SUMMARY OP TUB LATEST NEWS. Doatettlc. At the encampment of the Grand UAimy of the Republic Commandcr-in-I Chief Rassieur made a violent attack on Saimion Examiner l-.vans and his metlt- 64f of administering the pension taws. The Democratic State Committee ol Virginia declined the proportion of the Jtspublican committee for a joint de bate by the gubernatorial candidates of ft two parties. Shamrock II. had two lucky escapes imm serious disaster while taking a pin. She was struck by a squall and came very near running into a yacht. The strike situation remains un changed. The steel combine has re lated to entertain further propositions I aettlement from the Amalgamated Association. Shipping is tied up nt New Orleans .by a Mrike of the longshoremen, whose jdmind for higher wages has been re fused by the shipping agents. A mob of negroes broke into the jail 4 WicklitTe, Ky.. and lynched three Iftgfroes who confessed having robbed respected colored man. While on a sick bed Miss Zoe Daugh txt,y, of Atlanta, was married in Nor folk to Dr. Louis Sage Hardin, also oil Atlanta. i A misplaced switch caused a wreck loathe West Shore Railroad near Svra e. in which 25 passengers were shak Wq up. r "At the convention of the naval asso ciation of Naval Veterans in Cleveland. Qhio. officers were elected and installed. Rev. Dr. T. E. Crantblett. of Pitts- lrg, has accepted the presidency of !jrhany College, at Bethany. W. V'a. I Kick Childress was struck by a rock fcro-wri by Joseph Hendricks in Ricll 'snond, Va., and seriously injured. hOla World. 15 years of age. was mar led in Richmond. Va.. to Frank W. rwis. 23 years old. Bishop Henry a. Whipple is danger oasly ill at Faribault, Minn. Job a nn Most, the anarchist, was ar--reMed in New York city. ' Immigration Commissioner Powder 1y and Congressman Cornell are draft ing a bill, to be submitted to Congress, ''winch, if passed, will prevent anarchists Hading here. The court of inquiry at Brooklyn 2favy Yard sustained charges of drunk .enncss against Col. Robert I.. Meade. 'tie wiM be court-martialed. Near Peru. Ind.. six persons were IriUed by a train while walking on the track. They were returning home from ' funeral. The Secretary of the Treasury has di rected that internal revenue receipts br deposited with national bank depositories tip to the par value of all bonds depos ited, including the 2 per cent bonds. This will release about $5,000,000. A rear-end collision took place on the Pennsylvania Railroad at Wilmington. Del., and over a dozen people were in .Jured. Mrs. E. B. Clagget, of Balti Ijnore, was badly, briiised and shaken up. Robert A. Thompson, of Red Lion. Pa., aged 50 years, died as the result of shock produced by the news of the at tempted assassination of President Mc Kinley. Sritutv f'--nrm 4iinnnii..., ft,.. l.A ....11 consider proposals for the sale of gov-Hhc eroment 3 per cent bonds for the sinking fund. a - ffe Concatenated Order of lion. ieS0"? auowea to die. ann me use 01 oxy- aession at Norfolk, Va.. adopted a reso lution in favor of stamping out anarchy By the explosion of dynamite at a lime Iciln at Leesburg, Va., one man was kill ed and two were hurt. Near Leesburg. Va.. Lillian Jessups threw herself in front of a moving tram and was instantly killed. James G. Stowe, United States consul at Cape Town, South Africa, arrived in New York. Census returns show that there an a-iore males than females in Pennsylva nia. rt ' V Foreifa. A massacre of Armenian revolution ist is reported. Colonel Crabbe has surprised the camp of Van de Merwc, in Cape Col ony, killing him and another Boer, anil look 37 prisoners. The late Dowager Empress Frederick bequeaths .1,000.000 marks to Conn1. Scckendorf, grand marshal of her court, with whom, it is asserted, she contract ed a morganatic marriage. Lord Kitchener reports that Meth eq, on September 6 and 8, drove the Boers from strong positions, killing 18 and capturing 41 prisoners. Martial Faugeron. a Frenchman, on trial in London (or murder, revealed waat he claimed was a plot to kill Jos ph Chamberlain. Emperor William and the Czar of Kassia met and exchanged courtesies on the former's yacht, the Ilohenzol lern, at Hela, Prussia. If Turkey does not pay Spain's claim lor capture of Spanish boy and girl, warships will be sent to enforce pay ment. The Peace Conference at Glasgow took steps looking to the settlement ot the American question. Don Joaquin Walker Martinez has hrrn nominated as minister of Chili at Washington. French foreign officials have not beei. officially notified of the Czar's vi-.it to France. The Mayor of Panama has issued f. decree enforcing military conscription. Prince Alexander Wit !r -n.-ti-iu. of! Russia, was killed in a duel by Lieuien ant MaxinofT. who has since been dis missed from the army. The Prince hat1 insisted on fighting. A decree was issued in China creatine. Ilie new Chinese (.nice- ot foreign affair-'., in accordance with the agmment made "fey China with the European powers. The Peace ( 'o-.ifri rn, e at Glasgow adopted a rcsoLm- n that any nation re fusing its opponent's offer to arbitrate lost theright to be considered a civilized power. " The British have placed nine young (iris and a married unman in Cane Colo ny on trial on the charge of supplying food and aid to the King's eiianics. The Czar conferred decoration upon members of Emperor William's official household, and the Kmperor decorated some 01 the C'.jf s high oltictais. Other European powers have sent a joint note to the Sultan of Morocco Mtpporting Spain's demands lor the re lease of the Chri-tian captives. There is an organized clique in Lon don to hoot American productions in rVscntnient of the American inva-ion 01 London theatres. Mrs. von Krttelcr, mother of ibe murdered Baron von KetMcr, refused to sec Prince Chun or receive his con dolenccv The loss of the Ifritish column for the week is reported to be 25 killed and bout 30 wounded. Girl students in Russia who present ed Tolstoi -Mill flowers Iiave been ar rested. Flaaacial. Ijirge shipments of gold from France are eupccted shortly. The American Bankers' Association will meet Milwaukee September 24 Kradstreet's index numbers repre senting the average price of commodi ties show a gain of 3 of 1 per cent, in 1he month of August and 22 per cent above the low point on June 1. 4 t president Mckinley dead The Nation's Chief Expires at 2.15 Sat urday Morning at Buffalo. FOR HOURS ON VERGE OF DISSOLUTION In a Loving Farewell fo His Devoted Wife ths Dying President's Last Words Were "It is God's Way; His Will Be Done. Good-Bye." William McKinley, the twenty-fourth President of the United States, died at -MS Saturday morning. The bullet fired by Leon Czolgosz. the anarchist assassin, has done its aw iul work. The nation is bowed in grief. Theodore Roosevelt, in accordance with the provisions ot the Constitution. s now the President. President McKinley'i end was peace ful. The noble courage and Christian spirit which had characterized his splen did public career and his sweet domes tic life were pathetically shown in bis last moments of consciousness. His one thought was of his wile, who held his hand in a loving, lingering farewell. His last words were to her. They were: "Good-by. All. Good-by. It is God's Way. His Will be done." Members of the Cabinet. Secretary Cortelyou and the others who had watched through the hours ot suspense and anixety from the first sinking spell, caused by heart failure, early Friday morning, entered' the chamber of the dying President, touched his hand and murmured a word of farewell. About -40 o'clock the President softly uttered the words ot his favorite hymn, ' Near er, my God. to thee," and then lapsed into unconsciousness. FYom the time that the President ex perienced the first severe sinking spell, at 2 o'clock l-'riday morning, until 7 o'clock Friday evening, digitalis was given and saline solution injected to stimulate the action of the emeehled heart. Oxygen was also administered. It seemed that the dying man was be ing kept alive by artificial means. After had bidden farewell to Mrs. McKin iley and others near and dear to him I the President requested the doctors to gen was suspended The physicians disagree as to the cause of the fatal turn in the Presi dent's condition and it is already certain that an autopsy will be necessary to de termine the exact cause oi death. The members of the family, with the exception oi the bereaved widow, were at the deathbed. Mrs. McKinley was in an adjoining room. Dr. Rixey was the only physician present. EM) OF A LONG STRUGGLE. Tearful Farewells and Thca a Wait Until Death Came to the President. . Buffalo. N. Y. (Special). The Presi dent died at 2.15 A. M. . From authoritative officials the fol lowing details ot the final scenes in and about the death chamber were secured: The President had continued in an unconscious state since 8.30 P. M. Dr. Rixey remained with him at all times until death came. The other doctors were in the room at times, and then re paired to the front room, where their consultation had been held. "About 2 o'clock Dr. Rixey noted the unmistakable -ii'iis of dissolution and IrLt McKinley as asleep and it was deem ed best not to awaken her for the last moments of anguish. "Silently and sadly the members oi ; the family entered the room. Their I stood about the loot and sides of the bed where the Presidents life was ebb ing away. Those in the c-rcle .were: Abner McKinley. the President's brother; Mrs. Abner McKiulev. Miss, Helen, the President's sister: Mrs. Sa-1 rah Duncan, another sister; Miss Ma-y naroer. a niece; .Miss Isarall Hum-an. I. lent. J. 1-. McKinley. a nephew: William M. Duncan, a nephew: Chas. i. Dawes. Comptroller of the Curren cy: F. M. Osborne, a cousin: Col. Webb C. Hayes, John Barber, a 'lephcw: Secretary George H. Cortel-1 yon. Col. u . C . Brown, business part it of Abner McKinley; Dr. Rixey, the lannly physician, and six nurses and attendant-. 111 adjoining rooms sat lrs, .Mellnr- ley. a-d:n, Parke, Stockton and Myn- er. It was now 2.05 o'clock and the min i:tfs were slipping awav. On v the subs of those in the circle about the Pre-i-dent's bedside broke the silence. Five minutes passed, then six. seen, eight. Now Dr. Rixey bent forward and then one ui in- nanus was raised as 11 in vvarnuig. I lie flutteniiR heart was jus-, going to rest. A moment more and Dr Kixey -traighjened up. With choking -one uc -aid : "The President is dead !" Secretary Cortelyou was the first ti tarn from the stricken circle. He sten ed from the chamber to the outer M and then down the stairway to the large loom wnere tne members of tile Cab net. Senators and distinguished officials were assembled. As his im ivliii. face appeared at the doorway a hush fell ui 011 ine assemblage. "Gentlemen, the President has passed aiwiy, lie saiu. For a moment not a word came in re J ply. Even though the end had been ex pecieu ine iiciuai announcement thai William McKinley was dead fairly stun ned these men who had been lus clos est confidants and advisers. Then a groan of anguish went up from the as sembled officials. They cried outright like children. All the pent-up emotions of the last few days were let loose. They turned from the room and emerged from the house with streaming eyes for tin fate of the dead President. He died unattended by a minister of the Gospel, but his last words were an humble submission to the will of God, in whom he believed. The Chief Magis trate was reconciled to the cruel fate to which an assassin's bullet had condemn ed him and faceil death in the same spirit of calmness and poise which had marked lliis long career. His last conscious. words, reduced to writing by Dr. Manp, who stood at his bedside when they were uttered, were as follows: "Good-by all! Good-hy! It is God's way. His will be done: not ours." Friends came to the door of the sick room, look a longing glance and turned tearfully away. The President was un conscious during this time. Members of the Cabinet, one by one. saw the President momentarily, and there was a hushed exchange. Then the President softly chanted part of the hymn "Nearer. My God, to Thee." Just bojore he lapsed into unconsciousness he begged the doctors to let him die. it is said that President McKinley really ed at 2 a'clock. and that after he had been pronounced dead efforts were made to revive the spark of life. When this was found impossible Mr. Cortelyou made the reluctant announce ment. Senator Burrows, of Michigan, and Representative Alexander left the house soon after the announcement of the President's death. "It took place at 2 o'clock," said Mr Alexander. "I went 'up stairs and met Col. Webb Hayes. 'How is the Presi dent?' I asked. 'He passed away at 2 o'clock,' replied Colonel Hayes." 'He died, peacefully and without pain, like a man sinking to sleep. For three hour or more he had been practically dead and his extremities had been wholly dead. WILLIAM President of the Hand of an Only a faint dicker at intervals told tha: he still lived. Occasionally he utteree! a faint exclamation 'Oh!' and before lit quite lost con.sciorsnrss Dr. Stockton bending over him, hrard him r.p.a ina the words ot the hymn. 'Nearer. .VI) God. to Thre.' "Secretaries Root. Wilson. Lore inn Hitchcock. Attornev-Gi-ueral Knox Senators Haiina, 1-airhanks and Burrows ml Representatives Rvan and mv-elf tiled through the President's room about 11 o clock and saw him tor the last lime alive. So quietly did he pass away tlia:W the members of the Cabinet who wereH gathered in tl'.e d'liing room did not Know when he died. Senator Burrows, who left the Iioiim with his handkerchief pressed to Lis eyes, could hardly sneak so great was hir ! emotion. 'The President's death sret-.ied nai 1- jle-s." said he. "lie seemed to fall im .calm and peaceful repose." DEATH DUE TO GANORENE. Condition of Physicians After Autopsy on Mr. Mckinley's Body. Mulbiirn House. Buffalo, N. Y. (Spe rial). The following is the report of the autopsy upon the leuiains of President McKinley : "The bullet which struck over th. breastbone did not pass through the skin and did little harm. The other hiille; passed through both walls of the stom ach, near its lower border. Both Ik Its were found to be perfectly closed by tile stitches, but the 1 i.-s.it around each hole lad become gangrenous. After passing through the stomach the bullet passed into the hack walls of the abdomen, hit ting and tearing the upper end of tin kidney. This portion of the bullet track was also gangrenous, the-gangrene in volviug the pancreas. "The bullet has not yet lieen found There was no sign of peritonitis or dis ease of other organs. The heart walls were very thin. There was no evidence of any attempt at repair on the part of nature, and death resulted from tin liungrene which affected the stomach around the bullet wounds, as well as the tissues around the further course of tlu bullet. Death was unavoidable by any surgical or medical treatment and was the direct result of the bullet wound. "Harvey I). Gaylord, M.D Herman G. Matzingcr, M.D.; P. M. Rixey. M.D. ; Matthew I). Mann, Ml J. ; Herman Mvn ter. M.D. ; Ruswell Parke, M.D. ; Eu gene Wasdin. M.D. ; Charles G. S'oek ;on, M.D. ; Edward G. Janew ay. M.D. ; W. W. Johnson. M.D.; W. P. Kendall, ursieon. U. S. A.: Charles Carw. M.D. : Edward L. Munson. Assistant Surgi on U. S. A., and Hermanus L. Faer, M.D." The official announcement of the phy sicians as the result of their autopsy on the President's body that death resulted from gangrene of the wounds led to much discussion of the causes leading up to its gangrenous condition. It de veloped that Dr. Wasdin. one of the con suiting physicians and an expert of high standing in the marine hospital service, strongly supported the view that the murderous bullet had been poisoned and that this was one of the moving causes of the gangrenous condition. The area of this dead and gangrened flesh was a source of much surprise to the surgeons, reaching a circumference about the size of a stiver dollar about trie internal wounds. Aside from their official, signed state mcnt. the doctors were rather averse t discussing the autopsy, but some general expressions were secured on the point involved. Or. 'Matthew D. Mann, the surgeon upon whom fell the responsibil ity of operating upon the President im mediately after he was shot, in the course of a cursory talk, said : "There was never any contention or unseemlv discussion among the phvsi cians as to the methed of treatment of a case similar to the present one m 1111 portance. In no case was there ever a lie-lter understanding as to what should he done. We worked together as one man. There were honest differences of opinion sometimes among us as to which was fhe better mode of procedure undei certain conditions, but the minority al wavs were convinced." "So far as the treatment of the case was concerned, both from a surgical and a medical standpoint, it was success ful. The abdominal wound was fatal from the start. The physicians should feel relieved over the result of tile au topsy, because it revealed the fact thai the abdominal wound was necessarily fatal, and that nothing that was done or could be done would more than delay the inevitable result. The Government, the family and the profession were fairly represented among the physicians and surgeons making the autopsy. LEAVES HOUSE OF DEATH. Simple Funeral Services Over the Holy A Dramatic Incident. Buffalo, N. Y. (Special). Striking in iheir simplicity were the services held here Sunday morning over all that re mains of William McKinley save the memory of him that will linger in the hearts of the American people. Kxcept tor the presence of many, ol (the most distinguished men in the na tion the services in the Milburn house might have been the last words said iivcr any of a hundred thousand men. Barely two hundred persons were ad mitted to the house, and those only by special invitation. Except for the news paper men, the military and the escort 'guard of police there were few within McKINLEY. United States to Die by the Assassin. a block ot the cottage while the ser vices were in progress. The cortin was taken down s:a;rs and nit in the large library at the (rout o! -.he house, just off the hall. It rested between the two front windows. wi:'n he head toward the s.reei and abotr 1 wo ieet from a large pier ghiss. The up per half oi the coliin was open, and o-i :he lower half rested a larye wreath o purple violets, red roses and white 'hrysanthemums. Two 1 t'u-r wreath- it red roses and white rhrysairhemimi--ested on a marble .-lielf at the base o; the mirror. The carpe was draped with a large American flag. Only the thinness oi his face bore ante testimony to the patient suffering which the murdered President had en lured. He was dressed as he usuailv .vas in life. 'The black frock cat wa imitoned across the breast wlicc the rirst bullet of the assassin had struck A black siring tie below the standing ollar showed the lit.le triungic of white -birr front. The riijlit band lay at It;, side. The lelf was across his body. Most of tin e invited had entered when, at 10.57 o'clock. President H m-e velt drove up in a carriage wi ll Mr a.u' Mrs. Ansley Wilcox. He shook hands n silence Willi several meinbe-s of the- I ':L),ii ...... 1.: 1 . mi., mei mini ai uie carriage ..uu siowiy walked to ine pia.za and nr.o the ho"se. In a smaller library 0:1 the mirth side 01 the house were must of the memhe-i-i the McKinley family who were- pres ent and a few ,,(' their closest friends. Mrs. McKinley did ,not come down stairs during the services. With Mrs llarber. Miss Barber. Mrs. Hubart am! ur. Kixey. Hie sat at the heioV oi the s-.airs leading into the mam hull. Al. the doors were open and she could, h-.a wcijr wuru 01 ine ministers ea-ne prayer, anil the sweet strains oi tin choir reached her as they sang the President's favorite hymn. She sat thre. ugh it all. silent and pas sive. It seemed as if her great grief had exhausted her power for suffering. With a handkerchief a! her eyes shr buried her suffering in her broken heart. Never moving until just be fore the coliin was carried out, she was gently raised from her chair and led away to her own room. As President Roosevelt entered tin library everyone rose. Graveey be walked past the line of (he Caainel members to the head of the coffin. For a moment he gazed wn the face of Mr McKinley. His eyes were suffused with tears and his mouth twitched, but with a superb effort of the will he mas tered hi emotions. During the ri- jj,,.u ninimiir m mc service ms lace was set Turning, Mr. Roosevelt took his place won the Caoinei. ,t tuis in. -ment Rev. Dr. Charles Edw. Locke, of tfi Delaware Avenue Methodist Kpis copal Cliitrch. son of that Dr. Locke who for many years was the McKinley pastor at Canton, entered the room. He tok a position at the door leading into the outer hall. A quartet from the First Presbyterian Church had been stationed in the din ing room, and with the sweet strains o one of the President's favorite hymns, "Lead. Kindly Light." the services be gan. Eyes that before had been dry filled with tears as the words were sung with exquisite feeling and pathos. As the last strains died away 'Dr. Locke's voice was heard. He began reading from the fiftrenth chanter of First Corinthians. There was a mo ment s pause after he had finished, and then the quartet sang the verses of "Nearer, my God. to l'bcc," so dear, to the man about whose bier the mourn- Sers stood. As the music died away for a mo ment there was intense silence. Then in prayer Dr. Locke, his words uttered so that they reached the ears oft the woman sorrowing for her dead, made .111 eloquent appeal. All present joined in the Lord's r r.i.ver as me minister repeated it President Roosevelt's voice being an-fj '..uic in me uac-K 01 tne room. 1 nc diction. The funeral director was about to step forward to place the cover on the coffin when suddenly there was a movement behind Governor Odell. Senator I lamia, who had risen, saw that the last oppor tunity to look info the countenance of his dead friend had come. Pressing forward, in an instant he was at the side of the coffin, bending over and looking down into it. Almost two minutes passed and then he turned away and the coffin was closed. Four sailors, two infantry sergeants and two artillery sergeants bore the cof fin out of the house. The President. Cabinet and others foHowed it. Mrs. McKinley and ilie members of the family remained. It was 11.30 o'clock when three long rolls of muffled drum told those outside the house that th; funeral cortege was about to appear. At the moment the cof fin appeared "Nearer, My God, to Thee," ascended in subdued strains from one of the military bands. Tenderly the bearers lowered the coffin from their shoulders and nlaced it in tli lir-arc c;tHi.r. n,i sailors swung into long columns andfi took up the inarch southward toward the Citv Hall. As the funeral cortege moved south on Delaware avenue toward the City Hall a vast concourse of people looked on. It began raining hard and the people were drenched by the time the body reached the hall. A VAST OUTPOURING. Immense Crowd In the Rain at Buffalo City Hall to Set th Body. Buffalo (Special.) Such a spontane ous outpouring of men and women elesir ilis. of paying their respects to the de-ad is that which took place at the City Hall Sunday afternoon has seldom occurred ;n this country. As early as 5 a. 111. crowds began to gather at the points of vantage around the hall. They stood there all day. con stantly increasing in numbers and re gardless of the wind and rain which lrenched them to the skin, in order that hey might have a last look at the face f the eicad President. Not less than 150.000 persons were massed at one time behind the lines of police which held them in che-ck. For hours, in double lilies, two abreast tlii-y filed past the coffin containing Mr McKinley's body. Though they went through the City Hail at the rate of from iS.s to tftj a minute the stream never slackened. Late in the afternoon there were two lilies, ca.-h nearly jf not quite .t r.'ile long, in which were standing men and women, waiting patiently for hour-. Many of tlietn were wet through and learly all of them were without foexl. A death-mask of the President's face 'n:s been made. The mask was taken bv Edward L. A. Pa-isch. of Hartfi ri Conn. He has modeled the fe-atures ot nt.tiv of the distinguished men who have -lied in this country in recent years. The funeral train left Buffalo at 8..p 1. ill. .Monday, arriving at Washington i o clock Monday eveningr. At Wash asu-ra train le cs aineii ngton the body was tak n frrm the trai .0 the Executive Mansion under. th :ort of a siiuadron of cavalry, rem miner a puard ot sulelr.-rs a id -m ors tntil 10 o'clock Tuesday morning, wh'ii t was taken to the rotunda of the Cap to! tmler the same escort of ca-.a'ry. "The Ivody will li- in Mate in the r ttndii of the Capitol Tne-iay. Tuesda rorning the- public f -ni-r.l service was iield at the re.. inula. Tuesday evening he body was immediately taken, undi 1 military escort, followe d by the funeral irorcssion. in accordance with ibe pre- M edtnt -in the case of Trc ident G.-rfi id o ine nainuioie anil 1 otoinac Manor nid places! upon the funeral train, which v ill have for Canton, where the tinai funeral services will he committed to th -barge of the ciiizens of Canton, under be direction of a committee to be sele.-t d by the Mayor of thai city. A CIIKISTIA.VS DEATH. Thy K'ngdom Co.nr, Thy Will He Done. While !lng i:i the oje-;.tiiig room ui lie Emergency lluspiial in the grounds n' the Pan-American Expo-ilion, alter he at temp: upon his liie. President McKinley in his trusi in God and almly awaited the work if the sur- reous. -si mat nine lie siltiere-el no :ain. 1 1 is mind was at pe ace, save fir us solicitude lor his invalid witr. I he scene within th ramiuil. When Dr. Myn.er b-- ia.i to ad'mni-ter the anesthetic be President was repeating the Lord's 'raver. He had reached the words. Tli v kingdom coi.ie. Thy will be lone," when the ether took effect and u- lapsed im-.i unco nsciousness. With his simple prayer oil his lips lie sub uitted to the operation with the simple nit implicit faith in the Almighty ihat ill would be weil. Throughout tlu veek of hope and (ear that followed, at he Milburn home, this same spirit 01 rust in Gi d was ever manifest, and on lis last evening he repeated the wo-dslj if the hymn. "Nearer, my God. toS 1'hee." His last utterance was. "I: isBS joil s way. His will be done." Tht .vas aiter he had said good-by to Mrs McKinley and all. LIFE AND WORK OF MR. McKINLEV. .'irter al Ibe Lalo Preside!--Lawyer, Sol der and Statesman. William McKinley, twenty-fourth President of Ihe United States, was bor.i it Miles, Trumbull county, Ohio, on lanuarv 20, l4;. After attendoug the j'tlblic sihools he went to Poland Ae'a'le ;uy, and subsequently to Allegheny Col lege, but before attaining his majoritj had become a teacher in the public scheiols. On June 11. 1861, .when he was n his nineteenth year, he enlisted as n private in the Twenty-third Ohio Vol mteers. lu-coniuig commissary sergeaifi 111 April 15, 1802, second lieutenant on -.epteuiber 2.? of the same year, first lien- 'enant on rcliruarv 7 l-el.ruarv 7. iKd.?. and cut.taii-E Ipelled to I itch 1111 a horse ;or bio'.hri " '"fd i-itcccssivi-'ylj:,, Klt , a dancer" 11 Jv.'y 2? Jfon the staffs of Gens. R. &. Hayes. tieorge Crook and W infield S. Hancock and towards the close of the war was da tailed as acting assistant adjutant general ot tne 1-irst Uivision, first Army Corps on the stuff of Gen. S. S. Carroll, lie was hrevetted major of jolunteers for gallantry in battle in March, 1865, and in July following was mustered out of the service, Major McKinley then applied himself to the study of law, which he completed ny a course at the Albany ( N. Y. ) Law School. In 1867 he was admitted to the bar, and settled down at Canton, O., in the practice of his profession, that town since remaining his home. In i860 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Stark county, but served only one term in that office. In 18(17 he made his entrance upon the field of national politics, and was elected a member of the- lower house of Congress, in which for the next 14 years lie represented the congressional district of which his county was a part. As chairman of the Ways and Means Com mittee he reported the tariff law of leVio. in the preparation of which he took a J leading part, and it has always been B known by his name. In November of that year Major McKinley was defeated tor re-election to Congress, the new ap portionntent of the state having been so Democratic district, but he succeeded gerrymandered as to throw him into n H reducing the usual adverse majority from 3000 to 300. There was, however practically no interval in his public ca reer, for in 1801, a few months after he retired from the House, he was elected governor of Ohio by a plurality of 21.511 over James E. Campbell, th'; Democratic incumbent of the office. Two years later he was re-elected by a plurality ot tso.qos over Lawrence 1 Neal, Democrat, and retired from the governorship at the close of lSys. Major McKinley served as a delegate at-large in the Republican National Con vention of 18J54, when he supported Blaine for President, and as a member of the committee on resolutions read the platform to the convention. In 1888 lie- was again a delegate-at-large from Ohio, supported John Sherman for the nomi nation, and as chairman of the committee on resolutions again lenorted the plat torm. Jn 1H02 he appeared for the third time as a delegate-at-large from Ohio. and served as permanent chairman of the convention. On that occasion Major McKinley advocated the renennination of President Harrison, but, notwith standing his refusal to permit the use of his name, 182 votes were cast for him for the Presidential nomination. At the national convention held at St. Louis in June. 1806, Major McKiulev was made the Presidential candidate of the Repub lican party, receiving 661 '-i votes to 84'.- tor 1 Mom as Keed, ooyj for Matthew S. IjQuay. 58 for Levi P. .Morton. for VYiliam a. Allison and I for J. Donald Cameron, with 24 delegates absent, the muliher of votes necessary for a choice being 462. In November following Ma jor .McKinley received 7. 106. 100 vote- to 6.502,085 for William J. Bryan, giving a plurality of 603.514. and a clear ma jority of the popular vote of 288.7s.t over all opposition. , In the Electoral College the vote stood 271 for McKinley to 17(1 tor liryan. On June 21, 1000. the National Repttb- lie-an Convention at Philadelphia renomi nated Mr. .McKinley for President. He received 926 votes (all the votes of the onventton). On November 6. 1001, Mr. McKiulev was re-elected, defeating Mr. William J. Bryan the second time. During the administration of Presi dent McKinley the most important mat ters that have engaged his attention have been the war with Spain, beginning in April, i8ij8, and being concluded in Au- MKiisi en ine same year; tne trouble witnii the Filipinos, which followed the attack cm on the American troops by the Filipinos in February. 1800. and which still con tinues in a desultory sort of fashion: the passage of the Porto Rican bill, applying to the use of the inhabitants of the island the duties collected: the pafsagc f)f the Financial bill at the last session of Con cress by which the goltL-standard was made secure; and (he trouble in China, which followed th:: attack of the Boxers on the foreigners in China, which neces- Wsitaled sending American troops to Chi na, some 01 which arc sun mere. Another interesting episode of the. Mc Kinley administration was the final dis solution of the Jong-standing tripartite control of the Sainoan Islands. Accord itiir to tl-j, .I,,,-!. i, in 1. :.. t . e:u..i M Britain, Germany and the United State: 01 nun tagoven 0 w Inch Kbest h rnnieut were parties, J ntuila Island. contains- Pago J ago harbor, the harbor in the group, was awarded to the I'nitcd Slates, and Germany got he balance of the group. This settle ment followed an ugly uprising 011 th island, in which some American mid Uritish marines were killed, and a dan genius fe-eling w:ts engendered, e"auscd by the attitude- of the German officials who sided with the natives. The l-cmlly of the President President McKinley came of Crawford .-utility stock. His grandfather and great .jraiui fuller were leading pioneer chi- ns of Crawford. Strange to siy, tlie iveil in the- banner Democratic (0W11 hiu of tbis roi-k-ribbed Democrjti county, and. what was more, they voted the Dcnwnrc tu'l.-t. In :t little (Icrnrm Lutheran cemetery. .1 few mile:, north i f Bucyriis, on tlu -late ro: d. can be ioimil a modest grave lope, i n v. hich i- the following inscrip lion: "Daid McKinley. Revolutionary Soldier. Born 17;,'). Died 1840." The pound is ncat'y kent. and from the cor ners of the old rail fence nod wild roses in fvaPTdiil profusion, lust beyond run the Columbus t-r.d Sandusky Sboit Line Railroad, and L11! a few of the passen gcrs know that in ibis link- cemetery Rjl rests the stock of the nation's President. hi , LB1"' ttesidc iiil- grave ot .McWmliy is a (mpaiiion inot nd with a "imilar head ii - t4 .... ; ..'. titw ,il whii-ii 1.' ii .-ril "ILiiooi ..... ...v K..- .", in. iiiiikiriiB .! im President. Throughnm thi . cemmy there still live a nuni'uir of ;ieir dese:endants and the older pioneers remember well McKinley ibe l'.ev olmionary soldier. Among the closest relatives still hen are the Waller family, their homestead still being a few miles from the lonely graveyard. Stephen Waller married n sister to the President's father, and hs many occasions to visit the old home in 1 anion. While Mr. Waller and th Preside 1:; differ in politics, the former v. high in his p-aKc of the consistency ami character o: ibe President, and speaks most toi'.i-hirply of the Christian char acter of the President's inojhcr. Since the deal. 1 of 'Mrs. Waller the family visits and lorrcspondencc have naturally beer, discontinued, but Mr. Waller re- hilf-s m.i-iv inelilrlits in ihi- e:o-lu tifn ol' j:he Prcsidcrt which illustrate jiis earlv IsChrislian tiaimiip. )On one o.ias.on. during a visit of Mrs W.'slli'i to tli" home of her brother. William McKinley, Sr., the President was a lad of in or 17 years. He was a s'udeiit and was poring over hit Latin vclic'. his bre ther. David, w ho was super intendent f a col mine, rame rushing the m.-jiu and ordered young Wil lim o h'tch up his horse and have it rea ly fr hint by a certain time, as lie was in A hurry and vanled to drive out te a dance scieraj miles in ihe country After Ins bn-Unr Had left the room voting Wilhain turned to his aunt, Mrs Wallc.". :ud said : "Aunt Martha, don't you ti.ini: it r.niier luimm.v.inrt lor a Metltoibst and u l.-ilin s-chn hir l.i In- roe-.- tOOSEVELT TAKES OATH AS PRESIDENT. Fallen for a Moneat Wilt Emailoa, and Thea la Firm Toms, Accepts the Honor. .Buffalo, N. Y. (Special). Theodore Roosevelt, at 3.30 o'clock Saturday afJ ternoon, in the library of the residence of Ansley Wilcox, at Buffalo, took the constitutional oath as President of the United States. . Elihu Root, Secretary of War, acting in behalf of the Cabinet of the late President, in a voice tremu lous with grief, formally requested Mr. Roosevelt to (.ike the oath. The new President, in a vejicc that at first fal tered from emotion, said: "I shall take the oath at once in accordance with your request, and in this hour of deep and terrible national bereavement I wish to state that it shall be my aim to continue unbroken without variance the policy of President McKinley for the peace and prosperity and hotv r of our beloved country." Judge John R. Hazel, of the United States Court, administered the oath. Following the ceremony President Roosevelt shook hands with the Cabi net officers and all others in the room. A brief conference between the Prcsi- lcnt and Cabinet officers followed, -dur ing which he requested the members of the Cabinet who were present Secre taries Root.-Long and Wilsem and Postmaster-General Smith to remain in of fice, at least for the present. They as sured him that they would, and 1 resi dent Roosevelt subsequently stated that he had also received similar assur ances from the absent members of the Cabinet. Immediately upon assuming his new office. President Roosevelt issued the following proclamation, setting aside Thursday as a day of prayer and mourning throughout the land: By the President of the United States of America: A Proclamation: A terrible bereavement has befallen our people. The President of the United States has been struck elown; a crime committed not only against the Chief Magistrate, but against every law-abiding and liberty-loving citizen. President McKinley crowned a life of largest love for his fellow-men, of most earnest endeavor for their welfare, by a death of Christian fortitude; and both the way in which he lived his life and the way in which, in the supreme hour of trial, he met his death, will remain forever a precious heritage of our peo ple. It is meet that wc as a nation ex press our abiding love and. reverence for his life, our deep sorrow for his 1111 tinielv death. Now. therefor. I. Theodore Roose velt, President of the United Slates of America, do appoint I hursdav next. September 10. the day on which the "jjjbody of the dead President will be laid 111 ns last earthly resting place, a day of mourning and prayer throughout the united States. I earnestly recommend a'll the people to assemble em that day 'ii uiur respeenve places 01 eiivinc wor ship to bow down in submission to the will of Almighty God and to oav out of mil hearts their homage oi love and rev erence to the great and good President whose death has smitten the nation with bitter grief. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hanijanil caused the seal of the United Slates to be affixed. Done at the ciiy of Washington, the ' 141I1 day of September. A. D. one thou sand nine hundred nd one, and of the independence ot the Uni.ecl States the one hundred and twenty-sixth. (Seal) THEODORE ROOSKVELT. By the President: . JOHN HAY. Secretary oi Stile. Life of President Roosevelt. Theodore Roosevelt, who succeeds as head of the nation, is a member -of an old Dutch family which was founded in this country about the middle of the seventeenth century by Klaas Marten sen Roosevelt. He was bom in New York city on October 7. i8s,8. and was prepared for Harvard by priaie tutors. ijovernor Kocisevclt s mother was a Georgian. One of his uncles was an admiral in the Couiederaic service and 1 lie other was a midshipman, wlf.j Hit-el the last gun from the Confederate war ship Alabama just before she went down, having been sqnk by the Kcar sarge off Cherbourg, France. He was prominent in college athletics, and was one oi the editors of the iinclcrirradualri ajournal. the Advocate. A ye-ar of icr- eijrn traiel lollowed his graduation, in ifcno. and almost mnnedia'iely therea ler he entered upon a public career. Hij first position was that of membership in the lower branch oi the New York Legislature, in which he sat during the sessions of 1S82 and the two following years. 1 lie bent ol lus mind politically was developed at this early stage by lis introduction of the" first civil ser vice bill in the Legislature, which be came a law in 1883. He was an indepedent candidate for mayor of New Yorft cit in 188O. with a Republican ind irsemeut, but was not elected. President Harrison appointed him a member of the Civil Service Commission in May. 1889, and he serv ed as a member of -the board and its president lor six year, displaying dur ing the whole of that period a deter mined purpose to rigidly and honestly enforce the law. In May. 1805, he re signed to be oine president of the Board of PoLce -Co-ninissioncrs of New York city, m winch position e dis played cqliti) liti'lity and fearlessness. On the juaiuuratioii of President Mc Kinley, in 1807, Mi Roosevelt resign ed from the Policve Board to become Assistant Secretary of ihe Navy, in which position lie served fntil Hie out- break of lp.liliiies with Spain, and to his energy ,-vnd foresight have been justly ascribed ihe complete readiness or the naval branch of the service to enter upon that brief and brilliant con- test. At the Republican National Conven tion at Philadelphia on June 21, into, Governor Koo.st-vt.lt was nominated for the Vice-Presidency, receiving' pjs votes (all the voteu in tha convention, except thiK of Mr. Roosevelt, who was a delegate to Ihe convention). During the 1 last campaign Governor Roo-ievt-lt made a long and arduous campaign, covering the Northwest, the Wen 1 and the East. He made o t I petchea. traielintr 21,204 miles, visit-1 1 ii If 507 towns and cities in 24 States, ,and spoke lo 3,yoo,oo-j people. ' PHESIDKNT H008EVEI.T.
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