The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-12
GEN. GRANT DEAD.
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DR.. Bench were the only ones admit
ted to the apartment.
Patrolman Malloy. who stood on
guard on the fifth floor of the motel
said Mrs. Grant screamed hysterical-
" when the doctors told her that life
was extinct, and he believed she sank
into a state of collapse
Those who had viewed the reports
OF General Grants recent i'll health
pessimistically said sometime ago
that he was in a serious condition. He
was granted a leave of absence about
two months ago and reports became
current that he was suffering from
some sort of throat trouble. can
Ger, which caused the death of his
father. This was positively denied,
but reports persisted that it was
doubtful whether he ever would be
able to return to his post.
Mrs. Grant sent a telegram to her
son, Captain Ulysses s Grant, the
third. in Washington, notifying him
OF his fathers death. The coroners
office was formally notified of the
generals death and word was re-
ceived that a representative of the
office would visit the hotel during
DR.. Bench. one OF the physicians
who attended the general, is said to
be a cancer specialist
Was on Leave of Absence.
Lieutenant Marion Howe, personal
aide to the general, announced this
morning that Mrs. Grant was bearing
the shock with forttude. She direct
ed that MESA ges be sent to General
Grants son, Captain Ulysses S. Grant,
III, of the engineering corps in
Washington, and to his daughter, the
Princess Contacuzene, as well as to
other relatives.
For more than a month General
Grams Whereabouts had been mys-
that he had been granted four
months leave of absence, expiring
June 1, reports were current that an
illness, believed by many to be cancer
porary retirement. These were de-
MED at Governors Island, where it was
stated repeatedly that General Grant
had simply gone south for a rest. Dis
patches from Tampa, Fla, last week
stated that he was at the winter home
of Mrs. Potter Palmer of Chicago,
sister of Mrs. Grant
The report that General Grant was
in st. Luke's hospital in this city for
operative treatment became public
Wednesday and while not officially
confirmed. was widely credited.
The manager of the Buckingham, a
quiet little hotel on Fifth avenue,
stated this morning that he had been
told that General Grant had come di-
rectly to the hotel in an automobile
from st. Luke's. The patient appar-
and spirits and walked from the au-
tomobile to the elevator unassisted.
Sketch of His Life.
Major General Frederick D. Grant,
the eldest son of Ulysses S. Grant, the
eighteenth president of the United
States, was born at st. Louis, Mo-, May
80. 1850. He was with his father dur
ing a part of the civil war, witnessed
the capture of Forts Henry and Dom
elson and went with his fathers COM
mand through the Virginia campaign.
Vicksburg, Nashville and Petersburg.
After the war, young Grant entered
West Point and was graduated in 1871.
For year he served as civil engineer
for the Union Pacific railway, and in
1872, accompanied General Sherman
on a trip to Europe.
Grant served as an aide de camp of
General Sheridan. and took part in the
campaigns against the Indians He
served with Major General Stanley in
the Yellowstone expedition, and in
1874 in the Black Hills expedition,
after which he accompanied his faith
er around the world.
He resigned his commission as first
lieutenant in the army in 1881 and for
various enterprises. He was appoint
ed minister to Austria by President
Harrison in 1888. but resigned on the
election of Mr.. Cleveland to the presi-
dency. Under the reform adminstra-
ton of Mayor Strong, he was one of
New York's police commissioners, but
at the outbreak of war with Spain in
teenth New York infantry and was
appointed brigadier of volunteers on
May 81. On February 10, 1901, he