The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-07-03

Inc news or the attempted assas
sination of the President can rooa1
most intense excitement in this oitC
and crowds surround neWsn9r':!
offices, all of which have issued eS
tras. In the early part of the morn m
ing business was temporarily snc
pended on every hand. The lator
favorable news that the PresidaDt
was not dead in a measure oueIioJ
the excitement.
AT NEW YORK.
New York, 2.-Stoeks opened oor
orally firm, but free selling nov
ment was soon inaugurated. and ~.
entire list broke rapidly under t5s
Washington news, declining 161I%
The news of the shooting of Pro1s'
ident Garfield reached the poii"o
headquarters simultaneously WIFI
the report that the President waa
dead. Amid the utmost excitemoUt
the story fled from mouth to moTtI
and was listened to at first with IN
credulity, but as fresh confrmatio-r-
of the rumor arrived, indiGnatiOnD
took its place. Mr.. Nichols tSo
only commissioner in the bniIdinC
left hastily for down town in searc5
Of fuller information of the ren0rted
assassination. a total suspension of
business in the department Ofico
followed. Clerks and emplovees
gathered in knots in the halls to dis,
cuss the situation and keep a look
out for fresh news. When at length
a message came announcing that
President Garfield was not mOrtalIv
wounded, a shout of "GOd be
thankedP' went up.
The news down town was r.
ceived with CONSERVATION and
caused much excitement. On WA
street brokers and bankers aImOs
forgot everything in their eagerneS
to get further particulars. They be
sieged Kernan's news agency, On
Broad street, where dispatches from
Washington were constantly ar
irving, and being distributed. Groups
were seen in the streets discussing
the subject anxiOuSly and news bows
did a heavy business in extras. At
the opening Of the stock exchange
the news depressed the market, but
further dispatches announcing that
the wounded President was in a fair
way to recover, and was not so dan
gerOuSly wounded as at first reported.
caused a reaction.
ARTHUR AND CONKLING..
Vice-President Arthur and Conk-
ling arrived from Albany by boat
this morning. The boat was late,
not arriving until about 10 O'Clock.
AS soon as she touched the wharf
telegram was handed to Arthur.
Upon reading it he dropped back il
his chair, greatly shocked. 1t is
presumed the telegram announced
the shooting of Prest. Garfield.
a reporter called at the Fifth Az
enue hotel this morning about an
hour after the reception of the dis
patch, and sent his card to the rooms
Of Vice-President Arthur and ex-
Senator COnkling. Word was i'm
medIately returned that the subject
of the Presidents assassination was
too serious a subject to be talked
OF IN moment, and neither would
be seen under any circumstances.
The reporter saw COnkling in the
hallway, near his room, a few min
utes after, and when asked his
opinion of the shooting, begged to
be excused. THE news has found
me so Unprepared and overwhelmed
with personal cares that it has a.
most stunned me. May God grant
it may not be true. 1t is the most
terrible incident in our history
since the death Of Lincoln, If it is
true, may heaven help our country.
Conkling turned away and went to
his room:
IURAT HAISTEAD,
Who is ct present stopping at the
BrevOort House, said, this morning,
when the news was given him, that
he was horrOr-Stricken. He looked
at the reporter for moment, and
cried out that.it could not be true.
On receiving assurance that the re-
port had been Substantiated by an
official dispatch, Halstead turned
pale and said, with tears in his eyes.
that he must have time to- think OF
it. " My God how car. such things
occur in free country? We have
no nihilistS here seeking tOoFerturn
We have had peace
for many years, and are in the midst
OF it. / cannot understand 1t. 1
can only pray heaven that it IS nos
true"
The sub-treasury and custom
house are greatly concerned. Mes
sages are constantly flying, giving
intelligence. Collector Merritt IS
much agitated, and remarked when
asked as to the political significance
of the event: when the president
dies Arthur is president" The
mayor had flags at half mast early,
but took them down when he
learned the President was not dead.
THURLOW WEED,
Of the Albany E0eni7lg Journal,
says Guitteau, the man who shot
President Garfield, called upon him
asst October and asked for chance
10 speak on the stump for the repub-
lean national ticket. Guitteau said
ne had been employed by the repub--
lean state committee to do work at
heir rooms in New York, and that
le was on his way there. Barnes
Questioned him closely at the time
ind not liking his looks, told E. W.
Johnson, secretary of the state com