The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-09-20


Postmaster General.
WAYNE MACVEAGH,
Attorney General.
S. J. KIRKWOOD,
Sec'y Of the Interior.
TALK OLE LYNCHING GUITTEAU.
Washington, 19.-Talk of lynch
ing Guitteau has been revived, and
as news from the President grows
worse the threats are louder. In
the crowds around the bulletins it |.
is not uncommon to hear men say
that if news that the President is
dead comes, they are in favor of tax
ing Guitteau from jail and hangingI
him Immediately. This sentiment
finds supporters, but there does not
seem, as yet, to be any organized
preparations towards putting theI
threat into execution. The author-|
tiles realize there may be dangerI
and have quietly taken their meas
ures. Military forces are kept ready
for immediate use, and the militia|
of the district is ready to respond tOl
a call if they are needed, and it'll
would be difficult for a mob to reach
the interior of the jail even if there
were no armed resistance. 1t is al
strong building and well guarded.
There is, however, if the news of
the Presidents death reaches here
at night, while most of the crowd
is on the streets, reason to believe it
would not need much to rally a
crowd for an attempt to attack the
jail to get Guitteau.
Elberon. lis a. NJ. 20.-The fol-
lowing official bulletin has just been
issued:
ELBERON, n. j., Sept. 1880 pm
The President died at 10 80 p. IN.
After the bulletin was issued at
} SO this evening, the President con-
inued in much the same condition
- during the al ternoon, the pulse
carving from l02 to los. with ratherI
Increased force ind volume. After
taking nouriShment he fell into al
quiet sleep. About thirty-I
i've minutes before his DEATH
md while asleep, his pulsed
rose to 10 and was somewhat
more feeble. vt 1910 o'clock hea
4woke, complaining of a severe painI
over the region OF the heart, and all
most Immediately became uncOn-I
SciouS and ceased to breathe.
(Signed) D. w. BLISS,
+. II. HAMILTON,
d. II. AGNEW.
HOW THE NEWS WAS RECEIVED.
Richmond, 10.-Immediately upon
the receipt of the news of the Presi-E
dents death, the public bells com
menced tOlling.
Chicago, 19.-The fire alarm nOti-
fed all the bell towers in this city,
at 1880, tonight, of the death of
President Garfield, and Immediately
the slow and solemn tolling of
the bells called thousands upon
thousands of people out on the
The mass of humanity made 8
all haste, by public and private con-
veyance and on foot, to reach the
point where the reliable and detailed +
could be obtained; and s
in few moments the streets where
bulletins were exhibited were full {
of people struggling to geta glimpse
of the fatal words, which for full :
half hour, was the only news re-
President is dead"
the blow had been
looked for almost daily for
over three weeks, it came none the
less dreadful. About the Jews cen
tres and newspaper windows, it was
q common sight to see strong men
expressing the deepest and almost &
fearful sorrow, while women wept
and the most fiippant and
hardened passed with bowed heads, 5
as in the presence Of some great
domestic or personal trouble. Not
a light word was spoken and for
once there was no jester in the
crowds which surged through thek
streets. The silence was an impress
sive and a peculiarly and solemn
feature of the night.
PRESS VIEWS.
Chicago Inter Ocean: Hard as it
is for one in the prime of manhood
to die the blow that has wrought
this result was not so terrible to
James A. Garfield as to the peo-
pie who mourn his loss. Death
comes to all, and whether it be IN a
few hours, a few days, or few
~ 1o4o,. cannot matter r