The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-03
Is Extended to President Nc
Kinley at Columbus
Where He Goes to Attend tb
Ohio State Fair.
TALKS TO CHILDREN.
Sees All the Sights and Makes
Short Speeches.
Looks ON Grants Cottage in
Glass Case.

Columbus, O., Sept. 3.-President Nc
Kinley and party arrived at 10 a. m as
guests of the Ohio state board of ag-
riculture., They were preceded by Jas.
Wilson, secretary of agriculture, who
rejoined them here. With the president
came Mrs. Mckinley, Senator and Mrs.
Hanna, Secretary and Mrs. Alger. Col
onel and Mrs Myron Herrick. Webb c.
Hayes and other personal friends.
Upon arrival, the committee on re-
ception of the board of agriculture es-
corted the president and party between
lines of police to carriages The crowd
in the vicinity of the station was i'm
mense the weather being fine and the
attendance at the fair very large
Col John s. Poland, in command OF
the 18th United States infantry and
Col. Colt, in command of the 14th Ohio
n. q. infantry, with Junia HuSsars, j..
9. L. Pugh commanding, received the
president at the station entrance He
was then escorted, the city police lead
ing the way, to- the Great Southern ho-
tel, which assigned rooms appropriate
to the occasion.
En- route to the hotel, the president
was welcomed by thousands of people
and handsome, patriotic decora ations OF
buildings to Which he responded in the
usual way, his face being very familiar
to citizens of Columbus and Ohio.
The outpouring of people was more
like a warm welcome home to great
faVor1te than anything to which the
scene might be compared.
Luncheon having been served at the
hotel in the regular dining room and to
which all the guests of the house were
admitted as usual, the president and
party took carriages for the fair, over
taking the military, which had gone
ahead ito rest in the shade" as desired
by the president until he came to them
at point near the entrance. Having.
carried a gun himself and other militia
ry accutrements, he seemed not to
have forgotten how soldiers in war and
especially on parade, are often required
to stand for hours awaiting the conVen-
ience of dignitarieS
Marching into the large fair grounds.
the procession moved through q sea of
| human beings to the main building
where the president addressed school
children from Columbus and many parts
of the. state, all of whom had been es-
pecially invited by card and admitted
free.
The president expressed himself as
being especially pleased to meet the
children. Later in the day the party
was escorted to- various buildings of in
terest where short speeches We're made
and an informal reception was given.
The president was interested in the
cottage in which Grant was born. 1t
was enclosed in a building of steel and
glass and is the property of the farm
ers of Ohio, being permanently located
on the fair ground
Another report is to the effect that.
Ward was brought into the train at
Fremont, Neb.. by a gentleman who
was well dressed and apparently a.
business man of middle age. There was
nothing unusual about him and neither
he nor his friend attracted any atten-
ton.
Just before the train started from
Fremont the other man placed Ward in
the state room, and, shutting the door
behind him, leaped from the train. 1t
is not known whether he lockd the
door from the outside. Immediately af-
leaving stranger rushed
to a telegraph office and sent a mes
sage to the police of this city requesting
them to take his friend in charge when
the train arrived. The police are in
clined to believe that Ward was of un-
sound mind and that he was sent to
this city by friends.
kilograms have been forwarded by
the police of Fremont requesting fur
ther infOrma ton.