The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-04-15
THIRTY -FOUR YEARS TODAY.
Martyr Freshest Passed Away 1t
5sx2 O'clock. April Is, 1S6S-Seaf-
tie Man Has . CAieaxs Newspaper
Of That Date With Details.

| To-Day II the anniversary OF the death or
| Abraham Lincoln the martyr president.
/ Just "A years ago this morning, a
| - minutes past : ocloe... April Is. 1854
| President Lincoln expired from the effects
| OF an assassins bullet. fred into his brain
al II: % @ clock on the previous night.
No event Ia American history, prob
| ably, is more familiar to persons Of all
ages and classes In the United states
| than the assassination of President Lin
coin. 1t would be difficult TO End even
| a child In Seattle who has not heard with
GREATNESS interest and remembered in lis
| minutsst details the terrible story which
thirty-foar years ago this morning was
read al every breakfast table in the land
with grief and horror hardly TO &c COM
pretended by the generations which have
been born since that sad day
Of national mourning. And there
are still living In this city
thousands 10 whom the mere mention
brings back with vividness OF yesterday
the memory Of that terrible night during
which the whole nation stood In tears at
the bedside of the dying president and
watched the spark OF life fade slowly.
hour by hour, into ashes and expire with
the rising sun.
President Lincoln was assassinaied at
Ford's taeaier. in Washington, ID. G. oy
John Wilkes Booth. an actor, who had
entered into fanatical conspiracy TO take
his life in supposed furthcrance OF the
cause of secession, which had just re-
ceived It's death blow By the surrender of
the army of Gen Robert F.. Lee at Apo.
mattox, Va, on April o. AT the same time
an attempt was made upon the life OF
Secretary OF State w. II. Seward. Booth
was pursued by soldiers. and. taking ref
uge in a barn. was smoked out and shot
down like a wild beast while escaping from
the burning building.
In no way can better idea OF the terri
bic shock occasioned by the assassination
Of President Lincoln be obtained than by
reading the metropolitan daily newspapers
published on the morning o. April i, thirty
four years ago today. Such a newspaper,
sta ned brown by the passing OF many years
is possessed by A. Il. Ball, Of 4o1 Taylor
street. in this city. 1t Is a copy of the
Chicago Tribune. dated Saturday April Is,
ls65, containing full teiegraphc account
ct the terrible tragedy at Washington on
the previous night. The paper was rur-
chased By Mr.. Bali from a newsstand
al Warsaw. Ind. on the morning OF is Is
sue, and has been preserved by him With
religious care ever since In these words
the editor in double loaded paragraph on
the first page describes the assassination
under the caption,
THE TERRIBLE END.
The terrible news from Washington will
send pang of profound grief throughout
the nation. The news re aches us Just ~ We
are going to press and We hold our forms
open to the latest moment The mcurn-
fdl. terrible dispatches explain themselves
The president has been assaSsinated by a
rebel desperate and there are no hopes
OF his recovery. At the present writing he
Is rapidly sinking We cannot write more
The news is too fearful; The blow has fallen
too suddenly almost TO comprehend. In Ii
have eliminated all the horrors of this ac-
cursed rebellion. II plunges the whole ma
ton into profound sarroW May divine pro-
whence temper the irre1dr aole bere iveinens
ID the afflicted family.
'LATEST-Our lates. dispatch reports no
material change in the presidents con n
ton. but, alas. there ~ no hope. Before the
sun rises the good. the honest the true
patriot and president will De no move
The Tribune's latest dispatch Is lated
from Washington at n. m and contains
remarkably full details I: the tragedy. IL
hardly particular does il vary from the
versions adopted by different historians
writing years after the occurrence. The
tragic gesture and words OF the assassin
as retiring from the presidents box he
waved a dagger and shouted ''Sic semper
| tyrannis,'' the Latin motto of Virginia, are
| noted. as are numerous other little details
of the occurrence.
| Especially graphic ar, the descriptions Of
| street scenes in Washington following the
announcement of the assassination.