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Show Frankfort, Ky., Feb. 2. Governor , Goebel passed on the whole an unfav- j orable day, although he was fairly com- fortable last night. He has a dozen ! doctors around him, and the reports of j his condition vary according to the last ; physician who leaves his room. One . doctor is confident that he will recover, I and another generally allows him an hour or two before he breathes his last. His strength is maintained to a great extent by injections. He has had sev- j eral sinking spells, out of which he was brought - with some difficulty. He seemed- to rally less rapidly from each successive collapse, but held his own ! steadily throughout the afternoon. His ! kidneys have practically ceased their functions, and slight symptoms of i nilAlimnnla Vmvo nnninrod hut Iiqvd nnh as yet become so serious as to cause alarm in themselves. At 9:.?0 last night Dr. McCormick, the optimistic physician, declared that in his opinion there was no reason why Goebel should not recover. The traces of pneumonia which had appeared, he declared to be the usual occurrence in cases of this kind. The most serious symptom was, he said, the refusal of the kidneys to operate and consequent danger of blood poisoning. At midnight the news from Governor Goebel's room indicated that he might possibly die before morning. The ac- i tion of the heart had grown weaker and ! as circulation through the right lung j was retarded by his wound, but little j blood was received by the heart. j At 1 o'clock this morning Dr. Hume ; said that Governor Goebel would prob- j ably live through the night. He added, however, that there was a possibility of uraemic poisoning, and that it is possible pos-sible for the governor to die in a convulsion con-vulsion almost any time. |