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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue 215, 17 September 1901, Page 3

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CBY BLKOTBIO TfiLKQBAPH—COPYBIQHT) Death of President McKinley.

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS. P*B PRESS ASSOCIATION. Washington, September 15.

Mrs. McKinley U bearirg up bravely, saying her dead husband would wish it 80. Tbe doctors who perforated an autopsy report that tbe tissue round each hole made by the bullet was gangrenous. The upper end of the kidney was struck and torn. The gangrenous track of the bullet affected the pancreas. Death, both surgically and medically, was unavoidable, and the direct result of the bullet wound.

Colonel Roosevelt, after taking the oath, walked without any escort, and asked the members of the Cabinet to retain their portfolios. Ozolgosz will be tried immediately. Tbe Kaiser and Kaiserica sent a touching message.

President Loubet and M. Delcasse also offered their fineere condolences. New York, S»p*ember 15. The New York City Hall and many houses are draped. Mr. Crocker is draping all the denominational headquarters and has bad placed over the portals the word*, "God's way; His will be done" in white letters.

Jobann Mose has been released on bail'of 1000 dollars.

London, September 15. The King hai directed the British Court to go into mourning for a week as a ma kof respect for Mr. McKinley's memory. I Feeling in Great Britain is stirred quite as much as in America og«nst the un-American and un-English I method of Anarchists.

The King inquired daily throughout the illness,

Sir Thomas Lip'on, in seeding his condolences, declared that Mr. McKin- | ley's death was nowhere more felt than I among the British people.

DAT OF NATIONAL MOURNING. THE OZAR'B SYMPATHY. ! "Received 16 9158 p.m. Washington, September 16. ; President Roosevelt has proclaimed Thuredav a day of mourning and prayer for " the great and good President wboee death has snaitten the nation with bitter grief, and the recollection of whose life of largest love and earnest endeavour for bis fellow men will ever remain precious." Pabis, S»ptemberl6.

The f °stive character of tbe Czar's vi=it to Dunkirk and Compiogne is to Ihe abandoned nut of sympathy with the | American people.

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT CONGRATULATED. CZOLYOSZ BEMOVED TO EEIE. Wellington, September 16. President Roosevelt Iris received an imm»nße cumber ef congratulations on assnrain? th« Presidency.

Cz->lposz has been removed to the Brie Penitential?. His father will vieit him there, and hopas to persuade him to confess the mmes of his supposed confederates.

TOUGHING EULOGIUMB. Received 17 0.11 a.m. Washington, September 16. mes : «g« j of sympathy with Mrs MeKinley have be«n received from Sovereigns, Governments, and statesmen.

Sir Wilfred in the course of a message, Canadians felt the d tth almost as keenly as Americans, knowing the qualities of the dead Pre'ident.

London, September 16,

The Archbishop of Canterbury, in a sermoi, B nd the President's d ith was a calamity to the world, and the [triumph of wickedness filled the Chnrches with horror. By Dean Farrar at Canterbury Cathedral, Canon Duckworth at Westmins'er Abbev, Rsv. Siot.t Holland at S f . Paul's Cathedral, Rev. Spurgeor, Gereral Booth, and in churches ami chapels of all denominations t mehiog references were made to Mr. MoKinley's death. Tr>e Deid March in " Saul " was play< 3.

The Ecumenic il Conference was deeply affected at the news. Mr. Choate, Amori'in Ambassido'.' in England, thar.k"d "Kins? Edward fov bis constan* solicitude and interest in Mr. McKinley, which Amerioans keenly appreciated. vr. Mckinley anticipates death, doctors' ano norses' dkvotion. a poisoned bullet suspected, congress not to be summoned. Washing!"--*. September 16. Dr Parks aswts -hat Mr. McKin-j Icy anticipated dp.ath forty-eight houni after he w»s fbot, and frequently repeated theLird's Prayer. No clergyman at'ended Mr. McKinley after he was sho f . Tlk> dor-tors' and nurses' untiring duvotion to t,h»ir patient, i« recognisi 1, but the discrepancy in bulletins and the autopsy retort r.ceasions much com ment. Th'-ro is a. suspicion tbat tbo bullet was poisnceH. Twenty-four cultures we e taken along the path of tho bullet to r scer-tain why every point wan gangrenous. The bulletins misled Colonel Koosevr , v >, <■ >ec*ing I- ,t 5 .■. McK'u-

ley would be fit for work in three weeks' time, went hunting, and was unable to reach Buffa'o until midday on Saturday.

He does not intend Co summon Con gress.

SUGGESTION THAT THE DUKE OF CORNWALL ATTEND THE FUNERAL.

Received 17, 0.35 a.m. London, September 16. It is suggested at Montreal that the Duke of Cornwall should represent King Edward and the British race at President McKinley's funeral. The Times says such a decision would afford the nation the deepest gratification.

Auckland, September 16,

The sympathy of the people of Auckland was keenly manifested in connection with President McKinley's death. I From early morning to-day flags were flying at balf-mast on public and private building*, in fact since tbe death of Queen Victoria th-re has been nothing like such a general indication of mourning throughout the city.

At the office of tbe United States Consul for New Zealand (Mr. Frank Dillingham) during tbe whole day there was a constant stream of visitors bearing sympathetic messages from public bodies and private citizens. Mr. Dillingham was much touched by the sympathy extended to him by the people of New Zealand. He personally feels the loss Mr. McKinley, not ocly as a member of the United States Consular Se vie*, but as a personal friend of the deceased Jrresident, and he sta'es he will ever remember the touching and kindly sympxthy extended to him by tae colonists of New Zsaland.

The Stock Exchange was closed and several meetings of local bodies adjourned as a mirk of respect.