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Bellefonte, Pa., Sept. 20, 1901.
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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.