The Portland daily press., 1898-10-10
M'KINLEYS At CANTON.
Came to Attend Fu eraI Of Murdered
Man Sax on.
PAINFUL AND PATHETIC SCENES
AT DEPOT.

Mrs. NICK inley Will Not Go to omaha
with Pr resident-Mrs. George Still Re-
fuses to Say Anything About the
Murder.
Canton, Ohio, October 9-The home
coming of President aud Mrs. Mckinley
today for the funeral of Mr.. George D.
Saxton, was attended with a most touch
ing and pathetic scene at the Pennsylva-
MIA station. Many people were at the
depot when the train arrived and ex-
tended the party a silent, but sympa-
thetic and reverential welcome. The
party arrived at 1925 travelling in the
special Car Campania. Mr.. M. G. Bar
ber, the Presidents brother in law, was
at the station with several friends of The
family, and DR.. Framfeulter who was
called to take charge of Private John
Barber, the sick soldier.
The President and Mrs. Mckinley were
first out cf the car and were assisted by
Mr.. George d. Frease through the station
to the carriage in waiting. AS they ap-
preached, the crowd, with heads uncov-
cred, bowed silently and opened a pas
sageway. Mrs. Mckinley was supported
by the arm of the President with the care
and close attention he always devotes to
her personal comfort. He walked slowly
to the carriage. his head bowed and his
face little paler than usual. Mrs. Bar.
Der, Mrs. McKinley's sister. vas next off
the train and was joined by her husband.
Mr.. Webb c. Hayes followed. John
Barber was carried from the train by his
brother, George Barber, who had gone
from New York to Washington to join
the party, and George G. Clark. The
sick man was an orderly on Gen. Henry's
staff In Porto Rico and has for some
weeks been i'll with typhoid fever in
Washington, where his mother, Mrs.
Barber, and Mrs. Mckinley, have been
nursing him, first at the White House,
and later at Garfield hospital. Miss
Helen Mckinley. the Presidents sister,
and Mr.. and Mrs. S. A. Bowman of
Lorraine, the latter the Presidents niece,
who started with the party from Wash
ington, left the train at Pittsburg to take
another road.
The President and party went direct
to the Barber house, which is the old
Saxton homestead, and was the Canton
home of the McKinley's during his life in
Congress. Mrs. Mckinley showed evil
denoe Of suffering from the shock and Of
fatigue from the journey, but bore up
remarkably we'll and was able to be
about the house. Mrs. Barber shows evil
dence of her care and concern for the son
she has been nursing and also of the
shock of the news.
Except when the President, accom-
panied by Mrs. Barber, took short
walk. the party remained at the Barber
house all day. Many flowers are being
received from sympathetic friends of the
President and the family, Washington
friends having placed many on the train
before it started.
The funeral arrangements were con-
cluded after the arrival of the party.
They are to be held from the Barber home
at 2 O'Clock Monday afternoon and will
be private. The Rev. o. 3. Milligan,
pastor of the First Presbyterian church,
will officiate, and the remains will be
attended by Judge George E. Baldwin,
Hon. VIM. A. Lynch, Postmaster George
B. Frease, j. II. Kenney and Attorney
David B. Smith and James j. Grant as
pail bearers. Interment will be in the
West Lawn cemetery in the Saxton fami-
" lot.
The train bearing the cabinet and other
officials from Washington to the Omaha
exposition, will arrive in Canton Monday
evening and about 8 O'Clock the private
car of the President will be attached there
to and he will join the party. Mrs Nc
Kinley, it is not thought tonight. will
undertake the trip to Omaha, but will
be with the President in Chicago. She
will remain in Canton for several days
and more than likely go to Chicago with
Mrs. Lafayette McWilllams and Mrs. W.
A. Goodman, her cousins, who are ex
pected to be here for the funeral service.
Mrs. George remains in Jail and has
seen no one but Mayor Rice during the
day. He was with her for five minutes
She is to be arraigned at 10 o'clock Mon.