THE LATE PRESIDENT

Waikato Argus, Volume XI, Issue 1050, 17 September 1901, Page 2

THE LATE PRESIDENT

< y A DAY OP MOURNING. THE NEW PRESIDENT. Washington, September 16. Colonel Roosevelt has proclaimed Thursday as a daj of mourning and prayer for a great and good President whose death has smitten the nation with bitter grief, and the recollection of whose life of the largest love and earnest endeavour for his fellow men will remain precious. Colonel Roosevelt has received an immense number of congratulations on bis assuming the Presidency. Czolgosz has been removed to Erie penitentiary. His father will visit him there, and hopes to persuade him to confess the names of his supposed confederates. THE CAUSE OF DEATH. POISONED BULLET SUSPECTED Washington, September 16. Dr. Parks asserts that President McKinley anticipated death 48 hours after be was shot, and frequently repeated the Lord’s Prayer. No clergyman attended President McKinley after he was shot. The doctors’ and nurses’ untiring devotion to the patient is recognised, but the discrepancy of the bulletins and the autopsy report occasions much comment, and there is suspicion that the bullet was poisoned. Twenty-four cultures were taken along the course of the bullet to ascertain why every point was gangrenous. The bulletins misled Colonel Roosevelt, who was expecting President McKinley to be fit for work iu three weeks, and ho went hunting, and was unable to reach Buffalo until mid-day on Saturday. He does not intend to summon Congress. A CANADIAN SUGGESTION. FESTIVITIES ABANDONED. London, September 16. It is suggested at Montreal that the Duke of Cornwall should represent the King and the British race at President McKinley’s funeral. The Times says such a decision would afford the nation the deepest gratification. Paris, September 16. The festive character of the Czar’s visit to Dunkirk Compeigne has been abandoned out of sympathy for President McKinley. THE LATEST. HONOURING THE DEAD. (Received September 17, 9.25 a.m.) Washington, September 16. After a private service in the house of Mr Milburn, President of the Buffalo Exhibition, attended by Mrs McKinley and the members of the Cabinet, the body was removed to the City Hall, Buffalo, passing between lines of soldiers, sailors, and marines. Eight corporals carried the coffin two miles, the bands playing ‘ Nearer my God to Thee,’ and Chopin’s march. President Roosevelt, the Cabinet, and the Governors of the states of New York and Illinois accompanied the procession. Dense crowds lined the route. The public were subsequently admitted to the Hall, 80,000 viewing the coffin. (BY TELEGRAPH —PRESS ASSOCIATION). Wellington, List NichtT" So far as has been decided the House adjourns to-morrow from 2.30 to 7.30 p.m,, as a maik of sespeot to the late President and to the late Mr Scobie McKenzie, ex-M.H.R. Our Te Awnniutn correspondent writes :—The sad nows of President McKinley’s death, which came to hand early on Monday morning, was received here with profound regret. Flags were immediately hoisted half-mast.