The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1904-02-18
The Sick Senator Unable to Rally
from Last Series of Sink
ing Spells.
Official Funeral Services to Be Held
in the Senate Chamber at
Noon on Wednesday.
Remains to Lie i'm state ut the Capitol
Final Rites to Occur in CleVc-
land on Friday,


Washington, Feb. 16.-Marcus A.
Hanna, United States senator from Ohio,
and one of the foremost figures in Amer
lean public life, died Monday evening in
his apartments at the Arlington hotel at
GAO p. m. of typhoid fever, after an ILL
ness of two weeks. He passed away
peacefully and without pain, after be-
ing unconscious since three a. M, at
which time the first Of series of sink
ing spells came on, from the last OF which
he never rallied. During the last hours
life was kept in his body only by the use
of the most powerful stimulants. Pres
ident Roosevelt was Immediately mott
fed by Postmaster General Payne OF
Senator Hanna's death. Il
All the members, of the family, with
one or two exceptions, were at the bed
side when the end came. They were Mr..
and Mrs. Dan Hanna, Mr.. and Mrs. Nc
Cormick, Mr. and Mrs. Parsons, Miss
Phelps. H. NJ. Hanna and Mr.. Dover.
Mrs. Senator Hanna was not at
the bedside when the end came
She had been i'll with severe
headache, and a short time before
had been given norcotic and she then
went to bed. Drs. Osler and Carter and
two nurses were at the bedside when the
end came.
Senator Hanna will be given a pub
lie funeral in the senate chamber at
noon Wednesday, and probably lie in
state at the capitol. The funeral will be
| held in Cleveland Frtdav
Physicians Statement.
DR.. e. P. Carter, of Cleveland, one
OF the attending physicians, made the
following statement regarding Mr..
Hanna's illness:
Senator Hanna died quietly at 20
minutes of seven this evening after a
most superb fight against very viru-
lent attack of typhoid fever. The SEN
ator had not been we'll for some weeks,
but had been confined to his bed only
during the past Is days. From, the
early course of the disease there was
no evidence as to the intense severity
of the infection and the outlook at
first seemed bright Since Sunday, the
7th, the progress of the fever became
more marked, there being a gradual
rise in the temperature from day 20
day, and by Wednesday the evidences
OF severe toxic condition were such
as to make the physicians in attend
ance anxious as to the ultimate out
come, though counting some on Mr..
Hannas indomitable will they con-
tinued to be hopeful.
The early inability 10 retain nou-
rishment was finally overcome, and the
case seemed to be progressing more
favorably, when on Friday last, in the
afternoon, the senator had severe
chill, most usual occurrence in the
course of typhoid fever. Following
this his temperature rose rapidly,
reaching 105 that night and the evil
dences of profound toXemia were
marked. During the last days of Sem
ator Hanna's illness he was able to re-
tain the nourishment given and re-
sponded in a way little short of mar
velous to every treatment which was
resorted to, rallying promptly from
series of collapses which at intervals
followed the chill of Friday. Satur-
day had been such a favorable day that
his physicians took courage and even
then hoped for a favorable outcome.
The change for the worse came early
this morning and was followed by
gradual failure of his strength, which
already had been overtaxed by the
severity of the disease. His wonderful
recuperative power was such. that,
though the end had been expected at
almost any time during the early hours
of Monday morning, he chung tenacious
ly to life until this evening" when he
succumbed."
waiting for the End.
All through the afternoon the effort
of the doctors was a fight for prolonga-
ton of life without the faintest ray
of hope The watchers at the bedside
expected the end momentarily The
senator passed the day practically with
out nourishment of any kind, being too
weak to retain it. The household had
become resigned to the inevitable out
come and sadly waited the final sum-
mons, Elmer Dover, the senator's sec
rotary. when he left the sick room at
$50 o'clock, said there was then per-
ceptible decrease of strength over the
hour before and that life was fading
very fast, The patients pulse was SO
faint that it could not be detected at
all at the wrist and the heart barely
fiuttered. Shortly after six o'clock
word came from the sick room that the
sick man was simply wasting away.
Mrs. Hanna, worn-out with the unceas-
fne watch she had kept BY the sem