. Hazen's elementary history of the United States; a story and a lesson. 230 HAZENS ELEMENTARY HISTORY. LESSON.—Afire s^wrept Chicago (1871), but a greater city rose from theruins. Boston suffered (1872), but erected more elegant buildings. TheIndians made some trouble. President Garfield was assassinated ( raged in Chicago. It destroyed twenty thousand buildings made one hundred thousand people homeless, and burned $200,000,000 worth of property. But the courage of thecitizens was greater than the fire, and,aided by the gifts and sympathy of thewhole nation, a greater city soon roseout
. Hazen's elementary history of the United States; a story and a lesson. 230 HAZENS ELEMENTARY HISTORY. LESSON.—Afire s^wrept Chicago (1871), but a greater city rose from theruins. Boston suffered (1872), but erected more elegant buildings. TheIndians made some trouble. President Garfield was assassinated ( raged in Chicago. It destroyed twenty thousand buildings made one hundred thousand people homeless, and burned $200,000,000 worth of property. But the courage of thecitizens was greater than the fire, and,aided by the gifts and sympathy of thewhole nation, a greater city soon roseout of its ruins. In December, 1872, a similar fire sweptover Boston, Massachusetts. Aboutsixty-five acres were burned, and solidbuildings of stone and brick went downbefore the flames like houses of Cleveland. About $30,000,000 worth of pro[)erty was destroyed ; but soon new and more elegant buildings replaced those that were burned, and the city prospered more than before. The Indians now and then made trouble, and, in 1876, attacked a body of cavalry led by General Custer, and massacred every one of them. On July 2, 1881, President Garfield was assassinated in the railway station at Wasli- inccton. For weeks he cluno; to life and the hopes and prayers of the nation followed Benjamin
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