Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-10-18
VAS GREAT LY LOVED
~ HIS HOME CITY
MAYOR BENNETT REQUESTS eus,.
NESS HOUSES TO CLOSE AND
AL WHEELS TO STOP DURING
FUNERAL.

proclamation this morning re.
questIng all business places IN the
city to close during the funeral OF
Senator Dolliver At 2 O'Clock
Thursday afternoon, and request.
ing that every wheel in the cjtv
be stopped at least five minutes al
that time as tribute to the de.
parted.
Mrs. Dollver, the dece ased sem
ator's widow, prostrated, renajns
secluded with her grief ia an up
stars room, in the company Of
rev tntinate friends. The two
Dolliyor children, George, s years
old, and Margaret, 10 years.
hardly realize their bereavement.
Fort Dodge, Oct. 17.-Jonathan
Prentiss Dolliver. senior senator from
Iowa. died at his home in this city
Saturday night. His demise was
totally UNEXPECTED and occurred dur.
Ing an examiRat tion with q ntethosco d
by his physician, who suddenly dis
covered that the senator's heart had
ceased to beat while he was counting.
Senator Dolliver had left his bed
Saturday, spent part of the day
walking about mis- residence, and his
condition had improved steadily for
several days. His physicians had said
he would recover rapidly from the
illness which caused MIN to take TO
his bed a week ago, and the examina-
ton under way when he, breathed his
last was though to be the final one
in determining the coursS Of his treat
ment.
He had suffered from acute indiges-
|tion. The gas formed in the stomach
pressed upon the heart, and 1t was
this strain which resulted in death.
Dolliver, for the last week, suffered
from regurgitation Of the blood
through the valves Of his heart back
into the lungs causing labored breath
ing and bleeding at the mouth and
nose The heart was distended side
ways SO that the valves did not close.
Such condition had been somewhat
allayed.
The senator's wife and three chill
dren were in his apartments during
the examination,
Confident Of Recovery.
Senator Dolliver Saturday conversed
for two or three hours with one OF his
most intimate friends. He had no
thought then Of the fatal termination
of his disease He joked and laughed
did not disclose the fact that his ply
sicians at a consultation Of q week be-
fore had decided that his safest
course would be to relinquish work,
and in the term work We're included
speaking in the senate and on the
stump.
DR.. E. M. Van Patten, who was
called in Saturday night to make an
examination with his stethoscope,
stood at the side Of the chair where
the senator sat, counting his heart
beats. Mr.. Dolliver was conversing in
cheerful maner. He ceased speak
ing and the doctor went on counting.
ten, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen
regular strokes.
THAT is good" said the senator.
fourteen is two more years; that Is
good"
Heart Beats Cease.
Two more beats of the heart and the
physician heard no more. He thou hit
his apparatus was defective and hal
removed 1t to shake 1t when he looked
into the senator's face and saw his
eyes staring off into space. Mrs. Dol
liver had stepped to the door of tho
arartment with her son George at the
moment and the physician informed
her that her husband was dead.
Overwork in the last session of con-
gress is given by the physicians as the
direct cause OF the senator's death.
III Before Last Session.
Senator Delivers illness dates back
over year and half ago Before go
ing to Washington for the last session
of congress he had been slightly i'll,
but it was not regarded as especially
serious.
Last spring he had trouble with his
eye and submitted to an operation. A
few weeks later word was received in
Fort Dodge that he was confined to his
bed on account OF illness, the exact
nature OF which was not made known.
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