News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1915-04-14

Entering near the base Of the back
skull, it had been checked by the bone
and lodged in the head. The wound
bled prOfuseiy, and the bleeding was
not helped by the presidents removal
IN crude fashiOn-the arms of two men
to Il house across the street from the
theater. The president lapsed into in
sensibility when shot and so remained.
Lincoln Dead In Mine Hours.
During the small hours the bedside
of the dying president was surrounded
by members of the cabinet and other
officials, few close personal friends
and his family. Mrs. Lincoln was
overcome with emotion. Secretary
Stanton lowered over the president
pillow, and the venerable Secretary
Welles of the navy and Senator Sum
ner of Massachusetts stood on opposite
sides of the couch, with an army
group, including the son, Captain Rob,
ert Lincoln, disposed about the room.
No hope was held out by the sur
geons, and their reports throughout the
night led the public to believe that
death must ensue Other alarms dis
tracted attention-the secretary of
state had been attacked in his bed,
and it was rumored that Grant had
been killed. All in all the Washington
dispatches that appeared in the morn
ing papers of the country on the 10Th
indicated a conspiracy of which the
president was the chief victim. That
the evil would stop there few could
believe.
Toward midday the people of cities
with telegraph connections knew that
morning. Having alternated for hours
between the baseless hope that the
president would live and the natural
fear that the assassination was part of
a colossal plot to undo the work of the
war, the public mind, to a large de-
gree, bordered on hysteria.
Just as the more susceptible of the
excited ones at FOrd's theater when
they realized the foulness of the deed
before them had rushed toward the
seen, crying, XIII himr Hang himv'
20 thousands throughout the land
clinched their hands and grated their
teeth in uncomfortable rage when the
worst was known. But for these thou
sands there were tens and hundreds of
thousands who accepted the calamity
rs one more sacrifice on the altar of
he nations good, one to be felt deeply !
md borne heroically.
Extended Funeral 0bsequies.
These last were they who for three
weeks with somber bearing awaited |
long the route chosen for the memo
ial journey the hour when all that re-
NAMED of the mortal Lincoln-the
nartyred Lincoln-would pass and be
zone forever. The funeral was held
n Washington on Wednesday, the
9th, and that day throughout the
Whole land, in camp and metropolis, in
ity and town and village, millions and
billions participated in solemn rites.
Then followed the great professions
a Baltimore, Philadelphia, New York,
lbany, Buffalo, Cleveland and all
long the route to Springfield, where
he burial took place ON May 4. On
be train the coffin was borne in a
lagnificent funeral car and in the cit
IS moved in the professions on a
lately catatalque. In every city the
emains lay in state a few hours, and
light and day the people gathered to
ay one more tribute to the dead, often
icing pouring rain in the street to
lew the catafalque, or while waiting
'r access to the crowded hall where
lie coffin lay. And the stations and
ridges and buildings, public and pri-
ate, made one continuous pail Arch
J were erected and wreathed In Grape
nd evergreens and flags. Meanwhile
lie wretched assassin, John Wilkes
Doth. a crippled fugitive, was hunted ,
)wn and shot to death in a wayside
irginia stable.
Lincoln In History. ,
The burial was at Oak Ridge GENE
ry, Springfield. There the remains S
sted without a suitable memorial I'M t
the monument designed by Larkin {
Mead was dedicated, in 1874. 1t t
ay be said truly that during the years o
tween 1865 and 1874 Lincoln was {
st to the public mind. Millions re- s
red his memory: his portrait adorn- &
the walls of mansion and cabin; K
e stories written by personal friends. q
rtners and political colleagues were d
III thumbed. The masses didn't for ei