—~STeD > Bellefonte, Pa., Sept. 20, 1901. P. GRAY MEEK, - - EpITOR nsm—— Tegms oF SusscriprioN.—Until further notice this paper will be furnished to subscribers at the following rates : Paid strictly in advance.......ccoveeneees £1.00 Paid before expiration of year.......... 1.50 Paid after expiration of year........... 2.00 The Democratic State Ticket. For Justice of the Supreme Court HARMAN YERKES, of Bucks County. For State Treasurer A. J. PALM, of Crawford County. Democratic County Ticket. For Prothonotary—M. I. GARDNER. For District Attorney—N. B. SPANGLER. m— — Roosevelt is Now President. Took Oath of Office and Promises to Continue McKin ley’s Policy. When it became apparent that President] McKinley was dying Vice President Roose-| velt was hastily recalled to Buffalo. He had gone to a mountain camp in the Adi- rondacks which was 35 miles from a 1ail- road. He was taken to Buffalo as fast as the hest horses and swiftest of special trains could carry him and upon his arrival a Buffalo went to the home of a personal friend, ex-Senator Ansley Wilcox. It isa little old fashioned colonial mansion on Delaware averfue within a mile of the resi dence of Mr. Milburn, where the body of dead President was lying. A light lunch was served the party and immediately af- terwards upon the request of Vice Presi- dent Roosevelt he drove to the Milburn house to look upon the body of Presiden McKinley before taking the oath of office, which he had been requested to do imme- diately. At 3 o'clock Colonel Roosevelt was driv en back to the Wilcox residence where all the members of the Cabinet awaited him except Secretaries Hay and Gage, who were in Washington. The library of Mr. Wilecox’s had been chosen as the room in which the oath should be administered. It was a room no more than 18x25 feet, with a low ceiling. There is a bay window in it, in which some] potted palms are effectively arranged and which is canopied off by green draperies. The general color of the room is green, al- though its walls are almost entirely cover- ed by well filled book cases. Vice President Roosevelt advanced into the bay window alcove, where he shook hands with Judge John R. Hazel, United States District Judge, who was to admin ister the oath to him. On his right stood Secretaries Long, Hitchcock, and Wilson, Postmaster General Smith, Secretaries Root} and Knox. On his left stood Ansley Wil cox, Private Secretary Loeb, George Urban, Dr. Mann and Dr. Stockton. Around the sides of the room were Secretary Cortelyon, whom Colonel Roosevelt had asked to con tinue to serve him, as he had served Presi dent McKinley; Mr. Milburn, Clerk George R. Keating, of the United States District Court; Judge A. R. Haight, of the Court of Appeals; Senator Depew, John N. Scatch- -erd, George I.- Williams-and-abount-a-score of newspaper reporters. Back in the door- way stood Mrs. Ansley Wilcox, Miss Wil cox, Mrs. John G, Milburn, Mis. Carleton Sprague, Mrs. Mann and Mrs. Charles Carey. The entire company present num bered forty three persons. The silence of the room was painfully op pressive when Secretary Root advanced to the Vice President and Judge Hazel and said : “Mr. Vice President, I have been request-| ed by all the members of the Cabinet of the) late President McKinley, who are present in the city of Buffalo, and by all the mem-| bers of the Cabinet who are not here, to re-| quest that for reasons of weight affecting] the administration of the government, you should proceed without delay to take the Constitutional oath as President of th United States.” Mr. Roosevelt’s features were fixed. His eyes glistened through the big gold- rimmed spectacles as he howed to Secretary Root and said in that peculiar staccato voice, which all who are familiar with his public ntterauces known so well : “Mr. Secretary, I am of one mind with the members of the Cabinet. I will show the people at once, in accordance with th request of the members of the Cabinet tha the administration of the government will not falter in spite of the terrible national blow which we are suffering. I wish to say that it shall be my aim to continue ab-§ solutely unbroken the policy of Presidentf# McKinley for the peace, the prosperity and the honor of our beloved country.” : . There was silence of a moment. Mr. Roosevelt turned and bowed to Judge Hazel, signifying that he was ready to pro-| ceed with the taking of the oath. : Judge Hazel recited the brief, solemn) pledge, and Mr. Roosevelt repeated i phrase by phrase after him. ; SWORE BY UPLIFTED HAND. When Judge Hazel uttered the firs words of the oath Mr. Roosevelt’s right arm shot straight up above his head and he Bed it rigid there until the oath was com plete. Both Judge Hazel and Mr. Roosevelt re peated the oath in tones that were scarcely, audible to those farther from them. ‘And this I swear,’’ he ended it. It was exactly 3:30 o’clock when the ad ministration of the oath was completed and Theodore Roosevelt became President off the United States. This was exactly eight minutes after he had entered the Wilcox] house as Vice President to have the oath administered. For a moment no one spoke or moved, Secretary Root broke the silence] by extending his hand to President Roose-| velt and saying with deep fervor : ‘God bless you and keep you, Mr. Presi- dent, and may you have every success.’’ “Thank you from the hottom of my) heart for your well wishes,’”’ President] Roosevelt replied. This was the signal for congratulations from everybody present. It began with the Cabinet officers and inside of four minutes the President had shaken hands and ex changed words with everyone of the forty three persons there. : ——William E. Dodge, of Williamsport the well known ball player has just been declared heir to a fortune of $100,000. His father, J. W. Dodge, left Lock Haven in 1876 for the Black Hills and nothing more was ever heard of him until a Seattle lawyer communicated the fact of his death and that he bad property amounting to $100,000. penuri Yatdan, DEATH OF PRESIDENT McKINLEY J iSudden Collapse, After Apparent Improvement—Autopsy Show- ed Death Due to Gangrene—Dr. Wasdin Inclined to the Belief the Fatal Bullet was Poisoned-—Na- tion Bowed With Grief—Thousands At- tended the Funeral Services— President Roosevelt Sworn In. The news of the President’s collapse, last hursday night, was as lightning from an absolutely cloudless sky. It produced a shock second in intensity only to the news of the assassination itself. That morning his physicians were so sanguine of his recovery that they issued the most hopeful bulletins. Dr. McBurney, the great New York specialist, was so con- fident of his improvement that he had start- ed back to Mass. whence he had been sum- moned. Roosevelt, Hanna, Hay, Smith land most of the President’s relatives had gone from Buffalo feeling absolutely secure that the danger was past, but yet, all were concerned about the sudden flight of his pulse for which the physicians were unable to account. That morning, though he was better than any time since the shooting and had asked if he might have a cigar. It! was necessary to change the treatment, in as much as nourishment could no longer he injected as it was not retained and his condition required food of some sort. A small piece of toast, some chicken broth and a little coffee were given him with the most beneficial results until after 3 o'clock in the afternoon. Then he began to com- plain of fatigue which translated from the Bllanguage of the bulletin meant weakness. Immediately the solid food was thought not to have agreed with him and calomel§ and oil were administered to relieve the@ clogged condition of the bowels. The 12:30 o'clock bulletin was encouraging but by From that until his death on Saturday morning at 2:15 o’clock he was only kept alive by the incessant efforts of the physi-§ fcians and the most powerful stimulants. Friday morning he was conscious and took notice of everything about him bug by afternoon could only be aroused from§ sinking spells by oxygen and constant stimulation. Mrs. McKinley saw him for] a moment in the morning, again in the af ternoon and was taken into his room at 8§ o'clock in the evening, after hie had asked for her. He was fully conscious that he was dying and spoke words of comfort to his beloved and invalid wife. “‘GOD’S WILL BE DONE—NOT OURS.” As Mrs. McKinley sat by his bedside taking her last farewell of him he spoke his last conscious words which were ‘‘Good by, all, good by ! Itis God’s way. His will he done—not ours.”” And while repeating “‘Nearer my God to Thee’’ he became un- feonscious and did not rally again. At 8:30 he administration of oxygen ceased as the President had expressed a desire to be al- lowed to die and by 10 o'clock his extremi- ies had grown cold. FAMILY AND CABINET SUMMONED. Up to nine o’clock that evening the only two persons who had been to the bedside save the doctors, nurses and Secretary Cor- elyou, were Mrs. McKinley and the Presi- dent’s brother, Abner McKinley. ' Mrs. McKinley kept up remarkably well for aj frail invalid. Abner McKinley stood by e bedside only a—mement-for-at-the time he was in the room his brother was uncon-| scions. Later Senator Hanna, Secretaries Root, Hitchcock, Wilson, Judge Day and the President’s sisters, Miss McKinley and Mrs. Duncan, and his neices, Miss Mary Barber, Miss Sarah Duncan, Mrs. Hermanus Baer, and others, who had hastily returned to Buffalo that day, were admitted to the room and quietly gathered about the door- way. Dr. Rixey remained at the bedside, through every minute of the eventful night and he it was who announced finally that] ‘The President is dead.’ SORROWFUL CROWD IN THE STREET. The streets of Buffalo were a surging mass of sorrowing humanity anxious to Bhear the very latest news from the Milburn house. Mounted policemen kept constant- ly on the lookout for any signs of revenge fon the assassin and a company of soldiers uarded the ropes that served as barriers, two blocks away in all directions, about the home in which the last sad scenes o ithe terrible tragedy had taken place. The telegraph and telephone facilities fBwere so perfect that the army of competent newspaper correspondents had the sad news to the uttermost sections of the country al- most as soon as it was announced and by§ day light it was known throughout the civilized world. DEATH WAS INEVITABLE. A post mortem examination was made upon the body of President McKinley on Saturday and the concensus of opinion of lal] the doctors was that no human agency or remedy could have prolonged his life or bsaved it. The following report was issued about 5 o’clock that day. “The bullet which struck over the breast- hone did not pass through the skin and did little harm. The other bullet passed hrough both walls of the stomach near its lower border. . “Both holes were found to be perfectly losed by the stitches, but the tissues around each hole had become gangrenous. After passing through the stomach the bul- et passed into the back walls of the abdo-[ men, hitting and tearing the upper end of he kidney. This portion of the bullet track ‘was also gangrenous, the gangrene involving the pancreas. The bullet has not yet been found. “*There was no sign of peritonitis or di-§ sease of other organs. The heart walls were very thin. There was no evidence at any attempt to repair on the part of nature,and eath resulted from the gangrene which ef- fected the stomach around the bullet wounds, as well as the tissues around the further course of the bullet. “Death was unavoidable by any surgical or medical treatment, and was the direct result of the bullet wound. Signed by Harvey D. Gaylord, Herman G. Matzin- ger, P. M. Rixey, Matthew D. Mann, Her- man Mynter, Roswell Parke, Engene Was-& din, Charles D. Stockton, Edward G. Jane- way, W. W. Johnston, W. P. Kendall, harles Cary, Edward L. Munson, Her- manus L. Baer. One of the developments of the autopsy was of the opinion that the bullet which passed through the stomach was poisoned. t was understood that this was his theor, during the Presidents struggle for life. H said. ‘We have determined the cause 0 death. The President died of toxemia, due to necrosis of the tissuss of the ab dominal cavity. The bullet has not been fonnd. It probably never will be. W out along the bullet track but failed to find it. It is probably imbedded in the fatty Band grief stricken, to the City hall, where i tives and was the startling assertion that Dr. Wasdin§ | portion of the back. We are satisfied tha under no circumstances could the Presi dent have lived.” . 8 ‘“All the tissues through which the bulle passed were dead. This is very remarkable indeed. The area of the dead flesh in the stomach was perhaps as great as a sliver dollar in circumference. Another of the physicians when asked to further explain the case replied. ‘The escape of poisonous fluid from the pan- creatic gland into the peritoneal cavity un doubtedly cansed the death of the Presi- dent. The peritoneal juices were absorbed by the tissues all along the tract of the bullet, entered the blood itself and thus] reached the heart. There was no precedent] from which to judge of the exact effect 0 this absorption of poisonous juices. Th digestion was bound to be retarded by it. There was no way of providing agains these results. There was no way to as- certain that this leakage from the pan creatic gland was occurring. There were} no external indications of what was going] on. President McKinley’s heart failed be- cause of the influence of these juices upon the blood. They also caused the general disintegration of the tissues along the path of the wound. that the President had a tobacco heart 0 any chronic heart trouble.” “The lesion of the kidney was unim- portant. It was torn for not more than ¢ fquarter of an inch, and the hemorrhage re- 2:30 o'clock a total collapse took place.f§ sulting was so slight as to he imperceptible under the usual analysis. ~The administration of solid food had nothing whatever to do with Presiden McKinley’s death. His condition was such that had it been possible for us to prolon life until to-morrow, he would have died {then fiom punctures of the stomach walls. The tissues had become so rotted that they, were almost broken through, and a few hours more would have been sufficient for the gangrene to complete its work. What caused this gangrene nobody can tell. There was nothing in the President’s condition to indicate that the process was going ou and, in fact, until the relapse early yester- day morning we believed, as wz had so often said, that the President would ge well. : After the physicians departed the under- takers took charge of the body and pre- pared it for burial. Lewis H. Pearce, @ Buffalo barber, was called in to shave the] face of the dead, and having completed his task walked a few squares down Delaware avenue to the home of Ansley Wilcox to shave Theodore Roosevelt, who about an hour before became the President. - The body was incased in a massive casket of San Domingo mahogany measur ing six feet three inches in length, tweunty- two inches wideand twenty “inches deep inside. It was entirely band carved, with mahogany entension bar handles. The name plate bore the inscription ‘‘William McKinley’ born January 29th, 1843. Died September 14th, 1901. Inside the ma hogany shell is a metallic case lined with copper plate having a full length ‘bevel glass on top. The metallic case was lined with cream gross grained silk of the heavies quality with mattress and pillow of the same. FUNERAL ARRANGEMENTS. Sunday, Buffalo was a city of mourning. The day was gray and cheerless. Heavy clouds hung over the city, at times break- ing to let through a rift of sunshine and then threatening to let loose a down-pour upon the waiting multitude. Drooping flags and emblems every sleeve. In the morning a simple service took place at the Milburn home on Delaware avenue where the martyred Pre- sident died. President’s favorite hymn, was sung by al quartette and the Rev. Charles Edward Locke, of the Delaware avenue Methodis Episcopal church, and whose father had heen Major McKinley’s pastor in Canton, read the fifteenth chapter of I Corinthians and offered a prayer. That was all. # Only the immediate family and friends and political associates of the late Presi dent were present. The scene was pathetic in the extreme when the body was borne out to the waiting cortege on the hrawny shoulders of eight sailors and soldiers of the Republic. The cortege passed through Esolid walls of living humanity, bareheaded Ethe body lay in state Sunday afternoon. about 5 o'clock, but the people were wedged into the streets for blocks. Two lines were formed. They extended literally for miles. It was decided to extend the time until midnight. Then for hours longer the streets were dense with people, and a con-| stant stream flowed up the streets of the; broad entrance into the ball and passed the bier... When the doors were clused at mid- ‘night, it was estimated that 80,000 people had viewed the remains, but thousands of ‘disappointed ones were in the streets. THE JOURNEY TO WASHINGTON. The body remained all night at the City ‘Hall under a guard of soldiers. At first Mrs. McKinley protested against being separated from the body of her husband through the night but later gave her con-| sent to the plan. On Monday morning at F'8:30 the body was removed to the railroad station with the same military escort with which it had been taken to the City Hall. EThe train that carried the funeral party to i Washington wasin part the same that took him on his journey across the continent to San Francisco recently. It consisted off seven coaches, ‘‘Olympia,”’ ‘Naples,’ “Waldorf,” ‘**Hungary,’”’ ‘'Pacific,’”’ ‘‘Ra- "leigh’’ and ‘‘Belgrove.”’ In the rear ca was the coffin containing the body of the ‘President resting on a -bier in the middle] of the car and raised so high that it could Ebe seen through the windows of the Pall- Eman. The coach in front of it was occupied by Mrs. McKinley, her attendants, the rela personal friends. Another coach f was occupied by the members of the cabi- net and the newspaper correspondents had one to themselves. The run was mace ove he Pennsylvania road by the way of Em orium, Lock Haven, Williamsport, Har ishurg and Baltimore. At every station long the route great crowds of people were] embled who stood with baredheads as ered the city limits until it was out of sight. And not only the school children! of that borough were lined up along the There was no indicationi were every place inj places. devidence and bits of crepe appeared on “Lead Kindly Light,” thef§ Arrangements had been made to allow the public to view the body from the time it arrived, at about 1:30 o'clock, until¥ simple and democratic. tracks but those from Salona and Mill Hall bad assembled to pay their last tribute of respect to the martyred Piesident. Throughout the entre State immense crowds were asssembled at all the stations at which stops were made and the sight was really most impressive. At William sport the chimes in one of the churches played ‘‘Lead Kindly Light’ while a Harrisburg the choral society gathered around the car in which was the Presi- dent’s hody and sang ‘‘Nearer My God to Thee’’ and America. Thousands and tens of thousands of persons thronged in all di- rections and companies D and I of the ifth regiment stood at attention as the train halted. AT THE CAPITOL. Mrs. McKinley remained in her state room the entire way to Washington. There she was lifted from the car and assisted to Ba carrage by Dr. Rixey and Abner McKin- ey, and driven direct to the White House] without awaiting the procession. Presi- dent Roosevelt, the Cabinet, Senators [Hanna and Fairbanks and the waiting military and civic companies formed ea square and stood with baredheads as the casket was lifted into the hearse. The] line marched up Pennsylvania Ave., and soon the solemn cortege had reached the White House, from where Mr. McKinley had gone so recently in the fall vigor of life and brightest prospects to gratify the wishes of the public. On the arrival of the funeral train a Washington the body was taken directly to the White House where it reposed in state in the East room until Tuesday morn- ing. "Thence under full military escort it was taken to the capitol where the funeral services proper were held in the rotunda. All of the military, naval, and most of the civil dignitaries of the United States were present. The following is the order of the parade which escorted President McKinley’s body from the White House to the capitol on Tuesday morning. Funeral escort, under command of Major Generaj John R. Brook, U. 8. A. Artillery Band. Squadron of cavalry. Battery of field artillery. Company A, United States Engineers. Two battalions of coast artillery. Hospital Corps. Marine Band. Battalion of Marines. Battalion of United States seamen. National Guard, District of Columbia. CIVIC PROCESSION. Under command of Chief Marshal General 3 Henry V. Boynton. Clergymen in attendance. Physicians who attended the late President. Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States. Grand Army of the Republic. Guard of honor, pallbearers and hearse. Officers of the army, navy and marine corps who were not on duty, with the troops forming the escort, will form in full dress, right in front, on either side of the hearse, the army on the right and the navy and marine corps on the left, and compose the guard of honor. Family of the late President. Relatives of the late President. Ex-President of the United States. ‘l he President. , .The Cabinet Members. * The Diplomatic Corps. $83 The Chief Justice and the Associate Justices 0 the Supreme Court of the United States. * The Senators of the United States. Members of the United States House of Repre % sentatives. Governors of the States and Territories and Com missioners of the district of Columbia. The Judge of the Court of Claims, the Judiciary) of the District of Columbia and Judges of the United States Courts. The Assistant Secretaries of State, the Treasury, War, the Navy, the Interior and Agricul- ture; the Assistant Postmaster General, the Solicitor General and the Assis- tant Attorneys General. he Chilean Claims, Ciyil,- Industrial, Interstate, Commerce, Isthmian Canal, Joint High, Mex-- ican Water Boundry, Fish and Fisheries, Special Tariff and Philippine Commis- sions, and other departments and commissions of the government in the crder of their pre- cedence, Official representatives of the insular govern ments. Organized Societies. Citizens. The public was excluded from the serv- ices as the accommodation of the vast hall would not suffice for the officials present. The diplomatic corps occupied alone 200 The United States Senate was there, the members of the Supreme court, the House of Representatives and the army and navy officers were well represented. After the services the public were admit- ted to view the remains and all day long an incessant stream of people thronged pas the catafalque. « The religious services in the rotunda at Washington on Tuesday morning consisted of the following. Hymn—*Lead Kindly Light.” Prayer—Rev. Henry R. Naylor, D. D., Presiding elder of the M. E. church, Wash-| ington District. : Hymn—*‘Sometime We’ll Understand.” Address—Bishop Edward G. Andrews, D. D., M. E. church. Hymun—*‘Nearer My God to Thee.’* Benediction—Rev. W. H. Chapman, acting pastor Metropolitan M. E. church. The music was furnished by the choir o| the Metropolitan church. The obsequies Tuesday, from the momen the remains of the President were carried tfrom the White House to the Capitol until they were placed upon the train which took them to the nld home in Canton, were There was no dis play of pomp and splendor. The cere] monies were majestic in their simplicity. he occasion was historic, though sorrow ul, and the greatest in the land paid hum ble tribute to the dead President. The; new President of the United States, the only living ex-President, the Supreme] ‘court, the highest officers of the army and navy, the Senate and House of Represen tatives, the Representatives of the foreign Powers, delegations of the great patriotic orders of the country, representatives of States and municipalities, all met with howed heads about the bier of William Mc Kinley. Through its representatives a) nation paid. the last honors to. its martyred President. The services were simple. They were onducted in accordance with the rites of the Methodist Episcopal church, of whieh President McKinley was a life-long mem ber. Consisting of only two hymns, song, a prayer, an address and a henedic tion, they were beautiful and solemnly im- pressive. Bishop Andrews, a life long friend of Mr. McKinley came on from Ohio to make the only address of the solemnly beautiful services. RAIN DRENCHED THE CROWD. It was a genuine day of mourning and nature added to the gloom. Gray clouds overcast the sky early in the day and ay intervals rain deluged the city. Despite] the frequent down-pours the tens of thou sands of Washington’s citizens who be sieged the Capitol to look upon the dead orm of the President held their places in line, drenched to the skin, but determined to show their affection for him who had been so ruthlessly taken from them. At the conclusion of the funeral services in the rotunda the casket lid was removed in order that the immediate friends of the dead President might be afforded the com fort of a last glance at his features and tha$ the people whom he loved and who loved him might pass the bier for the same pur- pose. At half-past 12 the crowds began to file through the rotunda, and during the six hours in which the body was lying in state 55,000 people viewed the remains. At 4 o’clock a frightful calamity was narrowly averted at the east front of the Capitol. For hours the vast throng of peo ple had been massed in front of the Capitol awaiting an opportunity to enter the rotunda. When the doors were opened tens of thousands of people rushed almost] frantically to the main staircase. The police and military guards were swep aside and almost in a twinkling there was a tremendous crush at the foot of the great] staircase. The immense throng swep back ward and forward like the surging o la mighty sea. Women and children, a few of the latter babes in arms, were caught in the crowd and many were badly hurt. Strong men held children and even women high above the heads of the surging crowd o protect them from bodily injury. Despitej the efforts of the police and military, and the cooler heads in the throng,approximate-§ ly a hundred people were injured, some seriously hurt,some carried into the rotunda and into various adjoining apartments ol the Capitol, where treatment was given them. A number were’ harried to hos-| pitals in ambulances, but the majority either were taken to or subsequently wen unassisted to their homes. After the crush had been abated tattered pieces of men’s and women’s wearing apparel were found. Watches, pocketbooks, keys and knives were picked up. : When the remains of the dead Presiden were finally closed forever to the view o Washington people the cavalry escort again was forined and conveyed them to the spe cial train which carried the body to Can- ton. The magnificent display of floral of-§ ferings, numbering no less than 125 pieces and making the most remarkable floral tribute ever seen were taken to the station from the Capitol in carriages and wagons and there placed ahoard a special car which had been provided for them. The great bronze doors of the Capitol, in which, the body bad lain in state, had closed while there were still thousands o people waiting to get a last glance at the casket. The cover of the casket was screwed ® down by the undertakers,it was lifted once @more upon the shoulder of the body bear- ers and by them horne to the hearse at the foot of the east steps of the Capitol. The time was marked by the doleful discharge of a minute gun stationed ata convenient point in the Capitol grounds. Thirty min utes’ time was required for the removal o the body from the Capitol to the train. The escort on its journey consisted of com-| mittees from the army and navy and two squadrons of the Eleventh cavalry. The route down Pennsylvania Ave., was lined on either side by troops. A qniet, noise- less journey, without music. Not a drun was heard nor a funeral note. At the Pennsylvania railroad station sol- diers and seamen carried the casket from the heaise to the observation car, placed in the second section of the funeral train. No less than twenty cars were required fo the transportation of the funeral party to Canton. The three sections into which the train was divided left at ten minute in- tervals. First was a train of eight cars bearing prominent persons and forty news: paper meu. 3 : : The second section was the presidential train proper, made up of practically the same seven cars which made the trip from Buffalo. The car Olympia was assigned to Mrs. McKinley while the car next was oc- upied by the President and his cabinet. Behind in. order came: two sleepers, a din- ing car and a combination car, On this train were the following passengers : Mrs. McKinley and maid, “Mr. and Mrs. Abner MoKiuley, Mr. and Mrs: A. J. Dun- can, Miss Helen McKinley, Mrs. H. C. Barber, Miss Barber, John Barber, Dr. and re. H. L. Baer and maid, Lieut. James McKinley, Miss Sara Duncan, Captain and rs. Lafayette McWilliams, Wm. Duncan, Frank Osborne, Mrs. Seward Bowman, Mrs. E. A. Stafford, Dr. and Mrs. Rixey, and two, Senator Hanna. Charles G. Dawes land Mrs. Dawes, Colonel G. F. Mock, Col. W. C. Brown, Major Chas. G. Dawes and Mrs. Dawes, Major Charles E. Miller, Bur Miller, Miss McKenzie and Miss Hun (nurses), Mrs. Henry Mathews, P. C. Schell and wife, Mrs. Rand, Mrs. J. A. Porter, the President, Secretary Root, At torney General Knox, Postmaster General and Mrs. Smith; Secretary Long, Secretary and Mrs. Hitchcock, Secretary and Miss Wilson, Secretary and Mrs. Cortelyou, As- sistant Secretary Hill, Assistant Secretary Barnes, Col. B. F. Montgomery, M. C. Latta, N. P. Wassler, John G. Milburn, John N. Scatcherd, Conrad Diehl. Harry Hamlin, Carlton Sprague, Major Thomas W. Symons, U. 8S. A.; Senator Hanna and Secretary Dover, Senator Fairbanks, Sen- ator Burrows, Senator Keen, Representa tive Alexander, General Michael V. Sher- idan, Col. T. A. Bingham, Captain J. T. Dean, Captain Henry T.eonard, General Harrison Gray Otis, Mr. A' N. H. Aaron, H. B. F. Macfarland, Eli Torracce, repre- senting the G. A. R., and the body guard, consisting of two officers and sixteen men. The third section of the train was devot ed entirely to the accommodation of the army and navy officers, including Admiral Dewey. President Roosevelt's arrival at the train occurred at 7.50 and was unmarked by in cident. ; } It was just before 8 o’clock when Mrs. McKinley was driven to the station. Fear ing the tiring effect of the long walk from the carriage entrance to the car set apart for her, next to the head of train, a rolling chair had been provided for her. She de- clined this, however, and walked with sur- prising firmness to her place, assisted by Abner McKinley and Dr. Rixey. It was] 8.10 o’clock when this section steamed away in the darkness, the first section hav ing preceded it ten minutes. The observa- tion car bearing the remains was flooded with light. Through its crystal sides could be seen the beautiiully draped cask et with its mass of rare blossoms so ar ranged that even as the train swept through the night, the people in the country it passed through might gaze upon the sight] of the casket with a soldier carrying his cutlass upon his shoulder, at the foot. A guard of soldiers and sailors occupied the platform, and between them at the real was a momaoth wreath six feet in diame- er of rare orchids and laurels. Ten min utes later the third section sped away, and the national capital had performed its part in the funeral ceremonies. CANTON IN MOURNING. By noon Wednesday Canton had sud denly become a city of 100,000 and the entire population were out on the streets to see the last home coming of their belov- ownsman. The local committee head- d by ex-Secretary of State Day and Judge Grant awaited the coming of the funera train on the station platform while a com pany of soldiers kept the enormous crowd from off the platform. In absolute silence the train rolled into the station and for one minute after it had stopped not a sound vas heard. Suddenly Abner McKinley, in deep black. appeared in the vestibule of Fthe car next that conveying the remains, and a moment later Dr. Rixey appeared, half carrying a frail and broken form. It was Mrs. McKinley arrayed in the deepest mourning. Beneath the heavy black veil she held her handkerchief to her eyes and her slight figure shook convulsively. Gently she was lifted from the car, sup- ported by Dr. Rixey and Abner McKinley, and was practically carried to a carriage in waiting at the east end of the station. The door of the carriage was closed and Mrs. McKinley was hurriedly driven to her former home on North Market street, which she had left only two weeks ago with her. distinguished husband in the full vigor of manhood. Then the casket which was too large to be taken through the door was carefully removed through the window of the coach. he procession was formed immediately and the line of march to the court house began. The procession was more than a mile in length and aside from the National Guards of Ohio was made up entirely of the highest officials of the country. While the body lay in the court "house during the afternoon itis estimated that 150 passed the casket every minute. The crowd was admitted four abreast, passing to the right and left by twos, and no delay was permitted. It was a terribly sad scene, for most of the mourners had known the President person- ally and were startled as well as grieved by the great change that had taken place in the two weeks he had heen from among them. In his casket he appeared as an aged, thin old man. - The signs of discol- oration® on the brow and cheeks, which were ery apparent when the body was ex- posed to view in Washington, had deepen- ed and the lips bad become livid. At dnightfall when the body was removed to his Jate home on Market street, thousands were still in line waiting to he admitted. They begged to beallowed the opportunity of seeing him on Thursday, but this was denied them as Mrs. McKinley and the fam- ily desired to have him to themselves until the church services. The funeral services were held at 1:30 yesterday afternoon in the First Methodist Episcopal church of which he was a com- municant and trustee. The services were brief by the expressed wish of the family and Dr. D. C. Manchester, pastor of the church, delivered the only address. Mrs. McKinley did not attend the service in the church for her physician did not think it advisable for her to attempt it. From the church to the West lawn cem- etery, where the body was placed in a re- ceiving vault awaiting the time it will be laid in the grave beside the two children buried years ago, the procession was most imposing. It consisted of many of the Grand Army of the Republic posts in the State, the National Guard of Ohio, details of regulars from all branches of the service, fraternal, social and civic organizations and representations of commercial bodies from all over the country, the Governors of several States with their staffs, the House and Senate of the United States and the Cahince and the President of the United tates. : Roosevelt’s Day in Washington, At the Funeral in the Morning—A Caller at the White House in the Afternoon. WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.—At the Cowles esidence throughout the day there was quiet. President and Mrs. Roosevelt de- sire it to be understood that they are at the capital as private mourners at the bier of the lamented “Président McKinley, and that they desire.to merge their official dig- nity within the solemn obligations of American citizens. Shortly before 8 the President and Mrs. Roosevelt left the Cow- les mansion and proceeded to the White House. The President was attired in con- ventional mourning and Mrs. Roosevelt wore a trained gown of crepe de chine. Immediately after the obsequies at the Capitol the President returned to the Cow- les house for luncheon which was informal. The only guest was Senator Kean of New Jersey. Senator Kean is not only an inti- mate friend of President Roosevelt’s, hut is a relative by maraiage. After luncheon the President entered a closed carriage and without disclosing his destination, drove about the city. Daring this period he call at the White House and left a kindly mes- fisage of sympathy for Mrs. McKinley and called also at the home of General John M. Wilson, where Mr. Cleveland is a guest. Later, a Cabinet meeting was held at the Cowles residence. Mrs. Roosevelt after returning from the Capitol proceeded tothe Cowles resindence and for the rest of the-day was at the dis- posal of her friends. Mr. Hay and Mrs. Hitchcock and the Misses Hitchcock called in the course of the afternoon and left cards. Shortly after 2, ex-President Cleve- land called but was unfortunate enough to find President Roosevelt out. Mrs. Roose- velt received him and had a few moments of kind and characteristic conversation about Mrs. Cleveland and the young child- ren. The only Cleveland son and the youngest Roosevelt boy were born within a few weeks of each other and form a kind- ly tie between the families. To Jennie Wade. ‘Monument to Her Memory Dedicated on the Gettys- burg Battlefield. # 4 GETTYSBURG, Sept. 16.—The monu- Bment to Jennie Wade of Gettysburg who was killed by a stray bullet while baking bread during the battle of Gettysburg was dedicated to-day in the presence of a large assemblage. It is a female figure in Ital- jan marble and suitably inscribed. It has Ia granite base and stands near the. main lavenue of ever green cemetery. Through the efforts of Mrs. Georgia Wade MoClel: lan, a sister of the dead girl, the monu-. ment was erected by the ladies of the Grand Army of the Republic of Iowa. ADDITIONAL LOCALS ——Miss Amelia Butler, an employe of the Lock Haven silk mill, got her hair fastened in the cogs of a loom she was work- ing at on Monday and, quick as a flash; her head was drawn down to the wheels. Fortunately the machinery was stopped be- fore she suffered anything more. serious than a scalp wound. eee A ee — i ——While standing in her garden on the old Bitner farm, near Centre Hall, recdent- ly. Mrs. David Harshberger narrowly es- caped being Bwallowed up by the earth. The recent heavy rains caused the ground to sink beneath her; leaving an opening about 3ft. in diameter; gradually enlarging towards the bottom, which was fully 10f6. from the surface. Feeling herself going the woman grabbed at a post near where she was standing and was able to break her all. Later she climbed out without in- jury.
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