The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1912-04-19
GENERAL GRANT DIES
IN A new YORK HOTEL
His End Comes Suddenly and
Causes a Shock.
Had Recently Undergone an Operation
at Hospital for Throat Trouble
-Chokes to Death in the
Presence of Wife.

The news of General Grants death
was shock to many army officials,
none of whom had been informed he
was so critically i'll. So suddenly did
the end come that his sister-in-law,
Mrs. Potter Palmer of Chicago, was on
a train at the time, on her way home
from Florida, and could not be inform
ed of his death until she reached Chi
cago. Mrs. Palmer and the other Chi
cago relatives are expected to come On
to New York at once.
The cause of General Grants death
was officially stated to be heart failure
He was granted leave of absence sev
eral weeks ago anC was reported to
have gone south. Instead, it is now
learned, he was taken to hospital
where an operation to relieve the
throat trouble from which he suffered
was performed. He left the hospital
and had been staying at the Hotel
Buckingham. Few knew of his pres
ence there
General and Mrs. Grant had retired
when at 1870 o'clock the general was
taken with a violent fit of coughing
and choking When Mrs. Grant was
awakened he couldn't answer to tell
what was the matter.
She tried her best to relieve him,
and when she found that he was rapid
1y becoming worse she became hyster-
ical and rushed to the wall phone in
the room and called up the clerk and
told him to send for a doctor as quick
ly as possible.
Then Mrs. Grant rushed out into
the hall, weeping Historically and cry
ing:
1.-THE old generals son is dying!
The old generals son Is dying!"
General Grant was dead before a
doctor could be found, and could reach
his room
Had General Grant remained in the
cal attention could be secured instant
ly, his life might have been saved.
For more than a month past General
Grants whereabouts has been a mys-
terry. Following the announcement
that he had been granted a four
months leave of absence. expiring
June 1, reports were current that an
illness, believed by many to be cancer
of the throat, had caused his temper
airy retirement.
These were denied at Governors is
land where it was stated repeatedly
that General Grant had simply gone
south for a rest.
Major General Frederick Dent Grant
the eldest son of President u. S
Grant, was born at st. Louis, May 30
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He was with his father in the latter
)art of the Civil War, serving as vol
Intary aide and dispatch bearer to
General Grant. AS soon as he was old
nough he was appointed to the mill
airy academy at West Point from New
ork and was graduated and com
lissiOned a second lieutenant on June
2, 1871, being detailed to the Fourth
nited States cavalry. With this
ommand he spent two years in Indian
ghting on the frontier. He became
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eanwhile in 1873 he had been ap-
)inted aide-de-camp to Lieutenant
4neral Philip H. Sheridan with the
ak of lieutenant colonel. On June
1881, Lieutenant Colonel Grant re-
gned from the service after spend.
g the greater part of his time on
e frontier.
In 1885 President Harrison appoint
him minister to Austria and from
81 to 1898 he was one of the police
mmisSior erS of New York
He saw further military service in
Spanish war, in the Philippines
d in various commands in this coun-
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General Grant was married Oct. 20,
IA, to Ida NJ. HC1ore, daughter of
.nry Hamilton Honore of Chicago.
ey have two children, Lieutenant
uses S. Grant III, now stationed in
ashington, and the Princess Michael
ntacuzene-Sheranskey, who was
SIS Julia Dent Grant.
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