Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 184, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1914 — WIFE OF PRESIDENT WILSON NEARS DEATH [ARTICLE]

WIFE OF PRESIDENT WILSON NEARS DEATH

After Illness of Several Months She Is About to Pass Away— President at Her Side. Mrs. Woodrow Wilson, wife of the president of the United States, lies at the point of death. Four months of almost unbroken illness, a complication of nervous ailments and bright’s disease, have sapped the vitality of the first lady of the land. The end is regarded as a matter of days, perhaps hours. Her three daughters are at her bedside and relatives have been summoned. Physicians have been in consultation for days, but it was admitted that hope for her recovery had almost vanished. Conscious only at intervals, Mrs. Wilson has been cheerful and has called constantly lor her husband. Every spare moment that could be spared from urgent official duties have been devoted by the president to his wife At the side of his constant helpmate and adviser, he wrote the tender of good offices appealing to the European monarch* to stay their conflict.

For several days it has been known to those in closest touch with the white house that Mrs. Wflsotffewas gravely ill and that hope for her recovery was slight One day last March Mrs. Wilson slipped on a rug at the White house, injuring her spina An operation was necessary and after weeks of convalescence she finally ipse from her bed, put the burden of a winter’s activity, together with charity work in the slums of the city, brought on nervous prostration. She was wcM enough to attend the wedding Of her second daughter, now Mrs. William G. McAdoo, but her recuperative poiwers were not lasting.