Birmingham age-herald., 1895-05-28
ALL HOPE |S ABANDONED Secretary Gresham Rapidly Sink ing Into His Long Sleep. HE COLLAPSED SUDDENLY Both of His Lungs Said to Be Filling and His
 Heart Failing.
HYFERDERMIc INJECTIONS OF WHISKY
Alone Fired the Vital Spark-His Physi- clans Have Given Him Up-He May Be Dead as You
 Read This.

Washington, May 27.-No official state ment can be obtained from either Secretary Greshams family or his physician, and all that is absolutely known at present is that Mir. Gresham is in the most critical condition that he could be to be alive, and unless some al most immediate change takes place for the better his survival during the night is doubtful
 MT. Gresham passed comparatively easy day until about o'clock this af- ternoon. Then he collapsed suddenly, and his physician, Dr. Johnson, who has been constantly in attendance through ot the night and day, began to adminis- ter hypodermic doses of whisky, This evening there are present at the sec retarys bedside Mrs. Gresham. MT. An drews and Mrs. Andrews, his daughter and son-in-law.
 Throughout the day the sick chamber has been carefully guarded from all in- trusion, and stringent orders were is sued to the hotel attaches on no account to let the family be annoyed by the presentation of cards or queries of any kind from visitors. The sudden failure of the distinguished patient after he had been pronounced as not in a critical COflultlOn tHlS- IOTenOOn WdS Il BtH61dl surprise to the very few who late this evening were appraised of the change for the worse.
 He has been suffering from indigestion and from a succession of colds His acute attack today Is of pleuretic char acter. Both of his lungs are said to be filling up.
 Dr. W. w. Johnston, the physieia n who has been in daily attendance on Fec retary Gresham, has given out the fol- lowing statement of the case:
 MT. Gresham's illness has been an acute pluresy, with effusion beginning on May l. From May 13 his condition was entirely favorable and his speedy recovery was confidently expected. Cn May 25 symptoms of relapse appeared. due to the development of acute ppeu- monia. His present alarming conditic1 is due to weakness of the hearts action and there seems to be little or no hore of his recovery" ,9
 Dr. PrentisS, one of the secretary $ physicians, said at 10 o'clock that the secretary might live through the nglAs and possibly until the forenoon tomo . row. The family have abandoned all hope.
 At s:30 o'clock a telegram was sent 10 Judge Otto of Philadelphia telling hixn to come to the bedside of the secretary, as he is dying. Judge Otto was com rade of the secretary in the late war
 A telegram was also sent to Judge Gresham's son, Otto Gresham, at Chi cago, inf-Sming him that the end was near and to hasten to Washington with out delay.
 President Cleveland, who is at his villa at Woodley, few miles from the White House, has been kept fully informed of the secretary's condition.
 The Arlington hotel, in the corridors and at the private entrance, is crowded with distinguished officials anxiously awaiting news from the sick room.
 Later.-At II o'clock tonight the phy- Acians of Secretary Gresham ceased their efforts to revive him, as his system was entirely too weak to respond to their efforts. He is not expected to live until midnight.