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Show FORMER SENATOR IS NEAR DEATH'S DOOR I . OMAHA, Neb., Aug. 5. John M. Thurston, former United States senator from Nebraska, who is ill, is reported today considerably worse, his physicians adding that his death is a mutter of a few hours. lie has been confined in a hospital the past three weeks following heat prostration. In announcing the patient's condition the attending physician stated that thronm-phlebitis lias set in, causing the forma t ion of blood clots in the veins, making recoveiy impossible, , |