Evening Star Newspaper, September 20, 1881, Page 5

uw THE EVENING STAR. PUBLISHED DAILY, Except Sunday, AT THE STAR BUILDINGS Rerthwert Corner Pennsylvania Ave, and 11th St., by The Evening Star Newspaper Company, GEO. W. ADAMS, Pres't. Can, EXERING Stam fs served to eubsctiters in the ry by em nf, “fur Werxiy Stan— pestaze nrepaid. Six mi copies for $4), OF AN wail Re paper sent le subscriptions ; “ FIRST EXTRA. 12:15 OCLOCK P. M. A NATION IN TEARS. THE DEAD PRESIDENT HIS LAST HOURS. SCENES AND INCIDENTS. ——_> THE FEELING IN WASHINGTON. ‘The President ma at toa of The announcement of his d peck last night. ath came with a shock, as the public, enconraged by the favor- able tenor of the dis; evening, were unp: excitement of the were disposed to believe that th Would overcome the pending ¢ even if he succumbed to succeeding ones. Many who have hoped against hope through the darkest hours of the President's brave strugule for life were encouraged by the evening bniletin to believe that he ® new chance for life. Most of the people Yetired tor the night. When the news came, sudden and terrible, it stirred the whole cit nothing ever stirred it before. The tolling bells summoned the sleeper from his bed, and the mournful, w! Filence of midr ud 1, solemn tones breaking the ht, penetrated to the cell of the like a summons to judgment. The so unexpected, though every one believed he was prepared for the worst, shock as fearful as the report of the aturd assassin, news, nearly pistol on the S thrte months ago. Last Night's Dispatehe THE SCENES AROUND ELBERON CANTY PAR- TICULANS OF THE SAD EVENT. night teh from Long h the only words en by the President were that he had a ere pain ia his head. by the of Dr. Bliss w: ‘ident’s express of pain, and upon entering the room he at once said that the end was near. The the family were Dedside. ~All arrived and Vailed, and Mrs. Ga d after ly withdrew to her own r There she sat. a heart-broken widow, full ef, but with too Much Christian courage to exhibit it to those around her. She of e was laboring ander a terrible st pite her efforts yes, and her lips heear apt to bear th THE DEATH s to be forgotten. Perfect quiet as not a murmur heard was one ne prevailed, while the mother in nes—wie s also to V ineat py Ohio an¢ are nov President Arthur « men. THE IxQve: itten, of Lo: the coroner hold an i dent. He ents for the ing: net been aly will xe pl J. Wood- say for zton. and th in the vt during: jody will beta state during Si Y. yon Monday. The . and the funeral w : place of int. e View Cemetery, at Cleveland, in accordance with the frequently expressed wish of the President in his lifetins Of course the arrangeme: jee tions. Attorney ¢ with the has borne her trials so fortitude with which fa uld possibly be expected long. and SYMPATHY. The following telegram was received by At torney General Mac¥eagh: York, Sept. 19. ong Branch: the intel! Expres: ow. Garfield my deepest syinpath Cue A. Antitcr. THE NEWS Was TOLD. atch said the President died at 10:35. From what ertained his ¢ the news from the first indication that ; curred was the appe: Flveron Hotel. who obtained a convey drove rapidly off. [t is sapposed he had ys Fammon members of the ( about half-past nine to-nig’ erai MacVeazh notitied _ the President's demise. THE EXCITEMENT AT ELBERON. A dispateh dated at 11:15 p.m. said:—T net has just arrived and goue in a body Francklyn cottage. All are h taries Blaine and Lincotn. MaeVeagh has te are now en route Branch, of the Pres dent's death. Great excite: and particulars cannot be around the cottave has been doub proach it. Gen ice President Arthur epee fs con Ef Will be | balmes, who hag been teleraphed for. amost impos ils he. ‘ oe as we are stat off from all, tion with | ANOTHER Account, the cottaze an its inmates. The Last Moments, HE CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE DEATU AS RELATED BY ATTORNEY GENERAL MACVE. mid: Attorney General MaeVeazh just came to ‘the Elberon Hotel from the Francklyn ett: end rade the following statement: “I se: to Minister Lowell at 10 p.m. bere that Dr. Bliss had seen the the Associated | * | graphed | ent when | + ae 1 of | y General d the latter two, who | was so remarkable during fi The government has until the arrival fi ) y telegraph wire | morning of a New York tn Che Vee 58—N®: 8,880. 1d found his pulse at 106 beats per minute, 1 all the conditions were then promising | a quiet night. The doctor asked the President if he w ling uncomfortable in any way. The dent answered “Not at all, and shortly ‘d fell asleep, and Dr. Bliss returned. y the President. Cols. Swaim and Rock 1 with the President. About fif- teen minutes after ten the President awakened and remarked to Col. aim that he was suffer- great pain, and placed his hand oyer his heart. Dr. Bliss was summoned, and when he entered the room he found the President sub- stantially without pulse, and the action of the heart was almost indistinguishable. He said at once that the President was dying, and directed that Mrs. Garfield be called; also the doctors. The President remained in a dying condition until 10:35, when le was pronounced dead. He | died of some trouble of the heart, supposed to be neuralgia.” THE FIRST DISPATCH. Tn answer to an inquiry, last night, the Attor- ney General said that the first dispatch after the death oceurred was sent to the late President’s two sons at Williams college, and afterward dis- patches were sent to the other relatives The Final Balletin, NOW THE DOCTORS MADE THE MOURNFUL AN- MENT. The last of the famous “official bulletins” was issued at 1:15 o'clock this morning, and made the mour announcement that the end had ept. 19, 11:30 p.m.—The Pre- After the bulletin was issued at st five this evening the Presi- dent continued in. much the same condition as during the afternoon, the pulse. varying from lez to 106, with rather increased force and vol- jume. After taking nourishment he fell into a t sleep about thiriy-five minutes before his | death, and while asleep his pulse rose to and was somewhat more feeble. At ten min~ utes after ten o'clock he awoke, complaining of severe pain ove almost) imm: ceased to brea the region of the heart, and ately became unconscious, and the at 10:35, D. W. Briss. Frank H. HaMILton, D. Hayes AGNEW. The Vice President Informed AND ASKED TO REPAIR TO LONG BRANCH EARLY | TO-DAY. | A little after midnight the following dispatch | | Was sent from Long Branch to Vice President | rthur: “It becomes our painful duty to inform | youof the death of Pre | ady on to take the dent of the United St | concurs with your jud glad if you will come her to- rrow. (Signed by) retary of the Treasury; retary of the ment, we will be very n the earliest train iiam Windom, William H. Hunt, L. James, Postmas- eVeagh, Attorney Secretary of the In President Arthur, RETw TWO DAYS—A MIDNIGHT ‘MONY IN NEW YORK. The following was sent from New York after one o'clock this morning: “In accordance v the ived from the Cabinet in r | SWORN IN taking ihe oath of oiice, messengers were | nt to the different Judyes of the Supreme The first to put in an appearance was john R. Brady, who was eh followed Justice Donohue. ‘The party, comprising the | ce President and_ the ined, besides Distrie Attorney Roliins and Elihu Root and the | eldest son of the new President, assembled in | the front parlor of No. 123 Lexington avenue | (Gen. A # the oath of dent has not | bi intention as tg when he would visit | the eapital, and he declined to be interviewed as to his future course. ‘The Final Scenes. v ED BY THE SUDDEN MENT OF THE The correspondent of the Baltimore Sun tele- The shot that strack the | | ated no more astonishment | than the sudden announcement of th death of the Pr At 11:15 At- | rd the follow | e 10 o'clock Dr. Bliss nd the conditious pron The President said he after this the Pre | Bh 2 toh tol. Rockwell remained 10:15 the President aw that he was of nis he ing from Dr. Bliss en- | rt. uied from across the liall, and when h red the room he found the Preside ous and substantially without pul tion of the heart in it unconsei- | and the ac- ident riield w and Hamilton su in a dyin: nid tot extinet. He died with | to be neu- | - determined. seat to Vie BI fe was immedi: sur and one to > 1. Who are en route not reach the E) . The eab- 15, and G THE NEWS AT ELBERO Another corre: nt telegraphed as fol- 1 been made to the fact, as ternoon } ly by the Pres- do not, under | nd_comfor- | 5 0d indica- ifrom the danger ny moment prove fatal.” He had cely finished the sentence, which was a sum- is up of the conver: hen Mr. Rickard, confidential doorkeepers at the cottage, put his head in at the east door of the Eiberon reception room and quietly, but with an evidest underlying and deep excitement. beckoned to the doctor, who, accompanied by the reporter, foliowed the mes Be) Once outside the hotel, Mr. Rickard | said: “The Pr at seems to be sinking fast.” | All three hastened towards the lines, and this, | Seven ininutes after life had departed, was the first whisper of immediate danger, and it was out asa bulletin several minutes before it | was known from any other source. At tli { (line the three gentler eh: af the troop asked, hastily: Isit as had as reported?” “It is, I am afraid,” was the answer. met iny sergeant on dui | surzeon for some mustard.” This was the first knowled that a new rigor.the third in twent: had set in. At this moment a ming down the cottage s r. Warren Young, one of Pri tary Brown's assistants. “1 just going tothe camp e given of the fact four hours, te Seere- Of him the reporter | “Yes.” was the reply, “worse, It is all ove He is dead!” AT THE BEDSIDE. pondent sent a dispatch later, Mrs. Garfleld entered the bedroom | Id that the President was dying, she | Uher calm exterior and gave no ev ° breaking down. She is now bearing Miction with all the fortitude for which she her long and terti | The same o tr expected. the present. been placed unde: Morris, the village undertake N of Mr. and will rewain York t dertal nother correspondent telezraphed as follows | The President died to-night at tw j utes of 11 o'elnek. When the report was re- | celved (rom Franckiyn cottage scarcely any one | better as nothlag had led to the belief that death would be so sudden. Some hours of | positive notice than even that of this ring bad been expected. From the best moi ts > | called to preside WASHINGTON, D. C., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1881. death came. All sources of information were quickly cut off, ana the few who knew the details were not in a condition to give the information at the moment, and ac- cess to them was afterwards — quickly and peremptorily shut off. The first an- nouncement of the death was made by Mr. Warren Young, of the Elberon. This an- nouncement was followed in a very few mo- ments by a rumor that the President was sinking rapidly. Death had already taken place when the rumor of the new trouble was first heard. His condition had been such that the cottage had been closed and most of the newspaper men had gone back to the West End. Some oF them were already in bed, with the ex- pectation of a bad day to-morrow, to begin early in the morning, and even Dr. Hamilton was of the opinion that death was not immi- nent. He was not within call, and not present when the death occurred. The newspaper men who were present started to get the details, only to find that the line of had been extended to a considerable distance from the cottage; that the line could not be approached or passed; that Captain In- galls, who was in command, had received positive orders that all | gear issued up to that hour had been declared yoid and of no force. The most trustworthy of the first information came from unusual sources. Mr. Jones, of the Elberon, was standing on the cottage steps 's first got beyond the sick room and heard the conversation of the outer house- |. He said the whole family had known of the is in time to see the President while he was still conscious, or apparently so, although it was not known that he had spoken or even recog- nized anyone. Mrs. Garfield, Miss Mollie Gar- field, Col. Rockwell, Gen. Swaim and Drs. Bliss and Agnew were present during the entire time, but none of them left the house immediately af- terwards, and the only one to enter was Dr. Hamilton. It is understood that for a long time it has been Mrs. Garfield's wish that ifa crisis finally came the family should have all possible privacy, and the information to the public should not extend to details, but be considered as pri- vate and sacred. The Funeral. PRELIMINARY ARRANGEMENTS ANNOUNCED LAST Nigur. A telegram from Long Branch last night said: “The arrangements for the funeral have been made entirely to meet the wishes of Mrs. Gar- field, and of course changes in these arrange- ments may yet be made. The arrangements offi- cially announced by Attorney General MacVeagh are as follows: On Wednesday morning a spe- cial train will leave for. Washington and will the remains to the capital, and the body will lie in state under the dome of the Capitol on Thursday and Friday, and on Friday evening they will be taken by special train to Cleveland, where they will lie in state on Sunday. The funeral services will take place on Monday, and the remains will be interred in Lake View cem- etery, Cleveland, in_ accordance with the often expressed wishes of the President while alive.” The Calm Before Death. THE NEWS RECEIVED BEFORE THE DEATH WAS ANNOUNCED. After the regular edition of Ty Star went to press yesterday, the news from the President was, if anything, favorable. The evening dispatches appearing in THe Srar’s fourth extra were | Slizhtly encouraging in tenor, and indicated that if there was any change it was for the better. THE REGULAR EVENING BULLETIN was as follows : ELt 6 p.m.—Though the gravity of the Pre: ‘ondition continues, there has been no ‘ation of symptoms since the noon bul: as issued. He has slept most of the time, perature. 98.4; pulse, 102; respiration, 18. {Signed by Drs. Bliss, Hamilton and Agnew.] THE DISPATCH TO MINISTER LOWE About ten o'clock last night the following was sent to Minister Lowell by Attorne: Mac ‘ne President had another ¢ considerable severity this morning, which, £80 soon after the chill of last evening, left him very weak indeed. His pulse became more trequent and feeble than at any time since he recovered from the immediate shock of the wound, and his general condition was more alarming during the day. His system has Teacted fo some extent, and he passed the after— noon and evening comfortably. At this hour he is resting quietly, and no disturbance is ex- pected during the night. There has been no fol- gain whatever in strength, and tuereis therefore no decrease of anxiety. Up to the last moment, before the death was nea the news rv deat ed from the Presi- a nature to ailay all fears of imme- ution, and was encouraging to re- its of some of the extremely hope- S SYMPATHY. ed at Elberon from | New York early this morning: “Wayne MaeVeagh, Long Branch:—Please convey to the bereaved family of the President my heartfelt sympathy and sorrow for them in their aMiction. A nation will mourn with them for the loss of a Chief Magistrate so. recenty over its destiny. I will return to Long Branch in the morning to tender my | they can be made useful. U. S. Grant.” A Nation's Sorrow. WS WAS RECEIVED AND ANNOUNCED IN OTHER crry At midnight last night throuzhont the coun- try the bells tolled a doleful dirge, announcing the death of the President, who had come by reason of his long suffering so near to the peo- ple, that to each one his demise seemed to bring asense of personal loss. In New York Trinity church bells began to | toll at 11:17 p.m., when the news of the death of the President was confirmed. The bells in the upper part of the city were also tolled. At Albany the bells were tolled by order of Mayor Nolan on the announcement of the death, and the public buildings were draped in mopraz ing. The news was received at Cleveland at 11 o'clock and created great excitement, although | it was exp scted. The cathedral bell was tolled | and was followed by the other churches of the | city. The news was received in Boston at 11:20/ p-m., and at 11:30 the fire alarm bells struck the | first peal. All the theaters announced no per- | formances for to-night. The news was received in Titusville, Pa., with spontaneous and involuntary demonsirations of | sorrow. At midnight the beils of allthe churches were tolled. The news was received in Baltimore at 10:50, and not a moment hardly had eiapsed before the | big bell of the city began tolling in its sonorous | tones, whilst the thirteen bells of the various; engine houses accompanied it. Mayor Latrobe | determined to call a meeting of the city council for this afternoon, to take appropriate action. The tolling of bells throughout the city aroused the people of Kiehmond, Va., from their beds. The death was announced in Cincinnati at | 10:30 p.m., creating a profound sensation. Theater audiences were dismissed with the an- | nounceinent of the death, and the tolling of bells carried the uews to the people. ‘The news was received at Oswego, N.Y., at | at 11:30 o'clock, and in a few moments the 5) hall bell commenced tolling, thus giving notice ; to the citizens. To Avenge the Deed. RESOLUTIONS REPORTED TO HAVE BEI ¥ JERSEY ASSOCIATIO in Newark, N. J., last night said: ‘The “Nation's Avengers” are not a myth. They are menibers of a secret society in New Jersey, having ramifications in Newark, the Oranges and Irvingston. They met to-night and passed ‘a series of resolutions and took other action that will soon relieve the nation of thetrouble of snb- Jecting Guiteau to a trialbyjury. The “Nation's Avengers” have no doubt but that full jue- tice would be meted out to the assas- sin if the matter was left to the usual process of the law, but experience teaches them that at the execution of mur- PASSED ion, however, it is believed that the s ft had been fully warned. ho was in the cottage at the hangings in the eastern states. They think that a course other than the usual one should be adopted in the punishment of Guiteau for his crime, in order to satisfy the feelings of an injured nation, and serve as an example in future to curb the baser passions of all who aspire to become notorious by assassinating theruler ofthe nation. Theavengers have just unanimously resolved that one of their number be chosen by ballot, whose duty it shall be to devote his whole time and energy to carrying into execution their proposed plan, and while the one chosen must act at the risk of his life, it must be with the consciousness that his life is not too dear to sacrifice in order to punish in a ee manner the dastardly coward who has imbrued his hands with the nation’s best blood. It is understood that the person selected to murder Guiteau will be unknown to his fellow members, except those of the executive com- mittee, who, it would seem, have absolute power. Tolling the Bells, THE NEWS ANNOUNCED BY &MOURNPUI, KNELL— SCENES ABOUT THE CITY—EXCITEMENT AND WILD RUMORS—A NIGHT NEVER TO BE FOR- GOTTEN. When the announcement was made there were comparatively few people on the avenue, but the bulletin boards at the various places were soon supplied with the news that all looked for but dreaded to learn, and the crowds began to assemple in groups and quietly discuss the eee It was not long before the information became general by the tolling of the bells in the different chureh steeples. e fire alarm bells began striking just before midnight by an order from District Commissioners Dent and Morgan— by telephone to the several fire stations. The Metropolitan church and other church bells took up the echo and between 12 and 2 o'clock the tolling became pretty general throughout the city, from Georgetown to the Navy Yard. CROWDS OF MEN were soon thronging the avenue and other streets; windows were hoisted and anxious in- quiries made from every house of the passers- by, all anxious for particulars of the sad termin- ation of the President’s life. ‘Did he die in one of those terrible rigors?” ‘Was his death sud- den?” “Who was present at the time?” “Will the remains be sent here, or sent direct to Men- tor?” Such were the character of questions in everybody's mouth. The newspaper offices were besiezed for news, and Tre Star office corner was blocked up en- tirely. and thousands were running to and fro between the telegraph offices and news offices. WILD RUMORS jail to take the assassin, Guiteau, out and hang hi arsenal to guard the jail, the guard doubled; that there was to be no resistance made by the jail officials; that there were plots on foot to blow up the train if he should Ltesmugeled away from the District to New Jersey, &c., kc. These rumors tended to keep up the excitement, and thousands in the city kept awake all night, ex- pecting some terrible event to occur, but none could tell exactly what. THE POLICE. The fact was learned that all the police had been ordered to be kept onreserve at the station- houses. In the fifth precinct the drinking saloons were closed up at once by order of Lieut. Arnold, and ret _a minute too goon, as quite a number of drunken men were seen about the corners. During all the din and excitement ex- pressions of sympathy forthe wife and family of the deceased President could be rd on all sides, and words ot disgust and hatred for his assassin and any who sympathized with him. THE HOTEL LOBBIES were thronged with their guests, many of whom had retired for the night, bat rose from their beds, utterly unable to rest. ‘The published dis- patches and last official bulletin in last night’s Star seemed to have revived the hopes of many that the end was not so near, and the tidings of death a surprise to many who could not be- lieve the correctness of the reports from Elberon, and not until dispatch after dispatch had been received were they satisfied. As the night wore | on the crowds on the streets began to diminish | and scatter to their homes, the bells giving | mournful midnight peals. THE DISTRICT MILITARY. Colonel William G. Moore, commander of the | Washington Light Infantry, has made arrange- ments for the military coinpanies of the District to act promptly should there be any necessity by | undue excitement or otherwise any call uponthe | companies of the District. A moment's is all that is necessary to call them together at their respective rendezvous. SUDDEN AND UNEXPECTED. After all, the news of the President’s death came suddenly, and when least expected. Nearly everybody was abed and asleep when the noise broke on the air that the President was dead. The news reached Washingson at 10:50, but was not bulletined. There were very few people on | the streets. It was 12 o'clock before the note of | death had reached the ears of the people of Washington. Early in the eyening there had | en large crowds of people on the streets. In ity of Tuk Star office the crowd was greatest. After the issuance of the last Star extra the crowd began to disperse, and by 8 o'clock only a handful was present reading the latest bulletin placarded on Tug Star window. Up town, around the Western Union office and the drug stores in that immediate vicinity, the crowd remained the longer. VERY LITTLE NEWS was received there, and while it was of an anx- ious tenor it was not of a kind to cause imme- diate alarm. The conviction which had taken strong hold upon the people that the President could not live many hours was unshaken, but none thought that during the night he would breathe his last. “HE WILL NOT DIE TO-NIGHT.” At half-past nine the drugstore at the corner of New York avenue and 15th street put a bul- letin against the glass of its illuminated window to the effect that Dr. Bliss regarded the Presi- dent as better at that time than for the preced- ing forty-eight hours. ‘He will not die to- night.” said all, and homeward went most of them. That bulletin cleared the crowd from the uptown places. Only about twenty men lingered in that vicinity. All was very quiet, when the word began to go round that the President was dead. A smali bunch of men was in the West- ern Union office. The newspaper correspondents came in now and then, but beyond them it was fully 12 o’elcek before anything like a crowd had commenced to gather. The people were very quiet: the night was still; the ery of the news- boy was the only noise that for a while disturbed the city. Then the people began to move about, Lights appeared at windows, doors opened, and mn who had made hasty toilets began to walk or run to the Westert Union Telegraph Office and to the offices of the morning papers. THE TOLLING BELLS. At a quarter to one o'clock the bell in All Souls’ church steeple—the first to lift its voice— broke on the air and told its tale of sorrow. St. Matthew's chimes caught up the dreaded sound and passed it on to the Hew York avenue and Epiphany churches, In afew minutes bells were ringing out the nation’s joss in all parts of the city.“ Ladies appeared on the streets, and with escorts walked around imsearch of detailed information. None wasto béhad. The people who had come out began. to go home at half- past one this morning, and by two there was no one on the streets except @ few late men and the driver of the night liner, whose horses’ hoofs ecemed to beat the pavement as in time with A FUNERAL pinge. In the public buildings the news became known slow! Its only efteet. was the appear- of one or two additional lights ‘and the gather- + of the watchmen in knotg to talk over the ity. AT THE WHITE HOUSE nea aad one or two of the ushers of, death care Gyer | Long Branch at once. | Start last evening, he leit this morning. were heard of an attempt to be made upon the | that troops had been dispatched from the | were packed up and sent to the express office without delay. The use died away by two o'clock and all was then as quiet as it had been before the word of death reached its portals. There were but few people in the city who did not know last night that the Presi- dent had passed away. As those who had been down town late went home peopie could be seen with a white back ground and heard calling from windows and making anxious inquiries. But thongh the fact of the death was generuily known there was NO NOISE OR EXCITEMENT. The sorrow was deep and still. When a Star reporter went home at 2 o'clock this morning he | noticed in the northwestern section of the city several houses which had put on the badze of mourning. This morning by 8 o'clock hundreds of residences had the dark drapery upon them. UNDER ARMS. The Washington Light Infantry, the National Rifles and Union Veteran Corps remained in their armories all night. The Infantry have decorated the Globe building from the second story to the roof. The other military orzaniza- tions have decorated their armori The deal- ers in the Center Market have decorated their stands in an elaborate manner. THE END HAS COME. Assistant Private Secretary ©. L. Pruden re- ceived a dispatch from Private Secretary Brown at about half-past 11 p.m., which rea H has come. The President died at 1 SUMMONED TO THE avTorsy. A telegram was received here from Private Secretary Brown last night asking that Surgeon General Barnes, Surgeon Woodward and Dr. Reyburn should proceed to Elberon at once, to be present and assist at the autopsy, which will be made to-day. These gentlemen left as soon as possible for Long Branch. THE DEATH UNEXPECTED. Col. H. C. Corbin received this morning a letter from Gen. Swaim, dated at 9 c'clock, stating that at that time immediate dissolution was not apprehended. About 10 o'clock last nicht Col. C. received a telegram to come to “Tt is All Over.” THE NEWS ANNOV D TO THE ONDENTS. Special dispatches received from Long Branch at THe Star office last night announced that the death occurred at 10:35 o'clock. A dispatch date It was too late. It was in vain. Almost before the full group and the medicine came he had breathed his last. The correspondents engayed the whole force of car- riages and were driven pell meil to the Elberon. They got there just in time. In two minutes after their arrival on the stoop Warren Young came slowly walking over to the hotel from the cottage. ‘What's the news?” ‘It is ail over,’ he said. He was dead.” The President’s Mness, BS WHEN PY.¥MIA WAS INDICATED—AN INTERVIEW | WITH A PHYSIC DENT AFTER HE W. Dr. Beckwith, formerly of Cleveland, Ohio, and a prominent physician, is in the city. He was with the President the day he was shot. He was asked by Tus Sran reporter last evenin; “Did you see the President after he was shot ?” es! I was with him most of the time during Saturday—after 11 o'clock and until late in the evening.” | WHO ATT! ED THE PRESI- “What was his condition, and how would you | have treated him?” “His strength was good for a few honrs, | he had internal | when it was evident that hemorrhage, and his strength declined until it | | appeared that he could not survive the night. | It is probable that his life was saved by the | blood clotting, thereby plugging up the mouths of the torn v . Which arrested the internal bleeding. There was a large clot of blood in the right side of the abdomen just below the liver. | The presence of this clot was detected late in the afternoon.” | “How do you know there was a blood clot in his side ?” | “By percussion, the same means that are used to detect a solid jung.” Continuing the doctor said: “It was evident by the sense of touch that | there was a clot, and it could be well defined. | Late in the evening the President inquire: “How can I ever live to get rid of this mass blood if the hemorrhage has ceased.” quiry was very pertinent to. the case, and one | that admits of but one answer, viz: *You prob- ably cannot unless the clot is removed.” T am of the opinion that the coagula of biood should | have been removed by the aspirator. ing by | this means an incision to it and remoyai would haye been proper. It is especially well. k to surgeons who frequent}; tumors that if even amount of Dloed is left in the ca of the abdomen the patient Is liable to die from septicemia, and so careful is the most successful operators that even one or two hours are allowed to intervene before the wound is closed and the cayity of the i abdomen is carefully inspected, and even the very least amount of blood is spenged cut be- fore closing of the wound.” Doctor, do you think the clot of blood was the cause of blood potson in the President’s case?” asked your correspondent. “I$ most probably was; pyemia is an acute disease, starting at a poiat where noxious or putrid substances form. From this focus or point the septic or putrid material is carried through the system by the circulation of the blood. Inthe President's case I presumea portion ot the clot was disorganized and carried off through the opening in his back, but a portion of it putrified and poisoned his blood. Septic poisons accumulate in the system in a similar manner to trichina (hog poison). ‘The putrefica- tion develops or originates animal life, and every point where the septic pus locates in the body colonies of minute monads form and migrate through the tissues, and each and every colony caused more serious morbid symptoms. Thus weeks and months at times intervene before death ensues.” “When do you think the President began to suffer from blood poison?” “Less than ten days after he was injured. ‘The aymptoms at that time indicated the pres- ence of pyemia.” “Is there no treatment to kill these little de- stroyers of human life?” “But few instances recover after the disease is fully developed. The only curativetreatment | is what Is known as antiseptic, meaning those | remedies that destroy the putrefication and | animalcule. The room should have been con- stantly filled with a medicated atmosphere of thymol, one of the best known anti-septics, and | if there had been a free opening in the opening | in the abdomen from the first, a solution of the thymol should have been constantly the point of infection.” “Down the River. ° HOW THE DEATH OF THE PRESIDENT WAS AN- NOUNCED. A gentleman who came up from Norfolk last night on the steamer Florida, one of the Nor- folk and Baltimore cetaiggs eh there rs great excitement and anxiety tress Monroe, Norfolk and Portsmouth, on Sunday and Mon day, caused by the bad news received almost hourly from Elberon. At an early hour this morning as the steamer rounded the bend far below Fort McHenry, the pilot, looking through is marine saw the flag on the fort That in- As it was too late to | | Gen Arthur was sworn in at a quarter-past two TWO CENTS. (5 \Telegrams to The Star. PRESIDENT ARTHUR, ‘HOW HE WAS SWORN IN. WHERE GUITEAU WILL BE — eens |SCENES AT ELBERON TO-DAY. |THE FEELING IN ENGLAND. | — | ARRANGING FOR THE FUNERAL | Scenes at Elberon To-day. | MORE DETAILS CONCERNING THE DEATH—THE S LAST WORDS—THE AUTOPSY TO LD THIS AFT Sept. 20.—The scenes at | Elberon to-day are sad. At the little hotel crowds are gathered discussing the sad «i The flags on all the cottages are all at half-mast. A magniticent photogragh of the late Pre: in the hotel parlor, is draped in mourning. The | President's death was painless and without incident. “It was sudden, a surprise—neu- ralgia of the heart,” is the cause attributed. HIS LAST Wonns. These were stwords. An hour or so be- | fore the collapse the President said: “I am | tired.” | At four this aiternoon the autopsy is to be {held by Prof. Curtis, of Washing all vn, in the | Presence of the doctors, including Drs | Barnes, Woodward and Reyburn. | Arrangements for the removal of the body | have not been definitely fi After the | autopsy it will be embalmed by a New York undertaker, and Go TO WasmINeToN | sometime to-morrow. It will lie in state in the rotunda of the Capitol until Fri d thence | be taken to Cleveland and be buried in Lawn- field cemetery. Where THE NEW JER! jitean will be Tried. Y¥ LAW—AacTion TRE coR- OF MONMOUTH COUN r AR. According to | the law of New Jersey, when a person hos re- | | ceived a wound in another state and is carried into New Jersey and dies the villain who in- | | flicted the wound can be apprehended on the reqnisition ofthe governor of New Jersey, tried, | sentenced and executed in the county in which his victim died. A law of this kind was made | necessary by the fact that men who were mor- tally wounded in New York came into Jersey City by ferry and there died. The lezislature of | the state of New Jersey, in order to prevent any murderer from taking advantage of the fact that eparated the jurisdiction of New Jersey from | New York, passed a Jaw that when any pers | received a wound in the jurisdiction of anoth | state and was brougtit into New Jersey before death his assailant could, in case of death, be | apprehended, i and arrested on requisition of the governor and tried fur murder in the first | | degree. | THE LAW IN THE DISTRICT. In the District of Columbia, where the assault on the President was committed, the common law prevails, and the resust is that as the Presi- | dent died at Long Branch, New Jersey, in order to secure such punishment as the assassin de serves he must be tried in Monmouth county, New Jer It is stated that Guitean will never reach Long Branch. It is said that there an as: tion in Washington who ha to shoot the assassin on sight, but if he escape assassination he will probably be tried | at ‘hold, as that is the county seat of the | county in which the President died. THE INQUEST. The ceroner of Monmouth county, who was notitied at midnight to-night that the Pr ent of the United States had died, came here to- ight prepared to ma as the President of the United States died withi the jurisdiction of the coroner. He was ¥ to accept the post-mortem which was made Drs. Bliss, Agne: as death had occurred witht | that it was his duty, as coroner of Monmouth | county, to make an investization as to the cause of death. This investigation will be made on toznorrow morning, and will be based on the | post-mortem made by Dr. Bliss. ‘The result will | be that he will report to the governor of New | Jersey that General Jame: Garfield died from | the effects of a wound inflicted upon him by | NE CHARLES J. GUITEAY, | whom, he is informed, is conflaed in prison in | | Washington, D.C., and as he is so confined it will be proper to make a requisition upon the authorities in charge of the District of Columbia for Guiteau, that he may be tried in Monmouth county, New Jers: The county seat of Mon- | mouth county is Freehold, and the fall term of | court at which Guiteau cau be tried will be in | October. By Associated Press. Seerctary Blaine with President Arthur. New. Yorke, Sept. 20.—Secretary Blaine ar- river in this city tiis morning, and is now with President Arthur. The Stock Exchange Closed. New York, Sept. 20.—The Stock Exchange voted to convene the governiig committee im- mediately, and recommended tiat the exchange be closed at 12 o'clock to-day and closed on the | day of the President's funeral. Gen. Arthur Sworn In, DETAILS OF THE CEREMONY WHICH TOOK PLACE AT HIS OWN RESIDENCE. New York, Sept. 20—The Sun extra say: o'clock this morning at his house. Two judges of the New York supreme court had been sent for—J.R. Brady and Charles Donohue. Judge Brady arrived with Messrs. Rollins and Root at | ten minutes before 2, but the ceremony was out | of courtesy deferred until Judge Donobue'’s ar- rival at a little after 2 o'clock with ex-Commis- sioner French. Judge Brady stood on the other | side of the table facing General Arthur. Grouped around the two men were Judge Don- obue, Eli Root, Commissioner French and Dan’l G. Rollins, and Gen. Arthur's son. Judge | Brady slowly advanced a step and raised his right hand; Gen. Arthur did likewise. A mo- ment of impreasive. silence followed. Gen. Ar- thur's features were almost fixed. Then Judge Brady administered the oath, Gen. Arthur in a clear, ringing voice— passenyers the death of the Bounced President. Before the ¥ Gorey tices ns of te wire. Ina short time all <f employés | who are in the city hed -athered in the houge, faa e Were received from Mr Bb sending of certain, “I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully ex- | from their eyes. a river which couid be crossed in five minutes | 4 any emotion. Up to three o'clock he had not decided when to leave the clty for Washingtom, THE PRELING IN ENGLAND, oxDON, Sept. 20.—In London the pinion to expressed by all classes, in comversa- ts, on the railway tretns, and at Tesort. is that the event is ant struggle for life The balconies of the \4 draped in Ulack, and a ay places end of half mast MES. GAKFT Lone Bra LD WANTS 4 rds expres ct and un Sas y In Cther Cities, WHAT THE NEWSPAPERS SAY CIPAL avrite Lovisvinne, Ky. Sept terson says in to-day’s President is dead and ail t tot touch of sympathy which m whoie world kin ed in th ence of the calar tous, are dow I attach of ver mortal st resentative iW ns to his 1 did so. It was Alt sowhieh brought jew citizens without in some far off place. A Proch no by the M. Pusan’ it sued the follow uaretl r of Philodelphia, ayer has ise select NON COU Philadelphia: mus—The of the President of the United States, sination, whilst it £ f every citizen with r the authorities C their deep im lignation at ti appropriate by which their se of the national, lo ors rendered shail be faitia Very respectfuliy, Saw, G. Kree. Mayor. The mayé ued a call for a special bling of the council The Gloom ai Branch, <G BReNcu, N.J., Sept. 20, 10:45 a.m.—The day opened clear but warm. is per- feetly calm, the roar of the surf being scarcely | perceptible inte gioom — whieh has been cast overt village by ath of President Garfield is unprecedented. Strong men may be seen n all sides discussing | th an munity of the eccasion, a of Leartielt sym- pathy for th ly with tears falling ne throughout the vile tle or excitement; but of @ acter, Jase is not one of t subdued and very i THE CABINET THAT IE HAS TAKEN THE, OATH OF OFPICR. Loxe Braver 20.—The following ‘ain Was received by the Cabinet this morn eptenibe New Yorr, Sept announcing the de: Permit me to re 20. ew throuch you the expression hy which T have already MacVeagh, In accordasice with your suggestion | have taken the cath ot office as President, before the Hon. Joha R. ‘ly, Justice of the Supreme Court of the state of New York. I will Soon advise you further in other sugcestion in your telecrs a. (Signed.) C. A. Arrive, At the Jail. WHAT HAPPENED THERE AFTER THR NEWS Was RECETY GUITEAY REPRESENTED AS IGNOR- ANT OF THE PRESIDENTS DEATH—HOW HIB ROTECTED. vis of the first learned of hoof the President when at their homes, and others on duty outside the build- ing, by heariag the tolling of the and in @ little time the lar guard was dvusled. Shortly after some reporters, who drove to the jail in anticipation being situated on the east side of the building, the of the bells did not reach him, and in only when the wi jowing from are heard at to this cell, i any time. which is the the same s wit, Sergeant shot at by it he insisted on the and dears being led witliiron shutters not being exe pre P it, th i upand a nom wooden entrance of the corri- dor, and he is now more seciuded than ¢ . be ins As near siliiary c« for ove to be THE GUARDS POTRLED. Capt. Coleman was of the earliest of the guards off duty to at the building, and he nd there with the guards slice on the alert. Sergeant inet, was at the jail ived, with others, ethecondition found Lieut. Lichm CROWDS GOING fo THE 3am. About 1:30 o'clock a hand of 30 or 40 colored men were encountered going out towards the Jail, and on blowing the persed, Once or twice durin: bands of peopie were seen approaching the jail, but were warned off by try, whose post was at the colored ebur 250 yards weat of the building.) Early this morning « crowdoft over 100 met at Lincoln Park, fart GUITRAU SLERPING ROUNDLY. As stated above Guiteau did not hear the bell and the guards on duty found him on every round they made sleeping soundly till about 53¢ o'clock this mornin Tle answered one this mor that he had a very quict eleep and felt well. Since the wooden door bas been placed at the corridor the seclusion scews to have made him more curious to know what was goingon outside. Prior to this, being within bearing and sight of the rotunda, he could, by the sounds and movements, formsn idea as to whether the President was improving or other- wise, and it is known that he had sometimes overheard some of the officers conversing, ‘HIS ANXIETY TO LEARN THE NEWS. The door deadening the sound, and he being unable to see anything except the black partition wall in front and the marshes of the Eastern Branch, and ths and looking through a anxious to learn what is going on. ing he was found reaching with his en w an t to oppoitunity the standing on hisbed | aperture, he is very This morn i doo. 80 as to give hima HIS FEARS OF AN ATTACK in the rotunda. It can be stated emphatically | that at 73g o'clock this morning he had not heard. ecute the office of President of the United | that the President was dead, and although Btates, best of my ability, ignorant of it he is in constant dread of an and will, to the y pre- tack. Indeed. ever since the United States.” After this he remained standing a moment longer, his hand still raised. No one spoke, nor