Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1901-03-21


BTeVetted brigadier general Of vol
unteerS -...-. ...---.--.. March p, 1864
Nominated for governor of Indiana. 1875
Suggested candidate for president. 1880
Injected United States sena tor .......1 1881
Elected president $500. 1855
First wife died Observation-Disclosures. 1892
Defeated for reelection as presid 1892
Married Mrs. Mary Dimmick. $50. 1896
Member. International arbitration
poard 1890. 1900 '1SU0
Dl6Q Marcn 10, ISV1
indianapolis, Especial. )-Benja-
min Harrison, former president of the
United States, died at his home in this
city Wednesday, March Is, at a quarter
before 3 o'clock in the afternoon. His
life, crowned with honors of war and
state, was ended with a disease swift
and terrible. He died without pain
after many hours of Inconsistencies
and delirium.
It is only six days since the disease
began which, developing into pneumo-
MIA, closed so suddenly the years of
useful activity and high thought that
followed the retirement Of Mr.. Harrison
from the greatest Office in the gift of
his fellow citizens. He himself had
looked forward to many more years of
service, and to a quiet and peaceful old
age amid the comforts of the home life
which had always been dear to him.
Nor had the members of his family nor
the public had any warning that the
end was so near.
THOSE AT HIS BEDSIDE.
Around the bedside of the great man
as he lay dying was a group composed
of his wife, some of his brothers and
sisters. his physicians and a few init
mate friends. All day long they had
been watching and waiting for the sum-
mons which would tell them that the
limit of the sick mans strength had
been reached.
From early in the morning it was
well understood that the end could not
be far off. A restless night left Mr..
Harrison in a very weak and exhausted
condition. He could not endure slim
ulants. The oxygen that was being
forced into his lungs did little good ex-
cept to prolong his life a little WHILE
and his weakness increased from hour
to hour.
Still the magnificent physical strug-
gle against the disease was kept up
dHQ I1OuSn the patents was
harsh and labored, though each breath
evidently racked his body as it came,
it was not till a, few minutes before
death that breakdown was evident.
WIFE HOLDS HIS HAND.
To the right Of the bed knelt Mrs.
Harrison, holding her husbands right
hand in hers. To the left was DR..
holding the 1of+
counting the feeble pulsebeats.
The group waited in silence for just
a few minutes. Then there was a gasp,
the last struggle for breath, and DR..
Jameson signed to those around him
that all was over. The silence was bro
ken by the voice of DR.. Haines, raised
in prayer, and pleading for consolation
TO the bereaved wife and family.
Though no words came from the lips
of General Harrison in his last hours,
the trend Of his thoughts and the in
terests and convictions of his latest
years were very marked in the partial
ly incoherent but striking things he
said during his time of delirium before
his strength declined so that his lips
could no longer move.
WORDS SPOKEN IN DELIRIUM.
His mind wandered sometimes to the
stirring scenes through which he had
passed and to incidents of his life as
president of the country. But more
than all these things he was occupied
with the Boer war, the struggle of the
little nation in South Africa, for, as he
thought, it's rights against the great
encroaching enemy.
General Harrison would, it has been
stated, have liked nothing better than
to have come out frankly and strongly
with his views about the cruelty of the
great nation toward the little one. Dis
erection and the sense of his position as
a past executive kept him from it until
the semi hours when the
bands of propriety were Ioosed. Thus
disconnectedly, but with great insist
ence, ne rambled about the hopeIessness |
of the struggle, the cruelty of England
and the sufferings of the Beers.
TURNING POINT TUESDAY.
Tyranny" is is said, is word that
was frequently on his lips as he rambled |
on, and shane" and Outrage" were |
other words he used The voice was
weak and trembling, the sentences We're !
disconnected, but the meaning and spirit |
Of the man were unmistakable.
New -(SpeciaL)-The National |
Civic federation, which has held a con-
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