Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1900-02-04

sidered very serious and the trouble
soon yielded to treatment, the patient
again doing until 6 o'clock, when ne
grew restless. At his request, form
er Congressman Hendrick was called,
and Mr.. Goebel asked for some of his
legal advisors, with whom he wished
to confer. From that time until about
10 o'clock Mr.. Goebel rested fairly
we'll, doing at times, but, shortly af-
ter 10 o'clock
He Suddenly Grew Worse.
The hiccoughs and nausea returned
with increasing violence, much to the
wounded mans distress, and his pulse
ran up alarmingly. Drs. Mccormack
and Hume were hastily summoned
and hypodermic injections of whiskey
and strychnine, and afterward of NOR
phine, were given him. At Mr. Goeb-
els request, Chaplain Wallace, of the
Kentucky penitentiary, an intimate
friend, was sent for and the two held
short conversation. !.
Lew" said Mr.. Goebel, Il wish to
announce to the world that l do not
hold myself in open violence to the
word of Cod
The hypodermic injections afforded
some temporary relief, but he suffered
for the first time in his long weary
struggle for life and had apparently
lost his indomitable courage
Doctor" said he, feebly, to DIR. Nc
Cormack, who stood at his bedside,
I'm afraid now that I'm not going to
get over this
DR.. Mccormack endeavored to cheer
the fast failing man, but the latter soon
relapsed into condition of semi-con-
seriousness. About IL o'clock he reused
himself again and calling DR.. McCor-
mack to his side, said:
Doctor, am | going to get we'll? /
want to know the truth, for have sew
eral things to attend to-"
"Mr. Goebel, you have but a few
hours to live" replied DR.. McCor-
mack.
Mr.. Gocbel was silent for a moment,
then calling his brother, Arthur Goe-
bel. to his side, he asked that the ply
sicians and nurses retire. Then for
twenty minutes the dying man was left
with his brother and sister, Mrs. Braun
acker.
Soon after this he again fell into a
stupor and at 2 o'clock his condition
was considered so alarming that
As n Last Resort
oxygen was given in an endeayor to
keep the dying may alive, IF possible
until the arrival of his brother, Justus
Goebel, from Arizona, who was due
shortly after o'clock. The pulse, of
the patient had in the meantime run
up to 14O and his temperature to 1903,
while his breathing became rapid and
more labored. This treatment resulted
in an improvement, out the rally was
so slight and slow that to the weary
watchers at the bedside it was apparent
that the end was not far off, and Rev
Dr. Taliaferro, of the Methodist Church
of Frankfort, was sent for. He came at
once. Softly entering the death cham
Der, DR.. Taliaferro crossed over to
where Mr.. Goebel lay gasping for
breath, and kneeling at the side of the
bed, prayed earnestly. With tears
streaming down their faces, Mrs.
Braunacker and Arthur Goebel knelt at
the bedside also. Then Dl. Taliaferro
rose and opening his Bible, read a few
selected verses from the Epistle to ST.
James. As the words of the apostle
were read by the divine the dying and
apparently unconscious man stirred
slightly.
At 6:10 p. M, DR.. Hume left the
dying mans bedside and reported to
the throngs of anxious watchers in
the corridors of the hotel that death
was matter of but few moments
time. The oxygen treatment was
used constantly in a desperate effort
to keep Mr. Goebel alive until Justus
Goebel's arrival. but no effort was
made to arouse the unconscious man.
AS DR.. Hume departed from the
room the afflicted brother and sister
turned to DR.. Mccormack and request
ed that they be left entirely alone with
their brother. who was fast sinking,
and to both physicians apparently in
articulo mortis. The
Physicians Silently Withdrew.
closed the door softly behind them.
The grief-stricken brother and sister
silently knelt at his bedside. their
eyes fastened upon the half-open eye
lids of the unconscious man. He could
give no sign of recognition, and yet
he was not absolutely unconscious.
The pulsations became slower and
slower, gradually but steadily grow
ig weaker, and with slight CULVER of
the eyelids, one breath deeper than
the rest, a pause. gasp and the life
that had been battling SO valiantly
against the assassin's bullet since last
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