DEATH OF M‘KINLEY

Waikato Argus, Volume XI, Issue 1049, 16 September 1901, Page 2

DEATH OF M‘KINLEY

[LATEST PARTICULARS AFFECT-i j ING THE DEATH SCENE. | Bufealo, September 14. | Mr McKinley died shortly before! two this morning. : Washington, September 14. | Crowds at the various centres! awaited tidings of the sufferer with! |the most orderly behaviour, bull |labouriug under subdued excite-l ment. | The sudden changes from hope to despair came as an awful shock to the nation. Wall-street is demoralised and stocks fluctuating closed with a considerable fall. King Edward early expressed bis deep grief. The authorities, fearing that lynchers would attack Czolgosz in the gaol, the police guard was augmented, while two regiments are in readiness at the armouries.

(Received September 15. 4.30 a,in. Washington, September 14. The heart began to fail at five o’clock, the patient responding freely ito the effects of oxygen. He became unresponsive at 6.30, and ten minutes later was unconscious.

1 An hour passed, and he then [revived under the effects of stimuslants, but relapsed iuto a state of [unconsciousness. At 9.30 he was [pulseless and at the extremities oi ■the body grew cold. Nourishment awas injected, but owing to the [ulcerated stomach and the inflamed [rectum it was rejected, the only [course was, therefore, to give nourishment in the normal way. On the appearance of constipation, aud fearing intestinal poisoning, calomel of oil was administered. On Friday morning the physicians de tected serious weakening of the heart’s action. Restoratives failed to rally him, and at 11 o’clock on Friday evening the President was nearing his end. He died just before 2 a.m. I All the family except his wife were jat the bedside, she being in an adjoinjingroom. Prior to lapsing iuto unconsciousness Mr McKinley asked the doctors to let him die. He took an affectionate farewell of his wife, bis last word.to her being : ‘ God’s will, not ours.’ His wife displayed superb fortitude. Mr McKinley’s last words to those about him were: ‘ Goodbye all, goodbye. It is God’s way ; His will be done.’ Washington, September J 5. Mr McKinley’s passing was painless and peaceful, like sleep. The autopsy showed that death was directly duo to gaugreue from a bullet wound. The bullet was nol discovered. The body has been embalmed, and the remains will be conveyed to Washington to-morrow, aud will lie n state until the funeral at Canton. Ohio, on Thursday. THE NEW PRESIDENT. WILL FOLLOW MR McKINLEY’S POLICY. j Washington, September 15. Colonel Eoosefeldt succeeded to the Presidency automatically. Upon reaching Buffalo he proceeded, under escort, to condole with Mrs McKinley aud was afterwards sworn in. (He announced his intention to continue. absolutely unbroken, Mr McKinley’s policy for the peace, pros parity and honour of his beloved country.

i (Received September 15. 5.10 p.m.) j Washington, September 14. Dr Rixey, at a quarter past two announced the President’s death.

The tidings were immediately sent to the room where the Cabinet and Senators awaited newsjand all cried like children.

I Large crowds kept an all-night Ivigil outside the newspaper offices of ■Mew York and many wept when the! iPresident’s death was announced. |Others cried for vengenee on the an-j iarchists. ! I There were similar scenes at Buf-| ifalo, where crowds waited iu a dense,if°g. I Upon a rumour of Mr McKinley’s |d«ath at mid-night, an excited rush- 1 was made for Czolgosz’s cell, but the! police repelled it. I There will be a State funeral aj Washington. | Col. Rooseveldt thought Mr Mc-| Kinley would recover aud went tothe Adironducks. I KING EDWARD’S MESSAGE, jj (Received Sept, 15, 542 p.m,) | London, September 14. | Tho King telegraphed to Mil Choate : ‘ Most truly sympathise with| American nation at the loss of a dis-jt tinguished and ever-to-be-regretted! President. H THE LATEST. | MESSAGES OF SYMPATHY. I (Received September 16, 941 a.m.) | Melbourne, September 16. { In reply to the McKinley con- \ dolence despatch at the end of last | week, Lord Hopetoun received from ( the American Ambassador at London I a cable conveying to Lords Hopetoun | and Ranfurly the most sincere grati- \ tude and thanks of the American I Government for sympathy. Ho adds? that messages are coming from the| remotest quarters of the British t) Empire, and all inspired the samc| earnest, brotherly interest, have f touched the hearts of the President’s! countrymen, aud are deeply uppre-| dated, | ; j$ THE PREMIER CABLES. I | (by telegraph—press association). Wellington, This Day. | Mr Seddon has cabled to Mr Chamber ® lain asking him to convey to Mr- Iff [McKinley the heartfelt sympathy of tin C, [people of N--w Zell,uni upon the death ol Iter dear and good husband, and tlieiii lympathy with tho people of the United S States upon the great loss they have aus fe :aiued by the demise of their noble,RS true and faithful son, and that we shareES their grief, and will ever hear in gratefui|| memory the name of their illustriously md distinguished President. ||

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[UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION] [BY ELECT 810 TKLEORAPH—COPYRIGHT] { Hamilton. : The news of tbs President’s death was [received bore with profound regret, and [shortly lifter the receipt of the cable .flags were hoisted half-mast on several (business places. Feeling references wort made last night at the Presbyterian anil [Wesleyan churches, and the latter build ling was draped in mourning, and at tin I close of the service the ‘ Dead March 1 Iwas played by the organist, Miss M, Meaohem. j CAREER OF THE PRESIDENT. William McKinley, She seventh child jot William McKinley, ironfounder, wasj jhorn on January 29, 1843, at Nile*, Ohio. (While his family did not suffer from (poverty, as it w s then known, neverthe(loss the hard woik and privation of the |t,iine would he looked upon nc the present Stime as sufferings too much for human [{endurance. It was a continual struggle shetw’een the growing hoy William and Shis family as to whether he should con itinue his education. He declaied it hu Sducy to assist in the support of tlie afamily, while his older brothers and isisters as steadfast! v insisted upon doing it hat and assisting him to get his education as well, for even at that time hi (fgave great promise of ability in all local Mebales and literary contests. His aschool teaching was hut the means lx |another end, for he had shown such |skill in debate that it was determined |by his family that he should be eduJcated for the practice of the law Sin ih ■ midst of all cainn the war, and Shway lie went with the impetuosity of t, hoy kindled to blazing point by the stories told at every fireside of hi: warrior ancestors who had fought foi American freedom. Ho served through the long weary war, rising from private to the rank of major, always winning friends and becoming so enamoured ol ■bo soldier’s lie that he desired to follow it again. He had, however, the good seme to follow his family’s counsth rnd returned to his law studies, entering the office of Judge Charles E. Dieddin, at Poland. This gentleman was u master of his profession and an oratoi of ability us well, and it is said by those who have heard both men, that much •if the beautifully sympathetic mortula tion of Mr McKinley "s voice was acquired while listening to Judge Gleddin’s cougralulatoiy addresses upon the return of the. battle-thinned regiments. In the spring of 1867 the young lawyei was admitted to practice at Canton, and bade adieu to Ids old friends at Poland tc jo to the former place, then containing i population of five or six thousand, to open his law office. Here was associated with him his young brother, Abner McKinley, and there is still a sign upon thi door of a law office in Canton, which reads ‘ VV. and A. McKinley, Law Office.’ Before he had been two years in Canton he had been offered and accepted the Republican nomination for Prnsecut mg Attorney. The country being hopelessly democratic, this was held btr lightly as an honour, but young McKinley took to the stumo with a fury ol login and oratory that won him tht position by a handsome majority. Bj 1876 he had won first place in his profession in the town. in 1871 he was married to the wife who has ever since been h : s constant cneourager. Of the relationship still ex isting between this couple, now well advanced in life, much has been written |Tne bond has been one which the loss uf their two little girls in infancy served to strengthen. The shock was one fron I which the mother never physically reco vered, and Mrs McKinley has been more or less of an invalid m,w for very many years. Like nearly every American who has (risen to eminence, William McKinley lowed much to his mother. A recoin i writer, touching or, this subject, says; (One who knew Mrs Kinky in the old days speaks ot her quiet dignity of manner, of her never-failing watchfulness of the young family aud of her influence for good. It was a family full of sunshine aud ot hope, of self-sacrifice or. the part of both father and mother. Ii represented a pure American home, where religion and love of country wen (inculcated from childhood. It was typi cal of those homes which turn out the jheac and most useful citizens of the Republic. Many of McKinley’s good iqualiiies, both of heart and mind, wenduo to his mother. She was tall, and (erect to the last, with hair untouched by (grey, and was vouchsafed the joy ol Hieing present ut the first inauguration |of her son as President of the United jStates.