Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-10-25
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From All Quarters.
4 NOBLE life ENDED.
The White House Loses Its
Mistress.
PRESIDENT RlRRISON's Wife dead.
Twenty Clothing Manufact-
urers Fined.
4 MURDERER SENTENCED TO DEATH,
Minister Egan's Reply to
Macy eagh.
MRS. HARRISON Is DEAD.

MacVeagh.
MRS. HARRISON Is DEAD.
Her Life Ebbs slowly Away in the
Early Hours of the Morning.
WASHINGTON, Oct. A.-Mrs. Harrison
died at 1:45 a. m.
The primary cause of death was pull.
monsry tuberculosis and the immediate
cause was asthenia, that Is, exhaustion.
Mrs. Harrison was perfectly conscious to
the end. The end came peacefully and she
passed away without . struggle. Her
breathing was scarcely perceptible to those
around her bedside and her life went out
before they had fairly realized it.
DR.. Gardner was at the patients bed
side nearly the entire forenoon. He went
away two or three times to attend to other
duties, but at no one time was he absent
more than half an hour. When asked
about her condition he frankly admitted
that death was very near and that remark
able as Mrs. Harrison's vitality was he did
not see how she could live more than few
hours.
Mrs. Harrison at noon time was still
conscious. A little before s the president,
leaning over her asked if she wished for
anything. With the old-time smile which
the approach of death only made moro ten
der and trustful, she answered in a low
At O'Clock as he left the house DR..
Gardner said he did not think more than
four or five hours of life remained for Mrs.
Harrison.
The doctor said his efforts were devoted
as possible in her dying hours. She could
not take nourishment of any kind, and
frequent applications of a stimulating
moisture to her parched lips was the
only treatment that could af-
ford any relief. The patient was
almost completely Frustrated and unable
longer to speak or to cough. Apparently
she was conscious. There was little change
during the afternoon, but every change
was for the worse and the watchers were
fearful that death would ensue about sun
set.
The shadows deepened, the night came
on apace and the new moon appeared, and
yet the end WAS not. The physicians visits
were more frequent, and when he came
from the chamber he brought the same re-
port: that the patient WAS as near to death
as she could be and still live.
The resistance offered by the oonstitu-
ton of the patient was marvellous and
surprising to the physician and all at the
bedside. There was no struggle, no exhi
bition of pain, but a simple passive
resistance that was battling in its
|'quiet intensity. In few minutes
DR.. Gardner again took up the feeble hand
and felt the pulse. The blood still crep
| through the contracting arteries, but, oh
how slowly. He shook his head and sale
| that brief fifteen minutes must surely
flush the struggle. The agitation of tn
| family could no longer be controlled ant
realizing his utter helplessness to longe
cope with his formidable foe, and from con
/ sideration for the saoredness of such grie
as this, the devoted physician and FRIEND
| bowed his head and passed out of the door
| Outside of the threshold he took his sta
ton and waited. It was not long time
The minutes few like seconds, and sud
denly there was an expression of heart
stricken woe, and the end had come.
The president was beside his dying wifi
as he had been for nine hours continuous
ly and his was the last of the loved feature
her eyes had dwelt upon. Her breatl
was labored and very slow. As the hand
of the clock crept toward tn
next hour it grew fainter yet an
less frequent, and as the timepiece marke
the hour of 40 o'clock there was an in
terruption of the feeble breath, resuml
ton and then stop. this time to be etel
nal, and the life of Caroline Scott Harr
son had gone out quietly and without pair
h. All the family in Washington were pre-
emit at the deathbed except the three littl
grandchildren and the venerable DR.. Scot
the father of Mrs. Harrison. They wei
President Harrison, Mr.. and Mrs. Mckee
Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Harrison, Lieutel
ant and Mrs. Parker, Mrs. Dimmock an
Mrs. Newcomer. In addition Mrs. Harr
sons faithful maid, Josephine, and Mi
Davis, the trained nurse, were in the room
The members of the family spent fe
minutes around the lifeless clay in dee
grief. When they emerged with sorrol
full faces the president retired tmmed
ately to his room and closed the door. II
other members of the family, respectful
his evident wish, allowed him to rema
unmolested to contemplate his gre
bereavement and commute with his Make
They also retired and gave place to
Gardener After a brief inspectit
of the lifeless body he passed out, a,
then the last cad offices of the dead we
performed by the nurse, Miss Davis, W
composed the remains for the hands
the undertaken. The doctor went hon
the last of the many questions put
the knot of waiting reporters We
answered by Mr.. Halford, the lights we
dimmed and the quiet of the grave
upon the great white mansion.
Religious services will be held at
White House on Wednesday morning af
which the remains will be taken to Indif
/ apo1ia