The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1885-11-28
WILL LIE In STATE.
THE DEAD VICE PRESIDENT.
The PAn.bsarOrs for the DlstiuEuiGhod
Statesmen sSIscted-rho President will
Attend the faaeERl-An AIAEnlIst
Warning to Stay at Home.

INDIANAPOLIS, IND, Nov. 27.-All the
public buildings here are covered with
emblems Of mourning and flags are dis
played at hali-mast all over the city, and
citizens generally are doing everything
that suggests itself to make the observance
OF the death OF Vice President Hendricks
appropriate and fitting. On account ol
the strain on thenerves Of Mrs. Hendricks,
visitors were excluded from the house
last evening, but this morning the parlora
we're again filed with sympathetic
friends. Mrs. Hendricks is almost pros
trated with grief and exhaustion, and her
physicians have given orders that she
shall see nobody unless there is an emer-
gency for it.
r. A. Parks, the sculptor, arrived from
Chicago this morning, and assisted by II.
Mueller, OF this city, and +. B. Gessner, OF
Cincinnati, took plaster cast OF Mr.. Hem
dricks' face. 1t was not altogether salts.
factory, however, and at Mrs. Hendricks
suggestion, Mr.. Parks will make another
cast in the morning, from which he will
model bust.
The burial Casket will bo here in the
morning. It Is made by the Stein Manu-
featuring Company OF Rochester, n. Y,
and is like that in which General Grant was
buried, with the exception that 1t is covered
With black instead OF dark purple broad
;loth, and1s entirely Of cedar, there being
no metallic lining. A iorce OF men are
engaged in building a white marble Vauit
in the ground in the Hendricks lot, at
Crown Hill Cemetery, aud it will be finish
ID tonight,
There has been no change in the ar
rangements for the funeral, which will
AXE placs at noon on Tuesday, the body
'vinV in State all day Monday at the Court
House.
Ars. Hendricks has received several
hundred messages Of condoleHcs since the
teath OF her husband. Among those that
;ame this morning were tributes OF re.
,peCt and assurances OF sympathy from
Governor PAttisou, OF Pennsylvania, AS
soCiate Justice John NJ. Harlan, Mayor
FranCis, OF ST. Louis, General James A.
Ekin, OF Louisville; the National Cattle
ind Horse Breeders Association. at st.
Louis, whose exhibition at ChiCago Mr..
Hendricks attended last week, and fifty or
more political organization in all parts OF
he country.
Patrick Eyan, President OF the Irish
Land League OF America, telegraphed as
'nllows:
Jfs. 7. a. Hendricks:
l have learned of the death Of your
llustrious husband. On behalf Of my
ellow-countrymen, OF whose natural
lights he was ever the able and fear.
ess advocate, hasten to tender you my
'espeCtiul and heartfelt coincidence on
'our sad bereavement. May Almighty
Tod strengthen you to bear the great blow
which it has pleased Him to inlict upon
you.
The ball bearers for the funeral were so.
ected by the committee this morning.
with Mrs. Hendricks approval. They
ire: Gov. Isaac 2. Gray, Ex-Governor
Albert q. Porter, Hon. William A. Woods,
fudge OF the United States Court; Hon,
John L. McMaSter, Mayor OF 1nd!anApo
is; AquiliA Jones, David Macy and Judge
Frederick Rand, all OF this city.