The Hope pioneer. [volume] (Hope, N.D.) 1882-1964, 1904-02-18

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Great Political General Answers the
Summons of Death--The Distinguished
Patient Lapses Into Death from Un.
consciousness. I.
Washington, Feb. 16.-Senator Mar
Gus Alfonso Hanna died at $40 o'clock
last evening at the family apartments
iii the Arlington hotel, after a sickness
of nearly two months, filled with appar-
ent %recoverics, followed by relapses and
finally drifting into typhoid fever, which
in his weakened condition he was I'M
able to withstand. When the end came
all the members Of the senator's FAM
lily were i'll the room except the sem
ator's wife and Mr.. and Mrs. Dan
Hanna. Mrs. Hanna had left the room
only a few minutes before.
The last sinking spell began at 6:3o
o'clock. Drs. Carter and Osler were
then in attendance. They did not con-
ceal the fact that life was about to
end and all members of the family were
summoned. Mrs. Mccormick, n of
the senator's daughters, and Miss
Phelps, a niece, were. present when the
end came. MI. and Mrs. Dan Hanna
were the first to arrive and they with
drew Immediately to the chamber of the
senator's wife to summon her to the
bedside. 1t was while they were absent
the senator breathed his last.
In the meantime, Mr.. Mccormick, Mr..
and Mrs. Parsons and Fl. M. Hanna, a
brother, had entered the room. Mr..
Dover, Mr. Hanna's secretary, stood al
the door.
There were no distressing incidents
attending the last moments. 1t was a
sinking spell which terminated in death
in ten minutes. Just after Mr.. Hanna's
eyes closed in death, Mrs. Hanna was
able to come into the room. She bore
up we'll under the ordeal and last night
displayed calmness and bravery.
The courage which has been displayed
by Mrs. Hanna, was the subject Of
greatest surprise. She had been in al
most constant attendance on her hus-
band, though realizing there was no hope
for recovery. Nevertheless the ren,o11,
strarces of the physicians and the added
implorings Of her children that she take
some rest were unavailing until late ii
the afternoon, when she was attacked
by a violent headache. She was given {
sedative and then she retired to he1
chamber, requesting that she be called
as soon as there appeared to be any
change for the worse.
For the past two days Senator Ham;
has not been conscious except at i'll
~tervals and then only to obey mechan
ically some instructions given him b,
the physicians.
Fourteen hours before the end wa!
announced life was almost suspended
the Pickering spark being kept aglov
by the most powerful scientific agen.
cies.
Hrlef History of Senator Hanna's illness
Senator Hanna's fatal sickness date!
back nearly two months. About thu
middle of December, he informed hi!
friends that he did not feel we'll, bu
declined to take a rest.
Although he had been complaining TO
two or three days, he left Washington
on Thursday, Dec. II, to attend a meet
ing of the executive committee of tn
Civic Federation in New York. Hi
deep interest in the work of the fed
Grafton induced him to thus expose him
self.
He was able to attend the sessions o
the committee and to participate in it
deliberations, but Saturday night he wa
striker with grippe. He was confnc'
10 his apartments for nearly four days
but on the afternoon of Dec. 23 he wa
able to leave for his home in CLEVELAND
He became better on his arrival Their
and OH Dec. 26 appeared at his Office il
his usual spirits, apparently recovered.
On Jan. 10, MI. Hanna went to Co
lunbus to attend the proceedings Incl
dent to his reelection to the senate. H
remained in Columbus until the follow
ing Wednesday afternoon, when he re
turned to Cleveland. During his Sc
! journ in Columbus he was bright an
cheerful. enduring the physical strai
of greeting hundreds of friends wit1or
! any indication of weakness. He arrive
, in Washington from Cleveland on Jar
16. He was fatigued but was in exec
lent spirits. He received with charae
teristic cheerfulness and manifest pleas
ure the congratulations of friends.
On Jan. 10, Senator Hanna wa
obliged to remain in his apartment
Surgeon General Rixey pronounced til
sickness a recurrence of the recent a,
tack of the grippe. Some fever wa
noted, but no more than usually is inc
4 dent to that disease. In a day or tw
) the senator was better and for sever;
. days thereafter he attended to bushes
J On the following Thursday the sen;
tors symptoms became more serious an
I he was ordered by DR.. Rixey to di!
continue all work likely to produe
{ nervous strain and to remain quietly
!. bed for a few days.
4 Complying with these directions,
became better and was we'll enough G
Jan. 80 to attend the annual dinner {
the Gridiron club, an occasion whic
he remarked jovially, no attack of II
1 grippe could induce him to ,forego. III
next morning he showed no i'll effec
of his attendance on the dinner, al
!. dtring the day received and cllatte
4 with about forty friends.
, He was in fine spirits, earnest and a,
; orecSiye and chnyyef1 to t1,oca uv;