The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1881-09-28
THE NATIONS Loss.
President Garfeld's Death
at Elberon.
PASSING QUIETLY AWAY
Mrs. Garfield, Her Daughter, DR.. Bliss
DIR. Agnew and Few Personal
Friends Present.
SAD SCENE AT HIS BEDSIDE
General Arthur Takes the Oath
= Of Office In New York.
TIE MURDERED PRESIDENTS CAREER.
Sketch Of His Successor. Ches-
ter Alan Arthur.
TIE MURDERED PRESIDENTS CAREER
Sketch Of His Successor, Ches.
ter Alan Arthur.
RECORD OF THE CASE.

LoNa BRANCH, September 19.-The
President of the United States died to-
night unexpectedly at 1895 o'clock.
Between o and 10 o'clock almost all the
correspondents who had been closely
watching the case left the Elberon and
went to the West End to finish their
dispatches and place them upon the
wires there. The information that the
the West End hotel at 10:45. At once
the correspondents and others hastened
to Elberon. When they reached that
spot no particulars could be learned.
At first Warren Young had brought the
news across the lawn to the hotel. At
In05 Attorney General MacVeagh ap-
peared in the hotel, took possession of
the Western Union wire in the name Of
the government and sent to Vice-Presi-
dent Arthur dispatch informing him in
the briefest manner that the President
was dead, and saying that he would at
once consult the other members of the
cabinet. The members of the cabinet
AWere at once summoned. In few min
utes, having started from the West End
before the reception of the summons,
they were at Elberon, and, arm in arm,
theyp walked across the lawn in the
darkness to the Francklyn cottage,
where the dead President lay.
At 1I:02 Acknowledgement MacVeagh
came to the Elberon hotel and made
the following statement: "I sent my
dispatch to Minister Lowell about 10
o'clock. Just before that DIR. Bliss had
seen the President, and had found that
L. ,I,o nd thok Sc
ditions promised q quiet night. He
asked the President if he felt uncom-
Portable anywhere, and the President
answered, Not at ALL Soon afterward
the President fell asleep, and DR.. Bliss
retired to his room across the hallway,
while General Swain and Colonel
Rockwell remained with the President
About 10:15 o'clock the President said
ITO General Swain that he was suffering
great pain, laying his hand near his
heart. DIR. Bliss was Immediately called
.or across the hall, and when he entered
the room he found the President
unconscious and substantially without
pulse, while the action of the heart
was almost indistinguishable he
said at once that the President
was dying, and directed them to
send for Mrs. Garfield and Drs. Agnew
and Hamilton. The President re-
manned in dying condition until 1886
o'clock, when life was pronounced to be
extinct. He died of some affection OF
the heart. 1t was supposed that neu-
ralgia of the heart was the cause, but,
of course, that is not certainly known as
yet. 1 have notified the Vice-President
10
taries Blaine and Lincoln, who are or
the track from Boston to New York.
The other members of the Cabinet were
called from West End and are now in
consultation.
The following persons were presen
when the President breathed his last
Drs. Bliss, Agnew and Hamilton
Mrs. Garfield and her daughte
Mollie; Colonel Rockwell, o. O. Rock
we'll, General Swain, DIR. Boynton
Private Secretary j. Stanley Brown
Mrs. and Miss Rockwell, Executive
Secretary Warren Young, II. L. Atchi
son, Joha Kicker, S. Lancaster, ant
Daniel Spriggs, attendants, the last
named colored.
Mrs. Garfield sat in a chair shaking
convulsively. and with the tears pouring
down her cheeks, but uttering no sound
After awhile she arose, and taking hol(
of her dead husbands arm, smoothed i
up and down. Poor little Mollie threw
herself upon her fathers shoulder OF
the other side of the bed and sobbe(
as ii her heart would break. Everybody
else was weeping slightly. At midnigh
Mrs. Garfield was asked if she woulC
! like to have anything done, and whethe
she desired to have the body taken I,
Washington. She replied she coulC
not decide until she became more com