Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1899 — JOHN A. LOGAN SLAIN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

JOHN A. LOGAN SLAIN.

TON or THE “BLACK EAGLE" DIES IN THE PHILIPPINES. Major la Shot Down While Leading a Victorious Charge Upon Rebel In- ' treuchments at San Jacinto - Preoident Consoles Mother and Widow. - Maj. John A. Logan, namesake non of the “Black Eagle of Illinois,” has been killed in battle in the Philippines. The official announcement of his death came in a dispatch from Gen. Otis Tuesday. The news was a severe shock to his mother, his wife and to a large circle of friends. When the news reached the War Department that Maj. Logan had fallen Gen. Corbin selected Maj. Johnson, assistant adjutant general, to carry the message to Mrs. Logan. She was nearly prostrated with grief when Maj. Johnson informed her of her son’s death, but soon recovered sufficiently to order her

carriage and drive to the White House in the hope that she might learn from the President that there was some mistake in the dispatch and that her boy might still live. At the door she broke’down completely. An usher supported her to the red parlor. Mrs. McKenna, wife of the associate justice, who was at the White House, hastened to Mrs. Logan and tenderly embraced her. President McKinley left the cabinet meeting when he learned of Mrs. Logan’s presence, aud with kindly words tried to assuage the grief of the heartbroken mother. Consoled by the President. The President sent this telegram to the

widow of the dead soldier at Youngstown, Ohio: “It is my painful duty to convey to you the sad intelligence of the death of your husband while gallantly leading his battalion ia the charge at San Jacinto. His splendid qualities as a soldier and high courage on the fighting line have given him place among the heroic men of the war, and it will be some consolation to you to know that he died for bis country on the field of honor. You have in this trying hour for yourself and the childreu the sincere sympathy of. Mrs. McKinley and myself." The announcement of the death of Mnj. John A. Logan fell with crushing force upon his widow and children, two of whom are old enough to realize the loss of their father. Mrs. I/Ogan and her mother, Mrs. Andrews, had completed preparations for going abroad, expecting to spend the winter in the south of France, and were anticipating a pleasant trip, when the cablegram was received, changing the home into a house of mourning. Mrs. Logan was a daughter of the late Chauncey Andrews, iron aud railway magnate, «nd ( her wedding to Maj. Logan March 22, 1 1$87, was a brilliant social event, the eonple receiving gifts amounting to S2OO,OCW, the bride being presented with SIOO,OOO in government bonds by her father and her unde, Wallace C. -Andrews. The Logans have three children. Maj. Ix>gan while in Cuba gained the reputation of a soldier who knew no fear, and he said to a friend prior to leaving for the Philippines: “If it is ordered that my life goes out on the battlefield I hope it will be leading my men against the enemy.” In view of his death the words seem to have been prophetic. The body of the son will probably be brought home for burial beside his father, whose body lies in a tomb in the National Soldiers’ Home Cemetery in Washington.

MAJOR JOHN A. TOGAN.