Boone County Recorder . New Mexico Legisla-ture DEATH THE VICTOR General Sherman Defeated in HisLast and Greateat Fight. The Old Hero Forcedthe Unequal Battle tanLMilit to QiveHit Brill. Up SHERMAN U DEAD, New York, Feb. 14.—General Shcf-man died at 1:80 p. m , after a bravestruggle for life. The improvement lithis condition Friday, which filledhis many friends with hope thathe would win the bottle, gave way toalarming symptoms which caused the at-tending physicians to announce thatthe end was rapidly approaching. Themembers of his family were hastilysummoned to his bedside and remainedwith hi
Boone County Recorder . New Mexico Legisla-ture DEATH THE VICTOR General Sherman Defeated in HisLast and Greateat Fight. The Old Hero Forcedthe Unequal Battle tanLMilit to QiveHit Brill. Up SHERMAN U DEAD, New York, Feb. 14.—General Shcf-man died at 1:80 p. m , after a bravestruggle for life. The improvement lithis condition Friday, which filledhis many friends with hope thathe would win the bottle, gave way toalarming symptoms which caused the at-tending physicians to announce thatthe end was rapidly approaching. Themembers of his family were hastilysummoned to his bedside and remainedwith him to the end. From Secretarylterrott it was learned that GeneralSherman had remained unconscious tothe last, dying with no visible pain. Oeneral Egbert L. Viele is authorityfor the statement that General HenryW. Sloeuin has been selected to takecharge of the funeral will take place at St. Louis. All night long General ShermanWavered between life and death, andeontinued to fight bravely the hopeless. GENERAL BITERMAN. battle. Early in the evening the physi-cians knew that the end was approach-ing slowly but surely. The swelling ofthe face and neck had disappeared, butwith the subsidence of the symptoms oferysipelas came the development oflung trouble, complicated with a returnof the long-standing asthma Mucousbegan once more to accumulate In thelongs and the first signs of passivepneumonia became apparent. At 4 oclock Dr. Alexander noticed achange for the worse. It was slight, tobe sure, but the trained eye of thefriend and physician saw an ominoussignificance in it. By 5:30 oclock thechange had become so marked that sent a messenger to summonl)r. Green. Shortly afterward othermessengers were sent to sum-mon Lieutenants Thackera andFitch. When they had come, still an-other messenger went to summon AH this time General Sher-man was constantly growing will power which had kept himop so long was breaking down. Nota bit of st
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