Identifier: grandestcenturyi00nort (find matches)
Title: Grandest century in the world's history; containing a full and graphic account of the marvelous achievements of one hundred years, including great battles and conquests; the rise and fall of nations; wonderful growth and progress of the United States ... etc., etc
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Northrop, Henry Davenport, 1836-1909
Subjects: Nineteenth century
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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ly the party proceededto the Baltimore and Potomac depot,where they were to take the cars, inadvance of the President, who arrivedsoon after in company with SecretaryBlaine, who came simply to see himoff and say good-bye. They left the 108 FROM THE CIVIL WAR TO OUR WAR WITH SPAIN. Presidents carriage together, and saun-tered arm-in-arm through the depottowards the cars. In passing through the ladies waiting-room, the President was fired at twice^y a man named Charles J. Guiteau.4lie first shot inflicted a slight woundin the Presidents right arm, and thesecond a terrible wound in the rightside of his back, between the hip and hope and despair, and was kept all thewhile in a most painful suspense. He was then removed to Long Branch,New Jersey, in the hope that sea-airwould benefit him, and for a time therewere renewed hopes of liis recovery, buton September 19th a change for theworst appeared, and the brave strugglewas brought to an end. The funeraltook place amidst universal demonstra-
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ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT GARFIELD. the kidney. The President fell heavilyto the floor, and the assassin was securedas he was seeking to make his escapefrom the building, and was conveyed toa police-station, from which he was sub-sequently taken to prison. The two months following the wound-ing of President Garfield dragged wea-rily away, the patient at times showingsymptoms of marked improvement, andat others experiencing dangerous re-lapses, The nation alternated between tions of sorrow throughout the country.On the 30th of June, 1882, the assassinwas executed at Washington. Early in 1891 active preparations werecommenced for the appropriate celebra-tion of the four hundredth anniversaryof the discovery of America by Colum-bus. As the centennial anniversary ofAmerican independence in 1876 hadbeen commemorated by an internationalexposition at Philadelphia, in whichnearly all the civilized nations of the .#=?c:ilt /^/m-yy

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