PRESIDENT McKINLEY DEAD The Nation’s Chief Expires at 2.15 Saturday Morning at Buffalo. FOR HOURS ON VERGE OF DISSOLUTION

li a Loving Farewell to Hie Devoted Wife the Dying President’s Last Words Were “H Is God’s Way; His Will Da Done. Good-Dye.”

;inley. the twenty-fourth e United States, died

William McKinl. President of the L'

' B.15 Saturday morning. The bullet fired by Leon Csolgos*. the anarchist assassin, has done its aw-

ful work.

The nation is bowed in grief. Theodore Roosevelt, in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution,

is now the President.

President McKinley’s end was peaceful. The noble courage and Christian spirit which had characterized his splendid public career and his sweet domestic life were pathetically shown in his last moments of consciousness. His one thought was of his wife, who held his hand in a loving, lingering farewell. His last words were to her. They were: "Good-by, -Ml. Good-by. It is God’s Way. Hjs Will be done.” Members of the Cabinet, Secretary "ortelyou and the others who had

t moments .. ..

e thought was of his wife, v *-—1 in a loving, lingering

t words were to he

’Good-by, AH, Good-by. 1 Tay. Hjs Will be done.”

ers of the Cabinet, Seer Cortelyou and the others who watched through the hours of susi and anixety from, the first sinking spell,

caused by heart failure, early Friday j there was i morning, entered the chamber of the S President dying President touched his hand and hymn "Nr:

.bout

ring President touched his h murmured a word of farewell. .-»u 7.40 o'clock the President softly uttc

the words of his favorite hymn. "Nearer. my God. to thee,” and then lapsed

into unconsciousness.

From the time thatihe President experienced the first severe sinking spell.' at 2 o'clock Friday morning, until 7 1 ’ o'clock Friday evening, digitalis was given and saline solution injected to 'stimulate the action of the enfeebled heart. Oxygen was also administered. JU seemed that the dying man was being kept alive by artificial means. Af*" ‘-"•y he had bidden farewell to Mrs. McK • ley and others near and dear to him the President requested the doctors to be allowed to die. and the use of oxygen was suspended. , The physicians disagree as to the 'cause of the fatal turn in the President's condition and h is already certain that an autopsy will be necessary to determine the exact cause of death. The members of the family.' with exception of the bereaved widow, w at the deathbed. Mrs. McKinley in an adjoining room. Dr. Rixcy r ' . the only physician present. E»D OF A LONG STRUGGLE.

Jearfal Farewells sad Tbea a Wait liatH Death

I Buffalo. X. Y. (Special).—The Presiident died at 2.15 A. M. 1 From authoritative officials the following details of the final scenes in and about the death chamber were secimed: J The President had continued, in an unconscious state aince 8.30 P. M. Dr. ■Rixey remained with him at all times (until death came. The other doctors (were in the room at times, apd then repaired to the front room, where their

»ers of

Thcr

out 2 o'clock Dr. Rixey noted the takafcle signs of dissolution and e immediate members of the family Jwere summoned to the bedside. Mrs. (McKinley was. asleep and it was deempd best, not to awaken her for the-fest

moments of anguish.

"Silently ana sadly the members of the family entered the room. They, stood about tbe foot and sides of the bed where the President's life was ebbing away. Those in the circle were: Abner McKinley, the President's brother; Mrs. Abner McKinley. Miss Helen, the President's sister: Mrs. Sarah Dunes-., another sister: Miss Ma Barber, a niece: Miss Sarah Dunca •Lieut. J. F. McKinley, a nephet William M. Duncan, a nephew: Chas! G. Dawes. Comptroller of the Currency; F. M. Osborne, a cousin; Col. Webb C. Hayes. John Barber, a nephew; Secretary George B. Cortel- . you. Col. W. C. Brown, business part'Tierof Abner McKinley; Dr. Rixey, the family '-physician, and six nurses and

attendants.

In adjoining rooms sat Drs. M ney. Wasdin. Parke. Stockton and

ter.

It was now 2.05 ©'dock and the min- : slipping awayi Only the sobs

utes

of those in the ril dent's bedside brol

lipping away . the circle about the -Pre

broke the 1 ’ then six. w

warning. The fldnering heart waV just fotng to rest. A moment more and Dr. Rixey straightened up. With dioking

The President is dead T

Secretary Cortelyou was the first to turn from the stricken rircl- He stepped from tbe chamber to the outer hall

and then down the stairway to the L ' ~ - - members of the C

“ ihstinguished officials - A* bis tense, white ^

— —t Cabi-

net, Senators ' ‘ were assembi _

lace appeared at the doorway a bush fell

upon the assemblage.

"Gentlemen. t(ie President has

•way.” Iw aakL'

For a Moment net a word came m reply. Even tlnmgh the end bad baen expected' tbe actual anonancensent William McKinley was dead hilly ... , s-TSTSs, ~ u. s^a

groan of anguish went up frpm the assembled officials. They cried outright like children. All the pent-up emotions of the last few days were let loose. They turned from the room and emerged from the house with streaming eyes for the

fate of the dead President.

He died unattended by a minister of the Gospel, but his last word* were an humble submission to tbe will of God. in whom he believed. The Chief Magistrate was reconciled to the cruel fate to which au assassin's bullet had condemned him and faced death in the same spirit of calmness and poise which had marked hi^ long career. His last conscious words, reduced to writing by Dr. Mann, who stood at his bedside when they were

Uttered, were as follows:

“Good-by all! Good-by! It is God's way. His will be done; not ours.” Friends came to the door of the sick am. took p longing glance and turned irlully away. The President was

conscious during this time.

Members of the Cabinet, one by

President momentarily, and a husl.ed exchange. Then tbe softly chanted part of the

hymn "Nearer. My Godyto Thcr."’ Just before he lapsed into unconsciousness be begged the doctors to let him dir. It is scid that President McKinley really died at 2 o'clock, and that after he had been pronounced dead effort!

1 through the skin The other ballet

breastbone did not pass

did little harm,

fd U11

1 walls of the stem- dared. He

ach. Pear its lower border. Both hcles was in life. The black were found to be perfectly closed by the buttoned across the breast where

stitches, but the tissue around each hole first bullet of tht had become gangrenous. After passir- * s-i—»-

Kiujicy. j 1111. poiu was also gangrene solving the pancreas. ‘‘The bullet has not

_ _ is. After passing

through the stomach the bullet passed into the bade walls of the abdomen, hitting and tearing the npj*rr end of the .. :J — of |he bn n et „ -

ing t

This porti

gangrenous, the gangrene

not yet been of peritonitis <

There was no sign

ease of other omi.. — —

were very thin. There was no evidence of any attempt at repair on the part of nature, and death resulted fretn the

ic which affected the stomach the bullet wounds, as well as the around the further course of the Death was unavoidable by any

surgical or medical treatment alnd was

the direct result of the bullet wound. "Harvey D. Gaylord, M.D.; Herman

Cl. Matzinger. M.D.: P. M. Rixey, M.D.; Matthew D. Mann. M.D.; Herman Mvnter, M.D.: Roswell Parke. M.D.: Eugene Wasdin. M.D.; Charles G. Stock-

-' ard G. •

.... Hade-

D.: Edward G. Janeway. M.D.: W. W. Johnson. M.D.: W. P. Kendall, surgeon. U. S. A.; Charles Cary. M.D.: Edward L. Munson. Assistant Surgeon U. S. A., and Hermanus L. Baer. M.D.” The official announcement of the physicians as the result of theif autopsy on the President's body that death resulted froni gangrene of the wounds led to much discussion of the causes leading its gangrenous condition. It de-

l, S,S i led to

__ j leading up to its gangrenous condition. It developed that Dr. Wa-din. one of the consulting physicians and an expert of high ••mding in the marir- ' '

■ine hospital service, the view that the

stat _

strongly st murderous

that this was -one of the moving ci of the gangrenous condition. The of this dead and gangrened f

had been pois : of the movii

the

•ixoned and

cauaes i:r:

1 and gangrened flesh

source of much surprise to the surgeons, reaching a circumference about the size of a silver dollar about the internal

wounds.

Aside from their official, signed statement. the doctors were rather averse to discussing the autopsy, but some general expressions were secured on the point involved. Dr. Matthew D. Mann, the

whom /ell

."rrSSrS

irsory "There

unseemlj

surgeon upon wl

ity of operating upon the I mediately after he was shot, of a cursory talk, said:

icrc was never any contention or mly discussion among the physias lo the method of treatment ol : similar to the present one in importance. In no case was there better understandimt as to what be done. We worked together man. There were honest differei

opiuion sometimes among us as to which

• the better mode of procedure under lain conditions, but the minority always were convinced.” ——^ “So lar as the treatment of 1

in the course

WILLIAM McKINLEY. The Third President of the United States to Die by the Hand of an Assassin.

were made to revive the spark of life. When this, was found .impossible Mr Cortelyou made the reluctant announceSenator Burrows, of Michigan, ant Representative Alexander left the bouse soon after the announcement of the President's death. "It took place at 2 o'clock." said Alexander. "I went up stairs and met Col. Webb Hayes. How is tbe President?' I asked. He passed axay 'elock.' replied Colonel Hayrt. refully and '■* ‘ *

iking to flee

o'do. . . _ ,_ r _,

died peacefully and without pain, like

' " ' ~ Tiree ‘

sinking to sleep. For jjn

or more he had been practically dead and his extremities had been wl “

wholly dead.

nly a faint flicker at intervals toll t still lived. Occasionally he u . . faint exclamation 'Oh!' and before he quite lost consciousness Dr. Stockton, bedding over bim. beard him repeating the words of the hymn, 'Nearer, My

God. to Thee.’

Secretaries Root. Wilson. Hitdhcock. Attorney-General Senator* Hanna. Fairbanks and Burrows and Representative* Ryan and myself filed through the President's room about 1 o'clock and >aw him for the last lime Jive. So quietly did be past away that the members of tbe Cabinet who were ithered in tbe dining room did not vow when he died.” • y Senator Bcrrows. who with hi* handkerchief pres could hardly '

was concerned, both from a surgical and a medical standpoint, it was sc ful. The abdominal wound was from the start. The physicians 1 feci relieved over the result of the autopsy. because it revealed the fact that tire abdominal wound was necessarily fatal, and that nothing that was done or could be done would more than delay the inevitable result 'The Government, the family and the profession were fxWy represented amdtur the obvricianS and

.K-o^w-v- —Hi the phyriciai irgcons making the autopsy.” LEAVES HOUSE OF DEATH. SlapU rsacral ferrites Over the Body—A

Buffalo, N. Y. (Special).—Striking in their simplicity were the serv ices held here Sunday morning over all that remains of William McKinley skve the memory of him that will linger in the —Is of the American people. ;cept for the presence of many of the most distinguished men in the nation the services in the Milburn boose might have bpen the last words over any oLdf hundred thousand n Barely two hundred persons were admitted to the house, and those only by special invitation. Except for the

testimony to the patient suffering Bbeld at t the murdered President had en-Bthe body . He was dressed as he usually |military 1

first bullet of the assassin bad struck. A black string tie below the standing collar ahowed the little triangle of white shirt front. The right hand lay at ’- : - 1 side. The left was across his body. Most of those invited had emet when, at 10.57 o'clock. President Rooscyeh drove up in a carriage with Mr. and

be rotunda. Tuesday evening was immediately taken, undei itary escort, followed by the funeral cession, in accordance with the prelent in the case of Pre-idem CWfirld. the Baltimore and Potomac ..tation

we up in a carriage with Mr. 1 Mrs. Anslcy Wilcox. He shook hands in silence with several members of tap Cabinet, who met him at the carriage and slowly walked to the piazza and

into the house.

In a smaller library on the north side of the bouse were most of the members of the McKinley family who were present and a few of their closest iriends. Mrs. McKinley did not come down stairs during the services. With Mrs. Barber. Miss Barber. Mrs. Hobart and Dr. Rixey. she sat at the head ol (he stairs leading into the main hall. All the doors were open and she could hear of the minister's earnest — : u» of the

sang the

very word rayer, and

sat through it all. silent and passive. It seemed as if her great grief bad exhausted her power for suffering. With a handkerchief at her eyes she buried her suffering in her broken

gently raisi away to hei

" frontier

As

ibrat

President Roos

1 out. 1 chair 1

roken it be-

was led

irary everyone

■Iked past the line of 1 imbcrs to the head of the

•sevelt entered the rose. Gravely he

Cabii

— coffin. I_.

a moment be fazed on the lace of Mr. McKinley. His eyes were suffused with tears and his mouth twitched, but with a superb effort of the will he tered his emotions. During tb

is emotions. During the reel the service his face was set

ling. Mr. Roosevelt took with the Cabinet. At this molt Rev. Dr. Charles Edw. Locke, el Delaware Avenue Methodi *' copal Church, son oL that who ft

odist Epis Dr. Locki r many years was the McKinley pastor at Canton, entered the room. He tcok a position at the door leading into the outer hall. _A quartet from the First Presbyterian Church had been stationed in the dining room, and with the sweet strains of

gan. Eyes that before had filled with tears as the words were st with exquisite feeling and pathos. As the last strains died away Locke's voice was heard. He began reading from the fifteenth chapter of First Corinthians. There was a moment’s pause after he had finished, and then the quartet sang the verses • ' 'Nearer, my God. to Thee.” so dear 1 ihe man about whose bier the moun

:rs stood.

As the music died away for a mi mem there was intense silence. Then in prayer Dr. Locke, his words uttered so that they reached the ears of thi woman sorrowing for her dead, mad>

an eloquent an>eal.

All present joined in the Lord': Prayer as the minister repeated it. President Roosevelt's voice being audible at the back of the room. The semce concluded.with a simple The funeral director w»s about to step forward to place the cover on the coffin when suddenly there was a moven behind Governor Odell. Senator Hai who had risen, saw that the last opportunity u, look into the countenance of his dead friend had come. Pressing forward. in ^ n instant he was at the side of tha coffin, bending over and looking down mzo it. Almost two minutes passed and

^ . instant

coffin, bending •

" Almost two minu

turned away and the coffin

oseth

Four sailors, two infantry servants id two artillery sergeants bore the eofout of the house. The President, bmet and others followed it. Mrs.

cKinley

remained.

and othen v and the n

rolls the 1

members of the family

was 11.30 o’clock when three long of muffled drum told those outside

funeral c

t the I r. At

ascended in subdued strains from' the military band*. Tenderly tbe bearers lowered the coffin from their shoulders and placed it in the hearse. Soldiers and sailors swung into long columns and took up the inarch southward I

City Hall.

As the funeral cortege rnoveu Delaware avenue toward the Gty

le loo! '

A VAST OUTPOURING. • Crowd la tbs Rsia st Baffala City

(Special.)—Such a spootaneiring of men and women desiring their respects to the dead

is of paying their respects to the 1 that which took place at tbe City Hall

:has seldom occurred

gather at the points of vantage an the hall. They stood there all day, . ; : — jn numbers and re-

3 and rain which skin, in order that it look at the face

‘lot less than i at one time

police which held

antly increasing i

gardless of the wind and 1

drenched them to the a

150,000 persons were behind the lines of

them in check.

For hours, in double lines, two abreast, they filed past the coffin conuining Mr. McKinley's body. Though they went through tire Ciiy Hall at the rate-of from 185 to 189 a minute the stream never slackened. Late in tbe afternoon there were two lines, each nearly if not quite

long, in

omen, waiting 1 Many of them were we nearly all of lhe<p*were w

Six years, displaying whole of that period a d stzpose to rigidly and hon the law. in May, :89s. hi

he Baltimore and Potomac .".tation V «• «• 'Special), placed upon the funeral train, which m Roosevelt, at 3.30 o’clock fi leave for Canton, where the final temoon. in the lib funeral service, will be committed to iht Anvlrv Wilro*

charge of the citizens of Canton, undei the direction of a committee to be select

ed by the Mayor of that city.

A CHRISTIAN'S DEATH.

Tby K

Tby Will Be Dose. While lying in the operating room of the Emergency Hospital in the grounds of the Pan-American Exposition, after the attempt nj>on hi* life. President McKinley put his trust in God and calmly awaited ^he work «.f the sur:ons. At that time he suffered no lin. Aiis mind, was at peace, save for 1 solicitude lor invalid wife, he scene withih-Thc hospital was iquil. When Dr. Mynter be- _ to administer the anesthetic ■ting the Lord's

* the

gan to administer t the President was repeat _

Prayer. He had reached the words. "Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done." when the ether took effect and be lapsed into unconsciousness. With this simple prayer on his lips he submitted to the operation with the simple *—• iplicii faith in the Almighty that >uld be well. Throughout tbe

but . , all would be well. Throughout tbe week of hope and fear that folio wad, at the Milburn home, this same spirit ol

•d was ever

1 last evening he repeated the won the hymn. "Nearer, my God. 1

hymn. Nearer, His last utterance

u; s will be d

to

It is

ine." This

said good-by to Mrs.

I’s way. His

was after he had McKinley and all.

LIFE AND WORK OF MR. McKINLEY.

ity-fourth' was born

William McKinley.

President of the United States, wa at Niles, Trumbull county. Ohio, on Jannarv 29. 1845. After attendong the public schools he-went to Poland Acade-j my, and subsequently to Allegheny Col-, lege, but before attaining his majority had" become a teacher in the public school: ~ * - “ • - ^

in his

private in tl

unteers. becoming-commissary sergeant on April 15. 1862. second lieutenant on September 23 of the same year, first lieu-j tenant on February 7, 1863 and captain: on July 25. 1864. He served successively! on the staffs of Gens. R. B. Hayes,: George Crook and Winfield S. Hancock.: md towards the close of the war was de-i ailed as acting assistant adjutant general

First Division. First Army Corps. ~ ~ S. S. Carroll. He

ts for

July following was mustered out of the

service. . Major McKinley then applied himself

:o the study of law. which •he completed by a course at the Albany (N. Y.) Law School. In 1867 he was admitted to die

c— ^ * down at Canton. 0„

■fession. that

the First 1 the staff

jr of Stark rm in that

is entrance upon

bar, and settled dow the practice of his p since remaining his was elected prosecuting

county, but served only one office. In 1867 he made his ei

the field of national politics, and was elected a member of the lower house of Congress, in which for the next 14 years he represented the congressional district of which bis county was a part. As chairman of the Ways and Means Committee he reported the tariff law of 1890. in the preparation of which he took a leading part, and it has always been known by his name. In November of that year Major McKinley was defeated for re-election to Congress, the new 1 ionmem of the siatc having been ymandered as to throw him intc locratic district, but he succeeded in reducing the usual adverse majority from 3000 to 300. There was, however, practically no interval in his public career, for in 1891, a few months after

be retired from the He

govern III over '"-•ic ini

elect! of 21

rted”

\ he was

ir of Ohio by a plurality

_ James E. Campbell, th: Democratic incumbent of the office

Two years later he was re-eli

ifity of 80.995

d from

1895

people were nation, and body ' *—

governorship at the close of BHHI Major McKinley served as a delegate-at-large in the Republican National Convention of 1884, when he supported Blaine for President, and as a member of the committee on resolutions read the platform to the convention. In 1888 he was again a dclcgate-at-large from Ohio, supported John Sherman for tbe nomi—'ion, and as chairman of the cocr-mittee 1 resolutions again reported the plat-' form. In 1862 he appeared fbr the third : as a dclcgate-at-large from Ohio, •erred as permanent chairman of the ventkm. On that occasion Major McKinley advocated the renomination of President Harrison, but. notwithstandrag his refusal to permit the use of Us name. 182 votes were cast for him for the Presidential nomination. At the national convention held at St Louis in

June. 1896. Major McKinley was made Wiliam B. Allison and 1 for T. Donald ^ with 24 ddegate* absent, the

on, w. r of v(

a choke ring Ma-

votes

to 6.502.685 f« Willi a plurality of 603.51 jority of the popular all opposition. In the Electoral the vote stood J71 for McKinley for Bryan. ' On June at. 1500. the National Repubcan Convention at Philadelphia renocniited Mr. M “

wired 926 invention).

On November 6, tgoi. Mr. McKinley was re-elected, de tearing Mr. Wilfiam

ROOSEVELT TAKES OATH AS MESIDENT. Falters ter a Msosst Wire Eaotisa.taS Tfcei

la Ffroi Tones, Accepts tie lUoar.

Buffalo. N. Y. (Special).—Theodore

Saturday »i-

the library of thr residence

M Ansley Wilcox, at Buffalo, took the constitutional oaili a* President ol the United States. Eliiiu Kcot. Secretary of War. acting in behalf of the Cabinet of the late President, in a voice tremulous with grief, iurinalljr requc.ird Mr Roosevelt to take the oath. ‘The new President, in a voice that at first faltered from emotion, said: "I shall take the oath at once in accordance with your request, and in this hour ol deep and terrible national bereavement l wish to Mate that it shall be my aim to continde unbroken without variance

the policy of President McKinley for the peace and prosperity and honor of

our beloved counto-."

Judge John R. Hazel, of the United States Court, administered the oath. Following the ceremony President Roosevelt shook hands with the Cabinet officers and all others in the room. A brief conference between the President and Cabinet officers followed, during which he requested the members of '' t Cabinet who were present—Secre-

:d the nl.PIMIH

the Cabinet who were present—Secretaries Root, Long and Wilson and Post-master-General Smith—to remain in office, at least for the present. They ascared him that they would, and freesident Roosevelt subsequently stated that he had also received similar assurance* from the absent members of the

Cabinet.

Immediately upon assuming his 11cw

office. President Roosevelt issued the following proclamation, setting aside Thursday as a day of prayer and

mourning throughout the land:

By the President of the United States

of America: A Proclamation: A terrible bereavement has befallen

onr people. The President of the United States has been struck down: a crime committed not only against the Chief Magistrate, but against every law-abiding and_ liberty-loving citizen.

President McKinley crowned a life of

Urges: love for his fellow-men. of most earnest endeavor for their welfare, by a death of Christian fortitude: and both the way in which he lived his life and the way in which, in tbe supreme hour of trial, he met his death, will remain forever a precious heritage of our peo-

ple. *

It is meet that we as a nation express our abiding love and 'reverence tor his life, our deep sorrow for his un-

timely death.

Now, therefore. I. Theodore Roosevelt, President of the United States of America, do appoint Thursday next. September 19. rite day on which the body of the dead President will be laid its last earthly resting pUce. a day

arning and prayer throughout the I States. I earnestly recommend : people to -assemble on that day

in their respective place* of divine worship to bow down in submission to the

will of Alif'Bhiy God and to

full heart!

in of

United all the

erence

aftmte 1 . t with bitter grief. - In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed Done at the city of Washington, the 14th day of September. A. D. one thousand nine hundred and one. and Of the independence of the United States the one hundred and twenty-sixth. (Seal) THEODORE ROOSEVELT. By the President: JOHN HAY. Secretary ,of State. Life af Preside at Roosevelt. Theodore Roosevelt, who succeeds as head ol the nation, is a member of an old Dntch family which was founded in this country shout the middle of the seventeenth century by Klaas Martensen Roosevelt. He was born in New York city on October 7, 1858, and was preftered for Harvard by private tutors. Governor Roosevelt's mother was a Georgian. One of his uncles was an admiral in the Confederate service and the other was a midshipman, who fired 'ast gun from the Confederate warAlabama just before she went down, having been sunk by the Kearsarge off Cherbourg, France. He was prominent in college athletics, and was one of the editors of the undergraduate journal, the Advocate. A year of -foreign travel followed his graduation, in 1800. and almost immediately thereafter iered upon jT public career. His >Otition wa* that of membership York

years. The beni , was developed at this early stage .by his introduction of the first civil service bill in the Legislature, which be-

came « law in 1883-

He was an indepedent candidate for mayor of New York city in 1886. with a Republican indorsement, but was not elected. President Harrison appointed him a member of the Civil Jkrvice in May. 1889. and he serviber of the board and its

- dor.

_ JBfI Commissioners of New