St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-05-28

with acute pleurisy. The effusion
filled the silurial cavity, but his condi-
ton yielded to treatment until last
Saturday, when he suffered relapse,
accompanied by acute pneumonia.
His condition since that time has been
extremely critical. His heart action
became enfeebled, requiring the con-
stant administration of the most pow
erful heart stimulants. One or the
other of his physicians, Drs. john
son and Prentiss, or both, were con-
stantly with him. His pulse reached
100 and was so feeble that it could
barely be counted. But for the stim-
ulants he would have died. Nitro
glycerine and strychnine were given
continuously, hypodermically, together
with digitalis and whisky. He was
able to take no nourishment save in
a liquid form - principally milk
punches-and the whole effort of the
physicians was directed toward sus-
tanning and Strengthening him. The
right pleuralic cavity was filed with
the effused fluid, and the lungs COM
pressed so as to make breathing i'm
possible. About 80 this evening he
sank rapidly, and death was momen-
tarily expected. RestorativeS were
applied and hypodermic injections of
nitro -glycerine (the most powerful of
heart stimplants) and strychnine were
made. His blood vessels were in a
state of collapse, and his condition
was so extremely critical that the
physicians decided that TRANSMISSION
was Immediately necessary to stim-
ulate the heart. DR.. Van Rensselaer,
an expert young surgeon and son-in-
law of DR.. Johnson, was hastily sent
for. He opened a vein in the left
arm, and infused pint and half
of normal saline solution. The opera
ton was successful, and about
o'clock the stricken statesman had re-
vived somewhat.
At II o'clock he began to fail rap
idly and his vitality to ebb. At IL 80
o'clock Secretary Herbert came to the
hotel. He had arrived about half-past
o'clock, and had gone to dinner
party. Here he first learned Of Sec
retary Gresham's relapse, and has
tened at once to join the little party of
watchers, who sat in the ante-room,
scanning the clock as it licked away
the minutes of Secretary Gresham's
life AT this time the three doctors,
despaired of all further effort, had re-
tired from the bed chamber, and sat
in the next room, ready to render such
in the next room, ready to render
such service as they might in smooth
ing the way to the end, when sum-
moned BY midnight the signs of
dissolution were crowding thick and
fast The members of the secretary's
family, who had been excluded earlier
in the evening, from a fear that their
presence might arouse the apprehen-
sion of the dying man, had been ad-
mitted, for it was plain that he clearly
realized his condition, and desired to
spend his last moments with his
loved ones. He had been conscious,
and even conversed calmly with those
about him, but as the midnight hour
drew near the waning forces of life
were no longer equal to the effort, and
he sank into silence. Although almost
pulseless, and without sign of life,
otherwise his eyes still showed the
gleam Of intelligence and appreciation
of what was going on about him,
and the watchers waited in silent
agony of spirit for the dread still