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VO ,X. NO. 9
MARTYR PRESIDENT IS DEAD!
Assassin’s Bullet Finally Triumphs Over
Human Science and Skill!
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Nation’s Beloved Chief Executive Passed From
. Earth With a Glorious Song on His Lips.
Sadly affecting scenes!
AROUND DEATHBED.
TEARFUL FAREWELLS
Resident’s Last Words Were,
“God’s Will Be Done.”
A Buffalo, N. Y., special says: Pres
ident McKinley passed into eternity
at 2:15 Saturday morning. He had
been unconscious since 7:30 Friday
night. His last conscious hour on earthj
was spent with the wife to whom hej
devoted a lifetime of care. He diedj
unattended by a minister of the gospel]
but his last words were an humble
submission to the will of the God in
whom he believed. He was reconciled
to the cruel fate to which an assas
sin’s bullet had condemned him, andj
faced death in the same spirit of calm
ness and poise which has marked his]
long and honorable career. His last!
conscious words, reduced to writing by]
Dr. Mann, who stood at his bedside!
when they were uttered, were as fol-i
lows:
“Goodby. All goodby. It's God’sJ
way. His will be done."
During his conscious moments Mrs.j
McKinley was brought into the cham-J
ber and there was an affecting fare-,
well. Members of the cabinet, one by,
one, saw the president momentarily,!
and there was a hushed exchange.!
Then the president softly chanted a]
hymn. Just before he lapsed into un
consciousness he begged the doctors?
to let him die. At 9:30 everyone with-*
in the house and in the great crowd'
outside were awaiting the announce-]
rnent of the end.
His relatives and members of the of-]
ficial family who were at the Milburni
house, except Secretary Wilson, who!
did not avail himself of the opportun-i
ity, and some of his personal and po-]
litical friends, took leave of him. This*
painful ceremony was simple. His]
friends came to the door of the sick’
room, took a longing glance at him]
and turned tearfully away. He was
practically unconscious during this'
time. But the powerful heart stimu-1
lants, including oxygen, were em-|
ployed to restore him to consciousness 1
for his final parting words. He asked]
for his wife and she sat at his side and
Held his hand. He consoled her and
bade her goodby. She went through
the heart-trying scene with the same
bravery and fortitude with which she
has borne the grief of the tragedy
which has ended his life.
The immediate cause of the presi-1
dent’s death is undetermined. His]
physicians disagree, and it will possi
bly require an autopsy to fix the exact
cause. The president's remains will,
be taken to Washington, and there'
will be a state funeral. Vice President
Roosevelt, who now succeeds to the
presidency, may take the oath of of
fice wherever he happens to hear the
news. The cabinet will, of course, re
si Sfn In a body, and President Roose
velt will have an opportunity of form
infl anew cabinet if he so desires.
APPROACH OF DISSOLUTION.
It was shortly after 2 o’clock Friday
morning tnat the physicians and
nurses noticed weakening heart ac- !
tion. The pulse fluttered and weaken-'
e d and the president sank toward col
lapse. The end appeared to be at
S'rATE OK DADE NEWS.
hand. Restoratives were speedily ap
plied and the physicians fought the;
battle with all the reserve forces of
science. Action was not immediate
and decisive. Digitalis and strychnine
were administered, and as a last re
sort a saline solution was injected into
the veins.
A general alarm went speeding to
the consulting physicians and trained
nurses as fast as messengers, the tere-
Igraph and telephone could carry it.
iThe restoratives did not at once prove
effective and it was realized that the
'president was in an extremely critical
(condition. That realization, with tne
■shadow of death behind it, led to an
other call and then a summons to the.
(cabinet, relatives and close personal
friends of the president.
The Buffalo papers all had extras!
with- the sad intelligence of the presi-l
[dent’s relapse on the streets at day-!
[light. One paper announced that the!
was dying. The result wasi
jthat the.whole city was thoroughly!
; aroused and alarmed early, and before!
i7 o’clock crowds of people flocked in?
the direction of the Milburn residence!
!to learn if the latest news was not]
more reassuring. Many of them re-]
fused to credit the news of the presi-l
dent’s sudden change for the worse]
'until they had learned by word of
[mouth from the sentries of the presi
dent's dangerous and critical condi-j
Ition.
| Of all the sad household only the
[wife did not know the truth. She sur
[mised that Mr. McKinley was worse,]
gfor she was told it would be better!
efor her not to enter the sick chamber.]
[She assented, but it was with a look
,of mute appeal in her eyes.
The president himself seemed to
realize that his life hung by a thread.'
| Dr. W. W. Johnston, of Washington,]
and Dr. Janeway, of New York, two of
[the most eminent specialists in the |
[United States, were summoned to lend
Rtheir skill and counsel, and Dr. Mc
sßurney, the noted surgeon, who left
[Thursday, was recalled.
3 Vice President Roosevelt and the ab-]
fsent members of the cabinet were also
itelegraphd for.
3 Shortly after 10 o’clock the intimate
[friends and relatives of the president
twho were telegraphed for began to
[arrive.
I Bulletins issued at frequent later-
Evals during the day gave but little
Pencfuragement, and before 6 o’clock
[it was clear to those at the president’s
[.bedside that he was dying, and prep
arations were made for the last sad
[offices of farewell from those who were
[nearest and dearest to him.
| Oxygen had been administered stea
dily, but with little effect in keeping
[back the approach of death. The
[president came out of one period of
[unconsciousness only to relapse into
But in this period, when his
fmind was partially clear, occurred a
(series of events of a profoundly touch
ling character. Down stairs, witn
fstrained and tear-stained faces, mem-
n wiiilirixmMUiftrawMil in Hina t
TRENTON. GA.. FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER 20.1901.
hers cf the cabinet were grouped in
anxious waiting. They knew the end
was near and that the time had come
when they must see him for the last
time on earth. This wfs about 6
o’clock. One by one they ascended the
stairway. There was only a momen
tary stay of the cabinet officers at
the threshold of the death chamber.
They withdrew, the tears streaming
down their faces and the words of in
tense grief choking in their throats.
He was practically unconscious dur
ing this time. But the powerful heart
stimulants, including oxygen, were em
ployed to restore him to consciousness
[for his final parting with his wife. He
[asked for her and she sat at his side
[and held his hand. He consoled her
and bade her goodby. She went
through the heart-trying scene with
the same bravery and fortitude with
which she has borne the grief of the
tragedy which ended his life.
At 9:37 Secretary Cortelyou, who
had been much of the time with bis
dying chief, sent out formal notifica
tion that the president was dying.
,But the president lingered on, his
Ipulse growing fainter and fainter,
j There was no need for official bulle-
Jtins after this. Those who came from
[the house at intervals told the same
[story—that the president was dying
(and that the end might come at any
[time. His tremendous vitality was the
[only remaining factor in the result,
And this gave hope only of brief post
ponement of the end, which finally
[came at 2:15 o’clock Saturday morn
ling.
NATIONS OF EARTH NOTIFIED.
When the announcement reached
Washington that President McKinley
;had died, Acting Chief Clerk Martin
!and other employees of the state de
partment immediately sent cablegrams
.to each and every United States am
bassador and minister, notifying them
'that the president died at 2:15 o’clock
Saturday morning in Buffalo, and in
structing them to inform the govern
|ments to which they were accredited.
I Arrangements were made by which
Secretary Hay met Acting Secretary
of War Gillespie and Acting Secretary
of the Navy Hackett. in the state de
partment, to promulgate the necessary
orders of the three departments. The
order oft the war department is draft
ed on lines similar to that issued when
President Garfield was stricken. The
order is addressed to all division and
department commanders in the Uni
ted States, the Philippines, Cuba, Por
to Rico and Alaska and announced
the death of President McKinley and
directs that all work be suspended for
the day, all the flags to be at half
mast, and that thirteen guns be fired
in the morning and one atintervals of
half an hour, and forty-five guns at
sunset.
A similar order will be issued by the
navy department.
CZOLGOSZ INDICTED
Grand Jury at Buffalo Starts
Assassin Toward Gallows.
MURDER IN THE FIRST DEGREE
Prisoner Stubbornly Refused to An
j ower Questions Repeatedly Asked
of Him—Court Appoints
His Attorneys.
Monday afternoon in the county
'ourt at Buffalo Leon F. Czolgosz,
alias Fred Neiman, was indicted by
the grand jury for the crime of mur
der in the first degree in fatally shoot
ing President William McKinley in the
Temple of ivusic in the Pan-American
eposition grounds at 4:15 o’clock on
the afternoon of September 6th.
When arraigned before Judge Em
Pry in the court the prisoner stub
bornly refused to answer questions re
peatedly asked of him by District At
torney Penney, as to whether he had
[counsel or wanted counsel. The dis
trict attorney then suggested that, in
asmuch as the defendant refused to
answer, counsel would be assigned.
Judge Emory assigned Hon. Lorain I
L. Lewis and Hon. Robert C. Titus,
former supreme court justices of the
city, w'hose names had been suggest
ed by the Erie County Bar Associa
tion.
District Attorney Penney presented
the evidence in the murder ease to
the grand jury.
Aside from the surgeons and physi
cians in the case, no witnesses were
sworn other than those who were in
the Temple of Music and witnessed!
the shooting. The complete list of
witnesses in the order in which they
appeared is as follows:
Dr. Herman Mynter, Dr. H. R, Gay
lor, Dr. H, G. Matzinger, Dr. M. D.
Mann, Detective Gal
.aher, Attorney James L. Quaeken
bush, Attorney Luius L. Babcock,
Harry Hinshaw, Captain Damer and
Patrolman Merkel, of the exposition
guards; Corporal Luius Bertschey and
Privates Neff, O’Brien, Fennenbaugh
and Brooks, of the Seventy-third Uni
ted States seacoast artillery; E. C.
Knapp, Mrs. Vanderbwgh Davis, John
Branch, a colored porter; Captain Val
lely, chief of the exposition detec
tives; Superintendent Bull and Assist
ant Superintendent P. V. Cusack, of
the* loca lpolice department; Fred
Leighter, Charles J. Close, Exposition
Guards Westenfelder and James, and
Detectives Geary and Solomon.
At 4:15 o'clock, just exactly ten
days after the shooting, the grand ujry
voted unanimously tq indict Czolgosz
for murder in the first degree.
At 4:41 the secret indictment was
presented to Judge Emory in the coun
ty court.
After all the preliminaries were
completed Judge Emory directed the
officers to notify the attorneys and re
move the prisonr.
Czolgosz was handcuffed to the de
tectives, who started out of the court
room with him. The crowd surged af
ter them, but found the exit barred by
policemen. Outside the court room
door the prisoner wa3 surrounded by
policemen apd hurried downstairs into
th. basement, when he was taken
through the tunnel to the jail across
Delaware avenue. Whether he was
left there for the night or taken else
where the to say.
Fertilizer Bulletin Issued.
Georgia’s state commission of agri
culture, 0. B. Stevens, has given out
in pamphlet form his department bul
letin for tne season of 1900-1901 of
commercial fertilizers and chemicals
inspected, analyzed and admitted for
sale in the state of Georgia up to Au
gust 1.
Ike Williams Cheats Gallows.
Ike Williams, the Carrollton, Ga..
negro who was charged with the mur
der of a white boy, and about whom
so much excitement was raised in Car
rollton npt long ago, died ip the Ful
ton county jail, at Atlanta, from drop
ay.
POLICEMAN TALKED TOO MUCH.
Augusta Citizens Aroused Over Re
marks Made By Guardian of Peace.
An Augusta. Ga., dispatch says:
Several well known gentlemen were
in the office of Ordinary Walton a day
or two ago discussing the shooting of
the president at Buffalo, when Police
man John E. Martin entered. After lis
tening to the discussion, which was
upon anarchy, Mr. Martin interrupted
the conversation by remarking that all
anarchists were Roman Catholics and
that that church was responsible for
the existence of the nefarious order. A
move is now on foot to have Martin
discharged.
15. T. BUO(’h r , Kdifor anil Proprietor.
BUFFALO TO WASHINGTON
Mortal Remains of the Nation’s Dead
Chieftain are Transferred.
Vsci Multitudes Gather All Along ±he Route—dn Country., Hamlet, Village
and City—to Catch a G3:i:tnpßC of tfco Flag-Coverod Casket and
Pay Their Last Tribute to The Illustrious Dead.
Through a living lane of barehead
ed and sorrowfully silent people
stretching from Buffalo up over the
Alleghenies, down into the broad val
ley of the Susquehanna and on to the
marble city on the oanks of the shin
ing Potomac, the nation’s martyred
president Monday made his last jour
ney to the seat of the government over
which he presided for four and one
half years.
The whole country seemed to have
drained its population at the sides of
the tracks over which the funeral train
passed. The thin lines through the
mouutains and the sparsely settled dis
tricts thickened at the little hamlets,
covered acres in towns suddenly
grown to the proportion of respectable
cities and were congested into vast
multitudes in the larger cities. Work
was suspended in field and mine and
city. The schools were dismissed.
And everywhere appeared the trap
pings and tokens of woe. A million
| (lags at half mast dotted hiuside and
| valley and formed a thicket of color
iover the cities. And from almost ev
ery banner streamed a bit of crepe.
The journey home was the most re
markable demonstration of universal
personal sorrow since Lincoln was
borne to his grave. Every one of those
who came to pay their last tribute to
the dead had an opportunity to catch
a glimpse of the flag-covered bier ele
jvated to view in the observation car
at the rear of the train.
The train left Buffalo at 8:30 Mon
day morning iund arrived at Washing
ton at 8:38 Monday night. In the
twelve hours intervening it is esti
mated that over 500,000 people saw the
coffin which held all that was mortal
of President McKinley.
At 9:37 the hearse, drawn by six
black horses with crepe netting, pass
jed through tne white house gate in
Washington. Immediately following
the police escort were four troops of
the Sixth cavalry from Fort Myer and
immediately back of them was the
committee of the Grand Army of the
Republic, who preceded the hearse.
Then came the long line of carriages.
All of Monday night the remains of
President McKinley lay in the east
room of the white house, where for
more than four years he has made his
home as the chief magistrate of the
great American republic. Upstairs
his widow mourned for her dead in
the family apartments that now bring
[back the saddest of memories. It was
[with simple ceremonies and a silence
that fitted perfectly the sadness of the
occasion that the body of the late pres
ident was borne up Pennsylvania ave
nue to the white house.
The streets about the railroad sta
tion were filled with mounted troops
and the station itself was occupied by
stalwart soldiers and sailors in uni
form. It was not so one the broad
stretch of avenue that led to the
white house. There the people strain
ed and crowded in a vast multitude
against the stiff wire ropes which re
strained them from the space marked
out for the line of procession. The si
lence that marked the progress of the
funeral party through the national
capital was profound.
Mrs. McKipley gave another exhibi
tion of her remarkable endurance af
ter Bh*j arrived at the white house.
aH the official functionaries had
departed she insisted upon doing down
into the tlast room to view the remains
of her departed life-partner. Tenderly
escorted by Abner McKinley and Dr.
Rixey, she proceeded down stairs,
passed on through the main corridor
to the east room, She insisted upon
haring the casket opened, and her re
quest was granted. Then followed one
of those sacred scenes which cannot
be described.
The Start From Buffalo.
The brilliant statesman who a few
days before had outlined his future
policy to an assemblage at the Pan-
American, the learned guest of a great
city, was taken out in silent splendor,
his career ended so far as his domi
nant personality is concerned, al
though his policies will remain. Thou
sands upon thousands watched the im
pressive procession moving from the
Milburn house toward the depot. It
was doubly impressive because of the
fact that, following closely behind the
pall covered corpse of the dead presi
dent followed the successor to the ti
tle and the living change in the coun
try’s history.
At 7:35 Mrs. McKinley, robed In
garbs of mourning and supported by
Abner McKiniey on one side and Dr.
Rixed on the other, was led out to a
waiting carriage. To the surprise of
ail she walked briskly, with her head
quite erect, her face hidden behind
her long black veil. She got into the
carriage with her favorite niece, Miss
Barber; Abner McKinley and Dr. Rix
ey, and they were driven at once to
the depot. As far as could be seen she
sat erect and unsupported in the car
riage. The family of Abner McKinley,
other relatives of the dead president,
and Secretary Cortelyou followed in
other carriages.
Just after 8 o’clock had struck, to
gether with Mr. Wilcox and his secre
tary, William Loeb, Jr., President
Roosevelt got into a carriage and
drove to the train. A few mounted po
licement followed the carriage and
three or four detectives and secret
service men were near by. t
The Cortege Moves.
It was a few minutes after 7 o’clock
when there came the signs of life
from within the corridor at the city
hall where the body of the president
reposed. The doors were flung open;
the gates swung ajar. At 7:07 forty
sailors from the United States steam
ship Michigan swung up Franklin
street, the first detachment of the
cortege’s escort. The blue jackets
wheeled into line directly opposite the
entrance of the city Four ifcin
utes later the four-horie hearse drew
into position.
Exactly at the appointed hour, 7:43,
the escort was in perfect readiness.
A minute of awe-inspiring silence and
emerging from the doors of the city
hall, there moved the eight body bear
ers, four soldiers and four sailors. On
their shoulders rested the casket in
closing the body of the country's be
loved one.
Away down the line of soldiery from
the Sixty-fifth regiment band came
once again the strains of “Nearer, My
God, to Thee.” Behind the long ropes
the throng uncovered, and with bowed
heads, waited and watched in silence.
Tenderly the precious burden was
borne slowly down the stone steps.
The flag-draped casket was lifted
gently into the hearse and the doors
ulosed. Through the windows of the
hearse naught but the American flag,
surmounteu oy a single sheaf of wheat
could be seen. To the front came the
troops wheeling into line, and tne
start for the station was made. The
procession moved through the streets
between masses of people all uncov
ered.
Above the buildings American flags
and black streamers hung at half
mast. The line had begun its march
at 7:50. Half an hour later, with meas
ured step and to the strains of the con
stantly playing band, the line at last
turned into Exchange street, where
the railroad station is located. Then
the Buffalo journey was at an end.
The hearse stopped in front of the
baggage entrances to the depot. As
the undertaker took hold of the door
of the hear&e to open it and the soldier
bearers prepared to draw the eoffin
out, a hush fell on the multitude. Then
from the head of the column came
the mournful sound of “Long Roll.” As
it ceased there arose clear and sweet
from the bugle notes “Nearer, My God,
to Thee.”
The soldiers bore the flag-covered
casket on their shoulders and moved
toward the train as the band took up
the air of the grand old hymn, “Oh,
God; Our Help in Ages Past.’*
The funeral train started on its
journey to the national capital at 8:34.
The two engines and observation car
were shrouded in black. The other
cars were unadorned. Behind the
drawn blinds were Mrs. McKinley,
President Roosevelt, th® cabinet and
other high dignitaries of the gqvern
ment. The casket was covered with a
beautiful silk flag and lay on a raised
bier in the observation car. Two
sheaves of wheat were crossed above
the breast. A white dove, with out
stretched wings seemed to be rising
from the casket. It was part of an
exquisite floral piece in which red and
white buds pictured the American
flags and the French colors, a tribute
from a Franco-American offering. At
the foot of the' casket was a soldier
of the United States army, uniformed
and accoutred with a gun at oruer
arms. At the head a sailor of the navy
stood at attention, cutlass at shoulder.
The lid of the casket was closed.