscious and without pain.
His asthmatic breathing is shorter and his
strength is weaker.
The physicians, after consultation this
morning, declare the generals condition
to be hopeless. that he is dying, and that
the end is near.
Nearing the End.
AT $50 this morning no hope was en-
tertained for the recovery of Gen. Sher-
man. DIR. Janeway, consulting physi-
clan, left the house at that hour. He
said:
There is q decided change for the worse
He will not live through the day and he is
at present very low. He may die at any
moment. His strength is failing.
The Noon Bulletin.
Noon-General Shorman's condition is
unchanged since the last bulletin. The
family is still at the bedside and death
is momentarily expected. Gen. Thomas
Ewing, jr, said no more bulletins
will be issued until the final one. 1t was
unofficially stated this morning that
the generals condition had all
along been much more critical
than outsiders had been led to suppose.
Only at one time since Tuesday have the
doctors entertained hope of his ultimate
recovery, and that hope was not one of
strong confidence
Losing Ground Rapidly.
The bulletin at 1920 this morning said
that Gen. Sherman is sinking rapidly.
The end is expected soon.
"A Question of Minutes Only.
AT l1:25 it was announced that the
death of Gen. Sherman was only a ques-
ton of few minutes.
The Last Hours.
During the forenoon, -as- the-h hours
passed by, every inquirer who called at
the generals house was told that all hope
had been abandoned and his relatives
and attendants were merely waiting for
the end, and cndcayoring to make his
last hours as free from suffering as Dos
sible. Among those who called were Cy-
rus w. Field rnd Mrs. U. S. Grant. As
on preceding days since it became known
that Gen. Sherman lay at deaths
door knots of people gathered in the
streets near his home, talking to each
other in low tones of the dying soldier
Brave Struggle,
New YORK, Feb. 14.-All night long
Gen. Sherman wavercd between life and
death and continued the fight bravely,
but it was hopeless battle. Early in
the evening the physicians knew the end
was approaching, slowly but surely. The
swelling Of the face and neck disap-
peared, but with the subsistence of the
symptoms of erysipelas came develop
ments of lung trouble, complicated with
the return of long standing asthma.
Congress Noiif of the Death.
The president sent the following mes
sage to congress:
ITO the Senate and House of Representa-
tives: Tho death Of VIM. T.. Sherman.
which took place to-day,is an event that
will bring sorrow to the heart of every pat
riotic citizen. No living American was so
loved and generous. To look upon his face
Dr. to hear his name was TO have ones love
Of country Intensified.
"He served his country not for fame, not
out of sense of professional duty, but for |
the love of the flag, and of the beneficent |
civilian institutions Of which it was the
emblem. He was an idolized soldier, and |
shared to the fullest the spirit du corps of |
the army, but he cherished the civilian in |
organized under the constitution |
and was only % soldier that these might be |
in undiminished usefulness and |
honor. He was in nothing an imitator; q |
student of military science and |
precedent, he drew from them principles |
Ind suggestions, and so adapted them to |
,he existing conditions that his Campaigns |
will continue to be a profitable study for the |
military profession throughout the world. |
His genial nature made him comrade to |
every soldier in the great union army. No |
presence was SO welcome and inspiring at |
he camp fire or commanding as his.
'His career was complete; his hosor was |
ull. He had received from the government |
,he highest rank known to our military |
and from the people UNI I
tinted gratitude and love-. No word of |
nine can add to his fame. His death has
followed the sickness and death of the ad-
led of the navy. and it is sad and noble
Incident that when the department under
which he served shall have put on the usual !
,mblems of mourning, four of the eight ex-
,cutive departments will be simultaneously |
lraped in black. and one other has but to- |
lay removed the Grape from it's walls.
"BENJAMIN HARRISON"