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THE ILLUSTRIOUS DEAD CONSIGNED TO THE TOMB Last Sad Scenes fn Tragedy That Rended Heart of the Nation. SOLEMN AND IMPRESSIVE FUNERAL RITES AT CANTON All That Is Mortal of William McKinley, “The Peacemaker,” Is Given Back to the Bosom of Mother Earth By Tender and Loving Hands, There to Await the Sounding Trump of Resurrection Morn. With majestlo solemnity, surround ed by his countrymen and his towns people, In the presence of the presi dent of the United States, the cabinet, Justices of the United States supreme court, senators and representatives in congress, the heads of the military and naval establishments, the gover nors of states and a great concourse of people who had known and loved him, all that Is mortal of the third president to fail by an assassin’s bul let, was committed to the grave at Canton, Ohio, Thursday afternoon. It was a spectacle of mournful grandeur. Canton ceased to be a town and swell ed to the proportions of a great city. From every city and hamlet in Ohio, from the remote corners of the south and from the east and west, the hu man tide flowed into the town until 100,000 people were within its gates, there to pay their last tribute to the fallen chief. The final scenes at the First Methodist church, where the fu neral services were held, and at the : * 1 .V? r” I ■‘i /i mm mi am $ iHT' r > '^0i mM . a 7 8 wm m m & •ii -i TO? w’Vy. ** -— beautiful Westlawn cemetery, where the body was consigned to a vault, were simple and impressive. The services at the church consisted of a brief oration, prayers by the min isters of three denominations and singiug by a quartet. The body was then taken to Westlawn cemetery and placed in a receiving vault, pending the time when it will be finally laid to rest be6ide the dead children who were buried years ago. The funeral procession was very imposing and in cluded not only the representatives of the army and navy of the United Siati s, out the entire military strength of DHo am. hundreds of civic, frater nal aud ( fier organizations. It was two miles long. During the morning the streets of the little city of Canton were filled with waving plumes, prancing horses anu densely packed bodies of moving men assembled for the procession which was to escort the remains of the late president from the church to Westlawn cemetery. Thirty special trains, in addition to the regular trains had arrived before noon. The biggest crowd in the history of Camton, which was there during the campaign of 1896, estimated at over 60,000, was largely exceeded. The face of the president was seen for the last time when it lay in state Wednesday in the court house. The casket was not opened after it was re moved to the McKinley residence and the members of the family had no opportunity to look upon the silent features again. The casket was seal ed before it was borne away from the court house. As the time approached for bearing the body of the dead president from the McKinley home to the church the little cottage on North Market street was the center of a vast concourse of people. Regiment after regiment of soldiers, acting as guards, were in triple lines from curbs back to the lawns. In front of the McKinley cot tage, drawn up In two rigid files of 6<>dy bearers, eight sailors of the navy and eight soldiers of the army, await tag the order to go within and take ■9 ths casket A brief private service had been held within the darkened chamber. Dr. Manchester saying a prayer, while the relatives gathered around, and Mrs. McKinley listened from the half opened door of her adjoining room. The double file of body bearers, now stepped into the room and, raising the flag-wrapped casket to their should ers, bore it through the open entrance. Aa the casket was borne along above the line of heads could be seen enfold ing Stars and Stripes and on top great masses of white roses and delicate lavender orchids. Tenderly the coffin was committed to the hearse and borne to the church. The service* In the church were sim ple. They begun with the rendition of an organ prelude, Beethoven’s fu neral march as the last notes of the prelude were stilled, the Euterpean La dies' quartet, cfl Canton, sang “The Beautiful Isle of Somewhere.” Rev. O. B. Milligan, pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Canton, delivered the Invocation. Dr. C. E. Manchester, pastor of the First Methodist church, delivered the funeral sermon. The line of the funeral march from the church to the cemetery was about one and a half miles in length. For hours even before the time set for the commencement of the funeral exer cises »: the McKinley home the street,* along the entire length of the line of march were crowded with spec tators. From the gates of the ceme tery to in r doors of the church there was on each side of the street an. al most an unbroken line of soldiers, and on all the intersecting streets detach ments of the militia were posted. No greater reverence has ever been shown to any man, living or dead, than was expressed toward the dead president. As the funeral car passed through the streets men and women sobbed convulsively and at the ceme tery gates, where the crowd was densely packed and where the people remained for hours pressing against the iron fence, two women fainted dur ing the exercises at the vault. At four minutes after 4 o’clock the funeral car bore the remains of the dead president through the gateway of his last resting place. Twenty min utes after that time the brief services at the vault were over, the members of the family and distinguished men of the nation who had come so far to do him honor had passed through the gates on their homeward way. One hour and forty minutes after the hearse had entered the cemetery the place was clear and the dead president was resting alone under the watchful care erf the men of the regular army. Mrs. McKinley Absent. One of the most pathetic features of the day was the absence of Mrs. Mc Kinley from the services at the church and cemetery when the body of her husband was laid to rest. Since ti e first shock from shooting, then of death and threugh the ordeal of state ceremonies, she had borne up bravely. But there was a limit to human endur anve and when Thursday morning came It found her too weak to pass through the trial of the final ceremo nies. BOERS WINNING VICTORIES. Renewed Activity of Brave Burghers In South «frica Is Again Wor rying the Red Coats. A London special says: While Mr. Kruger and Dr. Leyds are drawing up petitions to President Roosevelt and the czar asking them to Intervene, the fighting Boers are helping themselves in South Africa by celebrating the ex piration of the period in which Lord Kitchener proclaimed they must sur render, by notable successes, killing 6S officers and men, wounding 63 and capturing five guns and 300 men. The situation is singularly like the opening of the war two yearB ago, the names of the same places recurring in the dispatches. Utrecht, where Major Gough was entrapped, was the scene of a similar ambuscade eighteen months back. Acton Home, where the Boers reappeared last Friday, is 18 miles south of Ladysmith, prominent in the early hostilities, and the Natal colonies are mustering for the defense of Tugela, as when General Joubert in vaded Natal in 1899. In Cape Colony fighting is again go ing on south of Storm berg ia territory traversed by raiders and their pur suers half a dozen times. The government’s publication of those reverses causes an outburst of exasperation against the conduct of the war, not in South Africa, but in the ministry. The great ministerial journals accuse the government of try ing to run the war “on the cheap" by not providing Lord Kitchener with sufficient resources. The war office has received the fol lowing dispatch fror. Lord Kitchener, dated Pretoria, September 22: “Kritzinger, while endeavoring to force a passage of the Orange river, near Herschal, at 1 o'clock Friday msrning, rushed on the camp of a par ty of Lovatt’s scouts. 1'e failed to cross the river, but the scouts lost heavily. Lieutenant Colonel Andrew Murray and Captain Murray, his adju tant, were killed. I deeply regret the loss of Colonel Murray, who through out the war had led Lovatt’s scouts “Under cover of darkness the Boers managed to carry off a gun. They were promptly followed up and the gun was recovered in a smart engage ment, in which Kritzinger lost two killed and twenty taken prisoners.” Lord Kitchener also reports that the British captured by the Boers in the ambuscade near Scheeper’s Nek Sep tember 17 have been released and that the British casualties in the recent Vlafontein engageme.it, when the Boers captured a company of mounted infantry and two guns, were one officer and five men killed, twenty-three men ■wounded and six officers and 109 men taken prisoners. He announces that these prisoners have since been re leased. He further reports the capture of two commandoes, one consisting of 55 men under Commandant Kochs, who were taken ith their transport, west of Adenbrug, and the other consisting of 54 men including P. J. Botha, who were taken with 48 wagons and their belongings, 45 miles south of Carolina, ANARCHISTS GROW BOLD. With Shotguns They Stand Guard Over Office of Notorious Publication, At Spring Valley, Ills., twenty an archists armed with double-barreled shotguns and 1,000 rounds of ammuni tion are standing guard over the of fice of L’Aurore, the notorious anarch ist publication which expressed joy at the murder of President McKinley and satisfaction over the announcement of Assassin Czolgosz that he was an an archist. Meanwhile fully 2,000 citizens of adjoining towns have sent word to the authorities of Spring Valley that they are ready and extremely anxious to start at a moment’s notice for the city and assist in exterminating the reds. The temper of the people Is at the boiling point, the defiant attitude of the anarchist colony serving to in crease the anger. A committee will wait upon General Manager Dalzell, of the Spring Valley Coal Company, who resides in Chica go. and insist that he discharge every known anarchist in his employ. The anarchists and their sympathiz ers number fully BOO, and if this step is taken it will mean that one or two of the mines will have to close down un til other men can be brought In. Transport Goes Aground. A Manila dispatch says: The U. S. transport Buford, carrying the Seven teenth infantry to relieve the Twenty third, and then under orders to pro ceed for New York, has gone aground on a sandbar off the island of Mil lianao. Destructive Fire in Chicago. Fire in the four-story and basement building at Chicago early Thursday for a time baffled all efforts of the fire men, menaced several large structures practically in the center of the whole sale district and resulted in a loss ag gregating $200,006. NO SECTIONAL LINES To Mark Administration of Pres ident Roosevelt. IS PROUD OF THE SOUTHLAND President Declares the Fact of His Mother Being of the South Makes Him Virtually ‘Half Southern” Himself. A Washington special says: Presi dent Roosevelt has again declared his Intention to steer the ship of state In southern waters according to the Mo Kinley chart. The declaration was made Saturday morning ia an interview with Representative Liv ingston, of Georgia, the first democrat ic member of congress to call at the executive mansion to pay his respects to the new president. At the time of the interview there were present in the executive office Senators Elkins and Scott and Repre sentative Dayton, of West Virginia; Carroll D. Wright, commissioner of la bor; Blnger Herman, commissioner of land office; Representative McCleary, of Miunnesota and several other offl cial cal!ers - Representative Livingston stated that he simply called to pay his re spects and to wish the president every s.uccess during his administration, Congressman Livingston added that, in his humble capacity as a member of the bouse of representatives, he de sired to tender his services to assist him as far as he could in administer ing the public affairs for the benefit of the whole country, "My dear man,” exclaimed President Ro.jsevelt, grasping the Georgia con gitt,iman’s hand vigorously, “I will ^ w ,e no use for dividing lines or sec tionalism in this country during my S3ffiinfsiratlon;' "and’Tam gra teful to you for offering to help me make my administration a national one. I wish you would read my speech delivered in Minnesota a few days be fore President McKinley was shot. I want you to tell me frankly if you think it was broad enough and liberal enough to cover every section o£ this c,olmtr y- was not * 1 am willing to make it broader. It will be my ear nest and sincere endeavor to treat all P e °Pl& of this country alike with oul; re S ar d to sectional lines. I want you t° understand that my mother was from Georgia, and I have a very warm an d kindly feeling for the people of Georgia and all the people of the south. Now - want you to remember that I am president of the whole coun try, and durin; my administration it will be mv < ■'■'s' desiro to merit the affection i • ..'Jdence of the people of tl° souu,. , ? veil as those from the north, cast oi vvc.it.” The presiden; was even more eir. phatic in his declaration to Senator Pritchard, of North Carolina, and Rep resentatlve Klutz, of North Carolina, an d Representative Gibson, of Tennes J ee. "The south will support you most heartily,” said Senator Pritchard, speaking for all three of the southern men. “The democratic newspapers are predicting good tor you and of you and the feeling of all the people for y ? 11 ’ ^spectivs of party, is most 1 am & oin £ to be president of the t Tn Ited States and not of any section,” replied the president. “I don’t care £ ° r sections or sectional lines. When 1 ivas governor of New York, 1 was to ' d that I could make four appofnt raents in the army. When I sent in the names three were from the south and the other from New York. r They were brave men who deserved recognh tion for services in the Spanish war and it did not matter what states they were from.” The president talked in the same vein with Senator Money, of Mississip pi. when the latter called, reminding the Mississippi senator that his mother was a southern woman, “I am half southern,” _ said he. “and r have lived in the west, so that I feel that I can represent the whole country." WILL DEFEND ANARCHIST. Attorneys Lewie and Titus Finally Ac cept Thankless Assignment. A Buffalo dispatch says: Saturday former Justices Loran L. Lewis and Robert C. Titus, of the supreme court, accepted their assignment as counsel to defend Leon F. Czoizosz, indicted for murder in the first degree in kill ing President McKinley. Carlton E. Ladd, law partner of Judge Titus, was also appointed to assist in the ae fense. Although both attorneys tenta tively accepted the assignment a few days ago, no definite announcement was made until Saturday. ». WELLINGTON DENIES CHARGES Maryland Senator Says Newspaper Fight on Him Was Inspired By Garbled Reports of Remarks. The conclusion reached by a number of newspapers and not a few people that Senator George L. Wellington, of Maryland, should be expelled from the United States senate has, according to the senator himself, been based on false premises. In a letter addressed to Miss Lucile Laurendine, of Atlanta, G&., Senator Wellington emphatically denies having given the interview regarding Presi dent McKinley which drew such a storm of anathema and public disap proval upon his head. According to the letter, the interview was simply a “fake,” as tne senator from Maryland states that on account of the serious misunderstanding betweea himself and President McKinley he had stu diously avoided any expression bear ing on the shooting of the president. In the light of the vigorous language used against Senator Wellingtoti and the demand made through several newspapers that he be expelled from the senate of the United States, his denial of the utterances charged to him, contained in the following letter, will be read with no little interest: “Cumberland, Md., September 13, 1901.—Miss Lucile Laurendine, Atlanta Ga. l>ear Miss Laurendine: I thank you very much for your kind letter of the 10th instant and the copy of The Atlanta Journal which you sent me. In reply would say that I hare no hope of receiving decent, much less fair, treatment from the administrate" pa pers, and for that reason have ceased making endeavor in that direction. “I gave no interview, but refused again and again to give any expression for publication for the reason that Mr. McKinley had done me such injury I would never forgive him, and I felt that it would be better for me to say nothing at this time. Notwithstanding these facts, the newspaper importers OToff^nTpapers:"such have-manufactured a story for_the "The "I* oc at lanta Journal, are making all they can ouf ' “I thank you very much for your personal interest, but would rather there be no further newspaper publica tions in the matter. Again thank n you, I remain sincerely yours, “GEORGE L. WELLINGTON.” The Alleged Interview, Here is the statemeat which Sena tor Wellington is said to have made for publication on the day the presi dent was shot at Buffalo: “McKinley and I are enemies,” said the senator. “He has been guilty of an unpardonable offense toward me. I cannot say anything good for him, and do not think it just the time to say anything bad. I despise the man. I have no use for him, and there is no reason for my saying anything. I am totally indifferent in the matter.” Miss Lucile Laurendine, to whom the letter was addressed by Senator Wellington, is connected with the Western Union Telegraph Company in Atlanta. Her home Is in Scranton, Miss., where Senator Wellington has often visited and where she met him on a number of occasions. On seeing the attacks made on him by the press, Miss Laurendine wrote to him at Cumberland to ascertain if the published interview wjth him was cor rect, receiving from him the foregoing answer. TIN WORKERS REMAIN GUT. Declare They Have Been Treated Bad ly and Refuse to Abide Agreement. A Pittsburg special says: The strik ing tin plate workers, who have refus ed to abide by the agreement made In New York by President Shaffer, of the Amalgamated Association, and the offi cials of the subsidiary committee of the United States Steel corporation, are expected to make final plans for secession from the Amalgamated asso ciation and the formation of a separate union to be composed entirely of tin plate workers. Four Killed In Wreck. Four men were killed Friday night in a Pere Marquette wreck at Wayne, Mich. The names of but two have been learned. They are J. W. Swee ney, of Toledo, Ohio, and Gus Leopard, of West Bay, Mich. GEN. WOOD IN WASHINGTON. Head of Affairs In Cuba Holds Long Conference With President Roosevelt. After the cabinet meeting in Wash ington the president, Secretary Root and General Leonard Wood, governor general of Cuba, had a long confer ence at the white house. The discussion related to Cuban af fairs. more particularly to the new electoral law adopted by the Cuban constitutional convention. General Wood had a eopy of the law and its provisions were considered carefully, especially certain features which Gen eral Wood considers unsatisfactory.