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IS a 111* 1 inn un-n tock-rokiuf.id-DOt■ ve. mle ide,IOU-in, the ritli v to i i in itly •on-;hi*r lore the iscs •ital g tolenttheof.andkedringthelght i hu-Ev-Acre buy oun-t\Vlt;, l is-.ideirocks, many of them as large as an ordinary house.IHth. Abraham Llnroln.From the N. V. Sun.It is a sad fact that Mrs. Abraham Lincoln, the widow of the late President Lincoln, is living a secluded life in an interior town in'France, and declines to return to America lest she may again be placed in a lunatic asylum. It is said in France she still indulges in her propensity for buying things for which she has no use, and till-ing closets with articles wholly unnecessary.It will be remembered that in 1875, Mrs. Lincoln’s son commenced proceeding in the Chicago pourts to have his mother adjudged insane, in view of her reckless expenditures, and her many acts inconsistent with sanity, and to have a person appointed to care for her property. The court alter hearing the evidence adjudged her insane, and appointed a trustee to manage her estate. About $50,000 in Government bonds was found on her person. After the decision by the court, she left her room at the Grand Pacific Hotel, and endeavored to procure laudanum at a neighboring drug store, but received only a harmless drug, and was prevented from committing suicide. 'flic next day she was conveyed to a private asylum in Northern Illinois, and utter a few months with a sister, at Springfield, trom whence she sought a (piict retreat in France. The loss of her husband bore heavily upon her, but the blow which wrecked her mind was the shaft of death that fell upon her loved boy “Fred.” There is but little hope of her recovery.Robert Lincoln, the only son now living is engaged in the practice of law in Chicago, and holds high rank in his pro lession.
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Kansas City Daily Journal of Commerce
Kansas City, Missouri, US
Tue, Mar 12, 1878
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