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VO ,X. NO. 9 MARTYR PRESIDENT IS DEAD! Assassin’s Bullet Finally Triumphs Over Human Science and Skill! > __ „ 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.